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Hard Times is a 1975 action drama sport film marking the directorial debut of Walter Hill. It stars Charles Bronson as Chaney, a mysterious drifter freighthopping through Louisiana during the Great Depression , who proves indomitable in illegal bare-knuckled boxing matches after forming a partnership with the garrulous hustler Speed, played by James Coburn .
As a whole, Hard Times allows Dickens to critique the cold, heartless nature of industrialism in 19th-century London and highlight the detrimental effects that such an environment can have on future generations. This kind of social commentary is a defining characteristic of Dickens’s writings, but Hard Times pays particular attention to the ways in which capitalistic greed causes individuals ...
Hard Times by Charles Dickens, a relatively brief but still complex novel, attempts to fashion the author's views on industrialization in the north of England during the 1850s, the stratified British class system & a mode of education with an emphasis on facts, while also fashioning memorable characters making the best of their lives at a difficult time.
Hard Times suggests that nineteenth-century England’s overzealous adoption of industrialization threatens to turn human beings into machines by thwarting the development of their emotions and imaginations. This suggestion comes forth largely through the actions of Gradgrind and his follower, Bounderby: as the former educates the young ...
13 de ago. de 1975 · Hard Times: Directed by Walter Hill. With Charles Bronson, James Coburn, Jill Ireland, Strother Martin. The saga of a drifter who turns to illicit bare-knuckle boxing in Depression-era New Orleans.
19 de abr. de 2017 · Hard Times Lyrics: One, two / All that I want / Is to wake up fine / Tell me that I'm alright / That I ain't gonna die / All that I want / Is a hole in the ground / You can tell me when it's alright
