reason why this film has the feel of old Hollywood may be because of its prototype, which is Rock Hudson. And Doris Day’s classic romantic light comedy Pillow Talk. It’s not impossible to think of Down with Love as a remake, but it’s not like a remake. In fact, it’s more like a tribute to these 60s classics. In fact, as a Chinese It is impossible for the post-80s generation to have a deep understanding of the 60s in the United States. The feeling of the 60s is limited to those movies and television works and historical materials. Of course, this movie is not made in 1963 but in 2003, but it What I can shoot makes me feel like the 1960s, and that’s enough. The
1960s was a crucial time for the United States and the world. The Cold War, the Vietnam War, the human rights movement, the Kennedy assassination, and the moon landing are all rich and colorful chapters in history textbooks. But the 1960s was also the era of hippies, rock, drugs, Woodstock, peace and anti-war. It is precisely because of the heavy historical stage that these movements of self-exile, hedonism, and escapism. So the entertainment of the 1960s movies The world in the TV works has almost no sense of history. It is a world that is out of touch with reality, absurd and exaggerated, and has fun in time. And Down with Love also gave me this feeling.
I said that DWL is not just a remake of the pillow talk. Because in many respects, it is more absurd than Pillow Talk. It is the result of picking out and magnifying the 60s temperament in Pillow Talk. Visually speaking, it reminds me of cartoons in the 60s. Like the Pink Panther and UPA's Mr. Magoo series, the 2D picture has simple lines and strong colors. Watching such movies in the age of 3D is really unique (although it was briefly popular in the 1950s and 1960s 3D)
I have been complaining that the current comedy does not have the feeling of the old movie. As for what is the feeling of the old movie, in addition to the pictures and actors, there are also those refined dialogues. The current screenwriters somehow just can't write the kind of compact and funny ridicule. And it’s a pun. It’s not that I’m going to be old stereotypes, but the art of English language is slowly losing. Just look at classic old movies such as His Girl Friday, Some Like it Hot, It Happened One Night and so on. DWL wrote the old Hollywood-style dialogue, not to mention Renee's last big confession in the end, just the flirting and bickering between the two before it has been very enjoyable. I
have to say the film's One of the highlights is the male partner David Hyde Pierce. He did not know how many Kelsey Grammer plays in Frazier. If it weren't for his low-key performance, I don't know how impressive his achievements are now. It is also true that he is a gay player. I'm too familiar with it (I don't know whether it is attack or suffer in life), used by the royal sister to make a sex toy and look like a little daughter-in-law, uncle, you are too cute! But it must also be said that Ewan McGregor is not suitable for comedy. , Although the makeup in the 60s is very positive (but after watching Mad Men, I know that putting any man in the shape of the 1950s and 1960s has the potential to become a female killer)
Of course, this movie is not a classic, but I I just like this exaggerated, tongue in check style, which makes audiences who look forward to or understand the 60s smile. Although there is a little feminist message in the movie, don’t expect them to be so profound. In the end, it’s not all the same. Tear down, completely return to Hollywood-style happy ending. The song in the BTW credit is pretty good. It was produced by the strong demands of Renee and Ewan.
Finally, as a woman, I must yell: Down with Men, Up with Chocolate!!!
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