Wednesday, December 24, 2014
New Wine in Old Boffos
-It’s hardboiled detective drama from the Forties.
With the boxy clothes! Can’t have Chevvie SUVs and
humongous vans, and Special K on breakfast tables!
-Handsome product placement fees!
-They’re anachronisms!
-So is the producer! Here for thirty years and still
can’t speak English!
-Doesn’t affect the product.
-The PRODUCT? Is it affected by a director fresh off his latest
detox after the boyfriend finally left? A leading man and lady
without a discernable IQ between them? Techs who’ve been
around so long that this Jewel in the Crown is not the worst
crap they’ve worked on?
-Never mind all that! Let’s keep the integrity of the script.
-That WHAT? It started straight-stupid drama, and then sent
itself up for demented chuckles. It’s a total, unreclaimable mess!
ANYWAY...as they say in Chinatown, let’s cut to the Chink!
-Which is?
-You got shit? Swing with it!
Labels: anachronism, Bomb, Chinatown, detective drama, hardboiled, Hollywood, product placement
