The Tourist : Total 60s homage
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Re: Total 60s homage
Right idea, wrong decade. I saw this as a typical Cary Grant/Gregory Peck/Audrey Hepburn style rom-com; but from the fifties not the sixties. North by Northwest was released in 1959, and To Catch a Thief (1955) also came to mind.
When I saw the badly-made close-up of Jolie in the boat, obviously in front of a screen and with someone holding a fan just out of shot to make her hair move, I even wondered if this was done deliberately to emulate similar scenes in 50s movies.
When I saw the badly-made close-up of Jolie in the boat, obviously in front of a screen and with someone holding a fan just out of shot to make her hair move, I even wondered if this was done deliberately to emulate similar scenes in 50s movies.
Re: Total 60s homage
Yep, kept thinking of Cary Grant starring in it instead.
Re: Total 60s homage
To compare this movie to the classics is a travesty, but yeah I got the 50's vibe. I don't think they succeeded at all in executing it though.
Total 60s homage
Think Hitchcock's "North by Northwest" (which has a very similar plot - hapless sap meets mystery woman on train and gets embroiled in a mistaken identity chase). Think "The Italian Job". Think various Bond movies.
Sure, it has a groan-inducing denouement. Sure, it has corny acting and bad guys who can't shoot straight. A heavy who should be stroking a white Persian cat. Boat chases through Venice. Cliches all, and that's the whole point.
It's no masterpiece for sure, but I'll bet they had great fun making it, and I had fun watching it.