American Gigolo (film)

American Gigolo is a 1980 feature film, written and directed by Paul Schrader. Schrader based the film on French director Robert Bresson's Pickpocket (1959). It is also indirectly considered the second installment in his "night workers" trilogy, following Taxi Driver (1976) and preceding Light Sleeper (1992). The film's tagline is: "He's the highest paid lover in Beverly Hills. He leaves women feeling more alive than they've ever felt before. Except one."

This movie marked the first time a major Hollywood actor was frontally nude in a film.
Julian Kaye drives a 1980 Mercedes-Benz 450 SL convertible.
The wardrobe used in the film placed Armani on the fashion map.
John Travolta had been offered the role, but due to payment disagreements with Schrader and his strict "No Nudity" policy, he dropped out. This is not the only role that Travolta has turned down only to be taken by Richard Gere. It occurred again when Travolta was offered the lead in both An Officer and A Gentleman (1982) and Chicago (2002).
Christopher Reeve was also offered the lead role, but turned it down, reportedly because he found the film's subject matter "distasteful".
The composition of the final shot draws heavily from Robert Bresson's Pickpocket (1959), and Gere's dialog matches Pickpocket's closing narration almost verbatim. Paul Schrader later provided an introduction to the Criterion Collection DVD of Pickpocket.

Tagline : His business is pleasure!

Directed by Paul Schrader
Produced by Jerry Bruckheimer
Written by Paul Schrader

Cast

Richard Gere - Julian Kaye

Lauren Hutton - Michelle Stratton

Hector Elizondo - Detective Sunday
Nina Van Pallandt - Anne
Bill Duke - Leon
Brian Davies - Charles Stratton

K Callan - Lisa Williams
Tom Stewart - Mr. Rheiman
Patricia Carr - Judy Rheiman (as Patti Carr)
David Cryer - Lt. Curtis

Carole Cook - Mrs. Dobrun
Carol Bruce - Mrs. Sloan
Frances Bergen - Mrs. Laudner
Macdonald Carey - Hollywood actor (as MacDonald Carey)
William Dozier - Michelle's Lawyer

Plot
Julian Kaye (Richard Gere), is a male prostitute in Los Angeles whose job supports his expensive tastes in cars, stereophonic equipment, and clothes (which serve as a surrogate for emotional contact). He is, at times, blatantly narcissistic and superficial, however, he openly claims to take some pleasure in his work from being able to sexually satisfy women. When on an assignment for his primary procuress, Anne (Nina Van Pallandt), he meets Michelle Stratton (Lauren Hutton), a local politician's unhappy wife, who is interested by him. Julian's other pimp, Leon (Bill Duke), sends him to the house of a financier, who asks Julian to physically abuse and copulate with the his wife while he watches them. Later, Julian learns that the financier's wife was murdered. Los Angeles Police Department Detective Sunday (Hector Elizondo) investigates Julian as a primary suspect. Though he was with a client on the night of the murder, the client refuses to give Julian an alibi, to protect her and her husband's reputations.

As Julian's relationship with Michelle deepens, suspicion of the murder mounts against him. He soon realizes that he is being framed and grows increasingly desperate. His decline is visually represented by a degeneration in style as his clothes become rumpled, he goes unshaven, and he even rents a cheap commuter car after his Mercedes has been tampered with. Julian finally confronts Leon, who confesses that one of the other, younger gigolos who works for him had inadvertently killed the wealthy man's wife. Leon had conceived of the plan to frame Julian. With no one to help him, Julian ends up in jail, awaiting trial for the murder; however, at the end Michelle risks her reputation and that of her husband to provide Julian with the alibi that can save him from prison. In the final shot, Julian tenderly rests his face against the glass that separates him from Michelle's hand.

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