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Rating:  - 262-11 Summer: Assignment 5
The setting took placed during the Depression-era in California. George and Lennie are two lonely men who found work in a ranch while keeping away from trouble, but as much as they tried doing just that, something tragic happened.
Of Mice and Men is an adaptation of a novel by John Steinbeck. The film producers did a great job converting the novel into a film. There are scenes that were not from the novel and vice-versa. But the film still did a great job with representing the book as much as possible.
The two main characters are George, played by Gary Sinise, and his impeded friend Lennie, a character played by John Malkovich. Their dream is to own a land and in order to pursue that dream, both forlorn men decided to work in a ranch, while trying to avoid their boss' seductive wife. Lennie, who has good intentions, got himself in a dilemma when he inadvertently killed the wife of his boss's son. In the end George had to slay Lennie in order to avoid the torment by other people. Every actor did a marvelous job portraying the characters. The music for the final scenes insinuates the tragic ending amazingly.
I would recommend the film to children ages 13 and up. But I would suggest reading the book first since there are some parts that are not integrated in the film.
Rating: - Sensitive human drama!
This was the third adaptation, whose Op. 1 was directed by Lewis Milestone in the early thirties The portrait focuses around the value of the friendship and shelter given to a weak mind. Two lonely men who bet for a better life and challenging it, elusive dreamers of a uncertainty future, but as you know the fate will come for them to fade.
Fine performances, specially mention for John Malkovich as the defenseless human being. Sherilyn Penn made a very credible role. Her beauty runs parallel to her talent.
Rating: - Mice and Men - perfectly played by John Malkovich
On of the most famous novels by John Steinbeck, „ Of Mice and Men" has also been made into a film, directed by Gary Sinise and written by Horton Foote. The main idea of this novel, the friendship between George and Lennie, has been worked up very good. Every time George tells Lennie about their plan to have a own little house with a garden and of course rabbits, there is a background soundtrack witch sounds a bit too romantic, but all in all the songs in the film are well selected. But also the other roles are well setted and the scenes on the fields show how life was in that periode of time the novel plays. We tend to smile when we see Lennie acting as a big baby and the type of man Lennie seems to be, is perfectly played by John Malkovich. George is Lennies protector, having promised Lennie's aunt he would take of him after she died. Lennie and George, they have got a dream and they keep each other alive for awhile, but in the end as Lennie gets into big trouble once again, George doesn't see a different way...
Rating:  - Of Mice and Men
Gary Sinise looked for a challenge -and he found one: Make a movie based on John Steinbeck's best work: The novel Of Mice and Men.
Lennie(John Malkovich), a giant laborer, with the strength of a bull, but mentally disabled and George(Gary Sinise), a normal worker who takes care for Lennie, travel together from one ranch to another while the Great Depression, because Lennie gets them in trouble all the time, so that they have to run away.
But everything they want is little money to buy their own ranch, where George can do what he wants and Lennie can make his dream come true, and pet his own rabbits.
The cast was well done.
When you hear, that John Malkovich plays a men, who is very tall, strong as a bull, but everything than bright, you may think, that he cannot do this job. But this is more than wrong. When you see, how he really feels the character of Lennie you give all of your sympathies to this guy.
And Gary Sinise himself did also a great job by playing George. He did both very well, the sensible side and the aggressive, the wild side of George.
And as director Gary Sinise followed the novel very closely. This was the best thing, he could do because John Steinbeck wrote a wonderful book.
I only want to encourage everyone outside to read the book and then watch the movie. It's a wonderful story, where you can get an impression about the Great Depression and it touches the heart
Rating:  - Of Mice and Men
In my opinion the film-maker did a really good job transforming Steinbeck's novel "Of mice and men" into a movie.
The actors are well chosen, for example John Malkovic acts very well as Lennie Small.
There 's the right mixture of action and humor in the film and the mood of the novel is captured very well. The movie sticks very closely to the book, but that doesn't mean that it only retells the story - it does more. On the one hand there are some scenes which don't happen in the movie, but on the other hand some parts of the movie are not mentioned in the book: the right mixture.
The director has managed to tell the story really authentically:
George and Lennie, two guys who both have the dream to have a ranch of their own, are starting to work at a ranch, because they need money.
You can say that Lennie is a really poor guy: He 's a nice person and always has good intentions, but unfortunately he always gets himself into trouble. Without George, who always helps him out of these problems, Lennie would be stranded.
George and Lennie make some friends at their new job, but also some enemies. As Lennie accidentally kills the wife of their boss's son, the story has to end dramatically. George kills Lennie, so that the other people and Curley won 't lynch Lennie.
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