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I never saw the original 1940-whatever film version. But I remember being very moved as a kid by the t.v. movie version from the '70's - "Death Takes a Holiday" w/ Monte Markham & Yvette Mimeux (sp?). I thought the plot wd've been similar to that/but it wasn't. And for me/ that was a plot hole the size of the Brooklyn Bridge: If Death is off-duty in human form/then no one on the planet shd expire until he slips off his mortal garb & gets back to business. That what was cool abt the t.v. movie -- after Death's 1st day or so on Earth/it was all over the news that suddenly/nobody was dying anywhere in the world. (Which was one of the things that tipped Y.M. to M.M.'s real identity.) Martin Brest is a good director/but there was no reason on earth for this flick to go on for nearly 3 hrs. Plus/it wd seem to me that the personality change btwn when Claire Forlani 1st met Brad in the diner & the way he behaved once Death had assumed his body wd've been a turn-off/ rather than have her throwing herself at him an hour into the movie. Death clearly didn't remember their previous conversation over coffee. Which you figure he must have been observing/since that guy managed to get himself hit by a car as soon as he left the place. (That old Jamaican woman knew Death was standing right in front of her as soon as she saw him -- human form or no. But of course/the only Black person w/a scene w/Brad Pit in the whole movie had to be a character w/special knowledge of the supernatural/since Jamaicans are all such superstitious people. Right?) But the love scene was lovley... It took soooo deliciously long for her to undress him. And she looked appropriately nervous-&-awestruck all at once. It was nice to see a woman undressing such a beautiful man/for a change. But for a film abt Death learning what it means to be human/it barely skimmed the surface. R.C. gives it a C+. [We now return you to your regularly-scheduled surfing...] |
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