My apologies, Sampiro. Here is the imdb page on Four Rooms http://us.imdb.com/Details?0113101
I know it’s out on VHS and I believe it’s out on DVD.
Tim Roth’s character is billed as “Ted the bellhop”, but he spends most of the movie doing front desk work. (No mention of the night audit. Oh, well, maybe some other movie.) He is all alone, taking care of the hotel, on New Year’s Eve, dealing with drunks, unattended children, betrayed spouses, etc. The scenes are somewhat exaggerated, but the barely-controlled-chaos certainly feels real. The movie is a little too slow-paced in some spots, but the ending makes it all worthwhile.
Hey, folks: do us all a favor and state your profession when you post in this thread!
I’m trying to figure out what AgentofEvil does that fits “Donnie Darko”. Evil-bunny-suit-maker? Crazed elderly lady? Jet engine mechanic? Wormhole repairman?
I’m a peniless, hopelessly romantic writer named Christian. So i’d say Moulin Rouge, for depicting the way I sometimes wish my life was… The Wonder Years got growing up right, so even though i’m a generation too late, I relate completly. Buffy’s also on the mark sometimes (minus the demon thing).
I’m not a screenwriter, but Adaptation puts the writer’s life on screen better than any other film. It’s not about somebody sitting at the keyboard, it’s about somebody not sitting at the keyboard: the sense of utter futility, failure and self loathing you get when nothing is coming, your brain shuts down, and everyone around you appears sane and happy. The one good thing about the movie is that the experience depicted is so insanely awful that it might actually keep somebody from even considering becoming a writer, to their great and everlasting psychic relief.
I’m an archaeologist so, obviously, the Indiana Jones trilogy is a fair representation of my working life. Just replace the Nazis with secret Aztec warrior sects, the Holy Grail/Arc of the Covenant with Cibola, and his old .38 with a 9mm Baretta and you have the last job I was on.
Seriously, an accurate movie about archaeology would not produce quite the spike in Anthropology majors that Mr. Jones and company does.
I’m a lawyer, so you’d think there would be a wealth of films from which to choose for my profession. And there are, if you’re a litigator – which I’m not. The only time I’ve seen the inside of a courtroom was on the day I was sworn into the bar. And transactional legal work isn’t quite as sexy from a storytelling point of view as courtroom drama.
So in most films, we’re off screen. We’re the guys the Gordon Gekko character is referring to when he says “I’ll have the lawyers draw up papers and send them over.”
I can only think of two films depicting transactional lawyers.
One is The Firm, where Tom Cruise is structuring tax-free financing vehicles for the mob.
The other is an abysmal little Danny DeVito comedy (and I’m using that term loosely) called Other People’s Money. DeVito is a raider threatening to take over a manufacturing company. Company’s owner has a daughter, a corporate lawyer, who tries to stop him. I’ve never seen the thing all the way through (it is really, really bad), but she does talk to DeVito about “standstill agreements” and “13D filings,” all of which are part of my stock in trade.
I suppose I could claim the Atticus Finches of the world as my own, but trying cases in a courtroom is so far removed from what I do that it seems like another profession entirely.