Brooks’ follow-up, “Modern Romance,” is gentler but just as bleak
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Brooks kept doing that throughout his career: doing what seemed best for the work, even if it made audiences and backers uncomfortable and closed off more lucrative avenues. Brooks’ follow-up, “Modern Romance,” is gentler but just as bleak: one of the great studies of romantic and sexual obsession, it’s about a couple that keeps breaking up and getting back together even though they make each other miserable.
If you squint a bit, you can see the influence of “Taxi Driver,” the Martin Scorsese film from six years earlier in which Brooks played a campaign worker in love with a colleague played by Cybill Shepherd; that role also feels like a bit of a dry run for Aaron Altman in “Broadcast News,” which was written for Brooks by his friend James L. Brooks (no relation).
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