#robert di niro

[curiosity-cat]

i see your “goncharov can’t be made into a real movie cause that would ruin it” and raise you; someone does make a real version of goncharov but films 3 or 4 different versions of each scene/plot point, and than mashes them up to create like 30 different versions of the same movie. it’s released in theaters under the guise of being a perfectly normal film, but every person who goes to see it sees a slightly different version, which will just increase the confusion and amount of unconnected lore. is that possible? probably not. but it would be hilarious.

#goncharov #unreality #martin scorsese #robert di niro #al pacino #gaslight gatekeep goncharov

[haydenchristensen-official]

can't believe in a month it will be a one-year anniversary since tumblr reintroduced the greatest mafia movie ever made that was lost in the sands of time, Goncharov (1973).

#goncharov #gonchposting #november #martin scorsese #lost film #katya #ice pick joe #robert di niro #al pacino

[barefoot-gothic]

Taxi Driver (1976)

#taxi driver 1976 #robert di niro

[electricalmayhemical]

Couldn’t stop think about Katya and the outfit she died in!!!

Film: Goncharov (1973)

#my art #emnmart #emnmarts #goncharov #katya goncharov #cybill shepherd #martin scorsese #robert di niro #al pacino #goncharov 1973 #unreality #please reblog #goncharov art #fanart #goncharov fanart #Katya

[nautilusopus]

okay FIIIIIINE i'll throw my hat into the Goncharov ring

Been a while i've done a proper movie breakdown, may as well be this one.

Rather surprisingly (but perhaps not too surprisingly given the unexpected renaissance of things like the original Dracula and Breaking Bad on this website out of seemingly nowhere and with very little prompting), I'm seeing a lot of new people suddenly interested in Martin Scorsese's seminal film classic Goncharov, originally released in 1973. Obviously a movie like that doesn't make it coming up on 50 years without generating a lot of discussion about the different ways the movie resonates and why, but coming into it in 2022 there's been so much cultural cruft that's collected around Goncharov that (similar to stories like Fight Club and Scarface) it's a little hard to parse what it's actually about with all the mythologising that's gone on around the characters.

Those movies, in one way or another, are about portraying the downfall of their protagonists -- Fight Club's after ironically creating another system of control and dehumanisation and becoming what he sought to destroy, Scarface's after being consumed by the wealth and power he's amassed. A lot of people assume it's that kind of story, because aren't most well-loved movies? However, I think this is ironically an assumption made because of the genre of film it is. All the people that aren't going, "OMG Goncharov is so cool and badass and fucks bitches," are going, "WOW I can't believe Goncharov is a cautionary tale about power corrupting," and in the process people miss that Goncharov is first and foremost about loss, in all its different forms.

I'm both kind of surprised and frustrated people miss this, given how utterly pervasive the movie is with its clock symbolism -- it's the one thing everyone remembers about it, it was in all the tie-ins. I dunno, maybe that got funneled back into the theory where they're meant to reinforce how Goncharov is just a mortal man at the end of the day, which is fine I guess, but the movie overall becomes a lot clearer when you interpret it through the lens of, "These things are gone and you can never get them back; clocks don't go backwards."

One of the most fascinating things about the movie is how every character embodies a different kind of loss. I'm gonna ease into this and start not with Goncharov but with:

Rybak, who is usually associated with loss as we typically think of it, i.e. the loss of loved ones via death. This comes up all the time, either in his trust issues (why he's being such a prick at the wedding), in the card game (he never bothers to bet much money, knowing he's bad at poker, and still loses all the same). Rybak is terrified of loss, cannot manage it, and ultimately is punished by losing what few people he had left and then being spared by Lorenzo who deems him punished enough, and is forced to survive, to grapple with what his life is now without them.

Goncharov's is actually more subtle, and it's loss of small, insignificant things as a result of the larger losses he believes he's processed. This is something that's frequently contrasted against Rybak. The pawn shop going under is actually a microcosm of this whole thing. Goncharov anticipates that this is obviously going to lead to financial issues for him, plans accordingly to deal with this, and... it works! He's saved! Except that means card games can't be hosted at his place anymore, given it's burned to the ground. Does this matter, in the grand scheme of his life? No, of course not. Poker night still gets had all the same. But it is different now, and always will be. Little things like this continue to add up, until something as insignificant as a towel -- a towel that never should have been in his room, but Sofia is no longer there to drop off his laundry and chat with him -- is ultimately the final nail in a coffin built of insignificant splinters, each one an imperceptible change underneath the much more larger, noticeable story beats of things like grief.

