Sabrina x two
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Only a director who has braved the egos and complex talents of Robert Redford, Barbra Streisand and Dustin Hoffman might have the daring to remake Billy Wilder’s 1954 Sabrina, starring Humphrey Bogart, Audrey Hepburn and William Holden. Such a director is Sidney Pollack, who remade Sabrina in 1995. While nothing could compare to the star power of the original version, Pollack’s Sabrina does come pretty close in the attempt. Pollack’s Sabrina stars Harrison Ford and then cinema newcomers Julia Ormond and Greg Kinnear. Other than doing away with the wealthy Larrabbee family patriarch, changing the settings and adding some personality to the fiancée of David Larrabbee of the original, Pollack’s version is nearly identical to the original. Sabrina is a fairy-tale romantic comedy in which the daughter of the chauffeur of a wealthy family changes from an ugly-duckling into a swan and ends up marrying the eldest Larrabbee son, Linus. Along the way we see how class stratification exists between the wealthy and their hired help, a distinction that has changed little in the four decades of history between the two films.The ostentatious wealth of the Larrabbee’s stands in sharp contrast to the lack of wealth of the servants in both films. We see that in the world of the wealthy the servants are always on the outside looking in on the “high-life” of their employers. We see this most particularly in the character of Sabrina before she
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ne that will be cemented with David’s marriage to the daughter of a wealthy business associate. In the modern version we still see that money is given more priority than human feeling, but after forty years the business deal at risk is now worth $1 billion. This demonstrates that very often the wealthy lose a piece of their human self when they base human decisions solely on economics.
We also see in both films that even though the servants often know what is going on in their environment more than their wealthy employers, they are still limited in their interactions with them. Like the classical concept of good servants for the wealthy, servants in the Larrabbee’s world are seldom seen and always silent. We see this at the home of the Tyson’s, a nouveau riche wealthy family. When they have the Larrabbee’s over for dinner we see a single servant standing the background of the huge dining room, standing by silently and as unobtrusively as possible. However, this scene also reveals something much more significant. It shows how stereotypes and class distinctions transcend the relationship of servant/employer and also exist between the wealthy. Angie Dickinson, looking like a bloated bar floozy, prattles on at the dinner ta
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Approximate Word count = 1673
Approximate Pages = 7 (250 words per page)
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