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March 13, 2004
DJOO and The Switcheroo
My friend Chris, his girlfriend Nicole and I are building a cabinet for my turntables and records. It's an ambitious project, but you should see these two go. Circular Saw City!
During our drive back and forth to the hardware store I mentioned that I saw the remake of Freaky Friday (
).
When I told Chris that I had seen this movie, I qualified that it wasn't the original and I knew what I was getting into.
Then it dawned on me. Out of all the movie plotlines that get reused and recycled, this one, the "Switcheroo", with the exception of a very few, always end up miserable. Furthermore, if you count the sheer number of Switcheroos that we've probably patronized either in the theater, on video, or on television, the vicious cycle all is our fault.
The plots are always the same: Usually two people at each others throats must last an unspecified amount time of transubstantiation brought on by an ironic comment on how their counterpart doesn't understand standard human condition. A comment which oh-so-cruely haunts them until some revelation forces them to recognize generic self actualization. Get it? Brilliant dramatic cinema, with a dash of comic relief.
But lets have a reminder of such gems: Freaky Friday (2003), Freaky Friday (1976), Like Father, Like Son, Vice Versa, Vice Versa (1948), Switch(kinda), The Hot Chick, Dream A Little Dream, Prelude To A Kiss, and if we stretch a bit, Heaven Can Wait, Down To Earth, All Of Me, Chances Are and The Santa Clauses.
Please feel free to add more in the comments or share some of your own switcheroo stories.
Posted by davidissimo :: Permalink :: Comments [2] ::
Having personally watched said remake with David, I can say that his analysis is, in fact, the result of his complete personal patronage of the "Switcheroo" theme. Because of this jeggoff, there will probably be a third "Freaky Friday" made sometime in the 2020's, starring an "old, washed-up, and needing a career-revival" Britany Murphy and whoever the "teenie-jail-bait-babe" du jour happens to be. Maybe Ashton Kutcher can play the middle-aged fiance, and the already completely friggin' senile Mel Gibson the grandfather character.
On a deeper note, I propose that many other movie themes are merely "Switcheroos" on a different plane. The "fish out of water" theme usually requires the protagonists to see the world through others' eyes in order to succeed. The same can be said for the "loved-one is dying/leaving/marrying and prodigal other-loved-one must make amends before said event" theme.
And, Linday Lohan kicks Hillary Duff's ars.
Posted by: joshuabess at March 14, 2004 01:26 AM
All of Me is 50% switcheroo with Lilly Tomlin sharing Steve Martin's body. Big is another version of the switcheroo theme.
Posted by: Stephen McKenna at March 14, 2004 06:13 PM
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