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Robert Frost: A Lover's Quarrel with the World is a 1963 documentary feature (barely, 41 minutes) directed by Shirley Clarke.It is an examination of Robert Frost, one of America's most famous poets. The film, completed shortly before Frost died in 1963 at the age of 88, mostly intercuts between a lecture Frost gave to students at Sarah Lawrence and a private reading he gave to students at Amherst. Also included are scenes with Frost at his Vermont farm as well of footage of Frost meeting John F. Kennedy, who was a Frost fanboy.Compare Portrait of Jason, a much less conventional Shirley Clarke documentary. |
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Cool Old Guy |
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Cool Old Guy: Frost comes off as this, drolly snarking with the students that go to his lectures. At one point he reads a poem about chopping down a tree, and says that his publisher took that as a threat that he was going to write a new book. |
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Title Drop: Frost says in an interview that he suggested as his own epitaph a line from his poem "The Lesson for Today": "I had a lover's quarrel with the world." And as it turns out that line actually is the epitaph on his gravestone. |
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Hollywood New England |
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Hollywood New England: Frost was a big part of creating the stereotypical Hollywood New England image, and his Vermont farm is a perfect example—a stony field, a rustic cabin, wooden fences, folks riding by on horses. |
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Narrator |
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Narrator: Used relatively briefly in the early going to establish some basic facts about Frost. Most of the film is narrated by Frost himself, when he isn't actually talking onscreen. |
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White-Dwarf Starlet |
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White-Dwarf Starlet: Frost reads the poem "Provide, Provide", about a "withered hag" washerwoman who was once "the picture pride of Hollywood." |
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Off-into-the-Distance Ending |
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Off-into-the-Distance Ending: Ends with Frost climbing into a station wagon and being driven away down a country road. |
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Short Title: Long, Elaborate Subtitle |
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Short Title: Long, Elaborate Subtitle: Robert Frost: A Lover's Quarrel with the World |
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Shout-Out: Frost reels off a passage he likes from an 18th century poem called "The Task": "Oh for a lodge in some vast wilderness/Some boundless contiguity of shade." |
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The Ken Burns Effect: Clarke only uses this a couple of times, including when she starts a Time Passes Montage by zooming in on a photo of baby Robert Frost. |
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Rake Take: His poems weren't all dour! In the movie he recites a little comic poem about Rake Takes, "The Objection to Being Stepped On." |
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Conversation Cut: Multiple times Clarke cuts back and forth between different scenes in such a way that Frost's train of thought is uninterrupted. One scene has Frost meditating on American greatness, saying "The Russians know how good we are," cutting to a completely different conversation before a different audience in which Frost says "Everything the Russians say they say in our direction." |
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Your Terrorists Are Our Freedom Fighters |
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Your Terrorists Are Our Freedom Fighters: Frost is asked a question about his old friend and colleague Ezra Pound, later a fan of Benito Mussolini who made radio broadcasts for Fascist Italy. Frost says that Pound got off light and should have been shot for treason, then muses that Washington and Jefferson were traitors back in the day. He even quotes Patrick Henry's famous line "If this be treason, make the most of it." |
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