75 Weeks Until the 100th Oscars | From Here to Eternity (1953)

We are 75 weeks away from the 100th Academy Awards and today we welcome a colorful cast of characters all clad in aloha shirts.  Yes, Fred Zinneman's From Here to Eternity is the story of the crew of a Hawaiian military outpost in the looming days of World War II, and our 26th Best Picture Winner. An ex-boxer with the suspicious name of Robert E. Lee Prewitt arrives at the Schofield Military Barracks; he's pressured to join the boxing team but refuses and most of the rest of the men make his life hell for it.  This movie was co-created by the Army but subsequently unendorsed due to its depiction as a giant fraternity.  Which is funny given this was allegedly adapted from the "boldest novel of our time" in the 1950s - so they should have known what they were getting into.  The book may be bold, and some of that boldness may have made it into the film, but how does that land for us today? In this episode you're gonna hear: Discussion around the big "twist" that this movie has at the end How Montgomery Clift is one of the crew's favorite actors of this era If From Here to Eternity compares to all of the other great movies of 1953 Bush-era brainrot and how it applies to this film Follow us @bestpicturebrainrotpodcast as we keep delving into Oscars history with a brainrot spin Letterboxd Adam - https://boxd.it/9fMt Alexis - https://boxd.it/I7k7 Sarah - https://boxd.it/6VQMl