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Millionaire businessman Thomas Crown (Steve McQueen) is also
a high-stakes thief; his latest caper is an elaborate heist
at a Boston bank. Why does he do it? For the same reason he
flies gliders, bets on golf strokes, and races dune buggies:
he needs the thrill to feel alive. Insurance investigator Vicky
Anderson (Faye Dunaway) gets her own thrills by busting crooks,
and she's got Crown in her cross hairs. Naturally, these two
will get it on, because they have a lot in common: they're not
people, they're walking clothes racks. (McQueen looks like he'd
rather be in jeans than Crown's natty three-piece suits.) The
Thomas Crown Affair is a catalog of '60s conventions, from its
clipped editing style to its photographic trickery (the inventive
Haskell Wexler behind the camera) to its mod design. You can
almost sense director Norman Jewison deciding to "tell his story
visually," like those newfangled European films; this would
explain the long passages of Michel Legrand's lounge jazz ladled
over endless montages of the pretty Dunaway and McQueen at play.
(The opening-credits song, "Windmills of Your Mind," won an
Oscar.) It's like a "What Kind of Man Reads Playboy?" ad come
to life, and much more interesting as a cultural snapshot than
a piece of storytelling. (amazon.co.jp)
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