| re: The Apartment vs Promises, Promises (longish). | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 08:57 pm EST 12/26/22 | |
| In reply to: re: The Apartment vs Promises, Promises (longish). - Delvino 08:25 pm EST 12/26/22 | |
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| I think the ready accessibility of films may sometimes be a factor with stage adaptations not doing well. I need hardly mention the current example. Obviously, sometimes a stage adaptation does well precisely because of people's love for the movie, but perhaps by this point in time, there is no guarantee that a beloved older film, a film loved by boomers and older, will necessarily attract that audience, perhaps in part because some adaptations have been mediocre or worse. It's sometimes hard to remember what it was like when you had to wait for a television showing (unless on PBS, a showing interrupted by commercials, possibly cut, sometimes cut a lot, and sometimes panned-and-scanned), a reissue or a showing at a revival house (if you lived near one) to see a movie you love or to see a classic you had never seen. Was "Tick Tock Goes the Clock" still in the show when you saw it in D.C.? I can't help but suspect that the title "Tick Tock" in Company came from Jonathan Tunick. Changing the subject, even though Some Like It Hot the film was at 38 in the recent Sight and Sound poll, I find that a surprising number of my serious movie-loving friends don't like it a lot. A surprising number find it overrated. Re Simon: I was definitely responding in part to those who replied to you. This came up recently with Plaza Suite. I think Karen is a great character, but it was surprising to me that some critics and audience members liked "Visitor From Mamaroneck" least. If anything, she is so much more interestingly written than Sam that the man's role seems almost thankless (which reverses a bit in "Visitor From Forest Hills"). |
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