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So, yesterday I went to the library to find some movies to check out, and ended up with Adaptation, Adam's Rib, and Charade.
Having watched the first two this morning, I can say that both really frustrated me, but in different ways.
With Adam's Rib, which is about two married lawyers on opposite sides of a case in which a young woman has shot her husband for adultery . . .I just found Katherine Hepburn's character to be both hypocritical and unprofessional, and. . .I didn't really understand her case. Yes, it was based on men and women being equal . .. .but I kind of think that by making that into an almost farcial performance that she was really undermining her own statement. Also, uh . . .I really didn't get why she thought a man would be acquitted for shooting his wife over her having an affair. If she had shot the woman he was having an affair with, that mind make slightly more sense, but it would still be rather confusing. I also wasn't particularly amused by how Spencer Tracy decided to settle things at the end.
I liked it, though, but these aspects just bothered me.
Adaptation I also liked, but I found what it was doing. . .kind of dizzying. It's. . .okay, it's a movie written by Charlie Kaufman about Charlie Kaufman writing a movie about Charlie Kaufman writing a movie about. . .
Yeah.
It's also an adaptation of The Orchid Thief, and apparently was born from . . .Charlie Kaufman being assigned the screenplay of said adaptation and deciding to write a screenplay about himself writing a screenplay, instead. It's an amusing idea, and had some scenes that I absolutely loved, but on the whole, I came out liking it, but not to a very great extent. It was unbelievably better than Being John Malkovich, at least(and possibly weirder.)
Thankfully, I am halfway through Charade and, unlike these two, I am not even remotely frustrated with it.
(This is random, but you know, my library has some bizarre Audrey Hepburn things. They have only the most famous of her films, but for some reason have the entirety of the Garden Tour show she did for PBS. . .and her spoken word album.)
Having watched the first two this morning, I can say that both really frustrated me, but in different ways.
With Adam's Rib, which is about two married lawyers on opposite sides of a case in which a young woman has shot her husband for adultery . . .I just found Katherine Hepburn's character to be both hypocritical and unprofessional, and. . .I didn't really understand her case. Yes, it was based on men and women being equal . .. .but I kind of think that by making that into an almost farcial performance that she was really undermining her own statement. Also, uh . . .I really didn't get why she thought a man would be acquitted for shooting his wife over her having an affair. If she had shot the woman he was having an affair with, that mind make slightly more sense, but it would still be rather confusing. I also wasn't particularly amused by how Spencer Tracy decided to settle things at the end.
I liked it, though, but these aspects just bothered me.
Adaptation I also liked, but I found what it was doing. . .kind of dizzying. It's. . .okay, it's a movie written by Charlie Kaufman about Charlie Kaufman writing a movie about Charlie Kaufman writing a movie about. . .
Yeah.
It's also an adaptation of The Orchid Thief, and apparently was born from . . .Charlie Kaufman being assigned the screenplay of said adaptation and deciding to write a screenplay about himself writing a screenplay, instead. It's an amusing idea, and had some scenes that I absolutely loved, but on the whole, I came out liking it, but not to a very great extent. It was unbelievably better than Being John Malkovich, at least(and possibly weirder.)
Thankfully, I am halfway through Charade and, unlike these two, I am not even remotely frustrated with it.
(This is random, but you know, my library has some bizarre Audrey Hepburn things. They have only the most famous of her films, but for some reason have the entirety of the Garden Tour show she did for PBS. . .and her spoken word album.)