I loved your last line !

THe way Beth says of the broken plate "I thnk it can be fixed' (or something like that!) is the Line of the Movie as it represents the fact that Beth tries to 'fix' everything so that its all back in order. Marys performance was against type, this was a master stroke of Redford to have Mary play the cold as custard role , as she was America';s Television Sweetheart. Criminal that Donald didnt get a Nomination

Well put. I am glad that someone goes on here to defend these award winners. I agree with everything you said. But I will be very glad if you could defend “The King’s Speech”.

Once again blown away by your passion for movies, and your research. You do you homework, and it shows. And what a surprising, original topic for a video about the movies.

No need to defend this stone cold masterpiece. RAGING BULL isn't even close to being Scorsese's best film, let alone greater than OP. People get "confused" because RB is technically flashier. But the movie is hollow in its center.

What absolute tosh. 'The Elephant Man' accused of mawkishness and sentimentality. Strange how humaneness, empathy and the heartfelt can be rebranded by the cynical caustic souls of modern film critics. It and 'Ordinary People' are throwbacks to classical Hollywood cinema. The problem with 'Raging Bull' is that it doesn't have a soul - after two hours and with LaMotta and him smashing he head against a wall, it left me cold. This was a scripting problem and a directorial failure - Scorcese has always had an element that never translated 50% of the connecting and more human emotions. Directorial flair is easy, because that is his stock in trade.

Because of what happened to Sharon Tate I think that Tess would have won but Polanski had just let the country as a fugitive from the law for serious crimes. Hollywood does not like to reward really bad behavior. Image is everything. I was not very fond of Ordinary Picture... I mean People. IMO.