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© DR - WALK ON THE WILD SIDE de Edward Dmytryk (1962) p18
18/06/2017 19:36
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Posters for Walk on the Wild Side proclaimed: “A side of life you never expected to see on the screen!” which is not altogether false given you've got a 4-time Oscar-nominee playing one of the screen’s first lesbians (who lives, yet!) and the daring-for-its-time setting of a New Orleans brothel.
The rest, alas, is what Hollywood has always done: a) Offer up endless reworkings of the Madonna-whore dichotomy as soap opera and love story, b) attempt to shock and scandalize but only revealing a staunch conservatism and prudery
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© DR - WALK ON THE WILD SIDE de Edward Dmytryk (1962) p19
18/06/2017 19:39
Richard Rust : Oliver & Jane Fonda : Kitty Twist
(Photo de plateau?)
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WHAT I LOVE ABOUT THIS FILM
I'm not sure if the genre has been afforded a name beyond Southern Gothic, but I am a major fan of the overheated, sex and psychosis dramas of Tennessee Williams,William Inge, and Carson McCullers. When these southern-fried potboilers are crossed with a touch of the soap-opera overstatement associated with Harold Robbins,Jacqueline Susann, and Sidney Sheldon ...well, I'm in 7th Heaven. Walk on the Wild Side has all the luridness of Williams, the pretentiousness of Inge, plus all the unintentional humor of anything bearing the stamp of Susann.
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© DR - WALK ON THE WILD SIDE de Edward Dmytryk (1962) p20
18/06/2017 19:48
There's dialog that sounds as though it were written by a robot; overearnest performances that are nevertheless as limp as a clothesline; the ever-present topic of sex that is hinted at and alluded to but never spoken of in even remotely direct terms; and clashing accents left and right: Texas drawl, Southern twang, Georgia singsong, French, British, Spanish (sort of).
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© DR - WALK ON THE WILD SIDE de Edward Dmytryk (1962) p21
18/06/2017 19:51
Laurence Harvey : Dove Linkhorn &
Anne Baxter : Teresina Vidaverri
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Fans of the by-now-anticipated unwillingness and inability of '60s films to remain faithful to the era they're depicting will have a field day with Walk on the Wild Side's interpretation of the Depression era South. Outside of a few automobiles and some distant dress extras, the look is 1961, through and through.
A long time ago a friend of mine who once designed costumes for film told me that this is not an unintentional or careless phenomenon. It's an industry's appeal to the contemporary aesthetic tastes of their audience.
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© DR - WALK ON THE WILD SIDE de Edward Dmytryk (1962) p22
18/06/2017 19:54
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