Francois Truffaut: "Hawks' worst movies are more interesting than Houston's best movies."
This film ranked 19th in the 100-year-old comedy film, an outstanding representative of screwball comedy , and one of Cary Grant's masterpieces. Some people say that Grant supported the entire era of neurocomedy until he met Hitchcock.
Anyone who has watched this film will be shocked by the fast-paced machine gun-like dialogue inside, and the brain is hypoxic. The people in the film not only speak fast, but often one person does not finish speaking and the other person starts to speak, or several people speak on their own, or two people call at the same time, while talking to the person on the phone. Quarrel with each other.
So I usually watch it for the first time. If you want to smooth the whole plot and clarify the logic, you have to watch it a second time; if you want to appreciate the director’s clever and elegant scene scheduling, you have to watch it a third time; if you want to recognize everyone’s faces, you have to watch it again. Let’s look at their acting skills, especially Grant’s naughty physical movements, for the fourth time...
This film is exactly Robert Altman from the golden age of Hollywood! (Ultraman's famous saying: I only watched my video once, so I can't count it as watched at all!)
The plot is not complicated. It takes place half a day from morning to night. Almost all the scenes are in the reporter room of the crime court. However, the director's choreography makes local conflicts constant. People sometimes face each other and fight side by side, almost giving the audience no chance to breathe.
All the jokes in the film are uttered from the mouths of the characters, rather than relying on exaggerated plots and performances. Taiwanese words are extremely fast, and the speed of gags and jokes is like a machine gun.
On the one hand, it comes from sophisticated scheduling, and on the other hand, it comes from excellent scripts. The film is adapted from the classic Broadway comedy "The Front Page". Hildy changed from a male to a female, and his boss Walter became his ex-husband. In this way, a love triangle is added on the basis of Hildy's resignation and marriage, which adds to the joy.
It is worth mentioning that there are as many as four film adaptations of "The Front Page". In 1931, it was put on the big screen by Lewis Milestone for the first time. This film is the second adapted version, more interesting than the first version.
In 1974, Billy Wilder adapted it into a film of the same name. Hildy changed it back to a man. The setting, lines, photography, and even details almost copied "Girlfriend Friday." But the difference is not a little bit.
In 1988, he appeared on the TV screen again, called "Switching Channels", and the scene changed from a newspaper to a TV station. No reputation.
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