But this movie is like, you know, you mentioned like,

Consecker has this like center of gravity around which like all

all the sleaze and evil of New York City just sort of revolves around.

And like in this movie, he really is like, like a mefistophiles.

Like he has like Satan incarnate and Manhattan at night is just the inferno.

And he is like, you know, in the frozen lake at the center of it is just J.J.

Hunsecker, the most powerful columnist in America based on Walter

Winshaw. And did you know that actually Walter Winshaw, as we'll see in the plot of this movie,

Walter Winshaw, worked with J.J. Grouver to get his to commit his daughter to an insane asylum

and get her fiance deported from the country.

Well, that's sick.

Wow, that's just like in that movie, sweet, smell of success.

Well, it's all sort of like semi based on Walter Winshaw, but I guess my,

my big headlines for sweet, smell of success are stylized dialogue.

Menace, homo erotic status.

Yes.

The homo eroticism is really crazy because like the main character is,

it's technically not Bert Lancaster.

It's like Tony Curtis is Sydney Falcon.

Yeah, Sydney Falco, uh, publicists to the not stars.

Um, but basically Tony Curtis is the, you know, the point of view character that we're with.

And we get to see him like trying to climb this horrible ladder that he can.

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