Not sure how I hadn't ever seen "American Gigolo" (1980, Paul Schrader) -- it's been on my list -- but it's on Watch Instantly right now and it might be my new favorite movie. It looks so good & sounds so good. I suppose I first loved Richard Gere as a teen watching "Pretty Woman", but Terrence Malick's "Days of Heaven" is on my top five favorite films of all time. Gere is hella foxy and also dresses hella amazing -- I guess this movie marks the rise of Armani... Watching him picking out his outfits, getting dressed, getting undressed, walking around looking debonair is so satisfying -- not in some annoying hetero metro dude way, but instead, in an 'everybody loves a sharp dressed man' way. As a kid I remember hearing "Call Me" on the radio, but I guess I never realized that the song wasn't written by Blondie, but, rather, by Giorgio Moroder. "Call Me" isn't even the best song in the movie -- the soundtrack while Richard Gere is cruising around making gigolo calls sound like awesome '80s synth, driving/cocaine songs.
Have to say, sorta glad that AG ends happily -- you just end up liking him so much, and even the crazy-eyes lady he falls for starts to grow on you. (Also, how cute is her outfit in the above scene?!)
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