{"id":1249,"date":"2006-07-07T14:25:09","date_gmt":"2006-07-07T21:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=1249"},"modified":"2021-01-06T18:18:09","modified_gmt":"2021-01-07T01:18:09","slug":"adventures-of-robinson-crusoe-robinson-crusoe-1952","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=1249","title":{"rendered":"Adventures of Robinson Crusoe \/ Robinson Crusoe (1954)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;Being the third son of a good family, and not educated to any trade, my head began to be filled early with thoughts of leaving England, to see the world.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/07\/Adventures-Robinson-Crusoe-Poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/07\/Adventures-Robinson-Crusoe-Poster-195x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-32211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/07\/Adventures-Robinson-Crusoe-Poster-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/07\/Adventures-Robinson-Crusoe-Poster-83x128.jpg 83w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/07\/Adventures-Robinson-Crusoe-Poster.jpg 580w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nSlave trader Robinson Crusoe (Dan O&#8217;Herlihy) is stranded on a desert island, and must learn to survive on his own &#8212; until the arrival of &#8220;Man Friday&#8221; (Jaime Fernandez) provides him with company and assistance.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>\n<strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Deserted Island<\/li>\n<li>Luis Bunuel Films<\/li>\n<li>Slavery<\/li>\n<li>Survival<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Response to Peary&#8217;s Review:<\/strong><br \/>\nAs Peary notes, Luis Bunuel&#8217;s &#8220;peculiar&#8221; film adaptation of Daniel Defoe&#8217;s classic adventure novel is &#8220;beautifully shot&#8221;, yet &#8220;static and thematically ambiguous&#8221;. While O&#8217;Herlihy&#8217;s &#8220;haughty slave-driver&#8221; initially &#8220;feels humbled as he must consider his helplessness and man&#8217;s insignificant place in God&#8217;s universe&#8221;, once &#8216;Man Friday&#8217; (Jaime Fernandez) arrives on the island, O&#8217;Herlihy [arguably] begins to see &#8220;himself as God in this new domain&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/07\/Adventures-of-Robinson-Crusoe-Meeting-Friday.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/07\/Adventures-of-Robinson-Crusoe-Meeting-Friday-1024x743.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"464\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-61974\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/07\/Adventures-of-Robinson-Crusoe-Meeting-Friday-1024x743.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/07\/Adventures-of-Robinson-Crusoe-Meeting-Friday-300x218.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/07\/Adventures-of-Robinson-Crusoe-Meeting-Friday-128x93.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/07\/Adventures-of-Robinson-Crusoe-Meeting-Friday-768x557.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/07\/Adventures-of-Robinson-Crusoe-Meeting-Friday-372x270.png 372w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/07\/Adventures-of-Robinson-Crusoe-Meeting-Friday.png 1415w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Suffice it to say that no steps are taken to mitigate the assumed hierarchy between master and slave; as Peary points out, this is not the film to watch if you want to see a &#8220;defiant&#8221; black man. Peary concludes his review by noting that &#8220;adults will watch this film mostly as a Bunuel curio&#8221;, while children &#8220;may respond to the colorful adventure and magical setting and [simply] be unaware of the religious themes&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Redeeming Qualities and Moments:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Beautiful, lush Technicolor cinematography<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/07\/Adventures-Robinson-Crusoe-Cinematography.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/07\/Adventures-Robinson-Crusoe-Cinematography-1024x743.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"464\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-61976\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/07\/Adventures-Robinson-Crusoe-Cinematography-1024x743.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/07\/Adventures-Robinson-Crusoe-Cinematography-300x218.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/07\/Adventures-Robinson-Crusoe-Cinematography-128x93.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/07\/Adventures-Robinson-Crusoe-Cinematography-768x557.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/07\/Adventures-Robinson-Crusoe-Cinematography-372x270.png 372w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/07\/Adventures-Robinson-Crusoe-Cinematography.png 1413w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Dan O&#8217;Herlihy&#8217;s commanding performance as Crusoe<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/07\/Adventures-Robinson-Crusoe-OHerlihy.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/07\/Adventures-Robinson-Crusoe-OHerlihy-1024x746.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"466\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-61975\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/07\/Adventures-Robinson-Crusoe-OHerlihy-1024x746.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/07\/Adventures-Robinson-Crusoe-OHerlihy-300x219.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/07\/Adventures-Robinson-Crusoe-OHerlihy-128x93.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/07\/Adventures-Robinson-Crusoe-OHerlihy-768x559.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/07\/Adventures-Robinson-Crusoe-OHerlihy-371x270.png 371w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/07\/Adventures-Robinson-Crusoe-OHerlihy.png 1421w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Snippets of surreality, providing evidence of Bunuel&#8217;s continued fascination with this stylistic approach<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nNo, though it&#8217;s worth a look simply as a curio in Bunuel&#8217;s oeuvre. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Links:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0044386\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1954\/08\/06\/archives\/the-screen-robinson-crusoe-translux-normandie-shows-defoe-classic.html\">NY Times Original Review<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Being the third son of a good family, and not educated to any trade, my head began to be filled early with thoughts of leaving England, to see the world.&#8221; Synopsis: Slave trader Robinson Crusoe (Dan O&#8217;Herlihy) is stranded on a desert island, and must learn to survive on his own &#8212; until the arrival of &#8220;Man Friday&#8221; (Jaime Fernandez) provides him with company and assistance. Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors: Deserted Island Luis Bunuel Films Slavery Survival Response to&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=1249\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-responses-to-peary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1249"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61977,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249\/revisions\/61977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}