You gotta love how incredulous the people watching react when Turturro ostensibly flubs on the big question.
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Quiz Show
SeanJoyce — 14 years ago(April 11, 2011 05:53 AM)
You gotta love how incredulous the people watching react when Turturro ostensibly flubs on the big question.
Marty
is relegated to the ranks of obscure, undeserving, and marginalized Best Picture winners. Even film nuts have to scratch their heads and take a few moments when asked what film took top prize for the year 1955.
Had the question instead pertained to
On the Waterfront
(from the previous year, which he gave as his answer), the astonishment would be more logical.
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if that was off, I'd be whoopin' your ass up and down this street.
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MsELLERYqueen2 — 14 years ago(September 05, 2011 01:23 PM)
"I've been amazed how many average people didn't see much in "Marty"all I can do is emphasize the word 'average'."
One of the things that I love about "Marty" is that it's a love story about ordinary, everyday people. No glamorous Hollywood types here. It's one of the most realistic love stories ever to be released by Hollywood.
Ellery Queen (Jim Hutton) = sexiest man ever! -
Mr Blue-4 — 14 years ago(November 09, 2011 04:32 AM)
"Marty is relegated to the ranks of obscure, undeserving, and marginalized Best Picture winners. Even film nuts have to scratch their heads and take a few moments when asked what film took top prize for the year 1955."
Depends on who you're talking to. When the subject of movies comes up, my Aunt always thinks of "Marty", the little picture that could. For a time it was a big deal that a low budget picture with no stars (at the time) won Best Picture for that year.
Besides, there are plenty more "marginal" Best Pictures, from "The Life Of Emile Zola" to "Driving Miss Daisy". -
Hancock_the_Superb — 13 years ago(June 25, 2012 03:37 AM)
Quality aside, Marty was extremely popular in its day, and the show in question took place only two years after its release. Most sentient beings would have been aware of its existence.
Anyway, I'm a big fan of the movie.
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sstavsky — 10 years ago(April 08, 2015 05:43 PM)
For what it's worth, "Marty" also won the New York Film Critics Award for Best Picture, and the National Board of Review chose it as Best Picture. It was also added to the Library of Congress's National Film Registry in 1994 (the same year that "Quiz Show" came out!).
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cowgoesmoo — 9 years ago(May 16, 2016 05:34 AM)
Well I guess some people like chocolate and some people like vanilla.
Personally, I've always loved Marty. One thing that hasn't been mentioned is how Herbie Stemple identifies with Marty. Marty/Herbie are both nebbishes, so whether or not a modern audience remembers it, its important that
Herbie
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nicoledesapio — 9 years ago(November 21, 2016 08:23 PM)
Personally, I've always loved Marty. One thing that hasn't been mentioned is how Herbie Stemple identifies with Marty. Marty/Herbie are both nebbishes, so whether or not a modern audience remembers it, its important that Herbie remembers it, which makes taking a dive doubly painful for him.
And then there's the fact that ON THE WATERFRONT (the title Stempel had to say in place of MARTY) is a movie about a guy who "takes a dive."