Business Is Business (film)

Infobox Film
name = Business Is Business


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caption = DVD cover of "Business Is Business"
director = Paul Verhoeven
producer = Rob Houwer
writer = Albert Mol Gerard Soeteman
narrator =
starring = Ronnie Bierman Sylvia de Leur Piet Römer Jules Hamel
music = Jack Trombey
cinematography = Jan de Bont
editing = Jan Bosdriesz
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released = flagicon|NED September 10, 1971 flagicon|FIN December 29, 1972
runtime = 90 minutes
country = Netherlands
language = Dutch
budget = ƒ 800,000 (est.)cite web
title = Box office / business for Wat zien ik
work = [http://www.imdb.com/ www.imdb.com]
publisher = Internet Movie Database
url = http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067963/business
accessdate = 2007-05-06 ]
gross = ƒ 4,000,000
preceded_by =
followed_by =
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amg_id = 1:142597
imdb_id = 0067963

"Business Is Business" (Dutch title: "Wat zien ik") is a 1971 comedy film. The film is directed by Paul Verhoeven, and stars Ronnie Bierman, Sylvia de Leur, Piet Römer, and Jules Hamel. The story is about the lives of two prostitutes in Amsterdam, and is based on two books written by Albert Mol.

Plot

The film is about the customers and personal lives of Greet (Ronnie Bierman) and Nel (Sylvia de Leur), two female prostitutes in Amsterdam. Greet and Nel are friends and live on different floors of the same canal house at the Prinsengracht. In this house they also receive customers.

exual fantasies

Greet roleplays the customers' sexual fantasies. These incidents are recounted in the form of anecdotes throughout the film. The roleplaying involves Greet being a wigged witch, a schoolteacher, a feathered chicken, a corpse, a woman commanding her cleaner, and a surgeon. Sometimes Nel assists her by playing a part in the roleplaying.

Nel and Sjaak

Nel lives with Sjaak (Jules Hamel), a guy who likes fishing and who lives on Nel's money. Nel and Sjaak are continuously fighting. Greet convinces Nel to respond to a personal ad. The following blind date in a restaurant ends up in throwing cakes. Nel wants to clean her dress and then she meets Bob (Bernard Droog) and they fall in love. In another fight Sjaak almost kills Nel with a knife and Nel decides to move in with Bob in Eindhoven. Bob turns out to be boring, and Nel visits Greet in Amsterdam. Nel doesn't want to work as a prostitute anymore, and she turns out to be pregnant. Nel and Bob marry in Amsterdam, and all of Nel's former colleagues pretend that she worked as a seamstress.

Greet and Piet

Greet meets the married man Piet (Piet Römer) in the bar where she hangs out. Piet takes her to a striptease club, and they have sex afterwards at her house. Unlike the other men, he doesn't have to pay. Piet brings Greet a bouquet of red roses. The next time they meet, they create a romantic atmosphere and Piet stays over night with Greet. Later, Piet takes Greet to a classical concert. She dislikes it and makes a scene in the concert hall. When Piet finds out his wife is pregnant he stops seeing Greet. In the end of the film they meet again and Greet says he should name his child "Greet" if it is a girl.

The film ends when Greet makes the customer that plays the cleaner clean up Nel's marriage party.

Cast

*Ronnie Bierman as Blonde Greet
*Sylvia de Leur as Neeltje "Nel" Muller
*Piet Römer as Piet
*Jules Hamel as Sjaak
*Bernard Droog as Bob de Vries
*Albert Mol as Mr. Van Schaveren, Nel's date

Production

"Business Is Business" was Paul Verhoeven's first feature film.Insert of the 2005 dvd release by RTL Nederland.]

Gerard Soeteman wrote the film scenario, which was his first feature film script. [cite web
title = Trivia for Wat zien ik
work = [http://www.imdb.com/ www.imdb.com]
publisher = Internet Movie Database
url = http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067963/trivia
accessdate = 2007-05-06 ] He based the story on the two books "Wat zien ik!?" and "Haar van Boven" written by Albert Mol. Writer Albert Mol also has a small role in the film himself as Mr. Van Schaveren.

The opening scene is shot at the airport Schiphol. Many scenes in the film are shot in the city of Amsterdam, most in the canal house, in the red-light district, and at the canals.

Reception

The film had 2,358,946 admissions (i.e., had ticket sales of 2,358,946) in the Netherlands.

References

External links

*imdb title|id=0067963|title=Wat zien ik
*amg title|id=1:142597|title=Business is Business