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Actors: Jim Carrey, Martin Landau, Laurie Holden
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about The Majestic |
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Peter Appleton is a Hollywood B-movie screenwriter about to get his big break in the 1950s. However, McCarthyism sets in and Peter is blacklisted from Hollywood because he attended a Communist meeting during college. Depressed and drunk, he takes a long drive and ends up in a car accident on a bridge that leaves his body knocked unconscious in the river.
He wakes up with amnesia on a beach in the small town of Lawson, and is taken in by an old man named Harry who believes Peter is his long-lost son Luke, who went missing in WWII. His life now regained meaning, Harry convinces Peter to help him renovate and reopen his run-down old movie theater, The Majestic. The experience brings Peter close to Harry and the rest of the townspeople, including Adele, the woman who was engaged to Luke before he was lost in the war.
But eventually Peter recovers his memory and realizes he is not Luke. Shortly afterward, the FBI shows up and Peter has to testify about his "Communist connections" to a Senate hearing committee. Peter is resigned to admitting connections he never truly had in order to appease the government, but Adele thinks he should stand up to them the way Luke would have.
--Sarah Bastin, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of The Majestic |
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Plot
Time/era of movie:
- 1930's-1950's
Polit/Social/Race/Gender activism
Yes
Plotlet:
- liberal/lefty activism
Inner struggle or disability
Yes
Brain/Body not working?
- amnesia
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- writer
Age:
- 20's-30's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- (man) average
Events of movie makes character more...
- sensitive
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- white/grey
Hair style
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- (man) average build
How much in movie?
- 60%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- an organization
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 20%
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- California
City?
Yes
City:
- Los Angeles
Small town?
Yes
Small town people:
- nice, like Andy/Opie/Aunt Bee
Misc setting
- theater
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- no torture/death
Movie makes you feel...
- thoughtful
Any profanity?
- Occasional swearing
If soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Orchestra/classical
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