I guess I really am a sentimental guy down deep. The movie is about the love life and marriage of Audrey Hepburn and Albert Finney. It shows how their love evolved and grew cold over the years through a long series of flashbacks to each time they went to the French countryside for vacation.
At first they are madly in love and later they grow very distant and even have affairs. Seeing Hepburn sleeping with Finney after just meeting was certainly in line with 60s sensibilities as were their affairs, but I just didn't like it.
Much of this is because of Hepburn's rather 'virginal' persona in films. Frankly, I could easily see why Hepburn's character would cheat on him, though for the life of me I couldn't see why she stayed. By the end of the film it seemed as if the two stayed together more out of habit than anything else--making the whole thing seem like a bit of a downer. A final note, if you are into Freudian imagery or psychology, then this is an interesting film. Director Donen deliberately used a lot of phallic references.
One was not at all subtle and the characters even commented on this as the train whizzed past. Another, a bit more subtle, involved Finney offering Hepburn a banana. Additionally, the family who traveled with them during one part of the movie kept spouting psychobabble right and left and it was funny to see what totally permissive parenting results in with their child.
It's a matter of taste, but I don't think it is anywhere as good as either Funny Face or Charade. The film is the story of the marriage of Albert Finney and Audrey Hepburn told in jigsaw puzzle style, disjointed at different select times of their marriage and what they go through.
You date it by the different hairstyles that Audrey Hepburn has and by the various cars that they drive. They're always on the road and if you know from cars and from women's hairstyle trends than you can follow the film a whole lot easier.
Me, I'm not an expert in either. Some parts are quite memorable and the best scenes are with another married couple, Eleanor Bron and William Daniels and the little brat monster from hell that they're raising.
Bron used to be involved with Finney and she'd like to keep some kind of tie there. But as parents the two are absolute flops, they're very liberal types who don't believe in disciplining their little sugar plum. In fact Audrey has to take a hand in there when the situation becomes intolerable. I could certainly have seen him in the role. I don't think the cinematic jigsaw was necessary. It would have been a better film just done as a straight linear narrative.
Still fans of Audrey Hepburn and Albert Finney should be pleased. The movie flashes backwards and forwards throughout their decade long relationship. They first met on the boat in France when he was backpacking and she was with a girls singing group.
While everybody else gets chicken pox, Jo is immune and hitchhikes with Mark. In the present, they drive south to Saint-Tropez and struggle to maintain their crumbling relationship as they recall their past journeys.
I wish the movie catches the couple fighting in the present day. They have essentially given up and leaves the movie with a depressed feeling. It never really shakes that sense of depression. They need to fight because at least that means that they still care. The overall sense is that they stop caring and that's not a great starting point. The two leads are wonderful and this is a very adult relationship. Login Register. Caine: Old man, how is it that you hear these things?
Po: Young man, how is it that you do not? David Chow, who was also a guest star in the series, acted as the technical and kung fu advisor, a role later undertaken by Kam Yuen. Kung Fu was created by Ed Spielman, directed and produced by Jerry Thorpe, and developed by Herman Miller, who was also a writer for, and co-producer of, the series.
In the interview, Lee stated that he had developed a concept for a television series called The Warrior , meant to star himself, about a martial artist in the American Old West the same concept as Kung Fu , which aired the following year , but that he was having trouble pitching it to Warner Brothers and Paramount. Lee responded, 'That was the original idea, Whereas I want to do the Western. Because, you see, how else can you justify all of the punching and kicking and violence, except in the period of the West?
Later in the interview, Berton asked Lee about 'the problems that you face as a Chinese hero in an American series. Have people come up in the industry and said 'well, we don't know how the audience are going to take a non-American'? Lee replied, 'Well, such question has been raised, in fact, it is being discussed. That is why The Warrior is probably not going to be on. I don't blame them. If the situation were reversed, and an American star were to come to Hong Kong, and I was the man with the money, I would have my own concerns as to whether the acceptance would be there.
Kung Fu was preceded by a full-length 90 minutes, with commercial breaks feature television pilot, an ABC Movie of the Week , which was broadcast on February 22, The series became one of the most popular television programs of the early s, receiving widespread critical acclaim and commercial success upon its release. The Shaolin Monastery which appeared in flashbacks was originally a set used for the film Camelot. It was inexpensively and effectively converted for the setting in China.
The series used slow-motion effects for the action sequences, which Warner Brothers had previously utilized in the Sam Peckinpah film The Wild Bunch , and were also subsequently utilized for the action sequences in the science-fiction series The Six Million Dollar Man. Toward the end of the film, Chung Wang asks Caine if he is his father. The question seems somewhat ironic since—in real life—Brandon's father was a contender for the role of Caine in the series. After Bruce Lee lost the part to Carradine, he went back to Hong Kong, where he made The Big Boss , the film that began his legendary career in martial arts movies.
It explains the original Caine had married and become a town's medicine man. One night he died of heart failure. He appears as a ghost to his grandson and great-grandson, who later destroy a narcotics operation. Two decades after the first series ended, a second, related series titled Kung Fu: The Legend Continues running in syndication followed the adventures of Kwai Chang Caine's grandson, also named Kwai Chang Caine.
The second series ran for four years, from to
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