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Started by "filmgeek"
Sat, 08 Jul 2006 19:47
Philadelphia Story
Author: "filmgeek"
Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2006 19:47
Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2006 19:47
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Saw this again tonight. Good lord, what a screenplay, so witty, sooo smart, and a magical cast. Wasn't this the best Hollywood film in 1940 ? Better than Rebecca and Grapes of Wrath even.
Re: Philadelphia Story
Author: "tomcervo"
Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2006 21:06
Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2006 21:06
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filmgeek wrote: > Saw this again tonight. > > Good lord, what a screenplay, so witty, sooo smart, and a magical cast. If you haven't read the play, you've no idea how witty. A lot of the good stuff--like the Spy magazine office stuff or Sidney Kidd, aren't in the play.
Re: Philadelphia Story
Author: "El Klauso"
Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2006 18:32
Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2006 18:32
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But don't you find the treatment of Tracy Lord (the Hepburn character) a bit too conditioned by the social expectations of the time? Wasn't she, in a sense, emotionally bullied into complacance and a proscripted emotional life in a way that Hepburn certainly was not? I'm not a died in the wool feminist, but the manner in which Tracy is piled upon by virtually every charecter seems excessive and quite controlling, in the social sense. Much as I admire the snap of the dialouge in both the play and movie versions, I find myself having a higher regard for Philip Barry's other property which reached the screen with the team of Grant and Hepburn - the earlier "Holiday." (1938) Here, at least our heroine is proactive, even if it is within the socially restrictive period matrix of the need to marry in order to live a more fufilling life.
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