Word: romanticize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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In customary Moliere style, Scapine is a romantic farce which pokes fun at the middle class. Octavio (Jon Blackstone) and Leander (Gintaras Valiulis), two wealthy young men, want to marry women considered unsuitable by their stuffy parents, Argante (Donal Logue) and Geronte (Celia Wren). They enlist the help of the...
"David has a very bewildered sense of humor," Henley adds. "I wouldn't call it wry because that implies a sarcasm that he doesn't have. He laughs really loud at things and then gets embarrassed because he did." Still, getting on Byrne's wavelength takes adjustment. "I didn't...
The singles world, however, doesn't prove to be all that Alan had hoped. One by one his prospects turn out to be stereotypical odd-balls. Gradually, he realizes that Mary was really the one for him. Will he get her back? Well, this is romantic comedy.
Parker filmed The Girl in the Picture in Forsyth's vignettes-from-real-life style, but he left out a crucial ingredient. Forsyth's films have a subtle, underlying madcap element that gives his productions an air of unseen comic conspiracy intruding on the mundane world. Despite its humor and...
Of course, there's nothing wrong with silly love songs, or silly romantic movies. But here the vignettes-from-life style makes for an awfully long 90 minutes of movie, and the random symbols of love, and fertility thrown in at every opportunity don't speed it up.