Erotic Art in the Movie Blind Date? Bruce Willis
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Bullheaded Date Blu-ray Review
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Reviewed by Michael Reuben, Jan 10, 2014
Before he played John McClane, and earlier she won an Oscar, Bruce Willis and Kim Basinger studied at the Blake Edwards Schoolhouse of Slapstick that gave us Inspector Clouseau, x, The Great Race, Victor Victoria and the underseen masterpiece, S.O.B. Originally intended for the then-married Madonna and Sean Penn, the script by Dale Launer (My Cousin Vinny) was so thoroughly rewritten by Edwards and others that Launer eventually disowned the film, and Mr. and Mrs. Penn quickly dropped out. (Given the results of their sole cinematic collaboration, Shanghai Surprise, that's probably for the best.) Edwards promptly cast Willis in his first credited feature film, giving him second billing to Basinger, an unlikely choice for a screwball one-act heroine, in lite of her work to appointment every bit a Bond girl in Never Say Never Once again, a closet masochist in ix� Weeks and the prize possession of a Cajun gangster in No Mercy.
But Edwards had a souvenir for borer the hidden lunacy in his actors, and no one was ameliorate at choreographing farcical commotion. Bullheaded Date requires the viewer to accept several dubious premises, but in one case the setup is in place, the proceedings unwind with clockwork precision. Fifty-fifty though the tertiary act drags slightly, audiences laughed, and the box office defied disquisitional drubbing.
Bullheaded Appointment is a Sony catalog title beingness released on Blu-ray by Epitome Entertainment. The release is equally plain every bit they come, merely the presentation is quite good.
Walter Davis (Willis) is an aspiring account man at a financial management firm headed by Harry Gruen (George Coe). Walter works day and dark crunching numbers, because he actually thinks it'll help him advance. Meanwhile, his slimy colleague, Denny Gordon (Mark Blum), dresses the part, schmoozes the boss and always has a ready excuse for his spreadsheets being late. In his spare time, Denny parties, while Walter can't go a appointment.
Walter'southward anemic social life becomes a work outcome, when Gruen throws an official party for a major prospective client, Mr. Yakamoto (Sab Shimono), a traditional Japanese businessman with a geisha-like wife (Momo Yashima) and a stable of concubines. Stuck for a date, Walter reluctantly lets his brother, Ted (Phil Hartman), set him upwards with Nadia Gates (Basinger), a beautiful, intelligent and sensitive adult female with just ii minor issues. Walter discovers the get-go problem when he and Nadia cease at an fine art exhibit by a friend of Nadia's on the way to dinner. (The painting and sculptures wait like a cross between H.R. Giger and Hieronymous Bosch.) Her "psychotic ex-boyfriend", David (John Larroquette), appears, introduces himself and quickly turns vehement. This is David's standard routine. Nadia and Walter spend the whole evening outrunning him and, in classic Blake Edwards mode, David spends the whole night taking increasingly ludicrous pratfalls. (Larroquette, already well known from Telly's Night Court, is brilliant at portraying David'southward mercurial shifts of mood.)
Nadia'due south other problem is alcohol. Walter'south sister-in-law, Susie (Stephanie Faracy), has warned him not to let Nadia beverage, simply he naturally assumes this means not to drink to backlog. Who couldn't manage a drinking glass of champagne when they go to hear Walter's friend Stanley play the guitar (musician Stanley Hashemite kingdom of jordan, making his first and merely appearance in a picture show)? It turns out that Nadia is uniquely sensitive, such that even the sense of taste of alcohol causes her to transform. Past the time she and Walter reach the eating place where the firm is holding the party for Yakamoto, she's a wild woman, laughing and falling down, saying annihilation to everyone (including the Yakamotos), baiting the pretentious waiter (Armin Shimerman, the future Quark on Star Trek: DS9) and generally thundering through the place with the destructive force of a Sherman tank. Basinger had never done anything similar this before, and she'southward scarily convincing equally the bullheaded engagement from hell.
