No Description Available. Genre: Feature Film-Drama Rating: PG Release Date: 2-MAY-2006 Media Type: DVD
Very little of the energy and intensity of Elia Kazan's great early work remains in his last movie, a flat adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's unfinished final novel about a Hollywood movie mogul of the 1930s. The story still feels like a half-written first draft, a grab bag of roughed-out scenes, even though Harold Pinter supposedly polished up the screenplay. Robert De Niro manages a silky, nuanced performance as the mogul, Monroe Stahr (modeled upon MGM's Irving Thalberg, the suave vulgarian who eviscerated Eric Von Stroheim's Greed), and works hard to transform this essayistic conceit of a character, a sexually repressed guru of mass audience manipulation, into a plausible wounded human being. The movie gets a welcome jolt of energy whenever vivid supporting players like Jack Nicholson, Tony Curtis, Robert Mitchum, or Theresa Russell turn up. --David Chute
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0
Master OF The Rare LASERDISCs Movies.:
I have The Last Tycoon 1977 ON LASERDISC And ON DVD too,'tis one of My Favorite Movies,you will love this one :P
An Enigmatic and Reclusive Cinema Giant:
Monroe Stahr is a high-powered Hollywood executive seen as a creative genius by his studio peers. What makes him so different from so many executive screen depictions is that he is not the boisterously expansive "eat on the run" giant one so frequently sees, but is more of an otherwise faceless bureaucrat who says little and acts only when it is necessary. "The Last Tycoon" was director Elia Kazan's last film. The 1976 drama was adapted from the final work of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald's friend... more info
Many good pieces but not for everyone:
The Last Tycoon is one of the last vestiges of old Hollywood merging with new Hollywood. Adapted from the unfinished novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, it is an effective tribute to a time when the movie industry was in its infancy. As a fan of the original book I can't decide whether my familiarity with it made me more inclined to like the film or not. I've decided that it did, but I can see where other Fitzgerald fans would think otherwise.
Robert DeNiro stars as Monroe Stahr, a thinly veiled depiction of... more info
Deniro and superb cast anchor The Last Tycoon:
F. Scott Fitzgerald's novels focused on the haunted lives of American males and how they tried to recreate themselves in the image of others as successful individuals. The Last Tycoon based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's posthumous unfinished novel echos many of the themes that appeared in Fitzgerald's small body of work as a novelist and short story writer. His protagonist were always trying to be something they were not denying their past and, in the process, denying themselves
