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I'm so happy to see this reaction to one of my favorite films! The Apartment was turned into a musical called Promises, Promises. It opened on Broadway in 1968. The music was by Burt Bacharach, the lyrics by Hal David, and the book by Neil Simon. Jerry Orbach had the lead role of Bud. Dionne Warwick had a hit record with the title song. Fred MacMurray did such a good job of playing the despicable Mr. Sheldrake that women would stop him on the street to berate him. His other two most famous movie roles were also for rotten characters: Walter Neff in Double Indemnity and Lieutenant Keefer in The Caine Mutiny. He later starred in the bland, white bread TV sitcom My Three Sons, which was how I knew him when I was a kid. It was a surprise to me to see him play someone so awful when I started watching older movies. Did you notice that Bud and Fran never called each other by their first names? It was always "Mister Baxter" and "Miss Kubelik." Even at the end, when he declared his love for her, he called her "Miss Kubelik." Bud took the blame not to protect his job, or himself, or Mr. Sheldrake. He was protecting Fran. He didn't want the brother-in-law or the doctor to know she'd been having an affair with a married man. IMO, "Shut up and deal" means "I know, you don't have to tell me."
I hope you enjoyed the reaction! 😉 I've reacted to Double Indemnity too, but not The Caine Mutiny. Not yet, anyway. Ohh, that's what "shut up and deal" meant? I didn't know that 😯 Thanks for sharing! 😊
"The mirror... it's broken." "Yes, I know. I like it that way. Makes me look the way I feel." Fun Fact: Remade in India, in Hindi language, as Raaste Ka Patthar (1972). Awards And Accolades Fact: For this film, Billy Wilder became the first person to win the Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Screenplay. Casting Notes Fact: The inebriated Santa (Hal Smith) in the bar scene is the same actor who played the inebriated Otis Campbell on The Andy Griffith Show (1960). Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Joan Shawlee, Hope Holiday, Billy Wilder, and I.A.L. Diamond all worked together again in Irma la Douce (1963). What Script Fact: According to Shirley MacLaine on her official web site, much of the movie was written as filming progressed. The gin rummy game was added because at the time she was learning how to play the game from her friends in the Rat Pack. Likewise, when she started philosophizing about love during a lunch break one day, this was also added to the script. The film's classic last line was thought up by the writers at the last minute on-set. Medical Fact: During the scene where Fran overdoses on sleeping pills, doctors were actually present on the set to advise accuracy on how to revive her. The harsh slaps that the doctor performs to keep Fran from becoming unconscious were all real. However, after the scene, the doctors told Billy Wilder that they should have slapped Shirley MacLaine harder. Wilder refused to shoot it again though, after looking at MacLaine's red cheeks from being slapped so many times. Movie Magic Fact: To create the effect of a vast sea of faces laboring grimly and impersonally at their desks in the huge insurance company office, designers Alexandre Trauner and Edward G. Boyle devised an interesting technique. Full-sized actors sat at the desks in the front and children dressed in suits were used at tiny desks toward the rear, followed by even smaller desks with cut-out figures operated by wires. It gave the effect of a much larger space than could have been achieved in the limited studio space.
Wow, there are some very interesting fun facts for this movie! I half hoped the movie would show how Fran's stomach was pumped in the bathroom. It could be a useful skill to learn for an emergency like this... That "Movie Magic Fact" is so creative! 🤩 Thanks for sharing! 😊
Fred MacMurray eventually became so associated with comedy that some people need to be reminded that in roles such as this one and in “Double Indemnity” and “The Caine Mutiny” he’s not always the nicest guy. A fan once reprimanded him (I think in response to this film) for not living up to his image. Shirley MacLaine here sets the standard for the upward-looking glare. Every Christmas eve I quote this film’s version of the traditional poem: “Nothin’.” There are echoes of this film in “The Hudsucker Proxy.”
