daddysprimadonna Posted January 15, 2006 Share Posted January 15, 2006 I just watched this movie,and I love it,I'm buying the DVD(if that exists).The ending was great! Is there a more suitable place to discuss this,so I don't give the movie away? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwtwbooklover Posted January 15, 2006 Share Posted January 15, 2006 I try to talk around the ending if that is possible sometimes I slip up and ruin things and a humbly apologize what is more aggravating is when I get stars names mixed up ih I hate when I do that! I love the dragging back to the house scene. I once watched a wedding story where the couple was re-enacting the wedding vows of O'Hara and Wayne from The Quiet Man. One thing that confuses me is the set up to have Mary's brother romance a woman he's long been interested in but hasn't been able to follw his heart. I am confused by the course of events. The language of the supporting charcters also have me boggled at times. I love the Quiet Man. Feel free to post away on your feeelings about this movie unless you foung a place to discuss it already. Just post. I don't know if it is on DVD but I think it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daddysprimadonna Posted January 15, 2006 Author Share Posted January 15, 2006 Thanks gwtwbooklover:) It seems that the brother is interested in the lady,and they seem to have had some kind of unspoken understanding,but he is so gauche and uncouth as to assume and to announce it as a done deal at his sister's wedding before paying her the respect of really courting her and asking the question.So she is indignant and insulted that he took this for granted and being apparently a lady of some culture and delicacy,humiliated that he just blurts it out like that in public before going the formalities.That's what I gathered anyway. Some of the other villagers(at the horse race scene)have sympathy for the plight of Sean and Mary Kate,and conspire to make the brother believe that since he won't let them marry,that Sean is interested in the lady that the brother wants to marry.They also tell him that if he(the brother) marries the lady,it won't work anyway with two women in the house,which makes him more inclined to allow Sean and Mary Kate to marry. I love the whole dragging back from the train depot and the fight scenes. I know that the one scene is utterly politically incorrect now,but I don't care-I feel that I can understand it. It's not that Sean is being violent to Mary Kate,it's that she has goaded him and goaded him to be a man in the way in which manhood is understood in that time and place-to stand your ground and fight. She wants him to be a man to her brother,to her,and to himself. So she finally succeeds in goading him into the thing that helps him get rid of his angst and withdrawal. I can't really tell if she kind of planned it that way or not,but I could tell that she was pleased with the result. Who wouldn't be,with John Wayne in that beautiful Irish village setting? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daddysprimadonna Posted January 15, 2006 Author Share Posted January 15, 2006 That's great,thank you, I will try Amazon first:) I just really love this movie,and I already told my favorite scenes,LOL. I can tend to over-analyse things,but I've wondered if there wasn't a sub-text in this movie regarding the political situation between Ireland and England? There are many ways that that seems to fit. The whole movie is just seamless,to me,and the role is a departure in a way for John Wayne. And he acted it beautifully. He and Maureen O'Hara are a great team,and Victor McLaglin is great as the brother-I also love him with John Wayne in "She Wore A Yellow Ribbon". I also think that Barry Fitzgerald is great. The setting is gorgeous-it was filmed on location in Ireland,and just exemplifies the Ireland of everyone's dreams,including the "characters". What characters! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeausFriend Posted January 15, 2006 Share Posted January 15, 2006 I found my DVD copy at walmart. Also try Best Buy. There is a collectors edition out too. I read the book the Quiet Man and it was totally nothing like the movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daddysprimadonna Posted January 15, 2006 Author Share Posted January 15, 2006 I wasn't aware of the book,so now I'll be going to find it also. Thanks for the info! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeausFriend Posted January 15, 2006 Share Posted January 15, 2006 i cant remember if the book was titled the Quiet Man sometimes at the beginning of the movie they will say its based on a book by so and so. I think i went by the name of the author to find it at the library. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markfp2 Posted January 16, 2006 Share Posted January 16, 2006 Melanie: If you haven't already found it, the book you want is "The Quiet Man and Other Stories" by Maurice Walsh. If you expect it to be like the movie, you'll be in for a shock. The segment that the movie deals with is just a small portion of the book. A good deal of it has to do with the Irish Rebublican Army and Ireland's fight for independence. I just checked Amazon and they have it in paperback for about $15.00. If you want to read about the making of the movie, the best and most complete book on the subject is "The Complete Guide to The Quiet Man" by Des MacHale. Amazon also has this one too for about $19.00. I bought this one when I was on a trip to Ireland and read it from cover to cover on the flight back. It's one of the best books about making a film that I've ever read. I'm sure you'd enjoy it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daddysprimadonna Posted January 16, 2006 Author Share Posted January 16, 2006 Yes indeed ,I would greatly enjoy both of those,and am gratified to hear that I wasn't mistaken in my suspicion of the subtext of the movie:) Is the author Maurice Walsh,any relation to Raoul Walsh the director? