Metropolitan

Director: Whit Stillman

Countries of origin: United States, Spain

Language: English

Release date: August 3, 1990

Sound mix: Mono

Aspect ratio: 1.66 : 1

Also known as: 大都會

"Metropolitan" is a feature film directed by Whit Stillman and starring Carolyn Farina , Edward Clements , Kris Eggman, Taylor Nichols, etc. It was held at the 6th Sundance International in the United States on January 20, 1990. The film festival premiered .

The film is the first part of the "Manhattan High Society Trilogy" directed by the director. It tells the story of a love triangle when Tom summoned a group of friends to chat and talk about current affairs during Christmas .

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By Elenora 2022-02-21 08:01:42

[Film Review] Metropolitan (1990) 7.6/10

Make-believe posing and posturing is part and parcel of acting, professionals need years of practice to excel in it, for amateurs who tread the boards for the very first time (METROPOLITAN is a case in point), the result can be a toss- up and to a great extent contingent on its director's aptitude to key their personal traits into the roles they are assigned to play, in that regard, Whit...
By Garrick 2022-02-21 08:01:42

Urban Haute Bourgeoisie vs. Nouveau Riche

"Is our vocabulary so poor? We need French to express our views?" The reason why we use French to quote the lines in the movie is because the use of French cannot avoid class and taste.
The taste of citizens is bourgeois, and gossip girls are nouveau riche. Who could have expected that the same description of Manhattan’s preppy has changed so much in more than a decade. The general public has been discussing the loneliness of the class. To a certain extent,...
By Brice 2022-02-21 08:01:42

Young people in metropolis

Metropolitan-1990 After

   watching all kinds of people in Taiwan taken by Yang Dechang, you can see the metropolis of New York.
  I originally thought this was a movie about New Yorkers, perhaps similar to the "Independence Age", but I didn't expect it to be closer to "Reality Bites".

  A group of self-righteous young people keep talking about our generation and their generation.
  A likes B, B likes C, D likes A, C likes E, F hates E, G also likes E...
  The...
By Tyson 2022-02-21 08:01:42

"Big Citizen": After the Prom

Do not reprint
Luc Sante / Literary Ambiguity / Translation
Whit Stillman's "Big Citizen" was completed in 1990. As a film about young women from above and their dating partners, it appeared to be a solitary one at the time. Well, well, it looks even more uninterested now. Putting aside the classic film "Philadelphia Story",[1] the idea of making American...
By Darron 2022-02-21 08:01:42

Young is good

Profound means more pain and less likable. In our age, profundity is a disgusting thing. What is really likable is to pretend to be profound, that is, things and speeches that "look very profound" ——This opening sentence can probably summarize the movie. The seemingly witty talk, coupled with the irony that the West has always used, and a touch of vanilla-flavored warmth, all the essence is here. Young people are always accustomed to raising eyebrows in life, while old people are insensitive...

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By Benjamin 2022-03-28 09:01:11

The American media commented on how Stillman represented the 1% of the United States (Stillman was born in the 1% of the Upper East Side and graduated from Harvard. Although there was no such a word at that time). But my feeling is that people regardless of age or background have universal hopes and ideals, pretense and...
By Isai 2022-03-27 09:01:19

The style is a bit Woody...
By Salma 2022-03-27 09:01:19

UHB - Urban Haute Bourgeoisie. Since we're all doomed to fail, fail like a hero. Quoting Marina Keegan,"We're so young. We can't, we MUST not lose this sense of possibility because in the end,it's all we...
By Precious 2022-03-27 09:01:19

I'm just thinking about this after reading...
By Sydnie 2022-03-27 09:01:19

The declaration of the world by the youth of the metropolis, the pretentious and self-centered dialogue cannot hide the inner desire and...

Movie quotes

Nick Smith: You haven't seen this? Detachable collar. Not many people wear them anymore. They look much better. So many things which were better in the past have been abandoned for supposed convenience.

Tom Townsend: I had no idea anyone wore those anymore.

Nick Smith: It's a small thing, but symbolically important. Our parents' generation was never interested in keeping up standards. They wanted to be happy, but, of course, the last way to be happy is to make it your objective in life.

Tom Townsend: I wonder if our generation's any better than our parents'.

Nick Smith: Oh, it's far worse. Our generation's probably the worst since - the Protestant Reformation. It's barbaric, but a barbarism even worse than the old-fashioned, straightforward kind. Now barbarism is cloaked with all sorts of self-righteousness and moral superiority. Will you look at this?

Tom Townsend: You're obviously talking about a lot more than just detachable collars.

Nick Smith: Yeah, I am.
Nick Smith: It's incredible, the eagerness of girls like you to justify the worst bastards imaginable... as being sensitive and shy. But if any guy who really was shy dared talk to you... you wouldn't give him the time of day - your eyes would glaze over.

Cynthia McLean: You're really hung up on Rick, aren't you? He must really threaten you somehow.

Nick Smith: You're right. I do feel threatened - that I may get a venereal disease from one of the St. Tim's girls he's been with.

[Cynthia slaps Nick]

Nick Smith: Did you learn that from your lovemaking with Rick? I hear it can get really rough.

[another slap]

Nick Smith: Don't do that again. For me, it isn't erotic.
Audrey Rouget: I read that Lionel Trilling essay you mentioned. You really like Trilling?

Tom Townsend: Yes.

Audrey Rouget: I think he's very strange. He says that nobody could like the heroine of "Mansfield Park". I like her! Then he goes on and on about how we modern people of today with our modern attitudes, bitterly resent "Mansfield Park" because its heroine is virtuous? What's wrong with a novel having a virtuous heroine?

Tom Townsend: His point is that the novel's premise - that there's something immoral in a group of young people putting on a play - is simply absurd.

Audrey Rouget: You found Fanny Price unlikable?

Audrey Rouget: She sounds pretty unbearable. But I haven't read the book.

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