Well, people should separate the actors from their roles. If an actor could play a loveable hero in one movie, and a hateful villain in the next, it shows that he has great range. Ohh yes, that upward-looking glare! 👀 She really pulled that off 👍🏻 Thanks for sharing your thoughts 😊
Billy Wilder considered Ernst Lubitsch as his mentor and tried to make his screenplays achieve the level of excellence as Lubitsch had in his films. He showed without telling. For instance, the scenes about the cracked mirror of Fran’s powder compact- we see Baxter realizing she was the girl with Sheldrake without a word of dialogue or explanation. And when Baxter is drinking in the bar on Christmas Eve, he lays out the olives from his martinis in a pattern on the bar, which tells us he has had a LOT of drinks, again without a word of dialogue. There are a lot of small moments like that through out the film. Wilder made 2 films with Marilyn Monroe so there is that small nod to her. A few other actors acted in other Wilder films. And one of the bosses uses the phrase The Lost Weekend when talking about Baxter and Fran together, which refers to Wilder’s film of that title. Baxter’s bed in his apartment was the actual “Bentwood “ furniture bed of Mr and Mrs Wilder and is a rarity that would be worth many thousands today. The walls of the apartment have several paintings that are (copies or posters of ) significant works of art, plus the lamps are genuine Tiffany lamps that indicate a depth to Baxter’s character. The line “shut up and deal” was a phrase commonly used at the time. The Seconal sleeping pills which Fran took were commonly prescribed at the time, but by the 1980’s were used infrequently and today are not available in the US.
Oh yes, the cracked mirror scene and olive scene were great 👍🏻 I noticed the olives in that scene too, but I didn't include that in the TH-cam reaction. The mention of The Lost Weekend made me remember the movie too 😂 The furniture bed, paintings, and lamps were things I wasn't aware of 🤔 Thanks for sharing! 😊
Just my feeling about it of course, but I don't think this movie is about love at all, even though it makes me more emotional than most. The climax of the story is when Baxter says NO. That is Baxter's great triumph, not earning the love of a girl, but making the decision to repudiate the dirty deal, to stand up for himself and what's right. It's not important if Fran loves Baxter; instead, she made the right decision in leaving Sheldrake. Both Fran and Baxter allowed themselves to be manipulated to get what they thought they wanted, and both succeeded. Fran got Sheldrake and Baxter got his promotion. How easy it would have been for them to stay quiet and accept their good fortune. But the achievement gained through those means was degrading, like accepting that $100 bill. Love can come later. If Fran and Baxter stay together, Fran may come to love Baxter. We make the mistake of thinking love is all about sex and attraction when often it's just the feeling of wanting to be with a person and to share their lives.
Very well assessed. To your last point, I'll add to the list: people mistaking their lust as love. Perhaps a kind of love, but not what usually lasts long without being in love with the unique person, the individual. Any couple can end up failing, but people who get to know eachother, _while being in love/lust,_ bonding in ways more than physical, building mutual comfort and trust in one another through mutual vulnerability, stand the best chance of going the distance with love into old age.
Yes, that's also an important message from the movie. Baxter allowed his coworkers to step all over him. But in the end, he regained his dignity. He decided to stand up for himself and to stand up for what he believes is right, even at the cost of his job. Ah, I basically repeated what you said 😂. Anyways, I agree with your point. I also agree with @Polferiferusll regarding love. It doesn't last forever unless both parties nurture it together. I believe I talked about it during my review of "Clash By Night", if I'm not mistaken. So I won't repeat myself here. Thanks for sharing your thoughts 😊
Glad to see you’ve found one of my top 3 favourite films. I recommended it to you a while back. Just one point (at 25:55)… he’s not “protecting his job”. You’ve missed the whole point. He was being chivalrous in protecting (or trying to protect) Kubelik’s reputation and chastity. In fact, throughout the movie… he does the same; for example, his neighbours think he’s upset Kubelik and caused her to take the sleeping pills, and he says nothing. He’s protecting her.