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markfp2 Posted January 16, 2006 Share Posted January 16, 2006 As far as I know, they are not related. Maurice Walsh was a popular Irish writer during the first half of the 20th century. I believe he died in the early '50s. Interestingly, John Ford bought the rights to "The Quiet Man" around 1935 and it took him until 1952 to get it made into a movie. None of the studios thought it would be of interest to American audiences. It was only because his three John Wayne cavalry movies made so much money for Republic Pictures, that he convinced the studio boss, Herbert J. Yates, to let him make it. If you can imagine, Yates wanted to shoot it in black and white on the studio back lot using players he had under contract. If Ford hadn't insisted on shooting in Technicolor and on location in Ireland, it sure wouldn't be the classic it turn out to be. Thank you, John Ford. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daddysprimadonna Posted January 16, 2006 Author Share Posted January 16, 2006 I thank John Ford,I've loved the couple of Westerns that I've seen of his(She Wore A Yellow Ribbon and the one with Shirley Temple). Yes, Ireland really needs to filmed in color-lucky you,to have been there-it's in my plans to go there with my husband someday. I hope it's not just my fantasy that there are still a few more remote places that have retained their character. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
April Posted January 16, 2006 Share Posted January 16, 2006 This has got to be my all time favorate John Wayne movie. Although I have not appreciated the John Wayne style movies when I was younger, I have in recent years become a fan. I saw this movie first on TV in the late 1960's early 70's and love it then, but apprcieate it so much more now. Maureen O'Hara was so stunning in this technicolor classic, and the supporting cast was superb. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwtwbooklover Posted January 31, 2006 Share Posted January 31, 2006 markfp2-you lucky dog! I can just see you having your picture took where they shot scenes of the Quiet Man. I've been to Ireland myself but it was only for 45 minutes. I was in Shannon, Ireland our plane was refueling(it had flown from Italy). I remember it was so green, the grass, it was as if someone laid out a grass carpet. I wish I had seen more before of the places I've been like Italy. Now I'm older and therefore not as adventurous as I use to be I mean I worry about the safety of my being when flying not to mention set in my ways. Plus, the fact of no funds for traveling but it irks me to no end to have been so close, a days trip! to see Mt Versuvius(MSP-I'm sure) and I didn't go! Damn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
movieman1957 Posted January 31, 2006 Share Posted January 31, 2006 Here's one that's worse. About two years ago my mother-in-law went to Ireland and took a tour through the town where they made the film. She's never seen it!! She brought me back a book on the town and the making of the movie. She knew it was one of my favorites, hence the gifts, but she didn't watch the movie before she went. Go figure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattHelm Posted January 31, 2006 Share Posted January 31, 2006 This is one of the movies no matter where I come in on it, I have to watch it. I wish I had stopped in Galway when going from Dublin to Sligo years ago, but I was a guest and didn't want to be too pushy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edgeciff Posted February 1, 2006 Share Posted February 1, 2006 Paramount now owns the rights to this classic. This film is definitely in need of restoration since the DVD print available now leaves much to be desired. QUIET MAN is supposed to be one of the most gorgeous Technicolor motion pictures of all time and one of the few color films released by Republic Studios. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markfp2 Posted February 1, 2006 Share Posted February 1, 2006 Yes, I do consider myself lucky. Twice I've been there, both times on guided tours and each time we stopped at the village of Cong where much of the movie was filmed. The village hasn't changed that much since the film, although there aren't dirt streets anymore. And just wandering around, it's very easy to spot different houses and other locations in the film. The older folks in Cong have fond memories of the cast and crew being there. Of course, I think the best thing for them was the fact that before the movie came to town, like much of rural Ireland back then, they didn't have electricity. The government installed it so the movie could be made there. It will always be a high spot of my trips. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lzcutter Posted February 1, 2006 Share Posted February 1, 2006 Paramount now owns the rights to this classic. This film is definitely in need of restoration since the DVD print available now leaves much to be desired. Paramount and restoration. Now, there's an oxymoron! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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