What separates roses from the war of roses, according to the director (exclusive)

“The Roses”, the new comedy from “Meet The Parents” and “Austin Power” Jay RoachIt is a little contradiction. On the one hand, it is Technically Imagine Warren Adler’s novel of 1981 “War of Roses”, but I think most people know that he depends on something that will indicate it as a new edition Danny Devito’s 1989 movie for that novel. The re -imagination of the current intellectual property is the distinctive strategy for modern Hollywood, and with stars that can be recognized such as Benedict Comprosch, Olivia Coleman in the main roles and text of “poor things” and the favorite “Tony McKinamara”, it makes sense to make this new version. On the other hand, it is also a divorce movie that directly aims to adults, and any studio film leaves this demography – especially comedy, especially a movie that does not build – unfortunately, is a rare thing in 2025, so part of me. He is This surprised this scale, as a theatrical version.

/A movie was clarified with Roach and McNamara before the release of the movie (you will be able to hear the full interview in the September 3 episode of Our weekly podcastThe director explained what I think was separated from his movie from his predecessor, citing some classic films that you feel the predecessor of this film in this process:

“You hope (the two main people) to return together (in this version). It seems as if you think it might be a marriage comedy, and some Tony’s dialogue is this kind of rapid joke that such kind of films like” Philadelphia’s story “or” Adam’s rib “. Or something. This type of suspense, as I think, is what distinguishes it from the original.”

Roche right. I was rooted to Pathio and IVY (Colman) to return together at different points in “The Roses”, but I never felt “The War of the Roses”, which paints Oliver (Michael Douglas) and Parbra (Kathleen Turner). Personally, I believe that the biggest difference in the two films is the speed that the couple turns against each other in the first place, and the analogy with which they fight each other. Early escalation begins in the original movie, and at some point, Barbara enters a car and trucks on its way to the top of a small sports car with Oliver inside. At different points, they seem to be trying to kill each other legally. “Roses” is not bad. It is almost playful in comparison.

Douglas, with his history, the cheating Dan Gallagher plays in “heavy attractiveness” and “Wall Street” Slimball Gordon Gekko, He brought the inherent lack of confidence in his personalitySo I did not buy that he wanted to meet with Barbara for the right reasons. Without the hope that its threads will be able to work, the “War of Roses” becomes a much darker comic exercise about the extent of these people’s willingness to go to the things you have accumulated. Without giving up the ends of any of the films, I will only say that the “War of Roses” reaches much more difficult than what happens in “roses”. Both are good, but for me, I felt that the way the “War of Roses” adopted the darkness of its hypothesis, more satisfying these ideas than the relatively supernatural exotic for “The Roses”. Perhaps this is why the first made it on our list The best disintegration movies ever.

“Roses” in theaters now.