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von Lady-Bant-Eerin » Fr 04 Okt, 2002 1:44 pm
"Down With Love" - A Script Review by 'Mary'
I had the opportunity to read the shooting script for “Down With Love”, the Renee Zellweger, Ewan McGregor film scheduled for release this spring, and I was so excited about it that I decided to write a review. This is my first review so please bare with me.
The film is based on the 1960’s Doris Day, Rock Hudson, Tony Randall sex comedies Pillow Talk, Lover Come Back, and Send Me No Flowers. It is not a remake, rather a homage to these and other films of this period. The script cleverly weaves the most recognizable aspects of these movies into the script. It starts off with the typically 1960’s chauvanistic jokes which would be offending to women today, but because of the tongue and cheek manner of the dialogue it is just funny. We (the audience) are included in the joke from the beginning. These are stereotypical 60’s characters and in the beginning the fun is the pure nostalgia of seeing the use of freeze frame, rear projection, and familiar movie scores (like Dr No).
The humor is right on, and sharply written. I was laughing out loud a few pages into the script. Even the obligatory reference to Mr. McGregor’s HUGE TALENT is hilarious. But there IS a modern edge to the diologue. There are lots of references to sex. The main female character, Barbara writes a book telling women that it is okay to have sex with a man, just as long as you don’t fall in love, that her career should come first. Sex in the afternoon is reffered to as a matinee, and we see women as the sexual agressers almost as often as the men. There is a scene that reminded me of “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” complete with “beat nics” and “sugar cubes”. That is the beauty of this script. It manages to reference the 1960’s sexual revolution, and at the same time show us how it is still being fought today and make us laugh at how much and how little things have changed. I have high hopes for this film.
Kritik zu Down with Love, allerdings nur zum Script.
Scheint ja ganz lustig zu werden der Film, naja bei Ewan's Talent. *g*
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(wir haben sogar einen kleinen Ewan-Thread in "ihrem" Board) Und da sie immer auf der Suche nach neuen Bildern von Alyson Hannigan ist, schickt sie mir auch Bilder von Ewan zu - wenn sie welche findet. 
. Und SK-Biene sollte ich glaube ich mal meinen Dank aussprechen, dass sie uns immer mit neuen Bildern versorgt. 
Die Bilder sind klasse!