To write the screenplay, Donen chose highly respectedcomedy writer Larry Gelbart ( Tootsie, M*A*S*H) and Charlie Peters, who just two years earlier adapted another sex farce into an American film with 1982's Kiss Me Goodbye.With this sort of pedigree behind it, one could be forgiven for expecting a much better finished product. That didn't stop legendary Hollywood director Stanley Donen ( Charade, Singin' in the Rain)-who also just passed away earlier this year-from snapping up the rights and setting out to make his own version of this story, one with a lot more yuks ultimately titled Blame it on Rio. It's the backbone of quite a bit of French literature and film, yet another stumbling block in attempting to translate this story for American audiences. I don't know what it is about French audiences, but they're much more likely to embrace an unlikable protagonist than the rest of the world. For example, Pierre and his daughter begin to quarrel when she discovers her father and her best friend are sleeping together, and one night when she comes home late, Pierre slaps her. To the film's credit, it never tries to make Pierre likable, and Marielle is all to happy to embrace this aspect of his character. During a beachfront wedding one night, Pierre and Françoise end up having sex and though Pierre is instantly remorseful, he is also weak to fend off Françoise's further advances as the vacation presses on. Pierre brings his daughter Martine (Christine Dejoux) while Jacques decides to make his daughter Françoise ( Agnès Soral) his plus-one as well. Well known character actorVictor Lanoux plays the happily divorced Jacques, who has a vacation planned with his newly divorced friend Pierre (Jean-Pierre Marielle). No matter how enlightened a person might like to pretend to be, when it comes to this sort of stuff, it's kind of impossible for an American to see the humor in this situation were they to cast themselves and their own friends and daughters and friend's daughters in these same roles.įrench directorClaude Berri was already well known for his French sex farces like Le Sex-shop (1972)and La première fois (1976) when he hatched this rather risqué take on a classicbedroom farce set-up, In a Wild Moment. France being a much more sexuallyprogressive country in 1977 than America probably still is to this day, it's easy to see how they might find more humor in the concept of a man sleeping with his best friend's 17-year old daughter, who happens to be his own 17-year old daughter's best friend.
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While certain brands of comedy, like slapstick, are universal, there are certain culturaldifferences that don't translate well in comedy.
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This week, we take a look at what gets lost in translation when an American studio remakes a French sex farce by comparing and contrasting 1984's Blame it on Rio with 1977's In a Wild Moment!
ONE WILD MOMENT SEX SCENSE SERIES
In our weekly series Anatomy of a Scene's Anatomy, we're going to be taking a look at (in)famous sexscenes and nude scenes throughout cinema history and examining their construction, their relationship to the film around it, and their legacy.