@@Jeff_Lichtman Agreed. I think it’s because these days, in modern times, there is no concern for a sense of reputation and chastity, so nothing matters 🤷🏻♂️
Is that so? I thought everyone already assumed that Baxter slept with Kubelik. After all, he has that kind of "reputation" with his neighbours. Baxter's colleagues also assumed he slept with Kubelik. Baxter takes the blame as the "playboy who sleeps with women (including Kubelik) and treats Kubelik badly". He also called Mr Sheldrake and told him not to worry because he made sure to keep Sheldrake's name out of it. Naturally, I assumed he was protecting his job.
Thank you very much. The trouble is you depend on luck ; imagine, Fran says that she always falls for the wrong man, in the wrong place at the wrong moment ! It happens more often than one can imagine. Now it depends how much people are involved, if they really are passionate the healing is more and more difficult : after how many disappointments will one take the sleeping pills ? Unless they are believers and are not allowed to suicide… then they’ll stay broken for the rest of their life. A great movie, but a bitter one too. Greetings from France 🇫🇷
One obstensibly can just be "unlucky in love", but risk aversity, and thus cynical cagyness rather than innocent openness, _tends_ to compound with repeated heartbreak.
It's true that Fran had past relationships before she got with Sheldrake. Though in the case of Sheldrake, he only treated her as a dame. He never truly loved her, and would cast her aside eventually. I believe Sheldrake is mostly to blame here. Sometimes, things may seem bleak. Disappointment after disappointment may break the camel's back. Even so, there's light at the end of the tunnel. The clouds will part and the sun will shine after the storm. Baxter is Fran's light and sun. I'm glad she chose him in the end instead of staying with Sheldrake. Thanks for sharing your thoughts on this 😊
Glad to see this film on your channel - I hope you get a chance to react to "The Fortune Cookie" 1966 directed by Billy Wilder with Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau.
Funny you should mention that. I just reacted to it last week. It's a Patreon special reaction. You're welcome to sign up for my Patreon if you'd like to see my full reaction to it. It's a fun musical indeed 😊
This movie is listed as a romantic comedy, but I’ve always thought it was a downer. It’s so obvious Fran doesn’t feel the same way about Baxter as he feels about her. Yes, she realizes Sheldrake is a rake who would have never left his wife and then goes to Baxter at the end as a sort of consolation prize because she knows he’s a nice guy (even though he’s a simp) and is kind of taking advantage of him. Something melancholy and tragic about it all. I mean it’s realistic, but not the happy ending it might appear to be.
I like to think that Fran only saw Baxter as a friend at first. After Baxter took the blame for the pills, she grew a bit more fond of him. At the end, when she found out Baxter stood up against Mr. Sheldrake, her opinion of Baxter changed and she realized he was THE ONE. I like to think of it as a happy ending. Of course, your perspective on the movie is also another way to interpret it. Thank you for sharing your thoughts on this! 😊
@@bernardsalvatore1929 The movie is on my movies list, but I can't be sure when I will watch it. I'll get to it eventually, but no promises as to "when" 😊.
I'm enjoying your reactions to old movies, not a lot of reactors do them, which is a shame.
The Bermuda Triangle couch! Hahahahaha! 😅 That cracked me up! 😅
Shirley MacLaine turned 90 in April. She and Hope Holiday (the woman in the bar), who is 93, are the last living cast members of The Apartment.
One of my all time favorite movies with two of my all time favorite actors, Lemmon & MacLaine👌
Great choice of movies!!! This is true,great cinema!!! This and Witness for the prosecution are among my favourites!
I watch a lot of old movies and I am pleased to see that you react to a lot of old movies some of which I have seen and no one else is reacting to
You just got yourself a new subscriber
Welcome aboard! 🤗
I hope you enjoy watching all these old movies with me. There's more to come 😊
One of the most romantic movies in its own unique way, & yet they never embrace or call each other by their first names…. now that’s great writing ✅
I'm so happy to see this reaction to one of my favorite films!
