Post by Salzmank on Mar 24, 2017 20:02:21 GMT
And why did I put these thoughts in this thread, you ask (or maybe not)?
Because I was wondering the whole time I was watching it if Perkins and Sondheim were inspired by Remember Last Night? for several details in The Last of Sheila. [BRIEF POSSIBLE SPOILERS FOR SHEILA, though I'll try to be as circumspect as possible.]
I've never exactly seen anyone bring this supposed connection up, ever, but there are just so many similarities:
1. generally unlikeable, wealthy characters,
2. a cynical tone,
3. similar plot points filmed similarly
4. a horror sequence coming at the center of the movie (hypnotism in Remember, abandoned abbey in Sheila),
5.
6.
7. and even a similar puzzle plot! (To say much more about this last point, however, would really spoil both movies, but let me just note that
Yeah, yeah, but I was ready just to chock it all off to coincidence. Then I remembered reading that Sondheim and Perkins's original concept for Sheila, before the setting was changed to a yacht on the French Riviera, had it set on a large Long Island country estate.
And where was Remember Last Night? set? You guessed it--a large Long Island country estate.
Because I was wondering the whole time I was watching it if Perkins and Sondheim were inspired by Remember Last Night? for several details in The Last of Sheila. [BRIEF POSSIBLE SPOILERS FOR SHEILA, though I'll try to be as circumspect as possible.]
I've never exactly seen anyone bring this supposed connection up, ever, but there are just so many similarities:
1. generally unlikeable, wealthy characters,
2. a cynical tone,
3. similar plot points filmed similarly
(that in which Sally Eilers attempts suicide done closely to how Joan Hackett supposedly commits suicide in Sheila--and, now that I think of it, Eilers and Hackett are both the most sympathetic characters in their respective movies!),
4. a horror sequence coming at the center of the movie (hypnotism in Remember, abandoned abbey in Sheila),
5.
exactly three murders,
6.
a major plot point being drinking
(Hackett's in Sheila),7. and even a similar puzzle plot! (To say much more about this last point, however, would really spoil both movies, but let me just note that
what happens to Clinton's corpse in Sheila happens to Vic's corpse in Remember.)
Yeah, yeah, but I was ready just to chock it all off to coincidence. Then I remembered reading that Sondheim and Perkins's original concept for Sheila, before the setting was changed to a yacht on the French Riviera, had it set on a large Long Island country estate.
And where was Remember Last Night? set? You guessed it--a large Long Island country estate.