OMG!!
Hey, our very own Typewriter Man was working on some machines for an Agatha Christie thing a while ago. Not this one I think. But how awful to restore it and then have them do THAT. Dear God.
There's a sort of teen movie called Ruby Sparks, about a guy who's supposedly a bestselling author and types on an SM9 - he's a young guy and lives in a lifestyle-magazine-type house, and has terrible writer's block. He has a cute little dog and is very lonely, he can't seem to meet girls, no one understands him. The wheeze of the film is that when he starts writing about his ideal woman, on the advice of his therapist (I know - it's dire! The therapist may even be played by Elliott Gould), it starts to turn into a novel, and then he becomes obsessed. He calls her Ruby sparks and the novel about her becomes the only thing he can think about. One day in the park a young woman comes up and starts talking to his little dog, and they get chatting and he asks her name - and she says - wait for it...
The gender politics of this film are simply staggeringly problematical, and the whole thing is very thin. Though there are some good set-ups and so on. The screenwriter was the twenty-something granddaughter of Elia Kazan, so that'll be how it got made. It's a strange sort of romantic fantasy for a young woman to be writing about.
But there are a lot of nice moments with the SM9, which was of course why I watched it! And as the whole thing is shot a bit like a commercial, the SM9 looks great.
Last edited by KatLondon (26-8-2015 04:56:22)