He finds Sarah again and this time she takes him in, but with reservations. Fats arrives and he and Eddie agree to play straight pool for $200 a game. Eddie moves into a rooming house and starts hustling for small stakes. Wanderone immediately adopted the Minnesota Fats nickname and parlayed his association with the film into book and television deals and other ventures. [47] Perhaps the greatest beneficiary of the film's popularity was a real-life pool hustler named Rudolf Wanderone. [25], On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 98%, based on 44 reviews, and an average rating of 8.69/10. "[13] TV Guide calls the film a "dark stunner"[43] offering "a grim world whose only bright spot is the top of the pool table, yet [with] characters [who] maintain a shabby nobility and grace.
[24] Initially reluctant to publicize the film, 20th Century Fox responded by stepping up its promotional activities. [48] Other players would claim, with greater or lesser degrees of credibility, to have served as models for Fast Eddie, including Ronnie Allen, Ed Taylor, Eddie Parker, and Eddie Pelkey.
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Variety praised the performances of the entire main cast but felt that the "sordid aspects" of the story prevented the film from achieving the "goal of being pure entertainment.
Eddie gets ahead $11,000 and Charlie tries to convince him to quit, but Eddie insists the game will end only when Fats says it is over.
Eddie arrives back at the hotel to learn that she has killed herself.
Prior to the premiere, Richard Burton hosted a midnight screening of the film for the casts of the season's Broadway shows, which generated a great deal of positive word of mouth. They go back to her place but she refuses to let him in, saying he is "too hungry". Fast Eddie Felson, protagonist of the novel The Hustler, the film The Hustler and its sequel, The Color of Money Fast Eddie Costigan, pianist and bouncer in Spider Robinson's "Callahan's" stories such as Callahan's Crosstime Saloon Fast Eddies a Canadian fast food chain Fast Eddys, an … "[13] He further cites Fast Eddie Felson as one of "only a handful of movie characters so real that the audience refers to them as touchstones. While he found that the script "strains hard to give an air of menace and criminality to the pool hall" and also declares it "full of pseudo-meaning", Kauffmann lauds Rossen's "sure, economical" direction, especially in regard to Gleason who, he says, does not so much act as "[pose] for a number of pictures which are well arranged by Rossen. [23], The Hustler had its world premiere in Washington, D.C. on September 25, 1961. The Hustler is a 1961 American CinemaScope drama film directed by Robert Rossen from Walter Tevis's 1959 novel of the same name, adapted for the screen by Rossen and Sidney Carroll. Laurie, he writes, gives her part "movingly anguished touches" (although he also mildly criticizes her for over-reliance on Method acting). Eddie comes back to win $12,000. The game turns out to be three-cushion billiards, not pool. Seeing Eddie's anger, Bert agrees to let the match continue at $1,000 a game. Its exploration of winning, losing, and character garnered a number of major awards; it is also credited with helping to spark a resurgence in the popularity of pool. "[21] No film of the 1950s, Mordden asserts, "took such a brutal, clear look at the ego-affirmation of the one-on-one contest, at the inhumanity of the winner or the castrated vulnerability of the loser.
Kauffmann strongly praised the principal cast, calling Newman "first-rate" and writing that Scott's was "his most credible performance to date." "[29], Paul Newman reprised his role as "Fast" Eddie Felson in the 1986 film The Color of Money, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role.
Roger Ebert, echoing earlier praise for the performances, direction, and cinematography and adding laurels for editor Dede Allen, cites the film as "one of those films where scenes have such psychic weight that they grow in our memories. He wins game after game, beating Fats so badly that Fats is forced to quit. Arriving at Fats' home pool hall, Eddie declares he will win $10,000 that night.
Starr, Michael and Michael Seth Starr (2004). The film was shot on location in New York City and stars Paul Newman as "Fast" Eddie Felson; Jackie Gleason as Minnesota Fats; Piper Laurie as Sarah; and George C. Scott as Bert. He figures that Eddie will need at least $3,000 to challenge Fats again. The website's critical consensus reads, "Paul Newman and Jackie Gleason give iconic performances in this dark, morally complex tale of redemption. "[3][4] The Academy Film Archive preserved The Hustler in 2003.[5].
Rossen often points out and exposes class divisions, for example when Minnesota Fats asks Preacher, a junkie willing to run errands on command, to get him some “White Tavern whiskey, a glass and some ice,” Eddie counters by ordering lower-shelf bourbon, without any of the niceties: “J.T.S. At their hotel later, Eddie leaves half of the remaining stake with a sleeping Charlie and leaves. Director Rossen's daughter Carol Rossen speculates that previous adaptations focused too much on the pool aspects of the story and not enough on the human interaction.
"[43] The four leads are again lavishly praised for their performances and the film is summed up as "not to be missed. Eddie returns to challenge Fats again, putting up his entire $3,000 stake on a single game. The Hustler was acknowledged as the sixth best film in the sports genre. At Johnny's Bar, Eddie joins a poker game where Bert is playing and loses $20.
