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"Down and Out in Beverly Hills" ( Paul Mazursky )
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"Down and Out in Beverly Hills" ( Paul Mazursky )
Discusses the plot, acting, direction, technique and influence of Renoir's "Bondu Saved from Drowning".
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages) |
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1992
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"Paul Mazursky's Down and Out in Beverly Hills is essentially Jean Renoir's Boudu Saved From Drowning revisited. Mazursky produced, directed and co-wrote the film with Leon Capetanos for Touchstone Films in association with Silver Screen Partners II. Down and Out in Beverly Hills is perhaps Mazursky's most overt comedy, not only a comedy of manners, but some hilarious sight gags, many of which are supplied by a Scottish border collie.Mazursky, a master of creating interesting and somehow lovable characters, transplants Boudu, the bum from France to posh and glitzy Beverly Hills, changes his name to Jerry and drops him into Dave and Barbara Whiteman's swimming pool, instead of the Seine. The result is a story more contemporary and richly textured than Renoir's 1931 film, which was based on a French play of the same name by Rene Fauchois. By structuring the story ..."
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