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The DVD is quite an improvement over the laserdisc, especially the sound track (remastered for 5.1 on the DVD). The casting is truly excellent (Dustin Hoffman, Lawrence Olivier, Roy Scheider, William Devane, and Marte Keller) and the screenplay, draft # 14, is plausible and well thought out. There are two documentaries included, one a vintage promo and the other a comtemporary reflection on making the film with commentary n by Hoffman, Scheider, Keller, producer Robert Evans, and writer William Goldman.
Although he was nearly 40 at the time, Hoffman plays a convincing twenty something post grad college student. The dental torture scenes are still terribly scary and the documentery tells us that the fimmakers recut the scenes many time as test audiences kept leaving the theater during it. Tis one still holds up well.
Follow Ups:
It goes something like this (accuracy not guaranteed):Dustin shows up for the dental torture scene in a genuinely miserable state.
Lawrence asks him what is wrong and Dustin says he has not slept for three days preparing for the scene.
Lawrence replies: "Goodness my boy. Why don't you just act?"
Hoffman tells this in one of the cocumentaries, as does Bob Evans.
... is that Larry watched Dustin run round the block between takes. When he asked why, Dustin said that he was supposed to be out of breath.
Larry quipped... "Have you ever thought of acting, DEar Boy?".
Possibly both are apochryphal.
Not so, see my post above.
I would have probably opened up when he coaxed Hoffman. Naive me did realize that Devane and Schieder were "involved" until I saw it a second time years later.A very memmorable favorite.
Who's aggitat'in my dots?
Wuthering Heights,Rebecca, Sleuth & Seven Per Cent Solution (two of my favs) Marathon Man and the delightful A Little Romance (film debut of Diane Lane)....Sir Laurence was a class act....
My favorite Olivier is his role of Crassus in "Spartacus". With just a flutter of an eyebrow he suggests the power of the Patrician class.
..Richard III has often be parodied to death (see Monty Python)- I can't imagine R3 any other way.
Have you seen the "modern" one (the one that takes place in the thirties)?
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