Otto is the big obvious one I'm not gonna linger on: loss of his youth, moments in the past that he wants to redo but can't. Most people at least seem to have gotten this one.

(This is also what the clocks get associated with a lot, which again, doesn't NOT make sense but also if it were just for this one character that, while thematically important, was honestly just a side character with limited screentime and only two scenes, would they really be all over the movie before Otto's name is even mentioned?)

Sofia's a bit abstract, and is the loss of self -- of the familiar anchors we have to who we are, what we think our core principles are, our place in society, who we want to be to our loved ones -- and by the time she dies she is rendered utterly unrecognisable to herself, and is horrified by it. She grieves herself the same way Rybak grieves his wife (even gets a direct visual callback via the way her face is lit when she's burning Lorenzo's check). You see echoes of this in Goncharov as well, but while Sofia is grieving the person she used to be, Goncharov is grieving the world around him (even though really, it's the same world it always was -- time keeps ticking on, one second per second, and neither one of them can ever un-fire that gun).

Lorenzo, tragically, gradually loses his freedom (and maybe in a parallel world would actually be the protagonist of a movie where he chokes on his own hubris like everyone seems to think Goncharov is GRUMBLE GRUMBLE). As he comes into his own more and more by his family's legacy, he is afforded fewer and fewer options about what decisions he can even make. Arguably he was doomed from the start, but the further he clings to power as a means to freedom, the more it drives him to destroying everything he ever (thought he) cared about. The tragedy of his character, and what makes him a good villain, is that he can clearly see what he is doing to himself and he absolutely hates it (his walking out early at the wedding is a tacit admission of this), but his absolute refusal to accept loss, to accept grief and pain and all the awful shit that comes with the human condition, is what causes him to toss aside every out he has because if he has enough CONTROL over his situation, surely he will never have to lose anything ever again. But, really, he already has.

I dunno. Goncharov is one of those movies that is great, and everyone seems to realise it's great, but nobody ever really puts into words why, and that's how you get Fight Club fans lmao. And it sucks because the actual discussion around the movie beyond "it's another hubris story but REALLY GOOD guys" is so much more fascinating and a much more earnest emotional truth that just never gets talked about.

#goncharov #goncharov (1973) #martin scorsese #al pacino #robert di niro #gene hackman #harvey keitel #gaslight gatekeep goncharov

[iinexhaustible]

“FORGIVE ME, GONCHAROV.”

GONCHAROV (1973) Dir. Martin Scorsese. // Sacred Women - Queen Afua. // I Wish I Wrote The Way I Thought - Benedict Smith. // Commitment - Rupi Kaur.

#goncharov #goncharov (1973) #martin scorsese #robert di niro #poetry #cinema #theyre so gay #Gonrey #Andrey #Goncharov/Andrey #Pretend he has an eyepatch #Unreality #harvey keitel

[bleed-thru]

“Listen, you fuckers, you screwheads. Here is a man who would not take it anymore. A man who stood up against the scum, the cunts, the dogs, the filth, the shit.”

Taxi Driver (1976)

Directed by Martin Scorsese

#taxi driver #travis bickle #robert di niro #martin scorsese #1976 #taxi driver 1976 #jodie foster

[ornithorynquerouge]

Al Pacino and Robert Di Niro on the set of The Godfather: Part II (1974)

#al pacino #robert di niro #the godfather #cinema

[pinkragdolly]

#taxi driver #robert di niro #jodie foster #70s movies #martin scorsese

[gpedia]

Yes to both of these.

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A post by @curiosity-cat, dated Nov 25:

i see your “goncharov can’t be made into a real movie cause that would ruin it” and raise you; someone does make a real version of goncharov but films 3 or 4 different versions of each scene/plot point, and than mashes them up to create like 30 different versions of the same movie. it’s released in theaters under the guise of being a perfectly normal film, but every person who goes to see it sees a slightly different version, which will just increase the confusion and amount of unconnected lore. is that possible? probably not. but it would be hilarious.

