PT.1 - A Look Back: BILLY WILDER'S "THE APARTMENT"
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- A Look Back: BILLY WILDER'S "THE APARTMENT"
(MGM - UA / 28 mins. total)
Bill Wilder's 1960 "THE APARTMENT" would forever alter the course of the modern film. A drama with laugh aloud humor, and a comedy dealing with topics such as adultery and suicidal depression, it would clear the pathway for (among others) later similar thematic offspring such as the plays of Neil Simon, television series of Norman Lear, and films such as TERMS OF ENDEARMENT and SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK.
Critics (including Molly Haskell), cinema historians and even THE APARTMENT's own producer Walter Mirisch (THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN, WEST SIDE STORY, IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT) shed contemporary light on the film which still packs a punch (both comedically and dramatically) today.
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For me, the best film ever made!
I will never understand why I just HAVE to see this holiday movie. This and the Grinch! This is such an amazing movie and I still cry.
The Apartment is by far one of the most original and achingly charming movies I've ever seen; a veritable gem in the history of cinema. How real it is to live through mocking illusions and bewildered misunderstandings; to rest your conscience on things left unsaid or undone.
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GREAT COMMENT ON POINT THE SCRIPT IS ONE IF THE BEST EVER
I love The Apartment great movie a classic still 60 years later
What a cast! The writing!
in 2021 , ' the apartment ' is still hard edge , and still heart breaking in it's honesty , ugliness and ultimate beauty , the last element would be missing today , SAD !
I've always wondered why they didn't get a hotel. Now I can finally sleep.
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I hate to say this but Marilyn couldn't have played that part. The dialogue is too lengthy. In MM movies you never hear her give a monologue, it's usually a few lines with a joke at the end. And if it took her 50+ takes to say "where's that bourbon" in some like it hot, it would have been very long to make The Apartment.
Shirley McClain had a sweetness about her in The Apartment that Marilyn Monroe could never have pulled off... Norma Jean _might_ have been able to, but not Marilyn.
Marilyn Monroe could never have passed for an anonymous New Yorker !
Two different actresses. Wilder himself said that Marilyn was a great actress - even if she was difficult to deal with. Marilyn's comic timing is perfect...anyway yes, this role was not for her.
Within the book from Karasek "Nahaufnahme" (Close up) , I remember having read, that Billy Wilder did the same. He lended his room to an important manager from U.F.A. for a rendez-vous and later on got him to give him another job as a rewriter for film scripts.
Fred MacMurray also played a manipulative fink in the movie version of"The Caine Mutiny".
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Amooooooo esse filme. Não canso de ver...perfeito...roteiro...diálogos ...
My new years eve movie 🎥🍿 every year🎉🎊
Honestly? My favorite love story 💞
He just takes the fall. You want to scream at him! But the nice guy wins. This is why we love it.
She realizes he is GOOD and decent. Heck that rarely happens in life! ❤😊
Trying to watch this video
Wilder-Diamond; Shirley and Jack
First prize winner in the over-produced DVD special features contest. Jeez, just have these great people tell the story, stop cutting away to B-roll.
agree.
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"...became more realistic... you began to see what life was like..."
WTF... step outside the door and you get to see what life was like; that's why we wanted escapist entertainment back then, having lived through the Depression and WWII... people had already had plenty of "life".
"Make good ones."
How many capable people are being turned away today at the Mexican border, because a racist, selfish US-government is too scared?!
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You need to know the anecdote of Billy Wilder's entry from Mexico to the USA.
How is that statement holding up today, whats wrong with coming in legally and doing things thru proper channels? you probably think men should be able to compete in womens sports too
Wow.
My son in law came from Mexico. LEGALLY. That's the point, clueless.
I don't think the Apartment is a great movie. Lemmon, MacLaine and MacMurray are fine. The film score is uninspired. The cinematography is under-lit. The screenplay is underwhelming. (The big office set is brilliant.) The movie takes a long time to not go anywhere in particular. The movie won best picture Oscar in a particularly weak field.
The DVD commentary by a film historian/critic points out the apartment is dark and cozy as a contrast to the office being vastly impersonal and white. Sheldrake's home (larger than Baxter's place) is white too; Sheldrake being the villain whose life isn't pure white at all. The DP shot many film noirs and he used that lighting in the apartment, like, spoilers, in the bedroom when Baxter discovers Kubelik passed out. It is dramatically, emotionally a dark scene and turns the film from what we thought was a comedy to something much more serious and powerful.
As for the script being underwhelming, I didn't get that at all, and I think most fans would disagree with you. I love it for being rich in comedy, drama, pathos, character and satire. I don't know what you mean by it taking a long time to not go anywhere, but if you view it as the story of these two people, instead of a romantic comedy (which it really isn't), the script tells their flawed lives pretty well, with a lot of humor and tenderness. With an earned, redemptive, and beautiful last act. But to each his own. Cheers.
"Underwhelming screenplay"? 😂😂 Retarded statement. It's one of the great screenplays.
Christopher Gerety 😝 stop trying to be edgy the movie is a masterpiece and one of the best movies ever
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