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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mallus" data-source="post: 1335288" data-attributes="member: 3887">Madre del dios... thanks Olive, I forgot all about Whit Stillman's movies [perhaps because he seems to have stopped making them!.Besides Last Days, he made Metropolitan and Barcelona. Both of which are enormously clever and entertaining films. The former is a bit like a John Hughes movie as written by F. Scott Fitzegerald --or like Fitzgeralds own Basil and Josephine stories set in the early 1980's. The latter concerns two slightly older, equally WASP-y cousins who wind up working in Barcelona in the late 1980's; dealing with life, love and privilage during a turbulent period of anti-Americanism. I'm not sure any real people speak like Whit Stillman's characters, but everyone I know wishes that they did.Olive, how do you see Last Days as similar to Woody Allen's films, other than the omnipresent sense of New York City --both as place and as central metaphor-- that hangs over both?And Woody Allen smutty? Annoying? OK, sure, in his later works, I can see that. But so many of his early works are so good... Take the Money and Run, Bananas, Sleeper, Annie Hall, Manhattan, Zelig, Crimes and Misdeamenors its a little unfair fair to sum it all up as 'smutty with annoying characters'.</blockquote>