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Working Girl - underrated or am I just late to the party?

Okay film friends, I just watched Working Girl for the first time. I feel like I've been living under a rock! Melanie Griffith is amazing, obviously, but seriously, what a layered performance! And the cinematography... those opening shots panning over the NY skyline with Carly Simon blasting? Iconic doesn't even BEGIN to cover it. What I'm curious about is the direction. Who directed this? (I feel ashamed I don't know off the top of my head... gotta fix that). I felt like the camera really got Tess's perspective. There were so many little things, like the framing in the early scenes where she's constantly boxed in by office furniture, or how the lighting shifts when she starts taking charge. Maybe I'm reading too much into it, but it felt deliberate and totally amplified the whole 'fish out of water' thing. Also, anyone else get a slight Hitchcock vibe during the scenes where she's trying to keep her lie going? The tension was insane! I especially loved the power dynamics between Tess and Jack Trainer (Harrison Ford, hello!). They start off pretty adversarial, but the way the camera lingers on their glances... that slow burn was so effective. What did you think of the pacing in the workplace scenes versus when she was pretending to be Katherine? Did it feel slower or faster to you? Final thought: is it just a fun rom-com, or is there something deeper going on here about class and ambition in the late 80s? Help me analyze this one! I'm hooked!

cinephile_sarah
6 months ago
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