Falling in Love at the Movies by Esther Zuckerman book review
Cinema
Fall in love with movies
Esther zuckerman
Running Press, $ 42.99
There are those who are not aware that romantic comedies were born long before Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks came together-with the help of the writer Nora Ephron. Sleepless in Seattle In 1993 and after You’ve got mail Five years later. And even before the 1980s, Vault (1984), Say something … And When he met Harry Sally (Both 1989) and the “Chick Flicks” tag has not yet entered the popular dictionary.
Most of the criminals may be found in the blogosphere, but some have managed to move to the main current without being happy. Fortunately, Esther Zuckerman is not one of them. He saw the light as he explained at the entrance to him for a thousand years. Fall in love with moviesWhen his family starts to see him, eight years old You’ve got mail On the Upper West Side of New York. It was love at first glance, but since then, he opened his lens wide enough to realize that the Romcoms – as we know them with love – have a famous history.
As the subtitle of the generous illustrated book, this species is an overview of this species, which contains the films of the 1930s – which started more or less with the golden period of the Screwball comedy. My man Godfrey– Terrible truth And Baby Bringingtogether Daughter on Friday– Lady home And Fire ball From the 1940s – and often monitor your development to the present day.
In his 1974 book, he is not knowledgeable about Romcoms like Molly Haskell, Rape Rape: Treatment of Women in FilmsStanley Cavell is his bright Pursuit of happiness: Hollywood’s re -marriage comedy (1981) or Ed Sikov clever Screwball: Hollywood’s Madcap Romantic Comedies (1989), although they specify all (with many magazines and newspaper articles). But he is a smart, thoughtful and frequent -sensing curious who is worried about making us understand that Romcoms are not equivalent to only foods for needy filmmakers.
Carey Grant and Katharine Hepburn, an early Romcom, in the 1938s Baby Bringing.
He proposes connections between the old and new. Some of them cannot be rejected, like the truth You’ve got mail An updated version of Ernst Lubitsch Shop in the corner (1940), James Stewart as Hanks and Margaret Sullavan’s Ryan.
Others grow in a particularly convincingly, especially convincingly, especially as they define the similarities between Lubitsch’s work and Nancy Meyers’. What do women want (2000) and Complicated (2009): “Nancy likes the aspect of art from foamy areas occupied by his characters, such as Ernst.” More successful, but still not completely convincing, Preston Sturges’s wonderful strange strange 1940s connecting comedies, for example Lady home And Palm Beach StoryAnd the equally verbal ones of Ephron, When he met Harry Sally …
It attracts our attention to the land details that guide the Romcoms. Bringing lovers together for the first time, “Meeting-Bedeli”, then the deceptions and/or misunderstandings that threaten their relationships, even if they are finally left aside for a happy ending (Zuckerman, Zuckerman, who allows exceptions Graduate And Annie Hall).
