“Squirrels to the Nuts,” the director’s cut of Peter Bogdanovich’s 2014 film “She’s Funny That Way,” is, in some ways, a vast improvement on the original film, tnyfrontrow writes, but it also reveals the limitations of the filmmaker’s style.
’s last dramatic feature was a screwball comedy with the original title “Squirrels to the Nuts.” Its producers mangled it, and, in the hope of making the best of a bad situation, Bogdanovich himself participated in its mangling. The film was released, in 2014, as “She’s Funny That Way,” but there was no way of knowing the extent of the alterations to the film—until now.
The story of both movies is the same—and it reflects outdated attitudes, and also clichéd comedic conventions. A theatre and movie director named Arnold Albertson comes to New York to direct a play. Right after checking into his hotel, he calls an escort service and—under a pseudonym—hires a sex worker named Izzy Patterson . After having sex with her, he offers her thirty thousand dollars to abandon sex work and pursue her stated dream of becoming an actress.
The differences are in length and in dramatic form. “Squirrels to the Nuts” runs chronologically, from Arnold’s arrival in New York to the opening of the play and its aftermath, whereas “She’s Funny That Way” is built as flashbacks from scenes of an interview with Izzy; the interview segments frame, punctuate, and interrupt the action throughout.
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