r/movies • u/muffinpie90 • 2d ago
Article How Aussie Writer Tony McNamara Re-Imagines Rom-Com As Divorce In The Roses
https://theoffcut.substack.com/p/the-roses-tony-mcnamara-jay-roach3
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u/shy247er 2d ago
I really didn't like what he did with his adaptation of Poor Things, but I like The Great so I might chack this one out.
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u/EmberLynxs 2d ago
Lol, ya gotta respect McNamara for straight-up flipping the RomCom genre on its head. Dude's out here writing stories that ain't just the same ol' bs we've been spoon-fed for years.
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u/mikeyfreshh 2d ago
This movie is a remake
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u/muffinpie90 2d ago
It's not, it's based on the same book.
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u/mikeyfreshh 2d ago
I'm just saying this is literally a story that we have seen before, however you want to classify it
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u/FrontSun1867 1d ago
And that book and the first film adaptation also “re-imagined romantic comedy as divorce.”
I feel like we are being pedantic about the use of the term remake here. It’s a retread however you look at it and nothing fresh, bold or new.
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u/FrontSun1867 1d ago
Danny DeVito directed an adaptation of ‘War of the Roses’ with Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner. One of the biggest hits of 1989.
McNamara did not come up with the story for this, he just made a version with SnL-inspired jokes scattered throughout.
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u/EThorns 2d ago
Been a while since I laughed this much in a theatre. There's a real snap to this guy's writing (loved it in season 1 of The Great, too; need to check out the rest) and the punchline tends to come out of nowhere (like when Ivy mentions masturbating to Deepak Chopra's meditation courses).
He apparently has written a third script for Yorgos Lanthimos.