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A lot more fun if you see it as a parody

posted 11 years ago by ppllkk
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For me, A Night to Remember is clearly a parody, and as a parody it works brilliantly. I ran across two quite interesting comments in the reviews in Amazon that I believe supports this position.

Doug - Haydn Fan: There was a whole batch of these detective teamings following the monster hit, "The Thin Man". . . . But after a short time these couple detectives became almost a blight!

Paul F. Penna: I can't imagine audiences in 1942, seeing a half dozen police cars, sirens screaming, roaring up to the crime scene and when the top inspector climbs out not reacting as I did: "My God! They've called in Charlie Chan!" Sidney Toler, looking almost exactly as he did in the series he'd been starring in for four years.

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[–] LesterFester 8 years ago

by ppllkk » Tue Apr 9 2013 For me, A Night to Remember is clearly a parody,

After watching the first 5 minutes I too thought ... "Thin Man"

I disagree with your use of the word parody. Young Frakenstein was a parody of the 1930, 1940 Boris Karloff movies. This was not a parody but a ripoff of the Thin Man concept.

" Nothing's too good for the man who shot Liberty Valance "

[–] ppllkk 8 years ago

LesterFester wrote:

After watching the first 5 minutes I too thought ... "Thin Man"

After less than five minutes, I thought that it was a parody. Listen to the music. Watch the mysterious figures peering out of an upper story window.

This was not a parody but a ripoff of the Thin Man concept.

If it is intended to be serious, it is not very good. If it is taken as a parody, it is one of the funniest movies I've ever seen.And, if you read the quotes in my post above, rip offs of the Thin Man had become a ripe target for parody.