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Uncle Joe

(63,918 posts) Sat Dec 6, 2025, 01:44 PM Saturday

Death Of A Salesman (1985) - Clip: Taking Sides (HD)

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Death Of A Salesman (1985) - Clip: Taking Sides (HD) (Original Post) Uncle Joe Saturday OP

Excellent movie, I remember reading the play when I was in school, seventh grade I think Walleye Saturday #1

I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest Willy might have benefitted from some couples counseling. Xavier Breath Saturday #2

The play premiered in 1949 Uncle Joe Saturday #3

Walleye

(43,532 posts)

1. Excellent movie, I remember reading the play when I was in school, seventh grade I think

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Sat Dec 6, 2025, 02:00 PM

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Xavier Breath

(6,359 posts)

2. I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest Willy might have benefitted from some couples counseling.

Reply to Uncle Joe (Original post)

Sat Dec 6, 2025, 03:17 PM

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From a time when the networks gave us quality tv instead of one asinine game show and reality show after another. Think CBS would produce something like this today?

Uncle Joe

(63,918 posts)

3. The play premiered in 1949

Reply to Xavier Breath (Reply #2)

Sat Dec 6, 2025, 03:35 PM

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It was only one year later February of 1950 when McCarthy suddenly rose to fame with his poison propaganda of "Communists in the State Department."

All of this a few short years after World War II, and I think the nation needed counseling then.

Perhaps that's why the play has such profound psychological resonance 76 years later?

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