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[[File:doctor-zhivago_8776.jpg|frame|[[In a World]] [[World Gone Mad|Gone Mad]],
Legendary [[Epic Movie|generation-spanning epic]] about [[The Russian Revolution]] starring [[Tall, Dark and Handsome|Omar Sharif]] as a doctor meeting the challenges of a [[World Gone Mad]]. Directed by [[Golden Age of Hollywood|David Lean]] as a follow-up to ''[[Lawrence of Arabia]]'' with similarly dramatic vistas, this time of the Russian steppe.
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For its [[Scenery Porn|epic scope]], Sharif's performance, and David Lean's visual style, the film is generally praised as a classic. It is also notable for Maurice Jarre's music score, which includes the world famous [[Film/Awesome Music|"Lara's Theme"]].
It also the heralded the last of MGM's great [[Epic Movie|epic movies]], as they announced even during production. They simply
A Russian version of the movie was done in 2006 with a total running time of over 8 hours, thus [[Doorstopper|hewing closer]] to the book.
''[[Masterpiece Theatre]]'' in 2002 also made a [[Miniseries]].
Based on the '''[[Doctor Zhivago|epic novel]]''' by Russian poet and writer Boris Leonidovich Pasternak.
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* [[A World Half Full]]: quintessential example.▼
* [[Adorkable]]: Pasha Antipov
* [[Beard of Sorrow]]: Both the film and the
* [[Bishonen]]: Pasha Antipov, complete with [[Stoic Spectacles|spectacles]].▼
* [[Big Bad Wolves]]: You will fear wolf howls in 40 below...
▲* [[Bishonen]]: Pasha Antipov, complete with [[Stoic Spectacles|spectacles]].
* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: {{spoiler|[[Downer Ending]]}}, depending how you look at it.
** {{spoiler|The downer ending is that Yuri and Lara die apart, with Yuri especially dying of a heart attack chasing after a woman he thinks is Lara. The bittersweet ending is that Zhivago's adopted brother, trying to find Yuri and Lara's love child years later, thinks he's found the young woman. However, the young woman refuses to admit it, fearful that the Soviet general would punish her rather than delight in finding her.}}
* [[Book Ends]]: The streetcar scenes with Yuri and Lara at the beginning and end of the film.
* [[Cool Train]]: The armored war train.
* [[Doorstopper]]: The novel was begun by Boris Pasternak in the 1910's and finished 1956!▼
* [[Damsel in Distress]]: Lara.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Zhivago takes this tone with the Party delegates who now live in his old house in Moscow upon his return from [[World War
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'''Zhivago''': Holy Cross Hospital. It's on--
'''Tonya''': (interrupting) The Second Reformed Hospital, he means.
'''Zhivago''': Oh. (beat) Good. It needed reforming.
'''Delegate''': (beat, with icy We Are Not Amused gaze) }}
** After pointedly reminding Dr. Zhivago that he's "been listening to rumormongers, Comrade. There is no typhus in our city," the delegate shortly thereafter has Zhivago pulled from work to discreetly diagnose an ill man in the house.
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'''Zhivago''': (after inspecting patient) It isn't typhus. It's another disease we don't have in Moscow: starvation.
'''Delegate''': That seems to give you satisfaction.
'''Zhivago''': It would give me satisfaction to hear you admit it.
'''Delegate''': Would it? Why?
'''Zhivago''': Because it ''is'' so.
'''Delegate''': Your attitude is noticed, you know. Oh, yes, it's been noticed! }}
** He must have learned it from his medical professor. While watching a piano recital with his wife:
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'''Professor Kurt:'''(looking bored) "Really? I thought it was Rachmaninoff. I'm going for a smoke. }}
* [[Death of the Hypotenuse]]: {{spoiler|Pasha. It doesn't stick.}}
* [[Dirty Communists]]: subverted, as events are shown from their perspective.
* [[Dissonant Serenity]]: The abandoned dacha (palace) full of ice.▼
* [[Distant Finale]]: Lara's daughter, hard at work building a dam, gets her balalaika back from Yevgraf.
▲* [[Dissonant Serenity]]: The abandoned dacha (palace) full of ice.
