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This is a great movie...."Quick Change" with Bill Murray is one of his comedies that doesn't get a lot of attention, but I think it is one of his best...
The One Film to Unite New York City
New York City is looking for one film to unite all New Yorkers, via a contest co-sponsored by the metropolis and the New York Times. But the five candidates on the short list are insufficient in that each of them speaks either to a distinct subculture unfamiliar to the majority (Crooklyn, The Wedding Banquet, Desperately Seeking Susan) or is a period piece from a vanished and unrecognizable era (New York, New York and On the Town). Yet there is a film that speaks to all New Yorkers, now and probably forever: Quick Change.
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Murray’s movie (which is the only one he ever directed, in a joint effort with Howard Franklin) is timeless. It comes as close as any movie ever made to re-creating the actual lived experience of existence in New York City: vexation, exasperation, confusion, enforced waiting, mild chaos. Given a slight tweak, the film could be an episode of The Twilight Zone (a parallel with 1961’s “Five Characters in Search of an Exit” comes to mind) about the soul-crushing futility of trying to escape the city.
Quick Change is Gotham’s rejoinder to “Hotel California”: You can check out any time you like, but you can never find the exit ramp. “God, I hate this town,” Murray says. Spoken like a true New Yorker. It’s ironic that he works in the city planning department, because it’s the city where nothing goes as planned.
Read more at: The One Film to Unite New York City
Read more at: The One Film to Unite New York City
The One Film to Unite New York City
New York City is looking for one film to unite all New Yorkers, via a contest co-sponsored by the metropolis and the New York Times. But the five candidates on the short list are insufficient in that each of them speaks either to a distinct subculture unfamiliar to the majority (Crooklyn, The Wedding Banquet, Desperately Seeking Susan) or is a period piece from a vanished and unrecognizable era (New York, New York and On the Town). Yet there is a film that speaks to all New Yorkers, now and probably forever: Quick Change.
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Murray’s movie (which is the only one he ever directed, in a joint effort with Howard Franklin) is timeless. It comes as close as any movie ever made to re-creating the actual lived experience of existence in New York City: vexation, exasperation, confusion, enforced waiting, mild chaos. Given a slight tweak, the film could be an episode of The Twilight Zone (a parallel with 1961’s “Five Characters in Search of an Exit” comes to mind) about the soul-crushing futility of trying to escape the city.
Quick Change is Gotham’s rejoinder to “Hotel California”: You can check out any time you like, but you can never find the exit ramp. “God, I hate this town,” Murray says. Spoken like a true New Yorker. It’s ironic that he works in the city planning department, because it’s the city where nothing goes as planned.
Read more at: The One Film to Unite New York City
Read more at: The One Film to Unite New York City
