{"id":5712,"date":"2021-08-10T19:13:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-10T23:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/?p=5712"},"modified":"2023-03-26T20:20:33","modified_gmt":"2023-03-27T00:20:33","slug":"like-a-pizza-in-the-rain-jonathan-demmes-something-wild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/like-a-pizza-in-the-rain-jonathan-demmes-something-wild\/","title":{"rendered":"Like a pizza in the rain: Jonathan Demme’s Something Wild"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2b50<\/span>\u2b50<\/span>\u2b50<\/span>\u2b50<\/span><\/p>\n\n\t\n<\/svg>\n<\/span>\n\n\n\t\n<\/svg>\n<\/span><\/span>\n\n\t\n<\/svg>\n<\/span>\n\n\n\t\n<\/svg>\n<\/span><\/span>\n\n\t\n<\/svg>\n<\/span>\n\n\n\t\n<\/svg>\n<\/span><\/span>\n\n\t\n<\/svg>\n<\/span>\n\n\n\t\n<\/svg>\n<\/span><\/span>\n\n\t\n<\/svg>\n<\/span>\n\n\n\t\n<\/svg>\n<\/span><\/span>Rating: 3.5 out of 5.<\/span><\/div>\n\n\n

You know you’ve graduated from Movie Buff into Old Movie Buff when you start saying “they don’t make movies like this any more”… but what if they really don’t make movies like this any more?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Catching up on Jonathan Demme’s filmography with Something Wild<\/em> and Married to the Mob<\/em> has really brought home the realization that midbudget romantic comedies\/dramas have disappeared, especially any suffused with this much personality and quirk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“Like a pizza in the rain, nobody wants to take you home”<\/p>\nDavid Byrne & Celia Cruz<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Something interesting is happening in the background of every shot, and every supporting & background actor is an eccentric. A simple shot of Jeff Daniels making a phone call has a fascinating person simply standing in the background, a quick scene of buying a used car features John Waters, a New York City diner and a Virginia gas station are staffed by eccentric personalities, and a quick shot of Daniels and Melanie Griffith leaving a motel includes some background action of a family unloading a car that looks wacky enough to be its own National Lampoon Vacation movie. When today’s streaming\/A24\/Blumhouse financing model strictly limits the cast and locations of movies, a movie like Something Wild<\/em> may not even be possible any more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And of course Demme dipped into his deep rolodex of music buddies for an amazing soundtrack lineup, including: David Byrne, John Cale, Laurie Anderson, The Feelies, Sister Carol, and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You know you’ve graduated from Movie Buff into Old Movie Buff when you start saying “they don’t make movies like this any more”… but what if they really don’t make movies like this any more? Catching up on Jonathan Demme’s filmography with Something Wild and Married to the Mob has really brought home the realization […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5713,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,2],"tags":[1469,1939,303,1940,1941,1938,1942],"class_list":["post-5712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-4-stars","category-movies","tag-1469","tag-celia-cruz","tag-david-byrne","tag-jeff-daniels","tag-john-waters","tag-jonathan-demme","tag-melanie-griffith"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/something-wild.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa9lhB-1u8","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1669,"url":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/david-byrne\/","url_meta":{"origin":5712,"position":0},"title":"David Byrne, Live at Radio City Music Hall, February 28, 2009","author":"Chad Ossman","date":"March 13, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"David Byrne and Brian Eno, both long favorites of this blog, collaborated extensively between 1978-1980. 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