I really did enjoy reading The Apartment. I feel that the way it was written was very easy to follow and also gave you good descriptions so you could visually follow what was going on in the film. The dialogue between the men and these women were very amusing to me because of how relative it still is with people today. Also the relationship between Dr. Dreyfuss and Bud is rather interesting because you would think that he wouldn't be as helpful as we was for Bud, but I feel the writer made him this type of character, to be used a sort of role model for Bud. I also did like the fact that throughout the whole script, you are waiting for him to finally admit to everyone that it isn't him that is doing all these awful things in his apartment. I feel that by him not giving out this information, it shows a lot about the maturity in his character, and the first stages to the development of his becoming a "human being".
The only thing in my opinion I did not like, was the character of Mr. Sheldrake wasn't as well developed, as I wanted him to be. Although it is obviously understandable that he is a very selfish man. The way in which he merely shrugs problems off is a little too easy in my opinion. I'm not sure if this was the angle the writer was going for, but I still feel that, with any person, going through a divorce, a mistress's suicide, and everything else, he would have some sort of restlessness. But other than that I really was into the script, could see all the relations happening piece by piece, and especially enjoyed how the antics were played about between all the men and their mistresses; minus Mr.Sheldrake and Fran.
Questions:
- Do you feel that this movie was a little too easy to figure out from the very beginning?
- Did you feel that the character of Bud was following the standard structure of a hero's journey?
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