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Inherit the Wind (1960)
An esy way to feel virtuous.
I don't feel about this film the way one is clearly expected to. Brieflt, in the courtroom scene where a great victory for ,"peace , jusice and the American way," is supposed to occur. I see an easy lambasting of an even esiers target. Spencer Tracy, overfilled with his insufferable selfrighteousness bullies an easy target. Frdrick March depicts Bryant as a totally ludicrous, utterly pathetic buffon...ripe for public humiliation. I would up, by the end of Tracy's chest-pouding interrogation feeling terribly sorry for the knocked down,stepped on, laughed at Bryant. ..not the intended reaction, I'm sure.
Analyze This (1999)
Ego manic runs amock
Billy crystal can't resist the demands of his "jerry Lewis"-sized godzilla ego, and therfore decides to step totally out of character in the final and pivotal scene. (Previously, he and DeNiro had been dead on.) Then suddenly the uncontrollably grandios B.C. emerges. He gives up on his character and acting altogether, and lanches into a schlocky Borscht-belt low comedy stand-up routine that would have made Henny Youngman blush. In so doing, Crystal completely blows the carefully developed realistic tone of the movie. What's worse, this lousy scene which appears in the final cut, was actually shot after the movie had been satisfactorily completed. It seems that PRODUCER/ STAR, B.C. didn't feel he had gotten enough opportunity to do "his thing!" For me and my friends the movie never recovers from the fatuous B.C.'s selfish, and what's worst, woefully inept excercise in shameless self-promotion. "Billy Crystal?... Hey, in't he that guy who used to be funny?" Still, ( believe it or not,) there's much to enjoy.