The Fabulous Baker Boys is one of those underrated 1980s movies that makes me sad to think that this world is only 20 years away and yet, and yet. So close yet so far. How many supper clubs exist nowadays? How many people go to hotels to hear jazz music sung by breathy wannabes? It's not just those oversized coats and that frizzy hair and those triple bourbons straight up that have gone well and truly south. God this movie made me wanna listen to jazz all day, all night, every day and smoke those Paris Opals, 17-and-a-half-cent-apiece cigarettes (man, cigarettes were $3.50 a packet? times have changed) and swear like a sailor. And I did, for a little while, anyway.
Maybe I should just re-title this post Cinematic Hunk. Look at him! Yeah, yeah, yeah, the clothes are great. Whatever. Big jackets. Tuxedos and cummerbunds. Black, black, black aviators with no rims. Collars turned up. White cuffs. Red shirts. Brown shoes. Jackets thrown over the back of chairs. Who cares. Look at Jeff Bridges! He's got that Robert Redford golden thing going on, except just that little bit dirtier. He drinks like a fish, and he sucks on those cigarettes like it's the end of the world (always has, always will baby) and he's just looking for trouble. He's so bad. The kind of guy that you can't stay away from but, oh, you know he's all types of wrong. The kind of guy who tells you "there's always another girl", even after one of the sexiest scenes in the history of film. Just like in Crazy Heart - just like in any movie, ever - Jeff Bridges plays someone you can't love, but you want to, you really, really want to. Because hidden in those deep pockets, behind that popped collar, somewhere in that greased-up hair there's this. Maybe you just gotta be Michelle Pfeiffer, you know?
Watch this movie. It's almost too good.
Watch this movie. It's almost too good.
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