Sistema Prisional – Cool Hand Luke

IV Ciclo de Cinema Cred-DM – Sistema Prisional

Cool Hand Luke

Quarta-feira, 14 de Junho às 19:30 – 21:30

Casa Garden – 13 Praça de Luís de Camões, Macau

“Cool Hand Luke”

(1967- 121m)

Sinopse

O seu crime? Inconformismo. A sentença: Trabalhos forçados.

Em O Presidiário, Paul Newman interpreta um dos papéis mais aclamados da sua carreira: um solitário que não quer – ou não consegue – conformar-se às regras arbitrárias do seu encarceramento.

Um elenco de extraordinários actores, incluindo George Kennedy, no premiado papel de Dragline que lhe valeu um Óscar e a inesquecível Jo Van Fleet como mãe de Luke, dão a Newman um sólido apoio. E Strother Martin é o Capitão que troça de Luke com a agora célebre frase: “O que temos aqui… é uma falha de comunicação”. Mas nada neste filme falha. Repleto de humor e com uma narrativa envolvente, O Presidiário é um clássico intemporal.

Realizador Stuart Rosenberg

Interpretes

Paul Newman, George Kennedy, J.D. Cannon, Lou Antonio, Robert Drivas, Strother Martin, Jo Van Fleet, Clifton James, Morgan Woodward, Luke Askew, Marc Cavell, Richard Davalos, Robert Donner, Warren Finnerty, Dennis Hopper, John McLiam, Wayne Rogers, Harry Dean Stanton, Charles Tyner, Ralph Waite, Anthony Zerbe, Buck Kartalian, Joy Harmon.

Storyline

Cool Hand Luke (1967) is the moving character study of a non-conformist, anti-hero loner who bullheadedly resists authority and the Establishment. One of the film’s posters carried a tagline related to the character’s rebelliousness: “The man…and the motion picture that simply do not conform.” With this vivid film, director Stuart Rosenberg made one of the key films of the 1960s, a decade in which protest against established powers was a key theme. One line of the film’s dialogue from Strother Martin is often quoted: “What we’ve got here is…failure to communicate.”

This superb, crowd-pleasing film was based upon a screenplay co-authored by ex-convict Donn Pearce (and Frank R. Pierson), from Pearce’s own novel of the same name. The main character Luke (played by Paul Newman) was inspired by real-life convicted safecracker Donald Graham Garrison.

The film was nominated for four Academy Awards: Best Actor (Paul Newman, who lost to Rod Steiger in In the Heat of the Night (1967)), Best Supporting Actor (George Kennedy in a break-out role), Best Adapted Screenplay (Donn Pearce and Frank R. Pierson), and Best Original Music Score (Lalo Schifrin) and won only for Best Supporting Actor.