Is this the movie where they put the characters in the bedroom and say they're "playing parcheesi"; you think it's a metaphor for sex, but they're actually playing parcheesi?
shareYou're right, this is the movie....and yes it is a declared metaphor for sex (they actually say so in the movie), and then they show them playing parcheesi...I love this movie is hylarious....
shareYou're right, this is the movie....and yes it is a declared metaphor for sex (they actually say so in the movie), and then they show them playing parcheesi...I love this movie is hylarious....
shareWell, it's not a metaphor for sex.
Holden put up a scene up to the point the two are on a bed - then the scene "dissolved".
Hepburn asked if it's a bit too risquè: the censorship may object.
Holden explained that if she went too see less artsy european movie and more good american-made family-movie, she would see that a "dissolve" is quite useful.
Audience may suppose they may have sex, but it is not a screenwriter fault: the true idea of the screenwriter is that the two played parcheesi.
And censors couldn't say anything.
One of the many in-jokes of the film: a spoof of Hays rules and how to circumvent it.
By the way, also the end, when Tony Curtis shoot Holden, is explained by Holden in the same way: "the rules" (Hays' rule) dictated that the bad guy will pay for his crimes, dying or in prison.
After we enjoyed this movie, and for many years afterwards, my wife and I referred to our various connubial exercises as 'playing parcheesi', which confused family and friends most delightfully.
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Tenser, said the Tensor.
Tension, apprehension, and dissension have begun.
There's actually a book by Meg Cabot that I read a few years ago and the characters refer to playing parcheesi throughout the book. The girl thinks her boyfriend is referring to sex, and then they actually end up playing parcheesi. As soon as I watched this movie it reminded me so much of the book.
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