A Thousand Clowns
by Fred Coe
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Actor: Barbara Harris, Gene Saks, Jason Robards, Martin Balsam, William DanielsDirector: Fred Coe
Format: NTSC
Movie Reviews of A Thousand Clowns
Movie Review: Comedy Classic
Summary: 5 Stars
Just to clear up a few misconceptions I read here. First, this movie isn't "dated". "Dated"? What's that? TODAY is DATED! So that means nothing. So what if you're unfamiliar with the era, that just means you're too damn young. Next you'll tell me that Shakespeare is "dated". How about Citizen Kane? That's dated, too. I mean, what EXACTLY does describing something as being "dated" mean? Sure, it's a valid observation and no quality judgment is being implied, but to call something "dated" is basically to make a point out of your personal unfamiliarity and, I suppose, discomfort with the era in which a certain work was completed. Every day has a date, see? Check these reviews, each one of them is dated, so even the review that describes A Thousand Clowns as "dated". To be honest, that reviewer likes the film and I have no beef with them, I just want people to stop being so concerned with whether something is totally contemporary or not or making anything at all out of the fact that when movies, music, or anything else reaches a certain age as we get a certain distance away from it in time we can tell approximately what era its from because certain stylistic devices they utilize are no longer quite as current. Yeah, okay, valid point, but nobody seems to be noticing when a movie is "up-to-date". This factor is totally ignored. You don't say that Fast & Furious: Tokyo Drift is "too much of today", you just say it's a piece of crap and move on. So STOP IT, ALREADY! And my other point: YES, this is essentially a filmed stage play and it does have a certain staginess to it, BUT it was one of the very first American films to adopt some of the groundbreaking editing techniques of the French New Wave, so everytime Murray and Nick leave the apartment it becomes totally UNSTAGEY and very FILMY! Yeah, that sounds stupid to me, too, but it's true. The outdoor scenes are shot on the street, and for the most part are unstaged, almost verite in flavor. All of that was done consciously by the filmmakers to open the film up because they KNEW it was a play and would seem very stagey, and I think they did a good job.
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