was recommended the thomas crown affair to watch for a wednesday night's entertainment. it was a kind offer since i continually drool over pierce brosnan openly. :p but i forgot that he only acts in cliche chauvinist movies such as bond and the likes. and the movie was getting a little unsettling.
slick and smooth. those are the exact words my friend used referring to the movie. no, one more thing. rich and slick and smooth. "fugitives with means, it makes all the difference." he obviously has the means to make many things happen. amusing himself, or the woman he likes, by stealing paintings, causing panic in the museum, playing hide-and-seek with the cops who have better things to do, or hiring eastern european despos and send them into the police station. after all, why are the rich people so bored?
the most irritating thing, is that the director actually gave the woman some brains, no matter how artificial they look on her. but, nay, no matter how clever the woman gets, the man has to be cleverer, one jump ahead of her in everything she does. and this time he even has some heart. with the expected turn of events with forger's daughter to whom Crown was the guardian, the movie just went straight down into the insipid pitch of darkness.
it's after all a male fantasy. power, status, intelligence, money. and the ability to keep everything in control, including when a woman should smile, when she should cry.
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Well, it's not my fantasy I can tell you that much. Especially since Rene Russo is in it. It is based on a 60's movie, so it may have been trying to keep the "air of machismo." Strangely the screenplay was written by a woman.
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