Film · Paramount · 1963
Hud
56Watch it awake.
Watch it for the father and the house. The charm is the thing the film refuses to trust.
Pass it on
The review
The county likes him. He is good-looking, funny, and willing, and his father, who built the ranch, does not like him at all. A nephew is still young enough to be persuaded by the grin. A housekeeper is old enough to see it and still has to live in the house. When the cattle are diseased, the difference between the two men stops being a matter of style. One of them will follow the rule that costs the herd. The other thinks the rule is for people who are afraid.
This is one of the decade's clearest pictures about charm, and it does not blink. I would watch it with an older teenager who is starting to confuse a grin with a reference. Ask which man the county prefers and which man the house can survive. The answers are different, and the film knows they are different. Do not let anyone in the room say Hud is the real hero because he is more alive. Alive is not the standard. The standard is the herd, the housekeeper, and the boy.
Journal
Keep Hud in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 56. Yours can differ.
The glance
Temperance is the thin one.
Is appetite shown and then put down, or are you being trained to want the next one?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
Consider this
Shane
69 instead of 56
Shane is still a drama film, and it scores 69 instead of 56. What you gain is courage: He goes to town for them.
The eight
- 6Industry
A ranch is work, and the work is diseased cattle, fences, and a payroll he finds boring.
- 6Household
A father, a nephew, and a housekeeper are the household. Hud is what happens if they fail.
- 5Piety
The old man's standard is the piety of the picture, plain and out of fashion.
- 5Courage
The nephew has to pick a side in his own kitchen. That is the courage on offer.
- 5Republic
A county watches a family. The film cares what the county will copy.
- 3Temperance
Hud's appetites are the plot's threat: drink, a woman who works in the house, a joyride.
- 9Truth
Charm is not character. The film proves it by staying with the charm until it is ugly.
- 6Stewardship
A house can inherit the nephew's choice, which is the only inheritance Hud cannot spend.
Where to watch
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