Robinson Crusoe (1954)
The progression of this movie is stiff → interesting → bizarre
Crusoe finds himself on a deserted island, the only survivor of a shipwreck. He’s able to rescue some supplies from the ship before it goes down for good, so he’s got oil and guns and grain and a Bible. He also winds up with the ship’s cat and dog (were dogs common on ships?). Although he was a privileged/useless guy when he arrived, over the next 18 years or so he gets it together as a survivalist.
Once Crusoe acquires a servant by rescuing him from his cannibal brethren, things get downright weird. He names the dark-skinned man “Friday” (after the day he found him...though we earlier heard him say he’d lost track of days when sick, so “whenever” might have been better) and tells Friday to call him “master.”
All in all, it's not bad, but our hero is so unlikable that it was pretty hard to root for him.
C+
Crusoe finds himself on a deserted island, the only survivor of a shipwreck. He’s able to rescue some supplies from the ship before it goes down for good, so he’s got oil and guns and grain and a Bible. He also winds up with the ship’s cat and dog (were dogs common on ships?). Although he was a privileged/useless guy when he arrived, over the next 18 years or so he gets it together as a survivalist.
Once Crusoe acquires a servant by rescuing him from his cannibal brethren, things get downright weird. He names the dark-skinned man “Friday” (after the day he found him...though we earlier heard him say he’d lost track of days when sick, so “whenever” might have been better) and tells Friday to call him “master.”
All in all, it's not bad, but our hero is so unlikable that it was pretty hard to root for him.
C+
Labels: 1954, Adventure, Cplus, Drama, Oscar Nominee
posted by MeMe | 4:05 PM
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