Man Who Loved Women (1983) | Burt Reynolds, Julie Andrews

Man Who Loved Women (1983) | Burt Reynolds, Julie Andrews | Mediocre Remake by Blake Edwards... With a Few Surprises

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	Man Who Loved Women (1983) Burt Reynolds, Julie Andrews Sony Pictures, 1999 average customer review:based on 6 reviews view larger image
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Arguably Truffaut's Best Movie

Blake Edward's spoof of this movie is funny, but the original is much funnier. It's funny cuz it's true.

Mediocre Remake by Blake Edwards... With a Few Surprises

Blake Edwards's 1983 remake of Francois Truffaut's classic, "The Man Who Loved Women" (1977) has the basic elements of countless adult films: it plays like an extended male/female sexual fantasy. Male viewers may place themselves in the role of David Fowler (Burt Reynolds), the stud who can be loved, adored, and physically satisfied by scores of women at once; female viewers will adore Burt's sensitive, artistic, sexually aggressive male lover. Thus, on a psychological level, Edwards's film is completely unrealistic hogwash; it treats its subject with half-seriousness, half-camp, and becomes extremely dull. Blake Edwards scores in a few areas ignored by Truffaut, however; first, he includes a riotously funny subplot where Fowler travels to Texas and has an affair with an oilman's wife (Kim Basinger) who is turned on by sexual activity in high-risk places. (When Basinger tries to seduce Reynolds in an empty hotel room, he warns her, "Oh, no! I know how you operate. There's some sort of danger here, isn't there? What is there, an Elk's Club meeting here tonight?") Second, Edwards exploits Reynolds's image as the sweet-talking ladykiller to perfection; it becomes extremely satisfying to hear Reynolds wheedle his way into womens' lives with carefully-chosen words and phrases.

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