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John Huston: Sigmund Freud
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As a Huston film, Freud has some particular interests: Huston serves as a narrator, displaying an omnipotence and almost Biblical detachment that establishes Freud as a kind of savior and messiah. The film opens with Huston's description of Freud as a kind of hero or God on a quest for mankind. "This is the story of Freud's descent into a region as black as hell, man's unconscious, and how he let in the light," Huston says in his narration. The bearded, thin look of Freud, who stands alone, denounced before the tribunal of his own people... suggests a parallel with Christ. Freud brings a message of salvation which is rejected, and he is reluctantly denounced by his chief defender, Breuer.
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After filming the documentary Let There Be Light on the psychiatric treatment of soldiers for shellshock, Huston resolved to make a film about Sigmund Freud and psychoanalysis. The film, Freud the Secret Passion, began as a collaboration between Huston and Jean-Paul Sartre. Sartre dropped out of the film and requested his name be removed from the credits. Huston went on to make the film starring Montgomery Clift as Freud.
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What ... emerges from Huston's conversations is the intellect and soul behind the macho exterior. A voracious and wide-ranging reader, writer, and painter, Huston is a true raconteur, as comfortable discussing neorealism and Sartrian existentialism -- Huston knew Sartre and directed the first Broadway production of No Exit -- as he is talking about Jack Dempsey and running with the hounds. His eclectic choices in smaller films, such as biopics of Freud and Toulouse-Lautrec, reflect the range of his fertile mind, even if those films were somewhat less successful.
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