perfection

Hear, hear!

Yep, i wonder why having a 8.0 score it isnt on top 250, i mean, much worse movies are a plenty there.

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Would have been even better if it weren´t so excessively cutesy.



"facts are stupid things" - Ronald Reagan

There's a review buried somewhere on this site in which a Hong Kong film student says his professor cited "Charade" as an example of motion picture making perfection. Almost correct: Universal forgot to display a copyright notice! Aside than that, "Charade" is perfect.

I LOVED Grant and Hepburn together. They're one of my favorite onscreen pairs of all time. The shower scene is too funny, too.



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Grant's looks improved with age. Audrey was simply goddess Devine...perfection in every way.I

OK, I love the film, but let me be the one voice to offer a slightly different view.

There were a few little elements that seemed a bit off and that I would have approached differently if I'd been making the film.

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For one thing, in the funeral/visitation scene, I would have had the crooks at least make a pretense of showing respect to the decedent's wife/family. They could have still done their other little gags (using the mirror or poking with a pin to confirm he was dead). It just seemed too strange for them to walk in and ignore the family of someone who was dead -- surely they must have realized that behaving so strangely would have been likely to attract the kind of attention they would have wanted to avoid. But this is just a minor point.

The main scene that leaves a bad taste is the one where Cary Grant's character tells the story about Whitefoot and Blackfoot Indians. The Blackfoot Indians, he says, are all liars. I realize this film was made in a different era than that in which we live today, and I realize that the character was supposed to just be relating an allegory. But that scene still makes me cringe. There are real people who are members of the Blackfoot Nation or who have Blackfoot ancestry. If you don't see what I mean, try substituting "Christians" and "Jews" for Whitefoot and Blackfoot in the allegory, with a line such as "the Jews always steal." It would have been so much better if they'd completely invented groups of people (or used animals or something, a la Aesop), rather than spoken derogatorily about real people.

I've seen this film so many times, including this evening....

The storyline, the clothes, the music, the acting...all wonderful!

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