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Titre original : The Last Tycoon

1976
R
2h 3m

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Le roman de Scott Fitzgerald prend vie à travers l'histoire d'un producteur de films qui se tue lentement à la tâche.Le roman de Scott Fitzgerald prend vie à travers l'histoire d'un producteur de films qui se tue lentement à la tâche.Le roman de Scott Fitzgerald prend vie à travers l'histoire d'un producteur de films qui se tue lentement à la tâche.

Director
- Elia Kazan
Writers
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Harold Pinter
Stars

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ÉVALUATION IMDb

6,2/10

9,8 k

MA NOTE

Director
- Elia Kazan
Writers
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Harold Pinter
Stars

Voir l’information sur la production à IMDbPro

Nommé pour 1 oscar
- 2 victoires et 4 nominations au total

Anecdotes
F. Scott Fitzgerald died of a heart attack before finishing the novel. It was based on the life of the late head of production at MGM, Irving Thalberg. Fitzgerald's old friend and Princeton classmate Edmund Wilson edited the uncompleted manuscript for publication. It was published, in its incomplete form, in 1941, in a volume that also included "The Great Gatsby" and a selection of short stories.

Gaffes
At Cecilia Brady's place she has photos on her walls of herself with obvious 70s style hairdos and she is posed quite unlike the 1930s. They seem typical of 1970s fashion shoots.

Citations
Pat Brady: [after a film screening] What's Eddie, asleep? Jesus. Goddamn movie even puts the editor to sleep.
Assistant Editor: He's not asleep, Mr. Brady.
Pat Brady: What do you mean, he's not asleep?
Assistant Editor: He's dead, Mr. Brady.
Pat Brady: Dead? What do you mean, he's dead!
Assistant Editor: He must have died during the...
Pat Brady: How can he be dead? We were just watching the rough cut! Jesus, I didn't hear anything. Did you hear anything?
Fleishacker: Not a thing.
Assistant Editor: Eddie... he probably didn't want to disturb the screening, Mr. Brady.

Connexions
Featured in American Cinema: The Studio System (1995)

Bandes originales
My Silent Love
Music by Dana Suesse
Lyrics by Edward Heyman

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frustrating but valuable

After reading the book (and Fitzgerald's notes about how he saw the story progressing) I expected high quality from Kazan's film treatment. Much has been made of his decision to have an almost comatose Monroe Stahr, unable to express emotion on anything but movies, and in this I think he partly succeeded. But the film as a whole irritates me. It's one I've gone back to several times and I can't work out why it has that effect. It just does. In relation to the book, some scenes are pretty much verbatim, some are added to, some are ditched altogether, there just seems no reasoning behind it. The plusses - it has an interesting ending and an equally interesting supporting cast of old timers, most of whom are always worth watching. It has a certain amount of style and character of its own. It's just not that easy to enjoy, IMO.