The Apartment was turned into a musical called Promises, Promises. It opened on Broadway in 1968. The music was by Burt Bacharach, the lyrics by Hal David, and the book by Neil Simon. Jerry Orbach had the lead role of Bud. Dionne Warwick had a hit record with the title song.
Fred MacMurray did such a good job of playing the despicable Mr. Sheldrake that women would stop him on the street to berate him. His other two most famous movie roles were also for rotten characters: Walter Neff in Double Indemnity and Lieutenant Keefer in The Caine Mutiny. He later starred in the bland, white bread TV sitcom My Three Sons, which was how I knew him when I was a kid. It was a surprise to me to see him play someone so awful when I started watching older movies.
Did you notice that Bud and Fran never called each other by their first names? It was always "Mister Baxter" and "Miss Kubelik." Even at the end, when he declared his love for her, he called her "Miss Kubelik."
Bud took the blame not to protect his job, or himself, or Mr. Sheldrake. He was protecting Fran. He didn't want the brother-in-law or the doctor to know she'd been having an affair with a married man.
IMO, "Shut up and deal" means "I know, you don't have to tell me."
I hope you enjoyed the reaction! 😉
I've reacted to Double Indemnity too, but not The Caine Mutiny. Not yet, anyway.
Ohh, that's what "shut up and deal" meant? I didn't know that 😯
Thanks for sharing! 😊
Well Deserved Oscar winner for best film & script in 1960 👌
This is right up there with the greatest rom-com of all time, It Happened One Night.
Well what do you know, I don't have that one on my list. I'll be adding it then 😉
"The mirror... it's broken."
"Yes, I know. I like it that way. Makes me look the way I feel."
Fun Fact: Remade in India, in Hindi language, as Raaste Ka Patthar (1972).
Awards And Accolades Fact: For this film, Billy Wilder became the first person to win the Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Screenplay.
Casting Notes Fact: The inebriated Santa (Hal Smith) in the bar scene is the same actor who played the inebriated Otis Campbell on The Andy Griffith Show (1960). Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Joan Shawlee, Hope Holiday, Billy Wilder, and I.A.L. Diamond all worked together again in Irma la Douce (1963).
What Script Fact: According to Shirley MacLaine on her official web site, much of the movie was written as filming progressed. The gin rummy game was added because at the time she was learning how to play the game from her friends in the Rat Pack. Likewise, when she started philosophizing about love during a lunch break one day, this was also added to the script. The film's classic last line was thought up by the writers at the last minute on-set.
Medical Fact: During the scene where Fran overdoses on sleeping pills, doctors were actually present on the set to advise accuracy on how to revive her. The harsh slaps that the doctor performs to keep Fran from becoming unconscious were all real. However, after the scene, the doctors told Billy Wilder that they should have slapped Shirley MacLaine harder. Wilder refused to shoot it again though, after looking at MacLaine's red cheeks from being slapped so many times.
Movie Magic Fact: To create the effect of a vast sea of faces laboring grimly and impersonally at their desks in the huge insurance company office, designers Alexandre Trauner and Edward G. Boyle devised an interesting technique. Full-sized actors sat at the desks in the front and children dressed in suits were used at tiny desks toward the rear, followed by even smaller desks with cut-out figures operated by wires. It gave the effect of a much larger space than could have been achieved in the limited studio space.
Wow, there are some very interesting fun facts for this movie!
I half hoped the movie would show how Fran's stomach was pumped in the bathroom. It could be a useful skill to learn for an emergency like this...
That "Movie Magic Fact" is so creative! 🤩
Thanks for sharing! 😊
As always, you're welcome! 😁
Go in Peace and Walk with God. 😎 👍
Fred MacMurray eventually became so associated with comedy that some people need to be reminded that in roles such as this one and in “Double Indemnity” and “The Caine Mutiny” he’s not always the nicest guy. A fan once reprimanded him (I think in response to this film) for not living up to his image.
Shirley MacLaine here sets the standard for the upward-looking glare.
Every Christmas eve I quote this film’s version of the traditional poem: “Nothin’.”
