06-28-2015, 10:28 PM
I re-watched Jonathan Demme's Something Wild last night. I can't believe this movie is nearly 30 years old! It starts off as a kind of kinky sendup of the screwball comedies of the thirties...
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...but then segues into a scary violent drama when Ray Liotta's Ray *snicker* dances, literally, into the picture.
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I guess it says loads about me as a viewer though that the movie sort of loses its spark at the exact moment that Melanie Griffith's character loses the black "Lulu" wig and her colorful, clanking armor...
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...and begins swishing around like, I don't know, Kim Novak in Picnic. I'm not really interested in the vulnerable, freshly-scrubbed person inside. She looks tired and washed out. Or too pink. Something.
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The adventures of Lulu and Charlie hold vastly more appeal for me than the domestic drama of Audrey Hankel, her scary, obsessed ex-convict husband, and caught-in-the-middle good guy (Jeff Daniels). But that's probably just me.
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...but then segues into a scary violent drama when Ray Liotta's Ray *snicker* dances, literally, into the picture.
I guess it says loads about me as a viewer though that the movie sort of loses its spark at the exact moment that Melanie Griffith's character loses the black "Lulu" wig and her colorful, clanking armor...
...and begins swishing around like, I don't know, Kim Novak in Picnic. I'm not really interested in the vulnerable, freshly-scrubbed person inside. She looks tired and washed out. Or too pink. Something.
The adventures of Lulu and Charlie hold vastly more appeal for me than the domestic drama of Audrey Hankel, her scary, obsessed ex-convict husband, and caught-in-the-middle good guy (Jeff Daniels). But that's probably just me.
OH PLEASE...