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The Thomas Crown Affair Urban Optiques “Movies at the Marquis” Viewing Guide Tonight’s Feature The Thomas Crown Affair Viewing Notes Released in 1968, The Thomas Crown Affair directed by Norman Jewison stars Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway in one of Hollywood’s most stylish heist thrillers. FAST FACTS Nominated for two Year: 1968 Academy Awards and Studio: The Mirisch Corp/United winner of the 1969 Oscar Artists for Best Song with Length: 102 minutes “Windmills of Your Director: Norman Jewison Mind,” The Thomas Screenplay: Alan Trustman Crown Affair remains Color: Color a masterful example of Original Sound Mix: Mono late-60s movie making. A Genre: Crime/Thriller/Romance remake starring Pierce Actors: Steve McQueen, Faye Dun- Brosnan and Rene Russo away, Paul Burke, Jack Weston was released in 1999. Awards: Winner of 1969 Oscar and Golden Globe for Best Music, Plot Original Song for Michel Legrand’s “Windmills of Your Mind.” Thomas Crown (Steve McQueen), a millionaire Budget: $6,000,000 businessman and Box Offi ce Gross: $14,000,000 sportsman, pulls off a perfect crime by having fi ve men rob a Boston Alternative Titles: bank and dump the money - The Crown Caper -- approximately $2.6 - Thomas Crown and Company million -- in a cemetery’s - L’affaire Thomas Crown (France) trash can. Crown retrieves the money later and depos- Original Studio Movie Poster for The Thomas Crown Affair its it at a bank in Geneva. The fi lm also features the now famous chess scene. McQueen and Vicki Anderson (Faye Dunaway), an independent insurance Dunaway play a game of chess, silently fl irting with each other, investigator, is contracted to investigate the heist. She will receive caressing the chess pieces, using them as metaphorical sexual a percentage of the stolen money if she recovers it. objects. Crown doesn’t need the money but is in need of diversions. He The photography is unusual for a main-stream Hollywood fi lm, plays polo and golf, fl ies a glider and drives dune-buggies, but is using a split-screen mode in a very stylish way. McQueen does generally bored and welcomes Vicki Anderson’s sudden interest his own stunts (plays polo) and drives a dune buggy at high speed in him. on the Massachusetts coastline. This is similar to his starring role in the movie Bullitt (a DVD copy of which Urban Optiques She begins seeing Crown socially, openly admitting she is inves- will be giving away tonight), released a few months afterward, in tigating him. Their relationship evolves into an affair. But it is which he drives a Ford Mustang through San Francisco at more complicated by Vicki’s vow to fi nd the money and help Detective than 100 mph. Eddie Malone bring the guilty party to justice. Of all the movies McQueen made during his career, The Thomas The original studio tagline for The Thomas Crown Affair was: Crown Affair was reportedly his favorite. “He was young, handsome, a millionaire - and he’d just pulled off the perfect crime! She was young, beautiful, a super sleuth - sent Reception to investigate it!” The fi lm was only moderately successful at the box offi ce, gross- Production ing $14,000,000 on a $6,000,000 budget. The use of split screens to show simultaneous actions was in- Reviews at the time were mixed. The chemistry between Mc- spired by the breakthrough 1968 Canadian fi lm In the Labyrinth. Queen and Dunaway and Norman Jewison’s stylish direction were praised, but the plotting and writing were considered rather thin. Roger Ebert gave it 2 1/2 stars out of four and called it “possi- Goofs bly the most under-plotted, underwritten, over-photographed fi lm of the year. Which is not to say it isn’t great to look at. It is.” - When the robbers are in the bank elevator, one girl wears a light-blue dress. Some minutes later, after the robbery, she talks Despite its tepid reaction, however, it has since become a cult fi lm to the police wearing and inspired a 1999 remake. a light-green dress. The fi lm won an Academy Award for Best Song for “Windmills of Your Mind” by Michel Legrand (music), Marilyn Bergman - During the infa- and Alan Bergman (lyrics). It was also nominated for Original mous chess scene an Music Score for Legrand’s soundtrack. overview of the board is shown as Vicki Cultural References Anderson moves her bishop forward that The Thomas Crown Affair continues to infl uence popular cul- shows that Crown ture decades after its release. has already castled, but it is not until later In the 2004 remake of Alfi e there is a scene where Alfi e (Jude in the scene that he Law) returns to his fl at and fi nds his girlfriend Nikki (Sienna actually performs the Miller) asleep in front of the television which is showing the move. scene where Faye Dunaway and Steve McQueen fi rst kiss. The same scene is being shown the fi rst time Peter Sellers and Shirley - The haul from the MacLaine kiss in the fi lm Being There. fi rst bank robbery totals $2,660,527.62, as explained by the police. It is broken down in to The Thomas Crown Affair is 16,240 $20 bills, 19,871 $10 bills, 34,465 $5 bills, and 129,000 $1 referenced in countless heist bills. Added up, that only totals $824,835.00, as later detailed by movies. For example, in the a secretary. That makes the whole greater than the sum of its 2001 remake of Ocean’s 11, Frank Catton asks Livingston parts. Dell “how we doin’?” during the fi lm’s climactic scene, to Trivia which Dell responds, “OK”, an echo of the dialogue between - The Academy Award-winning song “The Windmills of Your two of the characters in the Mind” from the movie is sung by actor Noel Harrison, son of opening heist scene of The Rex Harrison. Thomas Crown Affair. - After working together on The Russians Are Coming the Rus- The scene where Dunaway and McQueen play chess is spoofed in sians Are Coming (1966), director Norman Jewison announced the 1999 movie Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me with Eva Marie Saint for the fi lm but quickly changed his mind when Mike Myers and Kristen Johnston. Faye Dunaway became an overnight star after Bonnie and Clyde (1967) In the 2006 Nelly Furtado single Promiscuous, hip-hop star Timbaland introduces himself as “Thomas Crown” -- an enduring - Sean Connery had been the original choice for the title role but testament to McQueen’s continued “coolness” even 26 years after declined, a decision he later regretted. his death. - The one-minute kissing sequence between the two leads took Costuming & Eyewear eight hours to fi lm over a number of days. 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