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Scenes We Love: The Thrill Of It All
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Doris Day movies are so deliciously retro. Something about those soundstage apartments, snappy hats, and bubbly optimism just sucks me in. Life with twin beds seems bearable if you have James Garner and a housekeeper, you know?
The Thrill Of It All has always been one of my favorites. It's amazingly sexist, with a lot of talk about motherhood being the only thing a woman should really aspire to. Garner's Dr. Boyer is shockingly resentful of his wife's newfound success -- she's not home when he wants her to be, he's angry that she makes more money than he does, and he's jealous of her fans. You can watch it and be relieved at how much has changed between the sexes ... and be frightened at how many of those 1963 attitudes still linger.
But my favorite part of this film is its cynical commentary on marketing and entertainment. I laugh every time I see the scene below, and the longer I spend in the world of blogging, movie making, and viral marketing, the truer it becomes:
The Thrill Of It All has always been one of my favorites. It's amazingly sexist, with a lot of talk about motherhood being the only thing a woman should really aspire to. Garner's Dr. Boyer is shockingly resentful of his wife's newfound success -- she's not home when he wants her to be, he's angry that she makes more money than he does, and he's jealous of her fans. You can watch it and be relieved at how much has changed between the sexes ... and be frightened at how many of those 1963 attitudes still linger.
But my favorite part of this film is its cynical commentary on marketing and entertainment. I laugh every time I see the scene below, and the longer I spend in the world of blogging, movie making, and viral marketing, the truer it becomes:
DVD Review: Pillow Talk
Filed under: Classics », DVD Reviews »
It's been said that there are a fixed number of unique, dramatic storylines—romance, adventure, etcetera—and no matter how hard we try to come up with an original story, it's usually already been told. Hollywood knows this adage well—I don't think there's a film out there that doesn't have a "sequel" in some form or another. So even if you've never seen Pillow Talk (1959), you've probably heard of it's modern spin-off, Down with Love (2003), which has Ewan McGregor and Renee Zellweger doing split-screen push-ups amidst a 1960s color-palette. The set design is about as accurate as the film gets, time-wise; for the most part, it's your average 21 st-century, politically-correct love story, reiterations of which are sprinkled all over the New Release shelf: man wants woman, woman wants man, man deceives woman, woman finds out, woman gets comeuppance, man grovels but ultimately whisks woman off her proverbial feet—but only because the woman lets him. Love has been reduced to the level of business transaction: you can have me, but only on *my terms. That said, there's nothing resembling Pillow Talk on the shelves today (except for all the other Doris Day/Rock Hudson films, which are generally thought of as sequels to Pillow Talk). The sexcapade is dead. Long live the sexcapade!
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