After Hours (lm)

After Hours is a 1985 American black comedy lm[3]directed by Martin Scorsese, written by Joseph Minion,and starring an ensemble cast, including Rosanna Ar-quette, Grin Dunne, Linda Fiorentino, Teri Garr, andJohn Heard. Paul Hackett (Dunne) experiences a seriesof misadventures as he tries to make his way home fromSoHo.Warner Home Video have released the lm on VHSin 1991 for both widescreen and pan-and-scan NTSClaserdiscs.[4]

1 Plot

Paul Hackett, a word processor, meets Marcy Franklinin a cafe. They discuss their common interest in HenryMiller. Marcy leaves Paul her number and informs himthat she lives with a sculptor named Kiki Bridges, whomakes and sells plaster of Paris paperweights resemblingcream cheese bagels. Later in the night, under the pre-tense of buying a paperweight, Paul visits Marcy, taking acab to her apartment. On his way to visitMarcy, a $20 billis blown out the window of the cab, leaving him with onlysome spare pocket change. The cab driver is furious thathe can't pay, thereby beginning the rst in a long series ofmisadventures for Paul that turn hostile through no faultof his own. At the apartment Paul meets the sculptor Kikiand Marcy, and comes across a collection of photographsand medications which imply that Marcy is severely dis-gured from burns on her legs and torso. As a result ofthis implication, and as a result of a strained conversationwith Marcy, Paul abruptly slips out of the apartment.Paul then attempts to go home by subway, yet the fare hasincreased at the stroke of midnight and he nds that hispocket change is no longer sucient to purchase a token.He goes to a bar where Julie, a waitress, becomes enam-oured with him. The bars owner, Tom Schorr cannotopen the cash register to give Paul his subway fare. Theyexchange keys so Paul can go to Toms place to fetch thecash register keys. On the way, he spots two burglars,Neil and Pepe, with one of Kikis sculptures. When hereturns the sculpture to the apartment, he nds Marcyhas committed suicide while Kiki and a stout man namedHorst have already left to go to Club Berlin, a nightclub.Paul attempts to return to Toms bar, but it is locked up,with a sign indicating that Tom will be back in half anhour. Paul meets Julie in the street, who invites him upto her apartment to wait for Tom to reopen the bar. Julie

is enamoured with Paul, but Paul goes back to Toms bar,nding Tom grieving over Marcy, who was his girlfriend.He goes to the nightclub Kiki and Horst patronize, a col-lection of punks attempt to shave his head into a Mohawkhairstyle. On the street, Paul is mistaken for a burglar andis relentlessly pursued by a mob of local residents.Paul nds Tom again, but the mob (with the assistance ofJulie, Gail, and Gails Mister Softee truck) chases Paul.He ultimately seeks refuge back at the Club Berlin. Pauluses his last quarter to play Is That All There Is? by PeggyLee and asks a woman named June to dance. Paul ex-plains hes being pursued and June, also a sculptress, of-fers to help him. She protects him by pouring plaster onhim in order to disguise him as a sculpture. However, shewon't let him out of the plaster, which eventually hardens,trapping Paul in a position that resembles the characterdepicted in EdvardMunch's The Scream. The burglar duothen breaks into the Club Berlin and steals him, placinghim in the back of their van. He falls from the burglarscargo near the gate to his oce as the sun is rising, andhe returns to work, bringing the lm full circle.

2 Selected cast Grin Dunne as Paul Hackett Rosanna Arquette as Marcy Franklin Teri Garr as Julie John Heard as Tom Schorr Catherine O'Hara as Gail Linda Fiorentino as Kiki Bridges Verna Bloom as June Tommy Chong as Pepe Cheech Marin as Neil Will Patton as Horst Clarence Felder as Club Berlin bouncer Dick Miller as Pete, diner waiter Bronson Pinchot as Lloyd Martin Scorsese as Club Berlin searchlight operator Victor Argo as Diner Cashier

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Larry Block as Taxi Driver Rocco Sisto as Coee Shop Cashier

3 ProductionParamount Pictures' abandonment of The Last Tempa-tion of Christ production was a huge disappointment toScorsese. It spurred him to focus on independent compa-nies and smaller projects.[5] The opportunity was oeredto him by his lawyer Jay Julien, who put him throughGrin Dunne and Amy Robinson's independent group:Double Play Company. The project was called ANight in Soho and it was based on the script by JosephMinion. The screenplay, originally titled Lies after the1982 Joe Frank monologue that inspired the story,[6] waswritten as part of an assignment for his lm course atColumbia University. He was 26 years old at the timethe lm was produced.[7] The script nally became Af-ter Hours after Scorsese made his nal amendments.[8]