There are echoes of this film in “The Hudsucker Proxy.”
Well, people should separate the actors from their roles. If an actor could play a loveable hero in one movie, and a hateful villain in the next, it shows that he has great range.
Ohh yes, that upward-looking glare! 👀 She really pulled that off 👍🏻
Thanks for sharing your thoughts 😊
First of all , his apartment was free of use and hotels, with the hotel detectives did not tolerate fooling around back in those days .
Billy Wilder considered Ernst Lubitsch as his mentor and tried to make his screenplays achieve the level of excellence as Lubitsch had in his films. He showed without telling. For instance, the scenes about the cracked mirror of Fran’s powder compact- we see Baxter realizing she was the girl with Sheldrake without a word of dialogue or explanation. And when Baxter is drinking in the bar on Christmas Eve, he lays out the olives from his martinis in a pattern on the bar, which tells us he has had a LOT of drinks, again without a word of dialogue. There are a lot of small moments like that through out the film. Wilder made 2 films with Marilyn Monroe so there is that small nod to her. A few other actors acted in other Wilder films. And one of the bosses uses the phrase The Lost Weekend when talking about Baxter and Fran together, which refers to Wilder’s film of that title.
Baxter’s bed in his apartment was the actual “Bentwood “ furniture bed of Mr and Mrs Wilder and is a rarity that would be worth many thousands today. The walls of the apartment have several paintings that are (copies or posters of ) significant works of art, plus the lamps are genuine Tiffany lamps that indicate a depth to Baxter’s character.
The line “shut up and deal” was a phrase commonly used at the time.
The Seconal sleeping pills which Fran took were commonly prescribed at the time, but by the 1980’s were used infrequently and today are not available in the US.
Oh yes, the cracked mirror scene and olive scene were great 👍🏻
I noticed the olives in that scene too, but I didn't include that in the TH-cam reaction.
The mention of The Lost Weekend made me remember the movie too 😂
The furniture bed, paintings, and lamps were things I wasn't aware of 🤔
Thanks for sharing! 😊
Oh, you definitely should watch _Grand Hotel._
Into my list it goes! 😂
Just my feeling about it of course, but I don't think this movie is about love at all, even though it makes me more emotional than most. The climax of the story is when Baxter says NO. That is Baxter's great triumph, not earning the love of a girl, but making the decision to repudiate the dirty deal, to stand up for himself and what's right. It's not important if Fran loves Baxter; instead, she made the right decision in leaving Sheldrake.
Both Fran and Baxter allowed themselves to be manipulated to get what they thought they wanted, and both succeeded. Fran got Sheldrake and Baxter got his promotion. How easy it would have been for them to stay quiet and accept their good fortune. But the achievement gained through those means was degrading, like accepting that $100 bill.
Love can come later. If Fran and Baxter stay together, Fran may come to love Baxter. We make the mistake of thinking love is all about sex and attraction when often it's just the feeling of wanting to be with a person and to share their lives.
Very well assessed. To your last point, I'll add to the list: people mistaking their lust as love. Perhaps a kind of love, but not what usually lasts long without being in love with the unique person, the individual. Any couple can end up failing, but people who get to know eachother, _while being in love/lust,_ bonding in ways more than physical, building mutual comfort and trust in one another through mutual vulnerability, stand the best chance of going the distance with love into old age.
Yes, that's also an important message from the movie. Baxter allowed his coworkers to step all over him. But in the end, he regained his dignity. He decided to stand up for himself and to stand up for what he believes is right, even at the cost of his job. Ah, I basically repeated what you said 😂. Anyways, I agree with your point.
I also agree with @Polferiferusll regarding love. It doesn't last forever unless both parties nurture it together. I believe I talked about it during my review of "Clash By Night", if I'm not mistaken. So I won't repeat myself here.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts 😊
Glad to see you’ve found one of my top 3 favourite films. I recommended it to you a while back. Just one point (at 25:55)… he’s not “protecting his job”. You’ve missed the whole point. He was being chivalrous in protecting (or trying to protect) Kubelik’s reputation and chastity. In fact, throughout the movie… he does the same; for example, his neighbours think he’s upset Kubelik and caused her to take the sleeping pills, and he says nothing. He’s protecting her.
