{"id":36508,"date":"2022-07-16T13:39:20","date_gmt":"2022-07-16T18:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=36508"},"modified":"2022-07-16T13:39:20","modified_gmt":"2022-07-16T18:39:20","slug":"belated-movie-reviews-765","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2022\/07\/16\/belated-movie-reviews-765\/","title":{"rendered":"Belated Movie Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>

I don’t like your performance, my dear. Homer, get Chewbacca to replace her, I’ve heard he’s tired of being stereotyped.<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

It’s pouring rain, the road is a mudpit, the car dates from the ’30s – the 1930s, not the 2030s – and the catty couple in the backseat, a Broadway producer named Wood, and his secretary, a Homer Erskine, are engaged in their usual foreplay, while the driver, Ames, has to avoid a tree blocking the road. Forced to slog their way to a nearby house, the real question raises its head from the muck:<\/p>\n

Is this just a house, or is it a one night only theater, purely for the seduction of Wood and his production company?<\/strong><\/p>\n

That’s The Ghost Walks’s<\/strong><\/em><\/a> (1934) beginning.<\/p>\n

And it leads to an important question: If a character dies, does it matter? What if the actor portraying the character is also dead? Is it fidelity to her art?<\/p>\n

And then her body disappears? Negative points, maybe?<\/p>\n

For all that the script needed refinement, that the tension between Wood and Erskine is just a trifle repetitive, this is actually a bit of unexpected fun. It wasn’t laugh-out-loud funny, but it did make me smile unexpectedly, even at the climactic plot twist.<\/p>\n

And now we’ll need everyone to go push the car out of the muck.<\/p>\n