{"id":7489,"date":"2009-06-16T11:35:52","date_gmt":"2009-06-16T18:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=7489"},"modified":"2023-12-02T21:17:12","modified_gmt":"2023-12-03T04:17:12","slug":"mash-1970","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=7489","title":{"rendered":"M*A*S*H (1970)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;Follow the zany antics of our combat surgeons as they cut and stitch their way along the front lines.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/MASH-Poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/MASH-Poster-194x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-67125\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/MASH-Poster-194x300.jpg 194w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/MASH-Poster-83x128.jpg 83w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/MASH-Poster-175x270.jpg 175w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/MASH-Poster.jpg 488w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nDuring the Korean War, two irreverent surgeons (Donald Sutherland and Elliott Gould) and their colleagues in a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital try to distract themselves from the horrors of the battlefield.\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>\n<strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Black Comedy<\/li>\n<li>Bud Cort Films<\/li>\n<li>Doctors and Nurses<\/li>\n<li>Donald Sutherland Films<\/li>\n<li>Elliott Gould Films<\/li>\n<li>Ensemble Cast<\/li>\n<li>Korean War<\/li>\n<li>Michael Murphy Films<\/li>\n<li>Robert Altman Films<\/li>\n<li>Robert Duvall Films<\/li>\n<li>Sally Kellerman Films<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Response to Peary&#8217;s Review: <\/strong><br \/>\nAs Peary notes, this &#8220;rare anti-war film to make money during a time the U.S. was at war&#8221; is &#8220;best known for radically diverging from conventional narrative techniques&#8221; by doing away with a linear storyline and focusing instead on &#8220;establishing [a] uniquely absurd ambience&#8221;. Most Americans will simply know it as the precursor to the wildly popular <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0068098\/\">television series<\/a> (which ran for 11 seasons), but it holds special interest for film fanatics as the movie that first established Robert Altman as an auteur with a unique vision for feature-length filmmaking. As a comedy, it&#8217;s held up remarkably well over the years, with most vignettes remaining bitingly funny (though I&#8217;ll admit I&#8217;m not a fan of the final, hectic football game). The ensemble cast members &#8212; particularly Sutherland, Gould, and Sally Kellerman (as &#8220;Hot Lips&#8221; Houlihan) &#8212; are all &#8220;first-rate&#8221;, and &#8220;deservedly became stars as a result of their performances&#8221;. As Peary notes, Altman&#8217;s greatest challenge in <em>M*A*S*H<\/em> was &#8220;to get us to believe that such irreverent characters&#8230; really are sensitive about the men being killed in the war&#8221;, but he achieves this by showing us that &#8220;their zany, childish antics are just an emotional release &#8212; while performing surgery, they come through.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><strong>Redeeming Qualities and Moments: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Elliott Gould and Donald Sutherland as Captains Hawkeye and Trapper John<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/mash-gould-sutherland.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/mash-gould-sutherland.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"276\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7493\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Sally Kellerman as &#8220;Hot Lips&#8221; Houlihan<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/mash-kellerman.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/mash-kellerman.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"276\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7494\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>A fine ensemble cast<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/mash-ensemble-cast.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/mash-ensemble-cast.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"276\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7495\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Many darkly humorous sequences<\/li>\n<li>Johnny Mandel&#8217;s instantly hummable theme song (which carried over to the T.V. series, but without 14-year-old Mike Altman&#8217;s dark lyrics)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nYes, as a groundbreaking Altman film, and as a cult classic. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Categories<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cult Movie<\/li>\n<li>Historically Relevant<\/li>\n<li>Important Director<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> (<span style=\"color:red;font-weight:bold;\">Listed in <a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-static\/1001Movies.htm\"><em>1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die<\/em><\/a><\/span>) <\/p>\n<p><strong>Links: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0066026\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1970\/03\/22\/archives\/i-admit-it-i-didnt-like-mash-i-admit-i-didnt-like-mash.html\">NY Times Original Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/reviews\/mash-1970\">Roger Ebert&#8217;s Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.qnetwork.com\/index.php?page=review&#038;id=500\">Q Network Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timeout.com\/film\/reviews\/72906\/mash.html\">Time Out Capsule Review<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Follow the zany antics of our combat surgeons as they cut and stitch their way along the front lines.&#8221; Synopsis: During the Korean War, two irreverent surgeons (Donald Sutherland and Elliott Gould) and their colleagues in a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital try to distract themselves from the horrors of the battlefield. Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors: Black Comedy Bud Cort Films Doctors and Nurses Donald Sutherland Films Elliott Gould Films Ensemble Cast Korean War Michael Murphy Films Robert Altman Films&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=7489\"> 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-7489","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\/7489","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=7489"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93684,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7489\/revisions\/93684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}