The whole movie is almost dream-like in how it plays out. It comments on itself with characters talking about Touch of Evil's long uncut opening shot, as Altman performs a long uncut opening shot.
Then we get to the plot - a movie executive named Griffin who murders a troubled screenwriter who pitched him an unprofitable movie idea. The movie plays out as a mystery - will anyone figure this out? Again the movie becomes dream-like when we're in the police station and Whoopie's cop character finds out Griffin is dating the dead screenwriter's girlfriend and asks blunt, are you fucking her?
But that ending is so great, because in a movie filled with pitches and an open contempt for happy endings, it gives us a happy ending with our protagonist never getting caught, married to the dead screenwriters girlfriend, and it is told to us in... a movie pitch. Making it possibly the only movie that was pitched AFTER it was already made.
The movie is also crazy with how downbeat on Hollywood it is in general, yet it has twelve Oscar winners acting in it - the most of any movie.
Submitted October 02, 2019 at 04:43AM by KeroseneGrimReaper https://ift.tt/2oozHJz