And then God said unto man… “Where’s my dinner?”
Okay, so it wasn’t God, it was William H. Macy, but close enough. As the prototypical 1950s suburban husband in “Pleasantville,” Macy discovers free-will, feminism, fear, isolation, and identity loss over the course of a hilarious 30-seconds when he arrives home to find “no wife, no lights, no dinner” for the first time in his life.
It’s the most famous scene in a film with an embarrassment of riches, using the fantastical concept of modern-day (circa 1998) kids sucked into the cornball ’50s TV show of the title to address hardball issues of personal freedom.
Gary Ross, who had previously co-written “Big” and “Dave,” made an amazingly assured directorial debut, and built on the same central concept of his previous two scripts, namely the naïve outsider who becomes disillusioned with, then ultimately changes for the better, his ideal world.
Okay, so it wasn’t God, it was William H. Macy, but close enough. As the prototypical 1950s suburban husband in “Pleasantville,” Macy discovers free-will, feminism, fear, isolation, and identity loss over the course of a hilarious 30-seconds when he arrives home to find “no wife, no lights, no dinner” for the first time in his life.
It’s the most famous scene in a film with an embarrassment of riches, using the fantastical concept of modern-day (circa 1998) kids sucked into the cornball ’50s TV show of the title to address hardball issues of personal freedom.
Gary Ross, who had previously co-written “Big” and “Dave,” made an amazingly assured directorial debut, and built on the same central concept of his previous two scripts, namely the naïve outsider who becomes disillusioned with, then ultimately changes for the better, his ideal world.
- 2/1/2011
- by Max Evry
- NextMovie
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