Cooper and Hemingway: The True Gen

Name: Cooper and Hemingway: The True Gen
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2013-09-27
Duration: 2 h
Rating: 7.4
Cast: Sam Waterston, Len Cariou, Nancy Crawford

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Cooper and Hemingway: The True Gen (2013)

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Cooper and Hemingway: The True Gen is an unprecedented look at the bond between two of the most iconic artists of the 20th century.Utter opposites... nothing in common. The cowboy and the su... Read allCooper and Hemingway: The True Gen is an unprecedented look at the bond between two of the most iconic artists of the 20th century.Utter opposites... nothing in common. The cowboy and the suburbanite. The conservative and the liberal. And yet these two artists (a word both men sc... Read allCooper and Hemingway: The True Gen is an unprecedented look at the bond between two of the most iconic artists of the 20th century.Utter opposites... nothing in common. The cowboy and the suburbanite. The conservative and the liberal. And yet these two artists (a word both men scoffed at) were the best of friends, right up to their deaths a mere seven weeks apart in 1... Read all

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7.4/10

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10/10

Perceptive and moving

This documentary showcased two men whom I thought I knew, yet it made me see both Ernest Hemingway and Gary Cooper in new and surprising ways.

It also made me see the damage that our society's emphasis on rock-em, sock-em masculinity does. Both Hemingway and Cooper obviously spent their professional lives hiding their sensitive interior selves. And, as the documentary reveals, this ended up harming their careers as they aged. Both were locked into images they'd created early on, and could not escape from.

Can't recommend this any higher.