What's Up, Doc? (1972)
Directed by Peter Bogdanovich
The accidental mix-up of four identical plaid overnight bags leads to a series of increasingly wild and wacky situations.
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Baker’s movie kicks into an edgy, black comic screwball gear that’s one of a kind; it’s Nothing But Trouble, My Man Godfrey or even What’s Up Doc, but set in today’s modern, sleazy world…
From It Happened One Night to What's Up, Doc?, the real frisson that underpinned the pleasure of such movies lay not in the love story's "will they, won't they" plotting, but in the skillful ways each script pushed to the limits the public constructions of the value of female virginity and the dangers of male sexuality and swathed the all-too-hokey "happily ever after" denouements in sparkling irony.
These performers ensure Elliot and Tracy are a modern incarnation of Bringing Up Baby or What’s Up, Doc?’s leads, albeit with more pink dildos.
The film wears its influences openly—there are echoes of Martin Scorsese’s After Hours and Peter Bogdanovich’s What’s Up, Doc?—but Aronofsky brings his own edge, refusing to let his characters show much softness.