In 1997, the Library of Congress selected The Hustler for preservation in the United States National Film Registry as "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant. [15] Scenes that were included in the shooting script but did not make it into the final film include a scene at Ames pool hall establishing that Eddie is on his way to town (originally slated to be the first scene of the film) and a longer scene of Preacher talking to Bert at Johnny's Bar which establishes Preacher is a junkie. Author Walter Tevis denied for the rest of his life that Wanderone had played any role in the creation of the character. It was followed by The Color of Money in 1986, with Newman reprising his role.
New York, Billboard Books. Bert demands a share of Eddie's winnings and threatens that Eddie will be injured unless he pays. French, Karl and French, Phillip (2000).
Eddie dismisses Charlie as a scared old man and tells him to "go lie down and die" by himself. "Fast Eddie" Parker (c. 1932, Springfield, Missouri – February 2, 2001, Brownsville, Texas) was an American pool player, claimed by many to have been the inspiration for the character "Fast Eddie" Felson in the 1959 Walter Tevis novel The Hustler. Much of the action was filmed at two now-defunct pool halls, McGirr's and Ames Billiard Academy. All of Gleason's shots were his own; they were filmed in wide-angle to emphasize having the actor and the shot in the same frames. Charlie finds Eddie at Sarah's and tries to persuade him to go back out on the road. "[43], In June 2008, AFI released its "Ten top Ten"—the best ten films in ten "classic" American film genres—after polling over 1,500 people from the creative community. The Tevis novel had been optioned several times, including by Frank Sinatra, but attempts to adapt it for the screen were unsuccessful. After initially losing to Fats and getting involved with unscrupulous manager Bert Gordon, Eddie returns to try again, but only after paying a terrible personal price. "[22] Mordden does note that while Fast Eddie "has a slight fifties ring",[23] the character "makes a decisive break with the extraordinarily feeling tough guys of the 'rebel' era ... [b]ut he does end up seeking out his emotions"[23] and telling Bert that he is a loser because he's dead inside. Ultimately he changed his mind and identified friends and colleagues as party members.
Afterward, Bert tells Eddie that he has talent as a pool player but no character.
Rossen, who had hustled pool himself as a youth and who had made an abortive attempt to write a pool-themed play called Corner Pocket, optioned the book and teamed with Sidney Carroll to produce the script.
Eddie refuses and Charlie realizes he plans to challenge Fats again. A number of observers and critics have suggested that this Oscar was in belated recognition for his performance in The Hustler. When Eddie loses badly, Bert refuses to keep staking him.
Similarly, Felson sells his soul and betrays the one person who really knows and loves him in a Faustian pact to gain character.
Stanley Kauffmann, writing for The New Republic, concurred in part with this assessment. Eddie humiliates a local pool shark, exposing himself as a hustler, and the other players punish him by breaking his thumbs.
[18], The Hustler is fundamentally a story of what it means to be a human being, couched within the context of winning and losing. Eddie finally appears above Bert in two-shot when Eddie returns to beat Fats. [49], For the 1920 German film by Emil Justitz, see, Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium, Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures, Mar del Plata International Film Festival, AFI's 100 Years...100 Heroes and Villains, AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition), "Complete National Film Registry Listing | Film Registry | National Film Preservation Board | Programs at the Library of Congress | Library of Congress", "New York Film Critics Circle: 1961 Awards", AFI's 100 Years...100 Heroes and Villains Nominees, AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes Nominees, AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition) Ballot, "AFI Crowns Top 10 Films in 10 Classic Genres", Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Hustler_(film)&oldid=986887990, Films whose art director won the Best Art Direction Academy Award, Films whose cinematographer won the Best Cinematography Academy Award, United States National Film Registry films, Wikipedia articles with WorldCat-VIAF identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, "Eddie, you're a born loser."
Plot “Fast” Eddie Felson is a former pool hustler turned successful liquor salesman in Chicago.He still stakes bets for players, including fellow hustler Julian, who is outmatched at nine-ball by the young and charismatic Vincent Lauria.
It tells the story of small-time pool hustler "Fast” Eddie Felson and his desire to break into the "major league" of professional hustling and high-stakes wagering by high-rollers that follows it. [20] Rossen also takes aim at Capitalism, often showing money as a malign and corrupting influence.
He throws his raw talent and ambition up against the best player in the country, seeking to best the legendary pool player "Minnesota Fats".
He meets her again at a bar. He collects his $3,000 share and decides to walk back to the hotel. But Eddie says that if he is not killed he will kill Bert when he recovers; invoking the memory of Sarah, he shames Bert into giving up his claim. This new relationship, he writes, is "one of challenge rather than flattery, of doubt rather than certainty. Arriving at Fats' home pool hall, Eddie declares he will win $10,000 that night.
[13][19] Describing the film, Robert Rossen said: "My protagonist, Fast Eddie, wants to become a great pool player, but the film is really about the obstacles he encounters in attempting to fulfill himself as a human being.
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