Nobody wants to talk Dr. Zhivago with me :( (referencing buried post)

I found Viktor more interesting than Yuri.

I completely agree with you. Yuri was a good guy, but overall Viktor just had way more charisma. I just love to hate Viktor and his pompous ways. He had some of the best lines in the movie, hands down. I liked how he would admit that he was a pretty rotten guy. Actually, I think he relished in the fact.

Even though Yuri was the good guy, couldn't you technically call him the bad guy as well if you took into account his affair with Lara? Although I understood Lara's character, I never truly understood why she was such an object of desire in the film compared that of Tonia.


I think the thing that always stood out for me in this film was the ice palace....just seemed like a place frozen in time (literarly) for me.

Yeah you are right, Yuri DID have that affair and DID end up abandoning his wife and children. Though, in my eyes, I still believe Yuri was a good man at heart, at least better than Viktor.

Besides the fact the Lara had stunning good looks, I would say the reason Yuri found Lara more desirable than Tonya was the fact that he never really could have Lara. There was always something in the way, and I think that made him want her even more.

Wild At Heart
Raging Bull
Deer Hunter
Taxi Driver
Seven Samurai
Resevoir Dogs
Apocolypse Now
Full Metal Jacket
47 Ronin
Yojimbo

nice group here. though I never thought anyone would put Wild at Heart as one of their favorites. It's personally my least favorite Lynch movie.

Agreed although I always thought that Lara always seemed a character without true depth..I guess I always wondered what was it about Lara that made her so different.

Another I like about this film is that you can focus on something new everytime you see it. A poets outlook on war.The scene where Yuri returns to his frozen house and begins to write is another favorite of mine. Omar Shariff was brilliant in "Lawrence of Arabia" but I think he showed how versatile he was as an actor in this film.

I'm a girl, a lot of girls like chick-flicks. Simple.

^ I feel the only chick-flick that I can name is "when Harry met Sally". Other than that chick-flicks=cliché movie.

There's a difference between a chick flick and a Romance, like "Casablanca" or "Gone with the wind". From that perspective I feel "Titanic" is chick-flick.