Goofs When Maggie and Will are standing outside the church before their wedding, a cooling tower can be seen to the left of Maggie. It would not have existed in 's Salford. User reviews 90 Review. Top review. David Lean's last film in black and white, and his last set in England, is a gentle comedy about class mobility, marriage, and curmudgeonly old men making way for a generation of independent women.
Lean had been adapting plays for the screen since the beginning of his career, and he'd already done a comedy with Blithe Spirit in , but his experience by the time of Hobson's Choice is showing. His confident direction coupled with a top-notch cast and a great script make this a real treat. The starting point of Hobson's Choice is a typically memorable comedy performance from Charles Laughton.
Mills was in his mids by this point, but with his fresh face and innocent manner he was still just about believable as the archetypal young lad. De Banzie was a stage actress who was unfortunately rare on the big screen.
Mills and De Banzie make such likable characters out of the central couple and it is their performances that hold the viewer's attention as much as Laughton's blustering buffoonery. He wasn't known for his comedy direction, but Lean's sense of rhythm, particularly in the opening sequences and later in the famous scene in which Laughton drunkenly chases the moon's reflection in a puddle, is perfectly in step with Laughton's comic timing. The romantic scenes between Mills and De Banzie are directed with as much tenderness as any other love story Lean made, although he brilliantly punctures the sentimentality with a joke whenever there is a danger of them slipping into mawkishness.
Hobson's Choice is undoubtedly the happiest picture Lean ever made and, in keeping with the sweet tone, he has a real aesthetic approach to shot composition, with some pretty landscape shots in the park, and a focusing on facial close-ups. There is a real sense of harmony to many of the images, for example a recurring motif with leaves and leaflets blowing across the street, confetti at the wedding, and snow falling over the town. When all's said and done though, it's the charming story and witty dialogue that makes Hobson's Choice a winner.
Lean clearly knew by this point that the job of a director is to serve the screenplay and, avoiding the occasionally distracting expressionism of his earlier films, presents a story full of human warmth and gentle humour. Details Edit. Release date April 19, United Kingdom. United Kingdom. Hobson u neprilici. Technical specs Edit. Runtime 1 hour 48 minutes. Black and White. Related news. Apr 26 The Film Stage. The confusion between that phrase and 'Hobson's choice', originate from a confusion between the celebrated philosopher Thomas Hobbes who, incidentally, was the originator of another commonplace phrase - ' nasty, brutish and short ' and Thomas Hobson.
The two expressions are unrelated. So, let's get on with 'Hobson's choice'. There are two theories as to the origin of this term. One is that is derives from Thomas Hobson, as is popularly thought; the other is that it pre-dates Hobson. Thomas Hobson — ran a thriving carrier and horse rental business in Cambridge, England around the turn of the 17th century. He rented out horses, mainly to Cambridge University students, but insisted that the students took the horse nearest the stable door.
The choice his customers were given was 'this or none'; quite literally, not their choice but Hobson's choice. The phrase was already being described as proverbial less than thirty years after Hobson's death.
In October The Spectator published a letter from a certain Hezekiah Thrift explaining how the phrase came into being:. Tobias Hobson, from whom we have the Expression, was a very honourable Man He lived in Cambridge , and observing that the Scholars rid hard, his manner was to keep a large Stable of Horses When a Man came for a Horse, he was led into the Stable, where there was great Choice, but he obliged him to take the Horse which stood next to the Stable-Door; so that every Customer was alike well served according to his Chance This memorable Man stands drawn in Fresco at an Inn which he used in Bishopsgate-street , with an hundred Pound Bag under his Arm, with this Inscription upon the said Bag".
On the face of it the connection between Thomas Hobson and 'Hobson's choice' seems clear. Hobson's choice noun. Save Word. Definition of Hobson's choice.
Did you know? Examples of Hobson's choice in a Sentence He jokingly referred to dinner as a Hobson's choice between soup and salad or salad and soup. First Known Use of Hobson's choice , in the meaning defined at sense 1. Learn More About Hobson's choice. Time Traveler for Hobson's choice The first known use of Hobson's choice was in See more words from the same year. Listen to Our Podcast About Hobson's choice. Get Word of the Day delivered to your inbox!
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