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Yes, I know some don't like it and it's not perfect. Politically correct? No way! Still, amazingly hilarious and gripping after not having seen it for many years.Those scenes with the dying gunner are still as shocking. Yossarian's spirit, still as unconquerable. Did anyone else cheer when he found out that guy made it to Sweden?
And I can't imagine better casting. Arkin was superb.
I should read the book some day.
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if you liked the movie then you haven't read the book. do yourself a favour and read the book, one of the best books ever written!
"Milo, how do you do it?" Yossarian inquired with laughing amazement and admiration. "You fill out a flight plan for one place and then you go to another. Don't the people in the control towers ever raise hell?""They all belong to the syndicate." Milo said. "And they know that what's good for the syndicate is good for the country, because that's what makes Sammy run. The men in the control towers have a share, too, and that's why they always have to do whatever they can to help the syndicate."
"Do I have a share?"
"Everybody has a share."
"Does Orr have a share?"
"Everybody has a share."
"And Hungry Joe? He has a share too?"
"Everybody has a share."
"Well, I'll be damned," mused Yossarian, deeply impressed with the idea of a share for the very first time.--from Chapter 22: MILO THE MAYOR "Catch 22" by Joseph Heller
"there was only one catch...and that was catch 22"
so you'll have no trouble seeing the target. Of course, they will have no trouble seeing you."
The movie is probably as good as it was possible to make from such a deep and convoluted book. The novel is, IMHO, one of the great books of my lifetime.I agree with your praise of Arkin. He's always been very good. The cast of Catch-22 is first-rate. I especially like Richard Benjamin and Buck Henry. And Martin Balsam as the officer without a clue is so funny.
Those of us who served in the military in the Vietnam era have a special affinity for this book. Absurd as some of the situations are, they ring true. The twisted logic that is Catch-22 is not that far from real military thinking.
I don't watch the movie any more. The book is so good and the movie is good but only a pale shadow of the book. Read it and you won't be sorry. It is very long but worth the time.
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