Tootsie
Tootsie
Joined: 12/31/69
#1Tootsie
Posted: 7/20/14 at 3:01pm
This was on cable last night and I got sucked in. What a fun movie. So much to love- I bet there are some folks here who love it too.
-The scene where Michael propositions Julie in the straightforward manner she SAID she wanted and she throws the drink in his face.
-Every single scene between Michael and his agent (played perfectly by director Sydney Pollack) including "A Tomato can't MOVE!"
-Charles Durning God he's great in this.
Joined: 12/31/69
NYadgal
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/18/04
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#4Tootsie
Posted: 7/20/14 at 5:14pmOf course you got sucked in! It's one of those films like THE WIZARD OF OZ, ALL ABOUT EVE, and SOME LIKE IT HOT that typifies pure cinema happiness.
"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
~ Muhammad Ali
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#5Tootsie
Posted: 7/20/14 at 6:49pm
Love it!
Not too long ago, an interview with Hoffman about the film was floating around (I don't remember if it came here). in which he talked about what he learned from playing Dorothy.
It was quite beautiful.
If we're not having fun, then why are we doing it?
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gettinhep
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/9/04
#9Tootsie
Posted: 7/20/14 at 8:25pm
I love this film. Every time it comes on I watch it...I never tire of it!
Ron? I have a name it's Dorothy. It's not Tootsie or Toots or Sweetie or Honey or Doll.
Alan's always Alan, Tom's always Tom and John's always John. I have a name too. It's Dorothy, capital D-O-R-O-T-H-Y.
Luscious
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/20/05
sabrelady
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/16/03
#11Tootsie
Posted: 7/20/14 at 9:04pm
I recently discovered the Elaine May did some uncredited work on this esp on Bill Murray's scenes. Frankly those r some of my fav's so it made total sense.
"i'm re-writing the necktie scene without the necktie"
After discovering Dorothy/Micheal in a unwanted clinch (total deadpan) "you slut."
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#13Tootsie
Posted: 7/20/14 at 10:20pm
Yes, Jordan, that's it. Gave me a whole different respect for Hoffman (whom I've always thought was pretty wonderful.)
And Dabney Coleman - ah, sigh...
There are so many gems in that movie.
"But I was a better man with you, as a woman... than I ever was with a woman, as a man. You know what I mean? I just gotta learn to do it without the dress."
If we're not having fun, then why are we doing it?
These are DISCUSSION boards, not mutual admiration boards. Discussion only occurs when we are willing to hear what others are thinking, regardless of whether it is alignment to our own thoughts.
Roscoe
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#15Tootsie
Posted: 7/21/14 at 9:02amTOOTSIE is one of the real champs -- Hoffman's best film, Pollack's best film, very definitely one of the great American movie comedies. It doesn't get better than this.
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