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MASH.1970.UNCUT.DUAL.AUDIO.720p.x264
MASH (1970)
116 min - Comedy | War | Drama - March 1970 (USA)
[R] Ratings: 7.7/10 from 49,316 users Metascore: 79/100
The staff of a Korean War field hospital use humor and hijinks to
keep their sanity in the face of the horror of war.
Director: Robert Altman
Writers: Richard Hooker (from the novel by), Ring Lardner Jr. (screenplay)
Stars: Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould, Tom Skerritt
Format: MP4
Video: H.264 AVC CRF 26 1280x544
Audio (both): AAC Stereo 160 Kbps
Duration: 1:55:55
Filesize: 831 MB
Language: English
Subs: English HI, embedded, switchable
2nd audio: Commentary by Robert Altman
NOTES
Original source was a 20-40 release.
I muxed in the director commentary track from another source.
The film has a soft focus because it was filmed that way.
TRIVIA
The 14-year-old son of Robert Altman, Mike Altman, wrote the lyrics
to the theme song "Suicide is Painless". Because of its inclusion
in the subsequent TV series, he continued to get residuals
throughout its run and syndication. His father was paid $75,000 for
directing but his son eventually made about $2,000,000 in song
royalties.
ALLMOVIE RATING: 5/5 stars
SYNOPSIS
Although he was not the first choice to direct it, the hit black
comedy MASH established Robert Altman as one of the leading figures
of Hollywood's 1970s generation of innovative and irreverent young
filmmakers. Scripted by Hollywood veteran Ring Lardner, Jr., this
war comedy details the exploits of military doctors and nurses at a
Mobile Army Surgical Hospital in the Korean War. Between
exceptionally gory hospital shifts and countless rounds of
martinis, wisecracking surgeons Hawkeye Pierce (Donald Sutherland)
and Trapper John McIntyre (Elliott Gould) make it their business to
undercut the smug, moralistic pretensions of Bible-thumper Maj.
Frank Burns (Robert Duvall) and Army true-believer Maj. "Hot Lips"
Houlihan (Sally Kellerman). Abetted by such other hedonists as Duke
Forrest (Tom Skerritt) and Painless Pole (John Schuck), as well as
such (relative) innocents as Radar O'Reilly (Gary Burghoff),
Hawkeye and Trapper John drive Burns and Houlihan crazy while
engaging in such additional blasphemies as taking a medical trip to
Japan to play golf, staging a mock Last Supper to cure Painless's
momentary erectile dysfunction, and using any means necessary to
win an inter-MASH football game. MASH creates a casual, chaotic
atmosphere emphasizing the constant noise and activity of a
surgical unit near battle lines; it marked the beginning of
Altman's sustained formal experiments with widescreen photography,
zoom lenses, and overlapping sound and dialogue, further enhancing
the atmosphere with the improvisational ensemble acting for which
Altman's films quickly became known. Although the on-screen war was
not Vietnam, MASH's satiric target was obvious in 1970, and Vietnam
War-weary and counter-culturally hip audiences responded to
Altman's nose-thumbing attitude towards all kinds of authority and
embraced the film's frankly tasteless yet evocative humor and its
anti-war, anti-Establishment, anti-religion stance. MASH became the
third most popular film of 1970 after Love Story and Airport, and
it was nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Picture
and Best Director. As further evidence of the changes in
Hollywood's politics, blacklist survivor Lardner won the Oscar for
his screenplay. MASH began Altman's systematic 1970s effort to
revise classic Hollywood genres in light of contemporary American
values, and it gave him the financial clout to make even more
experimental and critical films like McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971),
California Split (1974), and Nashville (1975). It also inspired the
long-running TV series starring Alan Alda as Hawkeye and Burghoff
as Radar. With its formal and attitudinal impudence, and its great
popularity, MASH was one more confirmation in 1970 that a Hollywood
"New Wave" had arrived.
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