They say that people do crazy thing when they are in love. This movie questions what in the world does the word love mean? Tom Jones is a young man who is was adopted when he was born. While he was growing up he never really paid much attention to his studies. He never really paid much attention to anything really other than girls, and himself. He is the quintessential idea for a young man who wants to have fun. When a member of his family blackmails him and his adapted father sends him away Tom must learn how to survive on his own. Yet, he does it was he boyish charm and magically skims by on his good looks. Right before he is sent off he finds that his is in love with the wonderful girl who is in love with him. Because he has been disinherited he is no longer welcome to marry the girl of his dreams. In a search to find a way to win the love, and his life, back he goes on an adventure that is cleverly entertaining every step of the way.
Tom Jones is a movie that became wildly popular with the public but not so much with the people that made the film. The film was originally going to be shot in black and white but the production company decided that color would be better. When they made that choice the company soon went bankrupt. That is when United Artists came through and financed the film. When the film was finally all said and done Tony Richardson, the director, ended up hating the film. He said that he felt the film was incomplete and every botched. He knew that everyone loved the film and it was a great success but whenever he thought of it he would always cringe on the inside. A great deal of many people must of thought it was a wonderful film because it beat out another United Artist film Lilies of the Field as well as Warner Brothers' America America, 20th Century Fox's Cleopatra, and MGM's How the West was Won.
This came totally out of left field! You think I am kidding? re-read that list of other nominations from that year! Where in the world did this film come from! I have never even heard of this film until I made the Best Picture list! The only way I can really describe this film is.... I mean.... Ok if you gave the Three Stooges a week to make a movie and they were not allowed to be in it this is what they would have come up with. The film is funny and wild and it does keep you guessing a bit. However, I do not understand the appeal in it to be among the best movies of all time. It is not even a classic comedy really! Monty Python and the Holy Grail is a comedy classic that all kooky comedy classic should strive to be like, but this film should be on the list for one of the worst Best Picture films of all time. The movie is charming in its own right but it is not near worthy of an Oscar.
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