Tag: Paddy Chayefsky
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Ernest Borgnine’s Marty rejects toxic masculinity, long before we had a name for it
In Delbert Mann and Paddy Chayefsky’s Marty (1955), Ernest Borgnine plays a basically decent man, trapped in a kind of stasis by social forces that are only more amplified today: misogyny, distrust of the educated, racism, and classism. Even the changing economic landscape looms over him, as corporate consolidation threatens his dream to own a […]