{"id":3248,"date":"2007-05-25T10:52:53","date_gmt":"2007-05-25T17:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=3248"},"modified":"2023-11-18T00:41:26","modified_gmt":"2023-11-18T07:41:26","slug":"what-1972","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=3248","title":{"rendered":"What? (1972)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;First I lost my bags, then my room, and now my trousers!&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/What-Poster-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/What-Poster-1-204x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"204\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-63790\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/What-Poster-1-204x300.jpg 204w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/What-Poster-1-87x128.jpg 87w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/What-Poster-1-183x270.jpg 183w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/What-Poster-1.jpg 513w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 204px) 100vw, 204px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nA naive American hitchhiker (Sydne Rome) is sexually humiliated by the denizens of a warped Italian villa, including an ex-pimp (Marcello Mastroianni) and a dying millionaire (Hugh Griffith).\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>\n<strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Black Comedy<\/li>\n<li>Dumb Blondes<\/li>\n<li>Hugh Griffith Films<\/li>\n<li>Living Nightmare<\/li>\n<li>Marcello Mastroianni Films<\/li>\n<li>Roman Polanski Films<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Review: <\/strong><br \/>\nThis hideously awful &#8220;black comedy&#8221; by Roman Polanski possesses almost no redeeming qualities: it&#8217;s sexist, dull, offensive, and poorly acted. Although some have described <em>What?<\/em> as a variant on &#8220;Alice in Wonderland&#8221;, the comparison is unmerited: while Carroll&#8217;s pre-pubescent Alice experiences humorously bizarre encounters with creatures from alternate universes, Rome is simply preyed upon by countless lechers; but, since she&#8217;s a prototypical &#8220;dumb blonde&#8221; hippie, she gives in rather than fighting back, and thus we have almost no sympathy for her. When she inexplicably starts experiencing &#8220;deja vu&#8221; &#8212; and we&#8217;re forced to watch some of the same exact scenarios all over again &#8212; it&#8217;s literally painful. Perhaps most upsetting of all is how gorgeous Polanski&#8217;s production values and settings are, as always &#8212; what a waste!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Redeeming Qualities and Moments: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The beautiful Italian setting<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/What-Setting.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/What-Setting.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-63792\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/What-Setting.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/What-Setting-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/What-Setting-128x72.jpg 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/What-Setting-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/What-Setting-480x270.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nNo. Film fanatics shouldn&#8217;t have to suffer through Polanski&#8217;s mistakes. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Links: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0070913\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/articles\/polanskitastic-sickfuck-case-file-149-what,34678\/\">The Onion A.V. Club &#8220;My Year of Flops&#8221; Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cinematicthreads.com\/review.php?id=557&#038;ltr=W\">Cinematic Threads Capsule Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/fwfr.com\/display.asp?ID=13468\">Four Word Film Reviews<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timeout.com\/film\/64394.html\">Time Out Capsule Review<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;First I lost my bags, then my room, and now my trousers!&#8221; Synopsis: A naive American hitchhiker (Sydne Rome) is sexually humiliated by the denizens of a warped Italian villa, including an ex-pimp (Marcello Mastroianni) and a dying millionaire (Hugh Griffith). Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors: Black Comedy Dumb Blondes Hugh Griffith Films Living Nightmare Marcello Mastroianni Films Roman Polanski Films Review: This hideously awful &#8220;black comedy&#8221; by Roman Polanski possesses almost no redeeming qualities: it&#8217;s sexist, dull, offensive, and&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=3248\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3248"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93371,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3248\/revisions\/93371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}