The protagonist, Howard Bannister (Ryan O’Neal), a musicologist, is in competition with another scholar for a grant. That competitor, Hugh Simon, is loud and arrogant, flings about ad hominem judgments and recherch. Watching the film, I figured that Bogdanovich (whose father was Serbian) was having a little fun with the acerbic critic John Simon, born in Subotica. Peter Bogdanovich's 'What's Up, Doc?' is billed as a wacky screwball comedy with absolutely no redeeming social importance, and I guess that's the most. What I liked most about What's Up Doc? There were almost too many for the.
Hugh Simon is played by the comic actor Kenneth Mars, who is best known for his performance in Mel Brooks’s “The Producers” as Franz Liebkind, the Nazi- fanboy who wrote “Springtime for Hitler.” Turns out that I was right; here’s Bogdanovich. It’s in keeping with the tone and the import of the film. Bogdanovich made a screwball comedy in retro- style. Bogdanovich had made “The Last Picture Show” and was about to make “Paper Moon.” He was in full- retro mode, but he was no nostalgist. He borrowed genres and tones from the past because that past seemed, to him, neither dead nor past. Classic- Hollywood mythology remained in full force even as the studios seemed to be dying (that’s the subject that gets the on- air conversation started). These legends exerted an enduring force as personal experience, as masks of inner identities. Individuals were, and are, haunted by Hollywood, and Bogdanovich conjured its spirits. He continues to do so; his new film, “She’s Funny That Way”. Source: IMDbhttp: //www. What's up Doc Bar, Coimbra. O Bar que promete revolucionar as tuas noites em Coimbra!
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