#The end of the sun also rises movie#
#The end of the sun also rises code#

Were he alive, I'm sure he would thank you, as his fondest desire in life was to lose his looks. In Power's case, I have read several comments here about how bad he looked. But you can see how that would have made it seem a lighter film. I suppose to have made it with younger actors would have made it less of a big movie, but in fact, people like Jeffrey Hunter, Robert Wagner (both Fox actors) and Natalie Wood were closer to the right age. He and the rest of the actors are all too old. He was cast in this film at the age of 42 which was near the end of his life. Tyrone Power had been the most important star at 20th Century Fox for many years - in fact, when he became a star in the late 1930s, each film he made was a bigger hit than the one before. The second depressing thing is the casting, which is a major problem. For me it's one of those movies to watch when you really want to dwell on life's misery and wax philosophical and feel like there's something romantic about disenchantment.

#The end of the sun also rises movie#

This is a depressing movie on several levels, the first being the actual story, about the 'Lost Generation' after World War I hanging out in Europe and being drunk and/or unhappy and disillusioned. This is one film that could stand a remake, but where could you get a cast as classy as this one today even if they are a generation behind to be making The Sun Also Rises. They had quite a screen partnership themselves and are rarely discussed as a director/actor team. It was at Fox where Power got his breakthrough role in Lloyd's Of London, also directed by Henry King. It also was his ninth and last film with director Henry King. The Sun Also Rise marks Power's farewell film at the studio which carefully nurtured his stardom, 20th Century Fox. In many ways Mel Ferrer does the best acting job in the film. But he's under Gardner's spell and there's no talking to him. The others in the group make it plain every way they don't want him around. He's also a bumptious sort, Power tolerates him even likes him on a certain level. Cohn has sustained a lot of prejudice in his life, he became a boxer in college to help deal with it. Ernest Hemingway has had accusations of anti-Semitism hurled at him and no doubt because of the way Mel Ferrer's character of Robert Cohn is written. Ernest Hemingway being a veteran for the Republic was also not an author looked kindly on by the Caudillo. I'm guessing that Henry King did not film in Spain because the Franco dictatorship did not want a film that glorified the days before his dictatorship even under the monarchy which Franco swore to restore. The location cinematography is great from Paris to Mexico which substituted Spain for the famous bull fighting scenes and the annual running of the bulls in Pamplona. None of them measure up to Power, but Power can't give the lady what she most needs. And they do flock be it, exiled Count Gregory Ratoff, dissolute British army veteran Errol Flynn, self conscious Jew Mel Ferrer, and eager young bullfighter Robert Evans. All Power can do is watch how she collects the men around her. As a jaded sophisticate Gardner is great, but Hemingway again wrote about a lusty young woman with all her sexual appetites intact and unfulfilled. That fact has kept him from resuming a relationship with the love of his life, Lady Brett Ashley as played by Ava Gardner. The close brush with impotence himself no doubt inspired Hemingway to write The Sun Also Rises. Barnes received a war wound below decks just as Hemingway did in World War I. Tyrone Power is in the lead as Jake Barnes, the hero modeled after author Ernest Hemingway himself. Ironically this cast is a lost generation unto itself. They would have been a dream cast around 1946.

The pity is that they all try very hard under an impossible burden of age. Maybe had the film been identified as 1932 instead of plainly set in 1922 Tyrone Power, Errol Flynn, and Ava Gardner and the rest could have gotten away with those performances.

#The end of the sun also rises code#

The first was the ever present Code which prevented the frank discussion of impotency and secondly the fact that the cast was 15 to 20 years older than the roles they were portraying. Two insurmountable problems keep The Sun Also Rises from being a great film classic.