Cool Hand Luke [Blu-ray] Overview
Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: PG
Release Date: 9-SEP-2008
Media Type: Blu-Ray
Cool Hand Luke [Blu-ray] Specifications
Paul Newman gives one of the defining performances of his career, and cemented his place as a beautiful-rebel screen icon playing the stubbornly tough and independent title character in Cool Hand Luke. And before he became familiar as a sidekick in 1970s disaster movies (Earthquake and the Airport movies), George Kennedy won an Oscar for playing Dragline, the brutal chain-gang boss who tries to beat loner Luke's cool out of him. It's a classic rebel-against-the-repressive-institution story in the line of One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest or The Shawshank Redemption. Certain moments have become classics--particularly the hardboiled egg-eating contest, and the immortal line (drooled by Strother Martin, as a sadistic redneck prison officer), "What we have here is a failure to communicate." And don't forget, Luke is also the source of the oft-quoted driving ditty, "I don't care if it rains or freezes, long as I have my plastic Jesus, right here on the dashboard of my car..." He is cool, all right. The digital video disc is in anamorphic widescreen and digital stereo. --Jim Emerson
Customer Reviews
All art reflects, to some measure of his time. "Cool Hand Luke" was released at a time when people are increasingly losing their respect for authority. This is, of course, Lucas Jackson as a rebel against the establishment, see, and nothing more.
But Lucas is in a sense, much less - "A" nothing "hand can cool." When Dragline says: "I never planned in my life." It has no goal or purpose, aimlessly from one thing to another (we learn, has been promoted several timesthe army, but demoted to buck private before discharge), and the offense for which he condemns - "decapitate" the parking meters - is a meaningless joke on a night of drunken boredom involved.
Lucas sole purpose 'is to challenge authority, and it does pretty well. / Why / not clear, but one would assume that his motivation is: "If my life has no constructive purpose, I could also give the bird to power."
Lucas may also in self-destructive. Itssharp wit is not only that an intelligent person, but by a sick person. (I know from experience). And when his dear mother - who loves him, he says, for no reason at all - he dies, his decline begins in earnest. Arguably, his repeated attempts trying to get away, get themselves killed. That is what happened. (Did not you know?)
Luke is neither hero nor anti-hero. And 'a man who sacrifices himself for the company's cross, because he had not reallyFit anywhere - is the only thing he can do /. And the company is happy to oblige your desire for self-destruction.
Without doubt, this is a great film.
Blu-ray transfer is excellent in general, the outstanding camera work inside and outside the study. The only disappointment is to listen with Lalo Schiffrin imaginative score in mono. The "Making of" featurette is excellent, well above average for this sort of thing.
PS: CorrectSentence is: "What we have here is ... failure to communicate." There is no 'a'.
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