Hi Aki,
Tonight we watched Topper Takes a Trip and Days of Living Wild.
I thought Wild was very powerful, forceful, and had a flavor – you could tell the personality that made this film. Great portrait of the main guy. But, what was that scene at the end? Did that make sense to you? Tony Leung, who has not been in the film before, is getting ready to go out. he’s in an underground room we have never seen. He combs his hair, and he puts a big fistfull of bills in his pocket, and then a deck of cards, so we both think he must be a gambler, but still…what in the world????
Topper Takes a Trip. This movie was done for less money (and it shows) than the original Topper. I was mistaken about Topper, by the way, it’s not an MGM picture, but from Hal Roach studios. Hal Roach was an indie of those days. He made mostly Laurel and Hardy, and Little Rascals, comedy shorts. He also hit it big with 1,000,000 years B.C. Later in the 40s, a surprise caveman hit.
Anyway, they couldn’t get Cary Grant for this one, so they replace him with a wire terrier.
So that’s the big lesson of the movie, for all producers and moviemakers in the world:
Can’t get Tom Cruise? Hire a dog!
I just thought it was funny, that the producers thought they even needed the dog – why not just have one ghost? Why did they need two? I didn’t analyze the scenes carefully, but my guess is that they had a script hoping to get Cary Grant. But he wanted more money, or else he had other films to make. And in some sequences there was Cary-ghost in one location while Connie-ghost was in another location.
So, they thought about maybe giving her another ghost companion, and ended up instead of hiring another star…getting the dog!
(written around 17 February 2009)
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