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Post by stefancrosscoe on Feb 28, 2017 16:15:52 GMT
"Sometimes I take a walk at night and I see couples walking, holding hands and I look at them and I think: "Why not me?" Then I catch my shadow on the wall..."C.D. Bales (Steve Martin), a man of many talents, which includes reading poetry, beating up thugs with his favorite tennis racket, scaring the living crap out of little old ladies, talking sense to school kids, rescuing cats stuck in trees and on top of that being the fire chief of a little local town. A job that Bales takes very serious, and so he should, as he far too often find himself being occupied by saving it from both the citizens and his fellow own co-workers. Still, when not in the presence of his friends, C.D. is far away from being the Superman they all know, as he is a rather lonely figure, and were Superman had kryptonite, C.D. has an even bigger nemesis, his own nose.
One night he suddenly find himself being approached by a beautiful young lady in distress, Roxanne (Daryl Hannah), and with the two of them catching on rather well, the hopeful C.D. thinks to himself that this is it, but the romantic part is to be put on hold, as there is a new competitor in town, Chris (Rick Rossovich), or more known as the "Maestro" who has the women going all crazy. Unfortunately, that includes Roxanne and C.D. has come to the facts that he is of no match against his younger and better looking rival. But it turns out that the Maestro is far away from being all that perfect, as whenever he gets too close to Roxanne, he ends up going into panic mode, and desperately look for the closest escape route, either that or just take a long good hiding inside the bathrooms. Bales then decides to come up with a "fireproof" plan in which the two rivals team up, and since he got the brains, and Chris got the looks, they just might have the ultimate "weapon" that no woman alive could ever resist.
Beside The Man with Two Brains (1983) and Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987), Roxanne is my favorite Steve Martin film. It manages to be both funny, romantic and also provides some surprisingly mature/serious parts along the way. And comes along with a solid cast, were specially Rich Rossovich shines as the hilarious ladies man, being all high and mighty among his male buddies, but when on his own, he is a rather pathetic character. And one of the funniest scenes is when he suddenly notices Roxanne in a bar, and then rushes away to hide in the toilet, were Roxanne and her friends look on and after a while begins to wonder what the hell happened to him. Next moment we can see that Chris has destroyed the bathroom window in order to escape the whole situation. Also, the Hunting for Words is a classic one, "Can I Fluff Your Pillows?"The little city/town feel is also great, I like movies having been placed in not just about every other big city, and in this film they sure made good use of the scenery. Soundtrack ain't that bad either, that saxophone always nails it for me, and Roxanne have been a favorite romantic comedy of mine since I was a little kid. Used to have a huge crush on Daryl Hannah both in this and Splash (1984).
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Post by geode on Apr 1, 2017 14:32:44 GMT
"Sometimes I take a walk at night and I see couples walking, holding hands and I look at them and I think: "Why not me?" Then I catch my shadow on the wall..."C.D. Bales (Steve Martin), a man of many talents, which includes reading poetry, beating up thugs with his favorite tennis racket, scaring the living crap out of little old ladies, talking sense to school kids, rescuing cats stuck in trees and on top of that being the fire chief of a little local town. A job that Bales takes very serious, and so he should, as he far too often find himself being occupied by saving it from both the citizens and his fellow own co-workers. Still, when not in the presence of his friends, C.D. is far away from being the Superman they all know, as he is a rather lonely figure, and were Superman had kryptonite, C.D. has an even bigger nemesis, his own nose.
One night he suddenly find himself being approached by a beautiful young lady in distress, Roxanne (Daryl Hannah), and with the two of them catching on rather well, the hopeful C.D. thinks to himself that this is it, but the romantic part is to be put on hold, as there is a new competitor in town, Chris (Rick Rossovich), or more known as the "Maestro" who has the women going all crazy. Unfortunately, that includes Roxanne and C.D. has come to the facts that he is of no match against his younger and better looking rival. But it turns out that the Maestro is far away from being all that perfect, as whenever he gets too close to Roxanne, he ends up going into panic mode, and desperately look for the closest escape route, either that or just take a long good hiding inside the bathrooms. Bales then decides to come up with a "fireproof" plan in which the two rivals team up, and since he got the brains, and Chris got the looks, they just might have the ultimate "weapon" that no woman alive could ever resist.
Beside The Man with Two Brains (1983) and Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987), Roxanne is my favorite Steve Martin film. It manages to be both funny, romantic and also provides some surprisingly mature/serious parts along the way. And comes along with a solid cast, were specially Rich Rossovich shines as the hilarious ladies man, being all high and mighty among his male buddies, but when on his own, he is a rather pathetic character. And one of the funniest scenes is when he suddenly notices Roxanne in a bar, and then rushes away to hide in the toilet, were Roxanne and her friends look on and after a while begins to wonder what the hell happened to him. Next moment we can see that Chris has destroyed the bathroom window in order to escape the whole situation. Also, the Hunting for Words is a classic one, "Can I Fluff Your Pillows?"The little city/town feel is also great, I like movies having been placed in not just about every other big city, and in this film they sure made good use of the scenery. Soundtrack ain't that bad either, that saxophone always nails it for me, and Roxanne have been a favorite romantic comedy of mine since I was a little kid. Used to have a huge crush on Daryl Hannah both in this and Splash (1984). And as with "A Simple Twist of Fate" it is a deft re-working of a classical novel.
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