One of Scorseses inputs involves the dialogue betweenPaul and the doorman at Club Berlin, inspired by Kafka'sBefore the Law, one of the short stories included in hisnovel The Trial.[9][10] As Scorsese explained to Paul At-tanasio, the short story reected his fustration towards theproduction of The Last Temptation of Christ, for whichhe had to continiously wait, as Joseph K had to in TheTrial. [11]

The lm was originally to be directed by Tim Burton, butScorsese read the script at a time when he was unableto get nancial backing to complete The Last Temptationof Christ, and Burton gladly stepped aside when Scorseseexpressed interest in directing.After Hourswas the rst ctional lm in ten years in whichRobert De Niro was not part of the cast.[3]

British director Michael Powell took part in the pro-duction process of the lm (Powell and editor ThelmaSchoonmaker married soon afterwards). Nobody wassure how the lm should end. Powell said that Paul mustnish up back at work, but this was initially dismissed astoo unlikely and dicult. They tried many other endings,and a few were even lmed, but the only one that every-one felt really worked was to have Paul nish up back atwork just as the new day was starting.[12]

4 ReceptionThe lm grossed $10,609,321 in the United States.[2]Though it was not received well by audiences, it was givenpositive reviews at the time and went on to be consid-ered an underrated Scorsese lm, and a cult classic inits own right.[13][14][15][16] The lm did, however, garnerScorsese the Best Director Award at the 1986 CannesFilm Festival and allowed the director to take a hiatus

from the tumultuous development of The Last Tempta-tion of Christ.[17] It currently holds an 90% rating on re-view aggregator Rotten Tomatoes.[18] Film critic RogerEbert gave After Hours a positive review and a rating offour out of four stars. He praised the lm as one of thebest in the year and said it continues Scorseses attemptto combine comedy and satire with unrelenting pressureand a sense of all-pervading paranoia.[19] He later addedthe lm to his Great Movies list.[20] In The New YorkTimes, Vincent Canby gave the lm a mixed review andcalled it an entertaining tease, with individually arrest-ing sequences that are well acted by Mr. Dunne and theothers, but which leave you feeling somewhat conned.[7]

5 LawsuitRadio artist Joe Frank later led a lawsuit, claiming thescreenplay lifted its plot setup and portions of dialogue,particularly in the rst 30 minutes of the lm, fromhis 1982 NPR Playhouse monologue Lies.[21] ThoughFrank never received ocial credit, he reportedly waspaid handsomely in a settlement.[22]

6 Themes and motifsThis lm belongs in a grouping which revolve around ayoung working professional who is placed under threat,named the yuppie nightmare cycle,[23] a sub-genre oflms which combine two genres in itself screwball com-edy and lm noir. Some critics present a psychoana-lytic view of the lm. Paul is constantly emasculated bywomen in the lm: by Kiki with her sexual aggressive-ness and a lust for masochism,[24] Marcy turning downhis sexual advances, Julie turning a vigilante mob on him,and Gail entrapping him in paper-mache, rendering himhelpless. There are many references to castration withinthe lm,[23] most of which are shown when women arepresent. In the bathroom in Terminal Bar where Julie rstencounters Paul, there is an image scrawled on the wallof a shark biting a mans erect penis o.[25] Kiki holdsa cigarette in her teeth when she rst encounters him, aphallic symbol,[26] and Marcy makes a reference to herhusband using a double entendre when saying, I brokethe whole thing o when talking about her and her hus-bands sex life.[23] A mouse trap clamps shut on a mousewhen Julie tries to gift Paul the bagel paperweight.

7 MusicThe musical score for After Hours was composed byHoward Shore, who went on to collaborate multiple timeswith Scorsese. Although an ocial soundtrack albumwas never released, many of Shores cues appear on the2009 album Howard Shore: Collectors Edition Vol. 1.[27]

3In addition to the score, other music credited at the endthe lm is:

1. Symphony in D Major, K. 95 (K. 73n): 1st move-ment attributed to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (thework is not among Mozarts ocially numberedsymphonies, but is sometimes numbered as 45)

