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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me"><h1>Julio Biason .Me 4.3</h1></a> |
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<p class="lead">Old school dev living in a 2.0 dev world</p> |
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<h1 class="post-title">The Escort (2015)</h1> |
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2021-02-03 |
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/movies/">#movies</a> |
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<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Escort_(2015_film)">Wikipedia Summary</a>:</p> |
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<p>Journalist Mitch is a sex addict. When he is fired, he applies for a job with a |
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magazine. The editor promises to hire him if he writes a more interesting |
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article than his competitors. He decides to write about Natalie, a |
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Stanford-educated escort he met by chance.</p> |
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★★☆☆☆ |
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<p>Honestly, I'm not even sure this should be a 2-star movie. I mean, look at the |
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plot: It's some guy and a escort and they start going together. Do you have a |
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feeling this would end up like <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Woman">Pretty |
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Woman</a>? Heck, this is even mentioned |
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in the movie, by Natalie/Victoria, asking if Mitch thinks this would end up like |
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the (other) movie.</p> |
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<p>Well, it does, and the quip in the movie doesn't do anything to soften the |
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slouch of clichés in the movie: Surely the guy who doesn't get attached to |
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anyone will get attached to the girl; surely the girl will rethink her |
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profession and only then will consider going into a relationship; surely |
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something will change in the girls life to make her get out of her job; surely |
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the attraction between them would make the guy rethink his addiction; surely |
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after that his relationship to those around him will get a 180 degree turn to |
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the best.</p> |
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<p>But the thing is... I have a crush on Lyndsy Fonseca. Not just she's pretty, her |
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acting doesn't look like acting. OK, it's not Donald Sutherland level of acting |
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but heck, the way she speaks feels like some real person, in whatever situation |
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she's in, speaking. It's not from this movie, but even in Kick-Ass it was pretty |
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damn good. There is a scene when Mitch tells, among other things, that Natalie |
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is pretty and she quips back "Oh, you think I'm pretty?" in a juvenile/childish |
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way that feels incredible natural. And that's why it is not just a single star.</p> |
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<p>Michael Doneger, Fonseca's pair, on the other hand, it is pretty hard |
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case. Personally -- and I'm saying this as a movie-watcher, not a movie-critic, |
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something that I'm not -- I can't see his acting being that good, but also the |
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lines feed to him -- which, apparently, were also written by him -- seem forced |
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and not that much natural. Sure the chemistry with Fonseca work, but the |
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character itself is not that good.</p> |
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<p>In the end, I guess the movie could distance itself from "Pretty Woman" by |
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simply not going that road: Make Mitch still be a sex addict; make Natalie still |
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be an escort; let their friendship/relationship not get into what the characters |
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are. I mean, there is something in a scene where the two are discussing clinics |
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for STDs and their posters. Let it continue from there. They could even keep the |
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relationship while keeping their problems/jobs. Make |
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something... different. Challenge the status quo that a relationship can't work |
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if one side is a sex addict and the other a hooker.</p> |
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<p>It's not a boring movie, it's just... bland.</p> |
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