![]() You couldn’t do that today.Īnd that cast. Nichols made the most of his coastal Mexican location, showing off all 17 WWII vintage B-25s taking off and landing every chance he got. And considering how our war movies, from “300” to “Midway,” “Greyhound” to “Flyboys” and even at times, “Dunkirk,” are made now - with digital planes and ships and sometimes tanks - they really don’t make’em like this any more. Released at the height of the Vietnam War, suffering in comparison to Robert Altman’s equally anti-war dramedy “M*A*S*H,” seemingly more on a par with with equally cynical action comedy “Kelly’s Heroes,” which has had the benefit of a lot more TV exposure, “Catch” still plays the way it did way back in 1970 - as a pricey, “difficult” satire with a “difficult” shoot as baggage.īut wipe away the “Catch-22 lore,”the people cast and cast-aside, the fact that Nichols wanted the more age-appropriate Al Pacino as Yossarian, the young bombardier/anti-hero, and grapple with the film’s disordered narrative, the nightmarish focus of the story - an active-duty combat airman flying through and ranting through what we now call Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome, coupled with a tinge of guilt. Or you could use it at home when you’re trying to explain that no result creates a solution, only another problem.Perhaps it took a humorless, career-crippling George Clooney TV version of Joseph Heller’s novel to make us better appreciate Mike Nichols’ daring, infamously-expensive version of “Catch-22.” For example, you could use it at work to describe a situation where an action creates another problem. The expression suits professional and social use. You can use the expression “ catch-22” when trying to describe a paradoxical situation where it’s impossible to come up with a solution. It’s a statement saying there is no way to practically resolve your problem. Likewise, the expression doesn’t have anything to do with the action of catching things. Using the phrase to include anything relating to the number 22 is not the correct use of the phrase. ![]() The expression “ catch 22” has nothing to do with catching anything or the number 22.
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