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| Nelson_Mandela 06/11/19 10:50:49 PM #338: | #103. All About Eve https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/22/AllAboutEve.jpeg Dir: Joseph L. Mankiewicz Genre: Drama Year: 1950 For whatever reason, I avoided seeing All About Eve for many years because I had it confused with Breakfast at Tiffany's and I have very little desire to watch rom-coms from the 1950s. If you're as dumb as me, I'll get to the point quickly and let you know that All About Eve is nothing of the sort. It's a dark, creepy movie about obsession with fame in the heyday of glamor culture. The titular Eve basically connives her way into the life of an aging Broadway actress played by Bette Davis. We know from the opening scene that she usurps her position as the darling of the stage, and the rest of the film shows us how. It's a riveting tale in its own right, amplified to eleven by the sheer villainy of the Machiavellian Eve, which lends some really biting commentary on the Hollywood scene of the time. Super compelling the whole way through. --- "A more mature answer than I expected."~ Jakyl25 "Sephy's point is right."~ Inviso ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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