Audrey Hepburn Explain It to Me Again How to Steal a Million
Although choosing an Audrey Hepburn moving-picture show is like choosing a favourite kid, How To Steal A Million is right up there.
It's the perfect vehicle for Audrey. While she's wonderful in everything, this moving-picture show shows how brilliant her comedic timing was and also how sophisticated her prototype became in the late 1960s. With Breakfast at Tiffany's and How To Steal A Million, she moved across the ingenue roles of the by. And her entire await in the pic is perfection. The costumes Givenchy designed for her are utterly divine, from her first outfit with her almost equestrian style hat and full white outfit, consummate with stockings. To her pinkish nightie with a slit nigh to her hip (don't get too excited), and her seductive black ensemble to tempt Peter O'Toole's pretend art thief.
While I remember that Audrey has fabled chemistry with all of her costars, swoon-merchants such every bit Gregory Peck, William Holden, Gary Cooper and George Peppard; she and Peter are my absolute favourite. The chemistry radiates off the screen, and their kissing scenes in the cleaning closet are utterly steam worthy. The way in which they kiss shows that neither actor found it to be a hardship. I think I could lookout a whole flick of them softly pressing i another'due south lips together to sinking their hands into each other's hair. The way in which they play off of each other is as well perfection. There are so many incredible scenes in which this is showcased, but my three favourites are the ane in which they showtime meet, when Audrey tries to convince Peter to assistance her pull off "a bit time caper", and you guessed it, the closet encounter. Don't worry, I'll keep it PG 13… well equally much as I can.
Audrey'southward cometic timing in all three scenes is magical, but her first encounter with Peter's pretend thief is utter hilarity. First she rushes downstairs in her delightful nightie (which Peter later says is why he went through with the heist, gosh I don't blame him), and threatens the handsome intruder with a gun that looks similar it made an advent in the French Revolution. Whilst she's property the phone to phone call the police she gets the phone entangled in the phone cord. She plays the entire scene straight whilst Peter widens his eyes and tries not look both petrified and… well you know what else. Their different approaches mean that scene causes me to screech with laughter every time without fail. It's topped off with Audrey donning a chic pink jacket over her nightie and wellington boots, which Peter seems to like fifty-fifty more. Tin. Nosotros. Arraign. Him?
Their give-and-take of the "caper" is hilarious because Audrey'due south disguise couldn't be more conspicuous, but Peter still doesn't recognise her. This causes him to become fifty-fifty more entranced by her. Her lace trimmed mask with thick, faux lashes beneath and glitter eyeshadow is to die for. No wonder Peter breaks down and agrees, but not before doing an imitation of Edward G. Robinson and widening his eyes even more. Gosh does that human being make eye widening look expert.
Onto the closet scene, which has to exist watched to be truly enjoyed, only this is where Audrey and Peter's brilliant talent for physical comedy is shown, with Audrey resting her head on his foot, and near getting undressed in front of him. "They're meant to go over the clothes" he says of her scrub adult female'south disguise. And and then comes the divine kissing, which is both incredibly smexy and hilarious once once more, as Peter asks whose bride he's kissing after Audrey almost brains him with her outrageously big appointment band. This scene shows that information technology's the piddling things inHow To Steal A Millionthat really make the movie, from Peter wearing Audrey'south scrub adult female hat whilst helping her get dressed, and Audrey proverb she's going to faint, merely Peter warning confronting it because at that place's not plenty space.
The dialogue, like Peter's optics, sparkle. 1 of my favourite exchanges is betwixt Audrey and Hugh Griffith, who plays her art fraud father. Audrey relays the unabridged evening's events from Peter'southward supposed attempted theft of Griffith'due south imitation Van Gogh to driving him to The Ritz. Audrey puts far to much accent on Peter's appearance when he was supposed to be a terrible animal, saying
And when her father asks if Peter molested her in anyway she replies:
Everything just comes together to make an absolute treat of a romantic comedy. William Wyler'southward management is whip smart, as is Harry Kurnitz's dialogue, and the supporting bandage from the Griffith to Eli Wallach to a invitee advent past Charles Boyer is just the carmine on top. In a decade where films were condign darker, especially heist and offense movies such asPoint Blank, Get CarterandThe Thomas Crown Affair, How To Steal A 1000000,likeCharadebefore information technology turns that all on its head and instead of showing the hard, agonizing underbelly of crime and heists, gives you lot the funny bone. My but wish is that Audrey and Peter had made another flick together, peculiarly a drama, equally I retrieve they would accept been as as well matched in that genre.
Exercise yourself a favour, give this one a go. You'll be charmed, and non simply by the Cellini Venus.
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