tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704583061723470804.post7169252955103087552..comments2024-03-10T07:42:17.071-04:00Comments on The Film Doctor: Observations of the suicidally cool: Tom Ford's A Single ManThe Film Doctor http://www.blogger.com/profile/03073505923746994988noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704583061723470804.post-67980623590166381692010-07-24T12:17:16.172-04:002010-07-24T12:17:16.172-04:00Thanks, Juan.
And yet, I don't think all of t...Thanks, Juan.<br /><br />And yet, I don't think all of the fashion hurts the movie. One can imagine Ford dressing down his characters to fit those in the novel, muddying up his mise-en-scene with period detail, and so on, but instead he made his movie with a ferociously mannered and exacting eye, and formed an unusual directorial style as a result. The characters in the Isherwood novel are a homely bunch in comparison.The Film Doctor https://www.blogger.com/profile/03073505923746994988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704583061723470804.post-76719087592568727602010-07-23T16:38:34.149-04:002010-07-23T16:38:34.149-04:00Very good post. I largely agree with your assessme...Very good post. I largely agree with your assessment of Ford's movie. When I saw it I felt I was watching a very long commercial for a set of luxury brands.Juan J Ramoshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08988587226758087455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704583061723470804.post-27559812133120580012010-07-15T14:37:52.922-04:002010-07-15T14:37:52.922-04:00Wow -- didn't realize there were so many diffe...Wow -- didn't realize there were so many differences! Perhaps I'll pick up the book before the summer's up...Kelli Marshallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08269932900784757760noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704583061723470804.post-58466578925235113032010-07-13T11:53:21.556-04:002010-07-13T11:53:21.556-04:00Thanks, Kelli.
I've been reading the Christop...Thanks, Kelli.<br /><br />I've been reading the Christopher Isherwood novel from which Ford adapted the movie. More than half way through, I've seen no reference to George considering suicide, and no gun. George teaches one class about Huxley, visits with an ailing woman in a hospital, stops by the gym. Ford added on the whole seize-the-day appreciating life aspect to the storyline. He needed the gun, perhaps, to justify some of the Hitchcock references. Also, George's character in the novel couldn't stand the family next door, and yet, given Ford's aestheticizing of those scenes, it is hard to tell that in the movie. Ford's adaptation is a fever dream of Isherwood's work.The Film Doctor https://www.blogger.com/profile/03073505923746994988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704583061723470804.post-24033115310288718652010-07-12T08:16:29.872-04:002010-07-12T08:16:29.872-04:00I don't have anything to add here. I just want...I don't have anything to add here. I just wanted to say that I enjoyed reading your post and that despite the film's massive visual nod to Hitchcock, I hadn't really thought further about connecting the two. Interesting.Kelli Marshallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08269932900784757760noreply@blogger.com