9/12/2023 0 Comments Gigi 1958 roger ebert![]() But Frank Langella gives the fate of his character a certain nobility, and one of the most affecting passages in the movie is his justification of himself to the lover of a woman he has seduced: He will show her the final intensity of life, he will take her beyond the everyday, he will take her to the grave to spare her from the grave. What he has done, though, is concentrate a little more fully on the tragedy of having to live forever. The story, of course, is familiar John Badham hasn't updated Dracula, thank God. But Albert Whitlock's matte drawings of the castle, combined with actual foregrounds, give it a kind of surrealistic solidity, and the music makes it soaringly ominous. Its stark towers and parapets exist only on the covers of Gothic potboilers. There is no way in the world, for example, that Dracula's castle in this film could actually exist. The art direction, the music, the special effects give us a 19th-century setting that is at once halfway convincing and charmingly unreal. The film's second important achievement is in the direction of John Badham (who made “ Saturday Night Fever” in 1977) and in the contributions of the key production artists. Frank Langella gives us a character who “acts” as if he's a count: He has royal manners, he is irresistibly attractive to women, he would have impeccable table manners if only, of course, it were not forbidden for him to eat. They come on so strong that potential victims shouldn't let them within yards of their necks. Apart from the wonders of its words and music, 'My Fair Lady' is a visual triumph. Most of the previous Draculas we carry in our imaginations share two things: fangs and overacting. ![]() I didn't see his Broadway “Dracula”, but the long stage run must have given him the opportunity to think more deeply about the strange character he was playing. An Instagram video of Nate getting drunk with Gigi on his lap while dozens of drunken college students party all around them draws the attention of a humorless, fiercely dedicated and litigious. ![]() First, through the Frank Langella performance. ![]()
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