Hemingway's Adventures Of A Young Man [HD]

Five works by Hemingway translated to the screen
Norman Mailer once observed, "There is a particular type of BAD novel that makes a good movie." Conversely, there is a particular type of GOOD novel that cannot possibly be made into a good movie, and this caveat applies to any of the works of Ernest Hemingway.

The problem is two-fold. First, the inimitable style of the writing is de facto completely lost. Hemingway paints his own portraits with words, and in a movie, we don't need the words because we have the pictures. Second is the Hemingway dialogue. No author speaks more intimately to us, whispering his dialogue quietly in our ear. Recite the dialogue aloud and the magic is lost.

However, here are two novels and several short stories, adapted to the screen, and I'll review their virtues as FILMS, rather than their sins of ommission of the Hemingway canon.

1) "The Sun Also Rises" - Hemingway's first novel about the Lost Generation in Paris after the First World War. This film has taken...

a wonderful collection
I love this collection. It brings me back to Hemingway who I read while growing up in the Fifties and Sixties. The restorations of the Scope movies are outstanding and the extras are informative. The cinematography and music of Adventures of a Young Man are very moving. This film brought me back to my youth. I highly recommend.

The Nick Adams Stories
HEMINGWAY'S ADVENTURES OF A YOUNG MAN is an A.E. Hotchner adaptation of the writer's "Nick Adams" short stories. The picture's cast is filled with acting heavy hitters. (Note: In 1982, screenwriter Hotchner along with Paul Newman founded the "Newman's Own" food line.)

SYNOPSIS--
Young Nick Adams leaves his Michigan home on a cross-country adventure. Along the way he meets and befriends several interesting characters. When a NYC newspaper job falls through, Nick enlists in the Italian Army as an ambulance driver. After being wounded, Nick convalesces in a miliary infirmary, where he has an affair with a nurse that ends tragically.

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The WWI portion of Nick's story was twice filmed as A FAREWELL TO ARMS:
In 1932 with Gary Cooper and Irene Dunne as leads, and in 1957 with co-stars Rock Hudson and...

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