Gandhi
1982 Directed by Richard Attenborough
Synopsis
His Triumph Changed The World Forever.
In 1893, Gandhi is thrown off a South African train for being an Indian and traveling in a first class compartment. Gandhi realizes that the laws are biased against Indians and decides to start a non-violent protest campaign for the rights of all Indians in South Africa. After numerous arrests and the unwanted attention of the world, the government finally relents by recognizing rights for Indians, though not for the native blacks of South Africa. After this victory, Gandhi is invited back to India, where he is now considered something of a national hero. He is urged to take up the fight for India's independence from the British Empire. Gandhi agrees, and mounts a non-violent non-cooperation campaign of unprecedented scale, coordinating millions of Indians nationwide. There are some setbacks, such as violence against the protesters and Gandhi's occasional imprisonment. Nevertheless...
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Part of the Best Picture Project (1982)As a 10 year old when this came out I had very little interest in this whatsoever. I was more anxious waiting for the new Star Wars movie to come out.
So about 4 or 5 years later when in school, our history teacher sat us down in class and made us watch this, my feelings hadn't changed one bit. There was no way I wanted to sit down and watch a 3 hour epic about some bald bloke who just stopped eating for a bit. Boring! So for then ,until now Gandhi had been a word for any long boring film… -
Turns out Gandhi was a smart and interesting guy.
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Ive gotta change my robe...
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Whenever my school friends and I talked about going to the movies in earshot of one of my old teachers, he would always shuffle out a joke about how the last time he went to the cinema, he saw Gandhi - "little fellow sat in the front row, wearing a blanket". Oh, how we laughed, every time...
It's taken me long enough to get around to seeing him (sorry, I mean the film, Gandhi, let's not mention the joke again) - and it required two sittings. Turns out three hours 11 minutes is a tricky commitment these days.
More education than entertainment, nevertheless I feel Richard Attenborough's bio-epic has supplied me with a great deal of knowledge about this inspiring…
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I don't understand why Che Guevara is on more t-shirts than Mahatma Gandhi...
Richard Attenborough's Ghandi is a great film about a great human being. This movie does justice to Gandhi's life and mission, which would make the man himself smile. It is so eerie (I mean this in a positive way) how Sir Ben Kingsley matches the wisdom and spirit of Gandhi in his performance. It is an inspiring experience as one can learn a lot from the principles of Gandhi.
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An ever-so-slightly overbloated epic that absolutely has its heart in the right place. If you can sit through it all, you'll find that Gandhi is an admiring look at a truly great historical figure that is handsomely written and directed. The star, of course, is Ben Kingsley's brilliant performance.
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Heartbreaking and emotional story... Ben Kingsley is brilliant as usual.
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It's taken me a long time to get around to watching Gandhi. In fact, there were pretty much only 3 reasons I watched it when I did.
1 - A friend of mine had recently written an article about how he considers it to be his favourite film of 1982. He wrote so passionately about it, that it made me want to watch it even more.
2 - I'd recently watched Iron Man 3, forgot how great Ben Kingsley is and wanted to see some more films of his.
3 - Lovefilm had posted it to me, I'd had it sitting on my table for about 3 weeks already, but lacked the enthusiasm to get around to it. A 3…
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As I biopic about the life of a very interesting world leader I really wanted to love Gandhi but I didn't. My problem with Gandhi was its pacing. It was tirelessly slow.
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It's filmed in a dry way that may disinterest some, but I think it's what the story called for. Its scope is admirable even if it drags in places. However, one thing that is never dry is Ben Kingsley's performance, and he's backed by a stellar supporting cast as well.
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Well deserved Best Picture, Best Actor and Best Director Oscars. This film has beautiful wide shots and large crowds. Everything you could ask for in a big screen epic telling the life of the world's greatest pacifist, and best character to play in Sid Meier's Civilization. It only took me 31 years to getting around to watch it.
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Ive gotta change my robe...
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There's nothing that bad and quite a few things that are really good in Gandhi. It just wore me down. Kind of ironic.
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Great performance from Ben Kingsley and all, but I don't know if the film was worth its length (three hours seems like more than enough time to tell a life story but instead the film skips his childhood and mainly shows him going to prison and/or fasting), and I doubt it'd be the kind of film that would stay with me as a favourite or anything.