Something the Lord Made 2004 123movies

Watch: Something the Lord Made 2004 123movies, Full Movie Online – Alfred Blalock (1899-1964), a cardiologist (therefore, self-confident to the point of arrogance), leaves Vanderbilt for Johns Hopkins taking with him his lab technician, Vivien Thomas (1910-1985). Thomas, an African-American without a college degree, is a gifted mechanic and tool-maker with hands splendidly adept at surgery. In 1941, Blalock and Thomas take on the challenge of blue babies and invent bypass surgery. After trials on dogs, their first patient is baby Eileen, sure to die without the surgery. In defiance of custom and Jim Crow, Blalock brings Thomas into the surgery to advise him, but when Life Magazine and kudos come, Thomas is excluded. Will he receive his due?.
Plot: A dramatization of the relationship between heart surgery pioneers Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas.
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Reviews:

I wasn’t expecting a story this powerful.
It’s gratifying to know that I’m not the only one who was surprisingly moved by this story. I had known only a tiny part of the story before the movie: that a white surgeon and a black technician developed the process that could save “blue babies.” That’s a huge accomplishment, but only a portion of the story.

Alan Rickman does a splendid job portraying Dr. Blalock. There are a few moments when his southern accent slips and a little British comes through, but in terms of portrayal of the character, he is convincing. Blalock is ambitious, and in fact so focused on his professional and medical goals that sometimes he’s clueless as to what others are going through to get him what he wants. He’s also at turns arrogant and compassionate…exactly what one would have to be to do what he did. One thing the movie communicates very effectively is just how much of a revolution this surgery was: not merely operating on a baby heart, Dr. Blalock opened the gate to surgery on *any* human heart. Rickman doesn’t overdo it, but he gets the character across.

Mos Def steals the show, however, in his subtle portrayal of Vivien Thomas. There’s no grandstanding in this performance; he makes us believe that we know Thomas, and that to know him is to love him. He plays a man who had more character in his little finger than most people find in their whole lives, and he does it with zero ham. It isn’t just that he gives an understated performance…he becomes this man who feels deeply even though he doesn’t express it loudly. You see it in his eyes, in his pauses, in his voice. It’s hard to describe, except to say that beneath the calm, quiet, even deferential exterior there is, undeniably, a whole person, a fully human, noble, wise, mature, gracious character.

A previous commentator asks if the presentation, near the end of the story, of an honorary degree was supposed to be an apotheosis of sorts. Perhaps. I suspect, however, that it isn’t the conferring of a degree but the unveiling of the portrait, that actually vindicates Thomas and lifts him to his place in the medical pantheon of Johns-Hopkins’ larger-than-life wonder-workers. At the end of the film, Vivien is sitting in the lobby, looking at his own portrait next to that of Blalock’s when he’s paged as “Dr. Thomas.” He has to wipe the tears from his eyes to respond to the page. Maybe it’s the degree and the portrait together.

The same commentator asked whether the film omitted mention of Thomas’s eventual title. Actually, there’s a scene immediately after their arrival in Baltimore in which the Director of Laboratories gives Vivien some money and tells him to bring coffee and a donut. At the end of the film, when Blalock calls Vivien’s office, we see Vivien’s title on the office door: Director of Laboratories. The irony is sweet.

This is a compelling, touching film, with wonderful performances all around.

Non-Hollywood Honest Movie for a Change
IF Alan Rickman wasn’t enough to draw me into this movie, the fact that the producers were NOT going to give us a hero movie, showing no imperfections of the real people portrayed would have made me buy it.

A Southerner myself, I know this kind of aristocratic driven Southern male was quite believable. During segregation times, people would attend church regularly, call themselves ‘Christian’ and make black people sit on the back of the bus….never reacting when the bus driver would get up and move the sign back, forcing blacks to rise and whites to get seats. Of course, those were the NICE whites. This movie beautifully shows that fact that some blacks did NOT meekly accept their mistreatment.

Though Vivian Thomas was not as aggressive as his brother, who sued the Nashville Board of Education to get equal pay for black school teachers, he nonetheless felt deeply the indifference the white doctors showed him. By not giving him the credit he deserved in performing this revolutionary operation on a blue baby, these doctors showed just how deeply the injustice of segregation was instilled in them. A more is some value you don’t question, and the ‘slightly less human’ condition of black people in the South in my youth (and this time of the movie) was one of those mores.

To watch him work on the dog, closing his eyes to better feel the conjunction of the various heart arteries, I was wonderfully impressed. That doctor who was the consultant on this movie did an excellent job. The fact that even those who were complicit in the discrimination shown Vivian Thomas did not flinch from showing it in this movie impresses me no end.

For those of you not born in this time, you will find it difficult to believe but this mistreatment was not considered so during those years. The fact that Thomas lived in the slums while his colleague lived in a mansion is well illustrated. The only way he got to see his colleague honored in the Baltimore hotel was to pretend he was a lackey bringing in the suitcases. More insidious, the white surgeon portrayed by Rickman made no effort to invite him. The only indication that he had a conscience about this was his expression of ‘vague regrets’ when Thomas is wheeling him around in his wheelchair toward the end of his life.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 50 min (110 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated TV-PG
Genre Biography, Drama
Director Joseph Sargent
Writer Peter Silverman, Robert Caswell
Actors Cliff McMullen, Yasiin Bey, Luray Cooper
Country United States
Awards Won 3 Primetime Emmys. 17 wins & 32 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 1.78 : 1
Camera Panavision Panaflex Gold II, Panavision Primo Lenses, Panavision Panaflex Lightweight, Panavision Primo Lenses
Laboratory FotoKem Laboratory, Burbank (CA), USA
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm (Kodak Vision 250D 5246, Vision 320T 5277, Vision 500T 5279)
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm (Eastman Kodak)