2. "Air on the G String (Air From Suite No. 3)" byJohann Sebastian Bach

3. En la Cueva Performed by Cuadro Flamenco

4. Sevillanas Composed and Performed by Manitasde Plata

5. "Night and Day", Words and Music written by ColePorter

6. "Body and Soul" Composed by John Green

7. Quando, Quando, Quando, Music by Tony Renis,Lyrics by Pat Boone

8. Someone to Watch over Me, Lyrics by Ira Gersh-win, Music by George Gershwin, Performed byRobert and Johnny

9. You're Mine Written by Robert Carr and JohnnyMitchell, Performed by Robert and Johnny

10. "We Belong Together" Performed by Robert andJohnny

11. "Angel Baby" Written by Rosie Hamlin, Performedby Rosie and the Originals

12. "Last Train to Clarksville" Composed by BobbyHart and Tommy Boyce, Written by Tommy Boyceand Bobby Hart, Performed by The Monkees

13. "Chelsea Morning" Composed and Performed byJoni Mitchell

14. I Don't Know Where I Stand Composed and Per-formed by Joni Mitchell

15. Over the Mountain and Across the Sea Composedby Rex Garvin, Performed by Johnnie and Joe

16. One Summer NightWritten by DannyWebb, Per-formed by The Danleers

17. "Pay to Cum" Written and Performed by the bandBad Brains

18. "Is That All There Is" Composed by Jerry Leiberand Mike Stoller, Performed by Peggy Lee

8 References[1] Friedman, Lawrence S. (1998). The cinema of Martin

Scorsese. New York: Continuum. ISBN 0826410774.

[2] After Hours. Box Oce Mojo. Retrieved 2009-12-10.

[3] Variety Sta. "After Hours". Variety. 1985. Retrieved2009-12-10.

[4] Sangster, Jim (2002). Scorsese : Virgin Film. London:Virgin Books. ISBN 0753506424.

[5] Dougan, Andy (1997). Martin Scorsese. London: OrionMedia. p. 77. ISBN 0752811754.

[6] The Scandalous Origins of Martin Scorseses AfterHours | Andrew Hearst. Panopticist.com. Retrieved2012-10-13.

[7] Canby, Vincent (1985-09-13). "'After Hours from Mar-tin Scorsese. The New York Times. Retrieved 2009-12-10.

[8] Keyser, Les (1995). Martin Scorsese. NewYork: Twayne.p. 148. ISBN 0805793216.

[9] Kafka, Franz. Before the Law. Retrieved 2009-12-10.

[10] Faber, Marion (Autumn 1986). Kafka on the Screen:Martin Scorseses After Hours"". Die Unterrichtspraxis /Teaching German (Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley &Sons) 19 (2): 200205. Retrieved March 17, 2014.

[11] Keyser, Les (1995). Martin Scorsese. NewYork: Twayne.p. 145. ISBN 0805793216.

[12] Making of After Hours documentary Retrieved 2009-12-10.

[13] Blair, Iain (2001-11-05). The Free Game; Stars CameosAdd Touch of Realism to Faux Documentary. SouthFlorida Sun-Sentinel. p. 3E.

[14] Schembri, Jim (2003-02-14). Martins mean streets.The Age (Melbourne). Retrieved 2009-11-16.

[15] Five-lm DVD set denes Scorsese. The San DiegoUnion-Tribune. 2004-08-20. Retrieved 2009-11-16.

[16] Lawson, Terry (2004-08-14). Box set collects ve fromMartin Scorsese. Detroit Free Press.

[17] Festival de Cannes: After Hours. festival-cannes.com.Retrieved 2009-07-10.

[18] After Hours. Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2012-11-30.

[19] Ebert, Roger (1985-10-11). "After Hours". Chicago Sun-Times. Retrieved 2009-12-10.

[20] Ebert, Roger (2009-01-14). "After Hours". Chicago Sun-Times. Retrieved 2009-12-19.

[21] Hearst, Andrews (2008-05-27). The Scandalous Originsof Martin Scorseses After Hours. Retrieved 2009-12-10.

[22] Emerling, Susan (2000-03-07). Public radios bad dream.

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[23] UK, Leighton Grist, University of Winchester, (2013).The lms of Martin Scorsese, 1978-99 : authorship andcontext II (1. publ. ed.). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmil-lan. ISBN 9781403920355.

[24] Friedman, Lawrence S. (1998). The cinema of MartinScorsese. New York: Continuum. ISBN 0826410774.

[25] Sangster, Jim (2002). Scorsese : Virgin Film. London:Virgin Books. pp. 132133. ISBN 0753506424.

[26] Johnson, Sigmund Freud ; translated by ShaunWhiteside ;introduction by Jeri (2003). The psychology of love. Lon-don: Penguin. ISBN 9780141186030.

[27] Howard Shore Collectors Edition, Vol. 1. AllMusic.All Media Network. Retrieved March 17, 2014.

9 External links John Walker. (1989) Art & the art world in lmsin the 1980s. THES / artdesigncafe.

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