Honestly, can't we all agree…
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!!!deleted!!! (49761343) — 10 years ago(March 13, 2016 07:12 PM)
I do agree to a certain extent that Blake Edwards was a bit of a hack. For the most part, all he did for most of his career was recycle the same material over and over again for lack of ideas. It really shows when you sit down and do a marathon of his stuff. For example, The Party is the long party sequence in Breakfast at Tiffany's stretched out to movie length, and Victor/Victoria is basically Darling Lili. A long, extended gag sequence in Victor/Victoria was done verbatim from an earlier movie of his, and there are other moments in his movies where he just repeats stuff he had done before.
Edwards also lazily lifted concepts from other movies. I forgot which one of the Pink Panthers it was, but it was basically a combination of Topkapi and To Catch a Thief.
I also agree that he's famous more because of the people he collaborated with and not because he was an exceptional director. Why are his "classic films" considered classics? It's not because5b4 of his direction. It's because everyone fell in love with Henry Mancini's music or Audrey Hepburn in her Givenchy dress or Peter Sellers' zaniness.
This isn't to say that Blake Edwards was a bad director. He was competent, but not really exceptional in the way of, say, a Mel Brooks or some other famous comedy director.
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rascal67 — 9 years ago(July 30, 2016 05:37 PM)
It's like Mia Farrow, without Woody Allen, she would have had a relinquished film career as well. Another shining example of women needing men in their lives.
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