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- With "Legends of the Fall," a New Age soap opera based on a Jim Harrison novella, Zwick rides off bravely into the Montana wilderness of the early part of this century - and into the Iron John territory of Robert Bly, where men wrestle bears before breakfast and long-haired women ride horses against desperately picturesque skies.
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At the end of the movie, I realized it was a soap opera, but the cinematography, setting and characters made me love the movie. Still one of my favorites. Reply reply
[22] The film's script and its propensity for melodrama was also critiqued, with some saying the story reaches soap opera-like heights and leaves its characters underdeveloped.
Dec 17, 2014 · Legends of the Fall is a film about brothers who remain linked together as time marches ever on. One may fall, one may run away, and one may stay, but they are always together (remember this for later). For all of its soap opera trappings and some bouts of overacting (ahem … Mr. Quinn), Legends is not a “chick flick.”
Jan 13, 1995 · Brad Pitt's `Legends' Is an Epic Soap Opera. By PETER STACK, Chronicle Staff Critic Jan 13, 1995. LEGENDS OF THE FALL: Drama. Starring Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins, Aidan Quinn and Julia Ormond....
Jan 17, 1995 · And it doesn't help that "Legends of the Fall" is really just an epic-scale soap opera with a Western sensibility. Think of this as "Bonanza," with a more brooding brood. The film begins with a prelude that introduces the patriarch of the clan, Col. William Ludlow (Anthony Hopkins), who becomes embittered by the way his country treats American ...
The film's script and its propensity for melodrama was also critiqued, with some saying the story reaches soap opera-like heights and leaves its characters underdeveloped.
Jan 13, 1995 · “Legends of the Fall” is not a Serious Movie, despite the profound sentiments of its narration and the classical ironies of its plot. It is a high-class horse opera – emphasis on opera, with an abundance of operatic coincidences, passions, loves, losses, overwrought arias and heart-wrenching soliloquies.