Past the end of the dark, Walter's life lies in ruins. One version of the film's poster featured a memorable quote, specially written for the affiche: "Practise you recognize me? I used to be a respectable citizen. I had a good job and a promising future. I made simply one error�I went on a blind date. Anybody got $x,000 for bail?"
Co-ordinate to the ironclad laws of screwball comedy, however, the hero's life needs to be ruined, so that he can find his true self. Subsequently Walter and Nadia part on angry terms, they both realize they've fallen in dearest, and the film's tertiary act is about getting them back together, or at least it should be. Edwards tin't resist sight gags, and he spends an inordinate amount of time on the frustrations of Walter'southward futile attempts to encounter Nadia at the stately mansion where she is currently staying afterwards returning to L.A. from visiting her mother (Joyce Van Patten) in Billy Rouge. The house is guarded by a barbarous dog named Rambo, who will attack annihilation that moves, including his supposed master, Jordan the Butler (Graham Stark, a regular in Edwards' films). Even when Walter gets past Rambo, Edwards has him dodging the mansion's occupants in a flurry of slamming doors and emergency hiding places worthy of a French farce.
Bullheaded Date benefits enormously from its supporting bandage. In addition to those already mentioned, William Daniels provides tart delivery as the judge assigned to Walter'southward instance; comic Barry Sobel plays a gas station attendant who behaves like he's preparing material for open mike nighttime; stuntman Dick Durock is memorable as a disco bouncer who intimidates without saying a word; and Momo Yashima'south Mrs. Yakamoto, though she purportedly doesn't speak English, ends up delivering my favorite line in the film.
Blind Date Blu-ray, Video Quality
Harry Stradling, Jr. (The Way We Were) shot several films for Edwards, including Blind Date. Sony has provided RLJ/Image Entertainment with its usual reliable transfer from make clean (or well restored) source textile for this 1080p, AVC-encoded Blu-ray. By the standards of the era, the image is sharp, and item is fantabulous. Blacks are solid, and the colors vary according to the environs: muted at Walter's abode and office, but growing more than vibrant and varied as his evening with Nadia progresses. Edwards would sometimes try a stylized await (e.yard., Victor Victoria), but Blind Date aims for visual realism, so that the wacky behavior of the characters seems to erupt even more forcefully from normal surroundings.
The motion picture's natural grain design is fine and appears undisturbed by inappropriate digital tampering. The boilerplate bitrate of 28.83 is more than enough to avoid compression issues.
Blind Appointment Blu-ray, Audio Quality
Blind Date'due south original Dolby Stereo mix has been reproduced in lossless DTS-HD MA 2.0. It's an effective mix with clear dialogue, exaggerated audio effects to punctuate various jokes (the loud sound of ripping cloth is a recurring affect), and a cleverly contrasting musical accompaniment that alternates Henry Mancini's score, Stanley Hashemite kingdom of jordan's guitar and songs by Billy Vera and the Beaters (who are seen playing during the disco sequence) to continue the mood of the film shifting back and forth faster than Walter Davis can possibly follow.
Blind Appointment Blu-ray, Overall Score and Recommendation
After Blind Date, Willis fabricated another picture show with Edwards called Dusk , in which he played thespian Tom Mix reverse James Garner's Wyatt Earp. Sunset was released in 1988, the same year that the first Die Hard made Willis a moving-picture show star. Information technology isn't hard to spot in his portrayal of Walter Davis the same wild streak that would give John McClane such credibility as an ordinary guy who did extraordinary things when pushed also far. Basinger may have had top billing, but it was clear who the star of Blind Engagement was. Information technology's a minor film and a blank-bones disc, but Bullheaded Date holds upwards. Recommended.
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Blind Date Blu-ray, News and Updates
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- December 12, 2013
Epitome Entertainment, an RLJ Entertainment make, has announced the Blu-ray release of Blind Engagement, starring Bruce Willis, Kim Basinger and John Larroquette. The slapstick romantic comedy arrives on Blu-ray on January xiv, 2014.
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