WHAT WOMEN WANT

"I just preferred the experience of working with women to working with all the guys I usually work with."

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"I know just as little now about what women want as I did when I started. And I came to the conclusion that Thatīs by a very clever design, and itīs intended that there are aspects of men and women that are meant to be a mystery."




"What Women Want" was Mel Gibsonīs first foray into romantic comedy since the unfortunate "Bird on a wire".
Mel plays Nick Marshall, a womanizing Chicago adman who loses the coveted post of creative director at his agency to a female rival (Helen HunT)
An accident with a hairdryer shocks him into hearing the private thoughts of every woman. Suddenly, he realizes he can use his gift to his advantage, and manipulate the usurper Hunt.

"Iīm romantic but i donīt expect women to tear their clothes off when they meet me."



Gibson almost did not star in this film. Tim Allen was the actor for whom the role of Nick was originally intended, but the Director (Nancy Meyers) thought that Mel would be a perfect "manīs man, a leader of the pack that other men look up and admire, but never gets what women want. "
The mostly female set was a welcome difference for Mel, whom Nancy nicknamed "Millennium Mel" because of his switch to action figure to regular guy of the twenty-first century.
In early scenes in the film, Gibson got to show off a hidden talent: he performs an elaborate dance with a coatrack and a hat to the Frank Sinatra song "I Wonīt Dance".
What Women Want, released during the holiday season, was a milestone in Melīs career. It became one of the most profitable movies of the year and grossed over $182 million in six months, and the highest-grossing flick ever directed by a woman





"Iīm not as limber as I was there, for sure, but Iīm better as far as being relaxed about it. You know the older you get, the easier it becomes to make a foll of yourself. So I gave less of a hoot about at this time."


NICK MARSHALL

"I am gonna use this thing `till I wear it out. Iīm gonna learn so much about being a woman that theyīre gonna make me an honorary chick. Iīm gonna be the one guy on earth who knows what they want and how they think and why they do those cuckoo things they do. At the end of this, Iīm gonna be more of a woman than Darcy McGuire has ever been."
According to Mel Gibson, "Nick is a guy's guy. He was raised around women. His mother was a showgirl in Vegas and he was raised all around showgirls so he's got a pretty set idea about women. The male role models he's aspired to are the people he saw, the cigar-chomping, ass-slapping, women-chasing chauvinists. Then he has an accident where he is electrocuted and hits his head, and he wakes up able to hear the very personal thoughts of every woman he comes in contact with."
DARCY McGUIRE

"Nobody wants to go first. Everyoneīs avoiding me... except Nick Marshall. Lookin' right at me... Unbelievable. The only one with good eye contact. At least heīs looking at my eyes and not down my blouse."

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"You donīt have to go out in some sticky field and get all sweaty and run of a hill...It was like I was one of the girls."

In a scene of What Women Want, Gibson does a flawless impersonation of legendary actor Sean Connery. Displaying characteristic respect for one of actingīs elder statement, Gibson received permission from Connery to do the impersonation and donated $10,000 to the Scotsmanīs own education charity for the privilege.






  • Director.- Nancy Meyers
  • Screenwriters.- Josh Goldsmith, Cathy Yuspa
  • Music.- Alan Silvestri
  • Editor.- Stephen A Rotter
  • Production Designer.- John Hutman
  • Producers.- Bruce Davey, Matt Williams, Susan Cartsonis, Gina Matthews
  • Cast.- Mel Gibson, Helen Hunt, Marisa Tomei, Mark Feuerstein, Lauren Holly, Alan Alda, Ashley Johnson, Delta Burke, Valerie Perrine.
  • 127 minutes
  • Country.- USA
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"Freud spent almost his entire working career trying to figure the same thing out, and he died without the answer. Not that I put much stock in Freud, but at least he was trying to find the answer. And he didn't come any closer than the rest of us. He thought he did, but really he was just chasing his tail."
"It's about men and women and about what keeps them separate and what keeps them together. It's about the misconceptions the fairer sex has about the hairier, more brutish one, and vice versa. ."

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