It’s not an overstatement to say 1994 was one of the greatest-ever years for American cinema.
Timeless animated gems like The Lion King and blockbusters like Speed, The Mask, and True Lies dominated the box office. The Best Picture category included four of the most talked-about movies of the ’90s: The Shawshank Redemption , Pulp Fiction , Forrest Gump , and Four Weddings and a Funeral, the first three of which are widely considered among the all-time greatest movies in cinematic history.
Would you do it? That’s the question everyone asks themselves and each other throughout Quiz Show. Based on the real-life scandals surrounding the game show Twenty-One, the film follows three men connected by the aforementioned show. The first is Herb Stempel , an awkward and erratic man from Queens and the show’s reigning champion, who’s deemed unappealing by the network and the show’s sponsor, Geritol.
For his part, the equally impressive Fiennes is stellar as Van Doren, a man for whom everything comes absurdly easy. Like Turturro, Fiennes plays his character as a vulnerable antihero, someone with enough ambition to lie to the world, yet not ruthless enough to fully accept his choice.
Quiz Show -"Plateaued" - John Turturro x David Paymer Turturro’s strongest scene comes near the end, when Stempel gives his testimony at the hearing and reveals all the coaching he, too, received from the show’s producers. Stempel plays up his shortcomings, limitations, and inadequacies for the crowd of reporters, who laugh at his every confession while the committee looks at him with a mix of curiosity, pity, and disgust.
The fact that Redford could turn a 1950s television scandal into an exercise in self-discovery between the haves and have-nots is already impressive enough. But he does it so masterfully, so subtly, without a single overt display of emotion beyond what the plot demands, that it’s even more astonishing. Quiz Show packs layers upon layers of meaning without ever uttering a single word that doesn’t have to do with Twenty-One.
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