::Kit's Movie Reviews::

 

This Month's Kit Flick:

Bowfinger

So picture Steve Martin as a totally down and out Hollywood producer who gets the idea to film fabuloous, popular, action hero Eddie Murphy without his knowing it (or having to pay him), thereby making a fortune for himself and his down and outter production friends. It helps to have Eddie’s character absolutely paranoid to begin with and a trembling cult member the Coneheads organization, very similar to Tom Cruise’s Scientologists.

The scene where a character in the movie within the movie must cross the freeway (don’t worry, he’s told, they’re all stunt drivers) is outrageous, too. Great fun! And Heather Graham as the ingenue who literally sleeps her way to the top...perfect.

I love movies.

Not all of them, of course, but the ones I love I treat the same way I treat my favorite books—I pick them up again, every year or so, and enjoy them once more. Movies have certainly influenced me. My protagonists, Margot and Max, are in the movie business. My real life daughter is an art director (as well as the cover artist for my stories). Her significant, Marc Greville, is a production director. I’ve had the thrill of being on location shoots, watching sets being created, taken inside tours of the studios, suffered with them when business is slow. And, most of all, listening, listening, to everything that is said around me. Gossip is great for the creative mind!

And movies are fascinating to watch being made. They are such complicated entities. All those people, hundreds of them, all working at their separate jobs, from writer to electrician, lighting director to editor to gaffer. Each group working toward one goal, a completed film.

When finally completed, I think there’s so much to look at while viewing a movie. I like to concentrate sometimes on just the actors, then there’s the production direction, or the music, or the editing or try not looking at the screen and just listen to the dialogue. Fascinating. A good movie is worth multiple viewings, just as a good book can be enjoyed over and over.

Each month I'll talk about some of my faves==all available on DVD. Enjoy!