The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990)

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The Bonfire of the Vanities is a 1990 American satirical black comedy film directed and produced by Brian De Palma, and starring Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffith, Kim Cattrall and Morgan Freeman. The screenplay, written by Michael Cristofer, was adapted from the bestselling 1987 novel of the same name by Tom Wolfe.

Production

The novel The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe was a bestseller, and the author sold screen right to Warner Bros. Pictures for $750,000. The film's production was plagued by controversy. Among them were the casting choices.

Walter Matthau was initially offered the role of Judge Myron Kovitsky but demanded a fee of $1 million. The producers balked at meeting his price and signed Alan Arkin instead for a modest $150,000. Arkin was then replaced by Morgan Freeman when the studio decided to change the judge's ethnicity from Jewish to African American in order to respond to criticism of the film's racial politics.

The studio made significant changes to the source material, making Sherman McCoy (Hanks) more sympathetic and adding a subplot involving a minor character, Judge White (Freeman). Michael Cristofer's original script ended cynically with Henry Lamb (Patrick Malone), the supposed victim of the hit-and-run, walking out of the hospital, suggesting that the whole scenario was concocted. That ending did not test well with audiences and was dropped.

In one notable scene in the film, Maria Ruskin (Griffith) arrives in New York on an Air France Concorde. The film's second unit director, Eric Schwab, calculated the time and day when a runway at JFK Airport would line up exactly with the Empire State Building and the setting sun, to serve as a backdrop, and then hired a Concorde from Air France and managed to film it landing in the single 30-second time period when this occurs in any given year,…

Several of the sets parodied the home decorated by Robert Denning and Vincent Fourcade for Carolyne Roehm and Henry Kravis. Sherman and Judy McCoy (Kim Cattrall)'s luxury apartment was built at Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank, designed by Richard Sylbert. The Park Avenue exteriors were shot on location late at night, using rain effects and a prop phone booth. The lobby scenes were shot at 77 Park Avenue.

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