what was the reason for the bumbling salesgirl?
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turtletommy — 14 years ago(September 13, 2011 05:48 PM)
Thanks. I've seen many similar scenes like that in movies where the good-looking charming lead seems to have various women he encounters from coat-check girl to countess giving him the eye & sometimes acting all flustered by his presence. The Bond films come to mind for example.
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turtletommy — 14 years ago(October 23, 2011 02:11 PM)
You may be on to something because I imagine at that time most men weren't that concerned about graying hair or their hair in general, so a request for hair dye would probably throw someone slightly. This was before Grecian Formula and I think the only hair dye for men was black.
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jd-276 — 14 years ago(November 06, 2011 04:00 AM)
I seem to remember that the same scene in the book was centred more on the Jackal's charm and appeal to the young woman.
EDIT Nope, I'm wrong. In the book he obtains the hair dye from (to paraphrase Forsyth) a wig shop run by two homosexuals. -
turtletommy — 13 years ago(May 27, 2012 03:59 PM)
Personal agendas? Lol.
Anything in any movie could be interpreted differently by different people. Unless we all had copies of the script and it specifically said something like "Salesgirl bumbles around, taken aback by the Jackal's good looks." Or whatever. -
SueBee55 — 13 years ago(July 23, 2012 10:49 AM)
I've often wondered about that girl too. But nice to see Kensington High Street in the good old early 1970's! I remember the Ryman well, used to buy stationery for the company I worked for in Earls Court Road!
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movies789 — 12 years ago(September 17, 2013 06:58 PM)
- She provides a little eye-candy in a movie cast mostly with men, 2) She provides a vehicle for the Jackal's all-important charm to be shown, 3) The scene allows for the introduction of the hair dye and the after-shave bottles into the story.
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loveagoodstory — 12 years ago(December 07, 2013 09:43 AM)
It was probably the only light moment in the whole film. The next most giggliest bit you could show the kids was probably the melon exploding like the head of a dead man or six coppers going through a massive pile of cards at three in the morning. It's not a Steve Martin kind of a film
Now I've written that, I wonder what it'd have been like with Steve Martin in the lead Maybe his ten kids could have come to stay when he's at the flat the night before the job and there's an hour of him trying to sneak out with the rifle while the eldest teen tells him he's "like toadily so not cool, dad".
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darryl-tahirali — 11 years ago(May 06, 2014 03:17 PM)
Now I've written that, I wonder what it'd have been like with Steve Martin in the lead - loveagoodstory
With Steve Martin in the lead, he still would have gone into the country to test-fire his rifle. But instead of watermelons as targets, he would have set up a row of tin cans on a log to shoot at. However, before he could begin to shoot at them, an unknown shooter from behind him would have begun to pick off the cans, one by one.
Initially in shock, Martin would then stagger to his feet and cry . . . (wait for it) . . . "These cans! He hates these cans!"
"This isn't a hospitalit's an insane asylum!" - "Hot Lips" Houlihan -
loveagoodstory — 11 years ago(May 07, 2014 03:12 AM)
The entire French security services would be scouring the Liberation Day parade when Steve Martin would sorrowfully roll up in a wheelchair. He'd tell the officer on duty that he loved to dance. Then his girlfriend buggered off and the trauma left him stuck in the chair so now he still lives in an upstairs flat overlooking the Place de le Sniper. They'd take him in for questioning and leg-whipping by Lebel za Third, old Michael Caine. Cue a big escape and chase scene, with Steve and those naff-looking French police cars that can't keep up with Steve's wheelchair and he gets to Switzerland.