Heartbreakers

In a way I have little to say about this. I love it. Let's keep it to that.

It's exactly the kind of film I want to make. High concept. Romantic. Highly silly. And with a good broad base of comedy.

I'm not by nature as entranced by the world of the super rich and find it a little unattractive how utterly comfortable this film is with it but there's no denying that the odd bit of glorious decadence has its charms.

My main criticism is that having created a debt problem which forces him into the situation of having to break up a happy couple, they weedle their way out of that a bit. I don't think they had to. I think it's sloppy. I think there was comfortably a way for him to pay back the money without it just being written off and they should have fought harder to find out what it was.

But it's a small grumble. I was sufficiently enwrapped in it that I did genuinely wonder at one point if he was going to do the noble thing and let a happy couple get married. This is ridiculous. No audience will watch a film in which a strong chemistry is built up between two characters and then say, it's alright, he'll marry the slightly wet british due. But they balanced it well enough that it didn't seem completely implausible, especially to me who is always looking for the Casblanca ending. Stoicism and self-sacrifice always being more satisfying than finding true happiness in my head. Explains a lot.

I hear Working Title have the rights to the remake and I've been pondering what I would do if they asked me to adapt it. It would clearly be transatlantic. There's a touch of exoticism about it which means that I think certainly a Brit can't be magically seduced by a brit very successfully and I wonder if an American could by an American so easily. And I'd want to expand his team a little bit, it would be nice to have at least one more involved. But the key place for me is settings. I'd want to make it in London or New York and to have that sense of there being a super rich life which is very interesting but another part of London which is just as interesting. It sounds dangerously like I'm getting into Titanic style 'look poor people have so much more fun with their singing and dancing and lack of dinner parties' but I'm guess I'm looking for the sense of her untapping a more alternative side.

Anyway end of babble. But I definitely feel that it's a shame that I haven't made it as a script writer yet otherwise I would be calling up Working Title to talk about my pitch for it.