I watched The Hudsucker Proxy for the first time in June. I really liked it a lot, as a weird movie that blended the dark comedy of the Coen Brothers with the cartoony visuals of Sam Raimi. I went into the movie cold, only knowing that it was a period piece and partially took place at a newspaper. Jennifer Jason Leigh totally stole the movie with her spot-on imitations of the fast-talking Transatlantic accent of screwball heroines like Rosalind Russell and Katharine Hepburn. Though I don’t think the movie should have been set in 1958, it felt way too late for the kind of screwball comedy/everyman pictures they were paying homage to, it should have been set around 1940 or so. Nevertheless, it was a fun and oddball movie for a big studio film, and I’m not surprised it bombed when it came out.
Also, I was watching some old TV interviews Leigh did around this time, and when Letterman is introducing her and says the movie title, the audience laughed at the title, more in a “what the hell does that mean?” way. So not a good sign for the movie’s chances then.
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