TCM's March 27 showing
What's this? A restored 1.66:1 Blu-Ray has been out for a year-and-a-half, and TCM is showing a fuzzy 4:3 version with faded color? Why?
shareIt looked terrible, didn't it? Like a VHS recorded at the SLP speed which was submerged in water. The soundtrack was muddy also, I really had to crank the volume and my hearing is fine.
It ain't easy being green, or anything else, other than to be me
Speaking of hearing: my hearing is impaired and I had trouble with the whole movie--however, one thing is bugging me: Bruce has some kind of terminal illness but at the end of the movie the conversation with a doctor apparently refutes this and has to do with the x-ray of his arm!! What is this about??
shareThat was strange because I thought the doctor said something about having checked his blood (there was something that he checked against the British doctor's findings), and then in the next scene, Jean mentions the bit about the x-ray. I knew it was going to end up being a case of mistaken diagnosis since they never really spelled out what it was in the first place, only that he had six months to live. That left them plenty of room to get out of it.
It ain't easy being green, or anything else, other than to be me
I didn't hear the part about checking his blood. Maybe Jean meant if Bruce hadn't injured his arm (and needed an x-ray)he wouldn't have needed to see a doctor who then checked his blood. Diagnosing blood disorders via smear can be tricky (miscalling borderline abnormal cells as absolutely abnormal)and can lead to errors in diagnosis. I wonder if the book on which the movie was made explained any of this in more detail.
shareI should say that I'm presuming that it was blood as the soundtrack was muddy, but it was a reference to some "test" that was given and verified. I admit to being puzzled as it seems that this was new to Bogarde while it was being explained. Wouldn't he have had to be the one to spark any consultation with his British physicians in the first place? How would they have known with whom they had to check?
It ain't easy being green, or anything else, other than to be me
Ha-ha, guys - it's a specialized diagnosis that only appears in the movies. It's called a "plot point!" It usually has nothing to do with actual medical science. Except, of course, for the fact that he DID have an arm, and blood!
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