Word: goldman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...partake in a two hour experience of this sort, the effect of the film will be unpleasant at best. With that warning, and noting that there are weapons of destruction employed in this film unlike any you have ever seen, know also that this screen version of the William Goldman novel is about as exciting and captivating a mystery as has been produced in recent years...
...something of a disappointment. Knowing pretty much what is about to happen and how it all ends inevitably lessens the tension and excitement. Too, literature, and particularly mystery novels of this type, leave much to the reader's imagination, and the descriptive details that the author, in this case Goldman, provides, allow the reader's mind to conjure up greater horrors and a stronger sense of terror than can be produced on screen...
WITH THAT SAID about Marathon Man, the film and the book, it is worth taking a moment to consider William Goldman, whose screenplay credits include Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and All the President's Men, but who is held in highest regard by this writer for Boys and Girls Together, a novel about growing up in the 50's, published over a decade ago, that is remarkable for a set of extraordinarily well-developed characters and strikingly witty and realistic dialogue. Having failed to encounter anyone who has heard of this book, or anyone who knew of Goldman...
Truffaut does not turn away from childhood tragedy. One of the Small Change gang, Julien (Philippe Goldman), lives with his mother and grandmother-both violently alcoholic and crazy-in a deserted house. Julien steals, falls asleep in class and does not really encourage friendship. His body is covered with bruises, which are not discovered until he is forced to take a physical examination. The police arrest his mother and grandmother, put Julien under state care until a foster home can be found...
Professor Goldman said that he saw "a sense of worry among the people about the apparent erosion to the left in Italy and France, and a desire to temper...