Tagged: goncharov, unreality, martin scorsese, robert di niro, al pacino, gaslight gatekeep goncharov

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A post by @welshaphrodite, dated Nov 25:

No, no, NO! You don’t understand! If they were going to make a movie called “Goncharov” it would have to be a modern REBOOT of the 1973 film. Then everyone would have the right to consume the media while simultaneously complaining about how “it isn’t as good as the original” or “I can’t BELIEVE that they left out the iconic part XYZ”. We get to watch the film and preserve the original. Everyone wins.

Tagged: goncharov, martin scorsese, katya x sofia, katya goncharov, ice pick joe, ice pick joe goncharov, goncharov 1973, goncharov x ice pick joe, goncharov x andrey, andrey goncharov, sofia goncharov

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#goncharov #goncharov 1973 #martin scorsese #goncharov goncharov #unreality #robert di niro #al pacino #ice pick joe #andrey #sofia #katya #andrey goncharov #sofia goncharov #katya goncharov #ice pick joe goncharov

[carlislewashere]

Something about shared knowledge and an apple 🍎

#my art #illustration #goncharov #goncharov 1973 #martin scorsese #robert di niro #al pacino #andrey goncharov #unreality

[thesapphocinephile]

If anybody needs me, I'll be here for a while:

#the emotions i felt watching the entire last act were overwhelming #it was so good #give lily gladstone everything for that absolutely heartwrenching performance #movies #cinephile #killers of the flower moon #lily gladstone #leonardo dicaprio #robert di niro #martin scorsese #martin scorsese can't die not allowed #osage

[likeafantasy]

SHARK WEEK 2022 › Shark Tale — (1/7)

#shark tale #will smith #jack black #robert di niro #angelina jolie #renee zellweger #filmedit #moviegifs #shark week #sharkweek22

[handsome-robot]

#al pacino #robert di niro #martin scorsese #colombo #peter falk #willam dafoe #patrick mcgoohan #mike ehrmantraut #jonathan banks #number 6 #the prisoner #breaking bad #better call saul #the irishman #kelsey grammer #fraiser #fall fashion #fitblr #fitness #photography #hat #hats #shoes #sneaker head

[make-a-little-mischief]

I have a BIG crush on that black sweater red shirt combo 🖤 ❤️

#jerry lewis #robert di niro #the king of comedy #how great is jer in this movie??? #and how gorgeous??? #shout out to bobby d as well he did that and did it awesomely

[beebuzzly]

With the Goncharov resurgence on Tumblr, I thought it would be the perfect time to show photos of its famous locations that I took on my trip to Naples!

First off, I got a photo of the street that the opening flashbacks were shot in! I wanted to find the actual apartment where the infamous calzone scene took place but couldn’t find it. Here’s a shot from the movie on the right for comparison

Speaking of the flashback scenes, Katya’s family home! The house is a short walk from where the pier is, which makes sense because both scenes were shot on the same day. It’s really interesting seeing both of the neighbourhoods the couple grew up in, their location was a genius move on Scorsese to show the audience Gon and Kat’s wealth disparity and adding to the theme of poverty in 20th century Italy.

Here’s the pier! Unfortunately I didn’t have a gorgeous sunset like the film did, but I was able to get a good angle of the damage the structure’s gotten over the years. No one would be able to run along it the way Katya and Sofia did in the confrontation scene now

This is the Naples cathedral where Goncharov and Katya elope! The bell tower might have closed the day I was there but at least no one was shot on the stairwell like in the movie

This is the apartment where the terrace scene between Sofia and Andrey takes place. I love the use of the clock chimes motif in the scene, it always gives me chills

And finally, the one you all were waiting for, the vendor shop were Andrey had his iconic monologue at. I knew when I first planned to go to Naples that I needed to find this place. The impact this scene had on my 15 year old brain was ethereal. It completely changed the way I viewed consumerism, told me everything I needed to know about Andrey without him actually talking about himself and beautifully showed how he and Goncharov are connected by their urge to climb the social pyramid. The scene made me want to become a film maker.

BTW yes! They were selling lettuce at the stand :) and luckily there were no fruit vendors to stare at me with disapproval

#goncharov #martin scorsese #robert di niro #film #cinema