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Actors: Katherine Hepburn, Danny Kaye, Yul Brynner
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about The Madwoman of Chaillot |
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Katharine Hepburn rarely--if ever--gave a performance not worth watching, and in “Madwoman of Chaillot,” she presents one of her more memorable roles. As Jean Giraudoux's Madwoman, Hepburn leads an all-story cast including Charles Boyer,Dame Edith Evans, John Gavin, Paul Henreid, Richard Chamberlin, Yul Brynner, Donald Pleasance, and Danny Kaye (as The Ragpicker). It's a mad, mad, mad world in which they live and out of this madness, some order is to be found. (Of course, the real madness lies in the real world!) Colorful, catching, and sometimes with apologies to Giraudoux's original play!, the movie convinces us that sometimes it takee a madwoman to “cure” us of our sanity!
--Bill Hobbs, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of The Madwoman of Chaillot |
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Plot
Comedy, primarily
Yes
Time/era of movie:
- 19th century
Inner struggle or disability
Yes
Struggle with
- eccentricity
Brain/Body not working?
- mental illness
Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Profession/status:
- simply wealthy
Age:
- 40's-50's
Eccentric:
Yes
- eccentric
Events of movie makes character more...
- sensitive
Ethnicity/Nationality
- French
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor?
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Main Adversary
Identity:
- general circumstances
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 20%
Setting
Europe
Yes
European country:
- France
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- no torture/death
Movie makes you feel...
- encouraged
Any profanity?
- None
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