| re: The Apartment vs Promises, Promises (longish). | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 04:42 pm EST 12/26/22 | |
| In reply to: The Apartment vs Promises, Promises (longish). - Delvino 10:45 am EST 12/26/22 | |
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| One thing about the film is that the ending is not really all that hopeful. He is out of work, she is probably going to quit, and do they really have much of a future together? I'm not so sure, and looking at a Wilder bio the other day, I found that he wasn't so sure. It's a sad, sad movie, giving you a happy ending in which you may not quite believe, although there is relief (and it is believable) that Fran is over Sheldrake for good. I think Simon could write great female characters when he focused on them, although not in Lost in Yonkers, which I can't stand. But Karen in "Visitors from Mamaroneck," Evy in The Gingerbread Lady, whom you mention elsewhere, and most of all Kate in Broadway Bound. Arguably even the last lady, Jeanette, in Last of the Red Hot Lovers. I don't know all of Simon's plays, but Corey and Mrs. Banks also seem to me well-written characters, but they are of their time. Indeed, they are probably better-written than the two men opposite them. But I think Simon generally believed in "Write what you know," and he was a man. He knew and understood men. He loved Chekhov but would never have claimed to be on a level with Chekhov. Btw, I was sure I had seen The Apartment on television before I saw Promises, Promises in February 1970. So I searched for info and found it had it been on CBS as early as 1967. It was given two-and-a-half hours, starting at 9 p.m. There may have been a few trims given that the movie is 125 minutes. Also perhaps of interest is that Comden, Green and Styne owned the rights before Merrick did. |
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