tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7348815.post4952963719153994648..comments2024-03-28T01:04:21.897-06:00Comments on Gossamer Obsessions: Movie Review: "Gigi" (1958)AnimeJunehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18229748454410488167noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7348815.post-84167206116602092122022-03-20T16:15:51.994-06:002022-03-20T16:15:51.994-06:00An award winning review. Thank you!
I've alwa...An award winning review. Thank you!<br /><br />I've always hated this film (but I've never understood the details). I just remember feeling repulsed throughout, which disengaged me from the finer details. <br /><br />A lasting memory is Maurice Chevalier singing about how women over forty are of no use to the world. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7348815.post-19120390104111086312019-11-29T16:10:27.610-07:002019-11-29T16:10:27.610-07:00I love those corny American Musicals and I have ti...I love those corny American Musicals and I have time to think about what they mean and I really got that Gigi was in ho training. Your review just really made me laugh and I did get that creep factor with Uncle Poonhound. I love that white-boy privilege bally-hoo but I still love the music. I am 58 and I remember that my parents would not let me watch Gigi when it came on it was considered to be only for mature audiences. i bought the dvd. It will never be the same but i will watch this from time to time.ClaudiaMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05070959827897906318noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7348815.post-59148569259557782882014-06-13T18:45:55.497-06:002014-06-13T18:45:55.497-06:00Awesome review. I've loved this movie since I ...Awesome review. I've loved this movie since I was young. My mom always watched old movies and got me into them. It wasn't until I got older I understood what the movie meant.Shiloh Rodrigueznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7348815.post-5163025934617815302013-12-17T22:14:54.767-07:002013-12-17T22:14:54.767-07:00Glad you liked it!Glad you liked it!AnimeJunenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7348815.post-1476100518489011312013-12-16T20:23:23.916-07:002013-12-16T20:23:23.916-07:00Thank you, that was just great. Best review. And I...Thank you, that was just great. Best review. And I have to say, I'm French!Lisoonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7348815.post-85624530992541417942011-11-01T20:22:55.884-06:002011-11-01T20:22:55.884-06:00Anime June,
That has to be THE funniest and smar...Anime June, <br /><br />That has to be THE funniest and smartest (together) film review I've ever read, thank you--I rarely laugh out loud at things I read, but you earned about a dozen of them!<br /><br />Now, you are very clever---but can you guess, merely from reading the following post in my blog, why I read your review in the first place?<br /><br />http://sharpelvessociety.blogspot.com/2011/10/impressions-from-2011-jasna-agm.html<br /><br />I bet you can! <br /><br />Cheers, ARNIE PERLSTEINArnie Perlsteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01720424361279466002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7348815.post-85520492389396988732011-09-20T06:50:28.504-06:002011-09-20T06:50:28.504-06:00In Anita Loo's script, Gigi just had her 15th ...In Anita Loo's script, Gigi just had her 15th birthday, which prompted her guardian to prepare her. As far as I know, the birthday mention didn't make the cut in the film. <br /><br />Loos discussed - in one of her memoirs - how she dealt with the dilemma of Gigi's age for her screenplay. According to her, Colette's novella apparently makes clear that while Gigi's guardian claims Gigi's 15 for legal reasons (I think it was written during WWII), there is a code that reveals she's actually 12 or 13. <br /><br />In fact, this novella apparently inspired Polly Platt to pen a script that became Louis Malle's controversial film 'Pretty Baby' (1978, Brooke Shields), which was relocated to turn-of-the-century New Orleans featuring a 12-year-old in a brothel. <br /><br />On the other hand, Canuto Mendes de Almeida and Pierre Laroche - Brazilian and French scriptwriters of Gigi (1925, Brazil) and Gigi (1949, France) respectively - chose to make Gigi older at 16 as both weren't comfortable with Gigi's true age. Loos is, as far as I know, the only one who chose to accept 15 as Gigi's 'official' age. <br /><br />Apparently, US producers also decided to make it a musical to bypass the Hays code that, they felt, would reject Gigi if it was filmed merely as a costume drama. <br /> <br />Sorry, I didn't mean to go on that long.Mailihttp://twitter.com/mcvanenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7348815.post-48974112095141010832011-09-18T16:47:57.481-06:002011-09-18T16:47:57.481-06:00Love Gigi. Can't help it. The costumes and int...Love Gigi. Can't help it. The costumes and interior sets! the music! Mon dieu!