The Paper

watched this semester. Maybe it’s the sheer ninties-ness of everything, but a lot of things felt a little bit hokey to me. That’s not to say I didn’t like the film, I did, I just felt it conformed to Hollywood standards more than any film we’ve watched this semester. The plot was meticulously crafted to have all storylines converge in the hospital at the end, with everyone realizing their wrong doings and learning a good life lesson. All I could think at the end of the movie was that how do we know that Michael Keaton’s character is going to change now that his wife has had a baby. Even when she begged him not to, it was still more important to him to go to back to the paper and try to change the headline. It’s a classic Hollywood theme of family vs. career, and which is most important. Only, at the end of the Paper you don’t get a good sense of which is truly more important to Michael Keaton’s character

This TV spot isn't necessarily related to my point, but I always think it's interesting to look back at how a film was advertised and sold to audiences after having seen it, especially if it came out many years ago.