Diary Entry forSweet Smell of Success
A dark look at manipulation, greed, gaslighting and selfishness, Sweet Smell of Success is such a depressing movie. It’s beautifully shot and excellent acting show the true horrors of the tabloids and all the pain that comes with it. Ahead of it’s time in many ways.
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Sweet Smell of Success
20 RANDOM MOVIE CHALLENGE #11 it will come as no surprise to you that i like a good New York Movie. especially when it’s kind of sleazy and nasty. sleazy and nasty New York Movies are my favorite type of New York Movie! and despite this being a couple decades behind what I think of when I think of those kinds of New York Movies, this is definitely a very sharp movie. a lot of the characters in this are sucky people but damn they’re entertaining to watch and performed well. and some of the lines, the insults these guys sling at each other…very creative! very sharp dialogue! love when a movie’s screenplay has some of the best roasts you’ve heard committed to film.
Sweet Smell of Success
what a way to kick off the new year razor sharp dialogue, towering performances, complex characters, atmosphere; it's got everything i was hoping for and then some. if you're a fan of some good old fashioned writing, you're gonna dig this
Sweet Smell of Success
Film School Drop Outs Weekly Challenge (https://letterboxd.com/goghaliens/list/film-school-drop-outs-weekly-challenge-2019) Week 21: Writer - Ernest Lehman For the characters, the smell may have been sweet, but the taste was bitter. I get the Tony Curtis hype now. He and Lancaster deliver with such ease the snappy, witty lines that are so sharp and almost poetic that they bleed cool. Giving us such classics as: Those "dears" sound like daggers; I'd hate to take a bite out of you. You're a cookie full of arsenic; The cat's in the bag and the bag's in the river; Why does everything you say sound like a threat; You're dead, son. Get yourself buried. Endlessly quotable for days! The imagery is gorgeous and lively, and the camera movement fluid, that its easy to get lost in its world of deceit, power and tension, even more so when it is accompanied by that amazing score from Elmer Bernstein. But, on the rare occasion you happen to snap out of it and maintain distance, it has a timeless feel, if not super modern? Honestly, photography-wise doesn't really feel of its time. It simply comes alive in front of your eyes.
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