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The Theory of Everything (2014)
Directed by James Marsh
influenced by My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown (1989)
Characters Themes
It’s wrenching to watch and recalls elements of Daniel Day-Lewis’s Oscar-winning performance in “My Left Foot.”
All this makes the performance of the youthful, freckled Redmayne, at 32 playing his first lead in a movie, so exciting, and reminiscent of another British actor's memorable performance at the same age — Daniel Day-Lewis, in "My Left Foot."
Still, what’s onscreen is less a cerebral experience than a stirring and bittersweet love story, inflected with tasteful good humor, that can’t help but recall earlier disability dramas like “My Left Foot” and “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.”
Eddie Redmayne's captivating performance will be compared to Daniel Day Lewis's achievement in "My Left Foot," but it is important to note how much life, joy and humor he brings to the role with little more than a cocked eyebrow, a few facial muscles and his eyes (a scene where he gets his head caught in a sweater when Jane leaves the room is delightfully relatable).
It recalls Daniel Day Lewis' in My Left Foot — minus the rage.
Comparisons to Daniel Day-Lewis' Oscar-winning work in "My Left Foot" are inevitable — and not undeserved.
Tapping into a rich seam of émigré cinema (Jim Sheridan’s 2002 In America is a distant cousin), Brooklyn beautifully evokes the sense of being torn between time, place and identity.
Screenwriter Nick Hornby ( An Education , Wild ) – author of the novels About a Boy and High Fidelity – follows in the tradition of other cautiously optimistic stories of assimilation like Avalon or In America .
There have been many movies about the experience of Irish immigrants to the United States, period and modern, good (“In America”) and bad (“Far And Away”).
Its real comparative cinematic brethren is the great “ In America ,” another film that wore its heart on its sleeve and dared the most cynical to remain cold-hearted.
And then there’s the photo-album writ large-ness of something like Jim Sheridan’s In America.
Belfast doesn’t come close to relaying personal experiences in the way that enhanced Terence Davies’s The Long Day Closes , John Boorman’s Hope and Glory , and Jim Sheridan’s In America , just to name three Irish-ethnic movies where the directors’ own lives prompted deep responses universally.
I keep wanting to call David O. Russell’s “The Fighter” by the name of another movie, Jim Sheridan’s 1997 “The Boxer.”
Some manage to be great ("Rocky," "Raging Bull") and others fairly good ("The Boxer," "Rocky Balboa"), but most range from mediocre to awful or, maybe worse yet, instantly forgettable.
Moonfall (2022)
Directed by Roland Emmerich
influenced by My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown (1989)
When we talk about great accomplishments in acting, the conversation usually turns to feats of physical transformation or wrenching psychological deep dives — your Daniel Day-Lewis in My Left Foot , your Meryl Streep in Sophie’s Choice .
Interstellar (2014)
Directed by Christopher Nolan
influenced by My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown (1989)
Characters
Eddie Redmayne’s performance is astonishing, as eloquent, though in a different way, as Daniel Day-Lewis’s work in “My Left Foot.”
The King's Speech (2010)
Directed by Tom Hooper
influenced by My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown (1989)
Characters
Like some stars before him — Daniel Day-Lewis in “My Left Foot,” Ian McKellen in “Richard III” — he has created not the mere study of an infirmity but the drama of a man trapped inside one, fighting ferociously to emerge.
This dynamic - along with newcomers attempting to fit in with a settled, rural community - are the central focal points in this absorbing American immigrant tale, maybe the best one that this critic has seen since director/co-writer Jim Sheridan’s “In America” (2002), about an Irish family moving to New York City, during the 1980s as well.
The role of the Fisher patriarch is played by Pete Postle thwaite (nominated for his turn as father to Daniel Day-Lewis’ prisoner in “In the Name of the Father”).
Father Stu (2022)
Directed by Rosalind Ross
influenced by My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown (1989)
Themes
It’s based on the real Father Stuart Long, with the standard theatrical embellishments (and concepts of suffering to test faith), but none are significant enough to give this picture the profound flavor of “The Song of Bernadette,” or “The Robe,” or “A Man for All Seasons” (or even “My Left Foot” or “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly,” a la the biblical Book of Job).
Rushmore (1998)
Directed by Wes Anderson
influenced by My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown (1989)
Plot
In one scene, ripped off from My Left Foot (1989), Max gets drunk in the course of a celebratory dinner and insults the teacher's date: "I have a hit play.
Adapted from the book by Sebastian Barry , the story deals with subject matter that has already been tackled with more heartbreaking humour in Philomena and more biting fury in The Magdalene Sisters .
That money would be much better spent on a night at home with microwave popcorn, a bottle of wine, the classics: Song for a Raggy Boy/The Magdalene Sisters … and, most likely, a lifetime of therapy.
I understand better why movies like Cinema Paradiso, The Green Mile, and Seabiscuit worked on me the way they did.
I won’t give anything away, but as my guest pointed out after the film, certain parts reminded her of themes found in The Green Mile .
He's Sheridan's unfortunate, if artier, version of the black saints in ''The Green Mile'' and ''The Legend of Bagger Vance.''
The Imitation Game (2014)
Directed by Morten Tyldum
influenced by My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown (1989)
Characters
It’s an extraordinarily subtle and poignant turn that enriches Cumberbatch’s own performance, the way Hugh O’Conor did for Daniel Day Lewis in My Left Foot, or Noah Taylor for Geoffrey Rush in Shine.
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)
Directed by Alejandro G. Iñárritu
influenced by My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown (1989)
Characters
The film just snatched away the best film, best director, best cinematography and best screenplay Oscars and brought huge smiles to the faces of the filmmakers, and even a smile for lead actor Michael Keaton -- who did not receive an Oscar for best actor, since Eddie Redmayne's performance as Stephen Hawking appropriately fulfilled the Academy's quota for disabled geniuses (i.e., Dustin Hoffman in “Rain Man,” Daniel Day Lewis in “My Left Foot”).
“The Pursuit of Happyness” many times borders on fairy tale territory in the vein of “In America,” in which our characters are always in the area of danger, but never in life threatening danger.
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992)
Directed by Chris Columbus
influenced by My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown (1989)
He gets to know a curmudgeonly oldster (Brenda Fricker, from My Left Foot, as a pigeon-loving bag lady) and melts her heart just in time for the toasty, spirit-of-Christmas finale.
This gripping film recalls (in different ways) aspects of two recent war-related pictures: Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker and Jim Sheridan's Brothers .
The Avengers (1998)
Directed by Jeremiah S. Chechik
influenced by My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown (1989)
Jim Broadbent (The Crying Game) and the great Fiona Shaw (My Left Foot) make appearances as corrupt henchmen named Mother—that's him—and Father—that's her.
Misery (1990)
Directed by Rob Reiner
influenced by My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown (1989)
Characters
As the movie's wheelchair-bound hero, Caan is not exactly Daniel Day-Lewis ("My Left Foot"), but his snide, cynical demeanor is a perfect counterpoint to Bates' literal-minded Annie.