tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8823340817818385797.post8568808118745634282..comments2024-03-24T14:03:33.932-07:00Comments on Every 70s Movie: Agatha (1979)By Peter Hansonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11385971732301020652noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8823340817818385797.post-15712627757875483032018-07-15T19:51:57.818-07:002018-07-15T19:51:57.818-07:00All remarks worth considering, Ben... FWIW movies ...All remarks worth considering, Ben... FWIW movies that bend genre conventions are tops with me so long as the resulting hybrid is compelling, which wasn't the case here for me as a viewer... And the height difference, while novel and thus worth noting, is not, as I tried to articulate in my remarks, the reason for my resistance to this particular screen couple; it's more that I didn't feel any attraction or compatibility... Plus one more note on the height difference -- Tootsie, released just a few years later and featuring the very same diminutive leading man with a comparatively Amazonian female counterpart, is one of my favorite screen love stories. So for me it was about this particular combination not working... Nonetheless, points taken, and I appreciate being alerted whenever my reviews veer in an uptight direction.By Peter Hansonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11385971732301020652noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8823340817818385797.post-59655778134965467042018-07-15T08:26:23.002-07:002018-07-15T08:26:23.002-07:00You definitely are a lot more comfortable with fil...You definitely are a lot more comfortable with films which reside firmly within genre conventions. As if a film should find a genre and stay there where it belongs. [And can you imagine - a short man might just find a taller woman attractive. The idea.] F. Ben Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08736492083983845555noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8823340817818385797.post-64323254610264981322015-05-26T10:20:06.537-07:002015-05-26T10:20:06.537-07:00I saw the set up with the death a lot differently;...I saw the set up with the death a lot differently; it seems she was so angered by the affair and seemingly defeated, that she started out on a quest for revenge by the end of the film she decided that if she couldn't have HIM (Christie) then she would not want to live. She set it up so that the mistress would be accused of her murder and would be sent away or executed and wouldn't have a life with her beloved Christie. That's why she's in the chair instead of the mistress. In fact Hoffman's character reiterates to Agatha at the end of the ordeal that her idea was brilliant (in a macabre sort of way). Maybe I'm wrong but I saw it this way, as a mystery and it's clever summation.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8823340817818385797.post-54407309837069092542012-09-16T10:06:02.364-07:002012-09-16T10:06:02.364-07:00I didn't have a problem with Redgrave and Hoff...I didn't have a problem with Redgrave and Hoffman as a screen couple.The Rush Bloghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13667282586023023623noreply@blogger.com