Something a little different
The Apartment (1960)
I'm not really into classic cinema, but this popped up in my feed and I love Jack Lemmon so I settled into it this afternoon. I was pretty wow'd. Really holds up. I'm surprised this hasn't been remade, or maybe it has and I don't see online, it just seems like very little would need to be changed. For those unfamiliar Jack Lemmon plays a tax clerk at a massive insurance corporation who has gotten sorted conned by a bunch of middle managers into letting them use his apartment as a meeting place for mistresses in exchange for pushing him for a promotion to executive staff. He's kind of a pushover and desperate for the promotion so he puts up with them kicking him out of his apartment on a regular basis though it makes him kind of miserable. Things kind of escalate to the point that CEO talks him into exclusive rights the apartment in exchange for an immediate promotion to his executive assistant. This is life changing until he finds out the CEO's mistress is a co-worker he's been pining for.
It initially seems like it's going to be a comedy, but it actually gets pretty dark and destructive. Being 1960 it seems like it pushes some boundaries and becomes a sort of comedy, romance, drama about the human spirit and what it means to be a good person. 10/10
This scene really stabbed me in my soul though
The Apartment (1960)
I'm not really into classic cinema, but this popped up in my feed and I love Jack Lemmon so I settled into it this afternoon. I was pretty wow'd. Really holds up. I'm surprised this hasn't been remade, or maybe it has and I don't see online, it just seems like very little would need to be changed. For those unfamiliar Jack Lemmon plays a tax clerk at a massive insurance corporation who has gotten sorted conned by a bunch of middle managers into letting them use his apartment as a meeting place for mistresses in exchange for pushing him for a promotion to executive staff. He's kind of a pushover and desperate for the promotion so he puts up with them kicking him out of his apartment on a regular basis though it makes him kind of miserable. Things kind of escalate to the point that CEO talks him into exclusive rights the apartment in exchange for an immediate promotion to his executive assistant. This is life changing until he finds out the CEO's mistress is a co-worker he's been pining for.
It initially seems like it's going to be a comedy, but it actually gets pretty dark and destructive. Being 1960 it seems like it pushes some boundaries and becomes a sort of comedy, romance, drama about the human spirit and what it means to be a good person. 10/10
This scene really stabbed me in my soul though