It’s not my heart.”īy morning their lawyer (Oliver Platt) is negotiating to get them paid even if Gage can’t get it up or dies in the act. But that night Diana - like Eve with the apple - begins to reconsider: “It’s just my body. After he wins, Gage makes David the indecent proposal: “Suppose I offer you a million dollars for one night with your wife?” David and Diana are indignant. Things change when David loses everything and Gage asks Diana to blow on his dice for luck. He wants to be Richard Gere in Pretty Woman and buy the dress for her. Gage falls hard when he sees Diana stealing candy and eyeing an expensive dress in a hotel shop. But she gets the key line: “I’d love you even without the money.”Įnter more temptation in the form of billionaire and reputed “poonhound” John Gage, played with sexy charm and watchful wit by Robert Redford (the Trump of the Donald’s dreams). Moore and Harrelson enter gleefully into the sendup of yup greed.
The scene is pure Lyne: flesh, sweat, thrusting and all those bills rubbing erogenous zones. In their hotel room, he throws $25,000 on the water bed, and Diana rolls around on the winnings like a fuck bunny in one of those glossy commercials the British director cut his teeth on. He wants to go to Vegas and parlay their last $5000 into a big score. The recession may cost the Murphys the property on which David is building their dream house. Nothing gets that violent, but Lyne is cuing us to see Diana as irrational. Shades of Glenn Close’s she-devil in Fatal Attraction. When she sees the shoes, she comes at him with a kitchen knife, fire in her eyes. David is a good-natured slob who puts his shoes on the table. It’s art versus commerce: He designs houses, she sells them (a fine distinction). Take an early scene between Diana Murphy ( Demi Moore), a real-estate agent, and her husband, David ( Woody Harrelson), an architect. But a closer look reveals that what the dudes at the mall may peg as a chick movie is really the work of a feminist-baiting rooster. The film comes on like Honeymoon in Vegas with a bad case of the sniffles. This time Lyne is even pretending there’s a heart beneath the glitz.
Indecent Proposal should be another date-night hit in the trash tradition of Lyne’s Fatal Attraction, Flashdance and 9 1/2 Weeks.
Nicholas Georgiade graduated in 1957, the newspaper reported.What’s a girl to do if offered a million bucks for a one-night stand? Director Adrian Lyne gives the moral question a slick once-over that Geraldo would envy. After his military service, he received an athletic scholarship to Syracuse University, where he majored in sociology, psychology and drama. Army during the Korean War, winning the European heavyweight title for the Army in 1952, the Post-Standard reported. Nicholas Georgiade was born on March 25, 1933, in New York City. My brother George is a detective and he, like most cops, has the same emotions, fallibilities, frustrations and joys of all human beings.” I’ve watched policemen and have been interested in their reactions.
“Sometimes actors have to be doctors of human behavior and the more they like their work the better they are at it. “I’m playing myself,” Georgiade told the Chicago Tribune in 1960. Nicholas Georgiade appeared in 113 of 119 episodes that aired from 1959 to 1963, according to IMDb. 4A0Fa9ncwF- The Untouchables December 22, 2021