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 Barnes & Noble A pungent satire of Hollywood screenwriting conventions, Richard Quines movie of George Axelrods ace script, Paris, is a neurotic tonic. William Holden and Audrey Hepburn play, respectively, Richard Benson, a blocked, aging playboy screenwriter, and Gabrielle Simpson, a slumming expat stenographer, who have two days to spitball a script called "The Girl Who Stole the Eiffel Tower." They spend that time imagining each scene, eliciting an automatic filmic rendering of their words. Benson says, "We can get Sinatra!" and suddenly The Voice himself swingingly bellows the title. Axelrods penchant for weird, self-reflexive lunacy -- a trait also running through his scripts for The Manchurian Candidate and Lord Love a Duck -- throws the movie into overdrive early. Yet the brainy sifting through a Chinese box-style film within a film within a film is kept well modulated by Quine. Paris never manages to exhaust its subjects, which include the sexual subtexts in spy and horror flicks, beatnik Method actors (one played here by a fey Tony Curtis), writerly paranoia, meet-cute scenes, and urbane decadence. This tart, tangy champagne hasnt lost any of its bubbles. Interested in the song lyrics? - Check out themostlyrics.com! Looking For A DVD? - Check out dvd-a-rama.com! |
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