Lady And The Tramp - The Last Days Of Disco
I've posted a transcription of this before, but it's so much better on screen:
For our interview with writer-director Whit Stillman, go here. To purchase the DVD of The Last Days Of Disco (highly, highly recommended), go here.
For our interview with writer-director Whit Stillman, go here. To purchase the DVD of The Last Days Of Disco (highly, highly recommended), go here.
Labels: DZ, Film, Humor, Relationships
posted by DZ at
12:28 PM
5 Comments:
Thanks for posting this. I had forgotten how incredible this film is.
Such a clever portion of a great film. Are you with Josh or Des in their view of Tramp?
The movie supports Josh's position. Des is the Tramp; he thinks he's been changed by Chloe S' love, and, as we come to find out (thanks to Jade Barrymore), he has been deceiving himself. Ultimately, in wake of that humiliating revelation, he wonders if "to thine own self be true" can possibly be a good thing.
I think that's right, John.
Yet after Des makes that brilliant observation, he does come back and testify, possibly because of the costly sacrifice of Josh (who lost his job protecting Des). And the film ends with the two most narcissicistic characters seeming to get together. So I asked because the film seems a bit open ended on whether the characters (particularly Des and Charlotte in their hardships) really develop or not. That is, do they only have self realization or 'repentance'.
You could say that once Des' anthropological estimations of himself plumit (once he loses himself), he finds a new life.
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