Yes. Younger people these days often miss this type of thing, because they don't think about sex the same way they did back then.
@@Jeff_Lichtman
Agreed. I think it’s because these days, in modern times, there is no concern for a sense of reputation and chastity, so nothing matters 🤷🏻♂️
Is that so? I thought everyone already assumed that Baxter slept with Kubelik. After all, he has that kind of "reputation" with his neighbours. Baxter's colleagues also assumed he slept with Kubelik.
Baxter takes the blame as the "playboy who sleeps with women (including Kubelik) and treats Kubelik badly". He also called Mr Sheldrake and told him not to worry because he made sure to keep Sheldrake's name out of it. Naturally, I assumed he was protecting his job.
Thank you very much.
The trouble is you depend on luck ; imagine, Fran says that she always falls for the wrong man, in the wrong place at the wrong moment ! It happens more often than one can imagine. Now it depends how much people are involved, if they really are passionate the healing is more and more difficult : after how many disappointments will one take the sleeping pills ?
Unless they are believers and are not allowed to suicide… then they’ll stay broken for the rest of their life.
A great movie, but a bitter one too.
Greetings from France 🇫🇷
One obstensibly can just be "unlucky in love", but risk aversity, and thus cynical cagyness rather than innocent openness, _tends_ to compound with repeated heartbreak.
It's true that Fran had past relationships before she got with Sheldrake. Though in the case of Sheldrake, he only treated her as a dame. He never truly loved her, and would cast her aside eventually. I believe Sheldrake is mostly to blame here.
Sometimes, things may seem bleak. Disappointment after disappointment may break the camel's back. Even so, there's light at the end of the tunnel. The clouds will part and the sun will shine after the storm. Baxter is Fran's light and sun. I'm glad she chose him in the end instead of staying with Sheldrake.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts on this 😊
I am so glad you reacted to this movie. I don’t think any of your reactors have react.
Glad to see this film on your channel - I hope you get a chance to react to "The Fortune Cookie" 1966 directed by Billy Wilder with Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau.
I'll add it to my list! 😊
I recommend you see the movie How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. It is a musical. There are some great musicals.
Funny you should mention that. I just reacted to it last week. It's a Patreon special reaction. You're welcome to sign up for my Patreon if you'd like to see my full reaction to it. It's a fun musical indeed 😊
This movie is listed as a romantic comedy, but I’ve always thought it was a downer. It’s so obvious Fran doesn’t feel the same way about Baxter as he feels about her. Yes, she realizes Sheldrake is a rake who would have never left his wife and then goes to Baxter at the end as a sort of consolation prize because she knows he’s a nice guy (even though he’s a simp) and is kind of taking advantage of him. Something melancholy and tragic about it all. I mean it’s realistic, but not the happy ending it might appear to be.
I like to think that Fran only saw Baxter as a friend at first.
After Baxter took the blame for the pills, she grew a bit more fond of him.
At the end, when she found out Baxter stood up against Mr. Sheldrake, her opinion of Baxter changed and she realized he was THE ONE.
I like to think of it as a happy ending.
Of course, your perspective on the movie is also another way to interpret it. Thank you for sharing your thoughts on this! 😊
Now you need to take a look at:
THE QUIET MAN (1952)
Ah yes, THE QUIET MAN directed by John Ford. I'll be watching it during the "Kurosawa Ford Welles" run 😊
A very unusual movie.
Henry you must react to the "Fortune Cookie" starring Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau!!
I just added that movie a little while ago because someone else mentioned it too. Thanks for your suggestion! 😊
@@henryellow will you be releasing that on TH-cam soon!??
@@bernardsalvatore1929 The movie is on my movies list, but I can't be sure when I will watch it. I'll get to it eventually, but no promises as to "when" 😊.