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Marty [VHS]

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Rod Steiger is a better Marty. He brings an awareness of his own "plainness" that never leaves his face. The old black and white studio films for TV are grainy and hard to watch, but the emotional content of this and another favorite of mine ("Requiem for a Heavyweight" with Jack Palance) give us an intimacy and immediacy that the larger films with longer story lines don't. Also Nancy Marchand as the plain woman he comes to love is just as subtle and underplayed, her pain over her situation evident without overacting. I highly recommend this to people who like "small" films.

I saw the movie version starring Ernest Borgnine, and enjoyed it very much. You can obviously see how society in the 90's is so different than it was in the 50s, these days Marty would probably be a nerdy engineer instead of a butcher. Marty's aunt's being thrown out would not happen now, because Marty's cousin's wife would be working. Also Brooklyn, doesn't have as much Italians now as it did then.