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7348815.post-18190578684170147392011-09-16T22:50:10.531-06:002011-09-16T22:50:10.531-06:00Anonymous --> Thank you! "Thank Heaven&quo...Anonymous --> Thank you! "Thank Heaven" is dangerously catchy but I'd love to dump every copy of "It's a Bore" into the Seine.<br /><br />Raych --> LOL, thank you!<br /><br />Mepamelia --> I enjoyed a lot of the aspects of the movie, and the yeech factor for me was assuaged by the end when the movie finally deigns to confront it openly. Then you can laugh at what all the other characters have done to cover up this hugely scandalous fact.<br /><br />Tumperkin: LOLOLOL. That would be hilarious.<br /><br />Vorkosigrrl: I got the joke. I just didn't find it funny. I'm the kind of gal who likes a little humanity in her humour. It's why I never got into Seinfeld - sure, some of the jokes were funny, but the characters were so unpleasant, shallow and whiny that I had no reason to keep watching or become invested in the series. I get that Gaston is a joke on the characters of the time, but I still don't like watching stories about wealthy characters bitching about how life is so hard. <br /><br />Anonymous: I'm going to guess that Gigi was 17 or thereabouts. And the story takes plae in 1900. So make of that what you will.AnimeJunehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18229748454410488167noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7348815.post-65591480474829146482011-09-13T11:19:41.618-06:002011-09-13T11:19:41.618-06:00Truthfully, I'm okay at 15 or 16 in terms matu...Truthfully, I'm okay at 15 or 16 in terms maturity for a female lead before the 20th century. Yes, another 2 years would be great but by then you've got most of the learnin' you're going to get. Kids really did need to grow up faster back then and biologically they are far more adult than kid.<br /><br />It's the 12/13 year old set that gives me the creeps, regardless of time period. The Avatar series has kids that young as well as 1 seriously creepy movie I watched from the 1980's. I desperately wanted those kids older by just 2 or 3 years because the difference in experience and understanding is huge. A 13 Gigi might have not turned Gaston flat.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7348815.post-18454631342097024682011-09-12T15:07:40.044-06:002011-09-12T15:07:40.044-06:00Yes, but we *laugh* at Gaston! His failings are s...Yes, but we *laugh* at Gaston! His failings are supposed to be funny -- you don't sympathize with him! As a humorist yourself, I am surprised you didn't get this. I think this movie is very American in its POV. It's a put-down of the loose morals involved in the Social Scene of the upper class, with their posing, etc. When he takes Gigi to the nightclub at the end, and the scene is stopped at certain points, Gaston is seeing how shallow it is. <br /><br />I'm glad you ended up liking it but I'm surprised you weren't in on the joke from the beginning.Vorkosigrrlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7348815.post-49525523048820936472011-09-12T03:03:25.901-06:002011-09-12T03:03:25.901-06:00Great post, as always. My husband and I have a sta...Great post, as always. My husband and I have a standing joke which we employ ad nauseam whenever we go to France: if one of us comments on something being inconvenient/puzzling/alarming or whatever the other will explain that it is "naturel et passionate" in gravelly French voice. <br /><br />Well, it makes us laugh.Joanna Chambershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11008683032460114886noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7348815.post-16024804255605036542011-09-11T16:09:29.083-06:002011-09-11T16:09:29.083-06:00Sigh... This is one of my all-time favorite movie...Sigh... This is one of my all-time favorite movies. Can't help it. Maybe I saw it at the precisely right time in life to gloss the ick factor. Maybe I am just "le sigh" over Louis Jordan. I tend to love the spoiled rich bored rake heroes in romance novels too though...mepameliahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05967521027234468350noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7348815.post-9436482558282193202011-09-11T15:18:14.806-06:002011-09-11T15:18:14.806-06:00'money can buy you a sexy horse but it won'...'money can buy you a sexy horse but it won't make her drink' - release the LOLCATS!raychhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08321213376462899047noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7348815.post-25736592397006635192011-09-11T14:39:35.650-06:002011-09-11T14:39:35.650-06:00Great review! The yeech factor of the movie is not...Great review! The yeech factor of the movie is not helped by the fact that I loathe the songs. But the basic message is terrific. -- willafulAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com