* [[Doomed Moral Victor]]: Sort of.
▲* [[Doorstopper]]: The novel was begun by Boris Pasternak in the 1910's and finished 1956!
* [[The Dulcinea Effect]]: Zhivago's love for Lara.
* [[Epic Movie]]
* [[Mr. Fanservice]]: Omar was ''big'' in [[The Sixties|the '60s]].▼
* [[Framing Device]]: Yevgraf and Tonya in the '50s.
* [[Glorious Mother Russia]]: in Glorious Technicolor.
* [[Golden Age of Hollywood]]: David Lean.
* [[Good Scars, Evil Scars]]
* [[Heroic BSOD]]: {{spoiler|Pasha}}
* [[He Who Fights Monsters]]: {{spoiler|Pasha}}, arguably.
* [[He Who Must Not Be Seen]]: Strelnikov
* [[Hot Librarian]]: Lara briefly becomes one.
* [[Intermission]]
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* [[Memento MacGuffin]]: The balalaika.
* [[Mickey Mousing]]: The poem writing scene.
* [[Most Writers Are Writers]]: Doctor Zhivago becomes a
▲* [[Mr. Fanservice]]: Omar was ''big'' in [[The Sixties|the '60s]].
* [[Never Accepted in His Hometown]]: Both Zhivago and Pasternak are not appreciated until after they and/or Stalin die.
** Pasternak's book was originally [[Banned in China|banned in the Soviet Union]].
* [[Not Blood Siblings]]: Zhivago and Tonya, who end up married. Only for Zhivago to chase Lara instead...
* [[One-Scene Wonder]]: The [[Anarchy Is Chaos|Anarchist]] being sent to the gulag. He chastises the other passengers, saying ''they'' are the slaves. Played by none other than [[Klaus Kinski]] (''[[For a Few Dollars More]]'', ''[[Aguirre, the Wrath of God]]'', ''[[Fitzcarraldo]]'').▼
* [[One Degree of Separation]]: The story is packed full of odd coincidences.
▲* [[One-Scene Wonder]]: The [[Anarchy Is Chaos|Anarchist]] being sent to the gulag. He chastises the other passengers, saying ''they'' are the slaves. Played by none other than [[Klaus Kinski]] (''[[For a Few Dollars More]]'', ''[[Aguirre, the Wrath of God]]'', ''[[Fitzcarraldo]]'').
* [[Pretty in Mink]]
* [[Punch Clock Villain]]: Yevgraf works for the Bolsheviks but he doesn't quite share their fanatical points of view.
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* [[Released to Elsewhere]]
* [[The Reveal]]: The last ten minutes of the first half of the movie build up the fear of Strelnikov, the merciless Bolshevik general. And then as his [[Law of Chromatic Superiority|Bright Red]] [[Cool Train|War Train]] passes, we see... {{spoiler|1=[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hCczioWiZk It'S PASHA!]}}!
** [[Sting (music)||Cue Intermission]]!
* [[Stoic Spectacles]]: Pasha.▼
* [[Romanovs and Revolutions]]: ''Nobody'' expects [[The Russian Revolution]]!
* [[Scenery Porn]]: Culminating on the frozen ''dacha'' (manor house) full of ice.
* [[Spiritual Successor]]: to ''[[Lawrence of Arabia]]''.
▲* [[Stoic Spectacles]]: Pasha.
* [[Tall, Dark and Handsome]]: '''OMAR SHARIF.''' That is all.
* [[That Man Is Dead]]: There is only Strelnikov.
* [[Thicker Than Water]]: Yuri's long lost half-brother, Yevgraf, is working for the Bolshevik government and arranges passes for Yuri and his family out of Moscow when his poetry is condemned.
* [[Train Station Goodbye]]▼
* [[Thou Shalt Not Kill]]: Dr. Zhivago
▲* [[Train Station Goodbye]]
* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]: Pasha
* [[Wham! Line]]: "Strelnikov."
* [[You Are in Command Now]]
* [[You Will Be Spared]]: Dr. Zhivago's unplanned encounter with [[He Who Must Not Be Seen|Strelnikov]] ends in this.
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Remember: [[In Soviet Russia, Trope Mocks You|In Soviet Russia,
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