Mahty

Just realized I forgot to post something after Tuesdays screening of Marty. My first thoughts after watching the film were that it was surprisingly faithful to the script while somehow managing a feature film length. The dialogue was very close, minus the ramblings of Marty. They filled it out a lot by taking time to set the scene. For example, the amount of time it takes for Marty to bring the dog home from the dance. That was one instance where a lot of additional dialogue was written in. The suicide dialogue was a bit of a surprise. This film was very close to the images I had in my mind, with the exception of the dog being not as doggish as I had imagined. I did notice, however, that the characters got on my nerves a little bit at times during the film, which made it harder for me to feel for them. Marty talked too much and Clara talked too little. She also had a hard-to-define quality about her that disturbed me slightly. In any case I found it harder to feel sorry for them in the film than in the screenplay.