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CLIP DESCRIPTION:
Hawkeye (
Donald Sutherland),
Duke (
Tom Skerritt), and
Trapper John (
Elliott Gould) play a prank on
Hot Lips (
Sally Kellerman) when she goes to shower.
FILM DESCRIPTION:
Although he was not the first choice to direct it, the hit black comedy MASH established
Robert Altman as one of the leading figures of
Hollywood's
1970s generation of innovative and irreverent young filmmakers. Scripted by Hollywood veteran
Ring Lardner, Jr., this war comedy details the exploits of military doctors and nurses at a
Mobile Army Surgical Hospital in the
Korean War. Between exceptionally gory hospital shifts and countless rounds of martinis, wisecracking surgeons
Hawkeye Pierce (Donald Sutherland) and
Trapper John McIntyre (Elliott Gould) make it their business to undercut the smug, moralistic pretensions of Bible-thumper Maj.
Frank Burns (
Robert Duvall) and
Army true-believer Maj. "
Hot Lips" Houlihan (Sally Kellerman). Abetted by such other hedonists as
Duke Forrest (Tom Skerritt) and
Painless Pole (
John Schuck), as well as such (relative) innocents as
Radar O'Reilly (
Gary Burghoff), Hawkeye and Trapper John drive
Burns and Houlihan crazy while engaging in such additional blasphemies as taking a medical trip to
Japan to play golf, staging a mock
Last Supper to cure Painless's momentary erectile dysfunction, and using any means necessary to win an inter-MASH football game. MASH creates a casual, chaotic atmosphere emphasizing the constant noise and activity of a surgical unit near battle lines; it marked the beginning of Altman's sustained formal experiments with widescreen photography, zoom lenses, and overlapping sound and dialogue, further enhancing the atmosphere with the improvisational ensemble acting for which Altman's films quickly became known. Although the on-screen war was not
Vietnam, MASH's satiric target was obvious in
1970, and Vietnam War-weary and counter-culturally hip audiences responded to Altman's nose-thumbing attitude towards all kinds of authority and embraced the film's frankly tasteless yet evocative humor and its anti-war, anti-Establishment, anti-religion stance. MASH became the third most popular film of 1970 after
Love Story and
Airport, and it was nominated for five
Academy Awards, including
Best Picture and
Best Director. As further evidence of the changes in Hollywood's politics, blacklist survivor Lardner won the
Oscar for his screenplay. MASH began Altman's systematic 1970s effort to revise classic Hollywood genres in light of contemporary
American values, and it gave him the financial clout to make even more experimental and critical films like
McCabe and Mrs. Miller (
1971),
California Split (
1974), and
Nashville (1975). It also inspired the long-running
TV series starring
Alan Alda as Hawkeye and Burghoff as
Radar. With its formal and attitudinal impudence, and its great popularity, MASH was one more confirmation in 1970 that a Hollywood "
New Wave" had arrived.
CREDITS:
TM & © Fox (1970)
Courtesy of
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
Cast: Gary Burghoff,
Bud Cort,
Carl Gottlieb, Elliott Gould, Tom Skerritt, Donald Sutherland, Sally Kellerman,
Samantha Scott
Director: Robert Altman
Producers:
Leon Ericksen,
Ingo Preminger
Screenwriter:
Ring Lardner Jr.
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- published: 31 Jul 2015
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