The Odd Couple (film)

The Odd Couple Is a 1968 film directed by Gene Saks and starring Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau. The film is based on the eponymous play by Neil Simon from 1965.Simon also wrote the scenario of the film.

The film was a commercial success in cinemas and got several nominations for a Golden Globe and an Oscar in different categories.



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[hide] *1 Story  ==Story[ Edit] == Felix Ungar is so shocked when his wife requests a divorce that he wants to commit suicide. If he wants to open the window in a cheap hotel to jump out Blaster he his back.Meanwhile, the Oscar, Felix's friends, Speed, Roy, Vinnie and Murray, already in turmoil after a phone call from the wife of Felix and afraid that their friend commit suicide. If Felix finally reached his friends try to comfort him the apartment as he bursts into tears. Eventually asks Oscar to Felix to temporarily to withdraw with him. Oscar is seven months ago separated from his wife Blanche and lives in his own words, only in a much too large apartment. Felix goes on the proposal and asks Oscar to warn him if he is going to work on his nerves. Within a day is already crazy Oscar Felix. The two men certainly do not fit together. Oscar is a huge sloven, which cleans, never eating let spoil and looks like a bum. Felix is painfully neat, and obsessive with regard to his health. Within a week, Oscar feel that Blanche again at him has been withdrawn. Felix cleans up everything behind him on his feet, not because he calls him a sloven sweeps and interrupts an important baseball game to ask what he wants to eat in the evening. If they go out once to go bowling and drinking a beer, is Felix are sinus cavities clearing with offensive sounds. Desperately trying to let Oscar to Felix rest in the fact that his marriage is over. He even makes an appointment with the British sisters Pidgeon, Cecily and Gwendolyn. However, it is a fiasco because Felix knows the Sisters so depressed with his stories about his lost marriage, that the date failed. Oscar is furious and this will create a silent war between the two. Eventually it comes to an explosion in which Oscar eating through the kitchen door he throws and Felix uitgooit. After a while gets Oscar regret and together with his friends they go looking for the now non-existent Felix. Eventually it turns out that Felix was repealed by the sisters Pidgeon. Oscar and Felix apologize again against each other, close friendship and never live together. ==Division Of Roles[ Edit] == ==Scenario[ Edit] == As Billy Wilder was in image to the Director and to write the screenplay. Wilder had previously worked successfully with Lemmon and Matthau and it seemed logical that he would do the directing. But Wilder saw off adventure and Neil Simon, who has been appointed or requested to conduct was his play to scenario editing, took out comedy Director Gene Saks as well. The Odd Couple was in 1965 on Broadway premiere and was a hit in theaters. The play was all off in Oscar's apartment, but Simon added for the film some scenes, such as the suicide attempt of Felix in the hotel, the scenes in the baseball stadium and the different outdoor scenes. The inspiration for the play and Simon got his brother's scenario according to Danny Simon stories that after his divorce a while in an apartment with the likewise divorced theatrical agent Roy Gerber. Other sources claim that Simon is based on Director/actor Mel Brooks that after the divorce of his first wife three months lived together with writer Speed Vogel. Bird said to Brooks's biographer, James Parish, that Brooks suffered from insomnia, paranoia and constantly in the weather was with his blood sugar. In any case it was Danny Simon who came up with the idea of two men living together in an apartment tried to work out in a play.However, he managed and he did the idea to his brother. Neil Simon tinkered coming and also introduced the sisters Pidgeon. The names Cecily and Gwendolyn he took over from the play The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde. ==Actors<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Walter Matthau had already played the role of Oscar in the theater next to Art Carney as Felix. Matthau approached Neil Simon and suggested that he would play the role of Felix in the film. The reason for this was that Matthau was made that the role of Oscar was very close to his own character and he found it a challenge to Felix to play. Simon didn't have to think long and said the following: "the actor Walter, go away and go hang out in the play of someone else and please play Oscar in my piece." Art Carney was initially the choice for the role of Felix, but he refused the role. Jack Lemmon was by the studio seen as the logical choice and actually was also convinced that Lemmon would pull more visitors. ==Recordings<span class="mw-editsection" len="335" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Although the movie just as the play is largely set in the apartment of Oscar, the screenwriter could add some outdoor scenes. The scenes that take place during the baseball game were included in the famous Shea Stadium. It was filmed for the game of the New York Mets against the Pittburgh Pirates on June 27, 1967. In the film is a scene where Oscar a Triple Play is missing, because Felix call him during the match. A Triple Play is a rarely occurring game situation at baseball, where three times ' off ' is given in the same game. Player Roberto Clemente was asked to save the Triple Play. Not Clemente managed and eventually he was replaced by Bill Mazeroski who. Another scene in which Felix shopping, was recorded in a Bohack supermarket in Queens, New York City. Bohack was widely represented in New York City between 1950 and 1970. The last branch closed in 1977. ==Prices and reception<span class="mw-editsection" len="348" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The film was a commercial success in cinemas in 1968. Neil Simon received a nomination for an Oscar for his screenplay. Also there were nominations for a Golden Globe in the category best film and for best actor (Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau). ==Sequel<span class="mw-editsection" len="335" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In 1970 came a television series titled The Odd Couple and thirty years later continued under the title The Odd Couple II.
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 * Scenario 3
 * 4 Actors
 * 5 Recordings
 * 6 Prices and reception
 * 7 Continued
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 * Jack Lemmon: Felix Ungar
 * Walter Matthau: Oscar Madison
 * John Fiedler: Vinnie
 * Herb Edelman: Murray
 * David Sheiner: Roy
 * Larry Haines: Speed
 * Monica Evans: Cecily Pigeon
 * Carole Shelley: Gwendolyn Pigeon