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List Price: $19.94 | | Label: Sony Pictures
Salesrank: 3191
Released: February 20, 2007 |
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MPAA Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
A critical masterpiece, GANDHI is an intriguing story about activism, politics, religious tolerance and freedom. But at the center of it all is an extraor- dinary man who fought for a nonviolent, peaceful existence, and set an entire nation free. Winner of 8 Academy Awards® including Best Picture, Best Director (Lord Richard Attenborough) and Best Actor (Sir Ben Kingsley), GANDHI’s highly acclaimed cast also includes Candice Bergen, Edward Fox, Sir John Gielgud, Roshan Seth and Martin Sheen.
The extras include more than 90 minutes of new material, including interviews with director Lord Richard Attenborough; actors Geraldine James, Saeed Jaffrey, and Edward Fox; Diana Hawkins (Director of Publicity), Terry Clegg (Executive in charge of production), Billy Williams (Cinematographer) and Stuart Craig (Production Designer). The DVD includes a Director’s commentary with Attenborough, who also filmed a personal introduction to the film. The featurettes include In Search of Gandhi, Reflections on Ben, Madeleine Slade: An Englishwoman Abroad, The Funeral, Shooting an Epic In India, Looking Back, Designing Gandhi (3 mini featurettes) and From the Director’s Chair (2 mini featurettes).
Description of Gandhi (Widescreen Two-Disc Collector's Edition):
Sir Richard Attenborough's 1982 multiple-Oscar winner (including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor for Ben Kingsley) is an engrossing, reverential look at the life of Mohandas K. Gandhi, who introduced the doctrine of nonviolent resistance to the colonized people of India and who ultimately gained the nation its independence. Kingsley is magnificent as Gandhi as he changes over the course of the three-hour film from an insignificant lawyer to an international leader and symbol. Strong on history (the historic division between India and Pakistan, still a huge problem today, can be seen in its formative stages here) as well as character and ideas, this is a fine film. --Tom Keogh
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Gandhi (Widescreen Two-Disc Collector's Edition) Reviews:
Classic 
2009-11-15 - This is a movie that everyone should see. It is a classic and beautifully produced movie which tells the story of one of the great men in history who changed the world without the use of an army, weapons or money.
Gandhi Review 
2009-11-08 - Gandhi has been widely recognized by many world-wide as a worshipful tribute to one of the 20th century's greatest leaders. The film opens with a statement from the filmmakers explaining their approach to the problem of filming Gandhi's complex life story "No man's life can be encompassed in one telling... least of all Gandhi's, whose passage through life was so entwined with his nation's struggle for freedom. There is no way to give each event its allotted weight, to recount the deeds and sacrifices of all the great men and women to whom he and India owe such immense debts. What can be done is to be faithful in spirit to the record of his journey, and to try to find one's way to the heart of the man." The film begins with Gandhi's assassination on January 30, 1948, and his funeral. After an evening prayer, an elderly Gandhi is helped out for his evening walk to meet a large number of greeters and admirers. Gandhi was highly portrayed as private and humble man, a thing which was so well exemplified by the actor playing Gandhi. The actor truly reflected the tender care of Gandhi. His dialogue is not extensive, nor does he engage in long, rambling speeches. His eyes speak humility, his movements speak love. He is the embodiment of everything Gandhi was, or was supposed to have been, without the need for showy displays of acting talent or loudly proclaimed diatribes.
The political story told by Ganhi seemed pretty unintelligible to me, and I never got much of a sense of what Gandhi was like as a man. But I don't believe Attenborough had much interest in those aspects of the story; I think he wanted to tell an inspirational tale about one of the most unusual men in world history. As U.S. Secretary of State George C. Marshall said, "Mahatma Gandhi has become the spokesman for the conscience of all mankind. He was a man who made humility and simple truth more powerful than Empires."
A classic nicely presented in Blu Ray
2009-10-08 - Saw this movie decades ago when it first came out. Blu Ray transfer was wonderful. Even though it was filmed almost 25 years ago, was as compelling today as when I first saw it. Video / audio quality very good but without today's "booming" sound effects. Recommended. Bonus material in form of interviews and reflections of original production crew interesting and filled in voids in creating the video. A nice addition if you want more "soak" time with the historical perspectives of the movie. Recommended.
the funeral featurette
2009-10-01 - If the only reason you buy this special edition of Gandhi is to view a nine-minute featurette on the filming of Gandhi's funeral, then you will have spent your money well. Some 23,000 feet of film were taken over about ten consecutive hours. Prepare to be stunned to learn the events of that day, the anniversary of the actual historical funeral.
Gandhi Review
2009-09-21 - This movie was about a common man that became the influential person in India. In the beginning he started out as a mere lawyer that turned extreme activist. His influence over people was amazing. From the beginning he started off just trying to get equality for Hindu people in South Africa, after being thrown off of a train because he would not sit in third class because he was what they called "colored". After achieving his goal he went to India and acomplished the most amazing things. He took beatings from the police, jail time, and ridicule with stride. His method of fighting was not violence but disobedience. This worked to a point but he was trying to get his followers to understand that it only works if you do not sink to the other persons level and stand strong because the other person will see the wrong in what they have done eventually. He acieved his goal of helping India gain its independence but that just turned into a religionous war. Hindus verses Muslims. To Gandhi this was unexceptable. He went on a hunger strike until the fighting stopped this almost killed him. Eventually people took a step back though and the fighting did end.
This related to my world religions class because I think Ghandi had a very hinduism view of things. He believed that everyone was equal, and the they may all believe in different faiths but it all came down to the same supreme god. This reminded me of the main message of the Upanishads, that Brahman is Atman so everyone is equal. Gandhi treated treated everyone like they were part of his family. Everyone in his eyes was quual. He walked in the shoes of the rich, and also lived in the clothes of the poor.
