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Post by hi224 on Jun 9, 2018 18:53:13 GMT
Damn that movie was fantsstic and unscrupulous.
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Post by petrolino on Jun 9, 2018 21:22:37 GMT
Yep. Howard Hawks really put the screwy in screwball with his frenetically paced early classics 'Twentieth Century' (1934), 'Bringing Up Baby' (1938) and 'His Girl Friday' (1940).
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Jun 9, 2018 22:10:37 GMT
They delivered their lines fast and furiously, such an entertaining fun movie.
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Post by petrolino on Jun 10, 2018 18:42:08 GMT
They delivered their lines fast and furiously, such an entertaining fun movie. Just an FYI, given the other thread about CITIZEN KANE: Welles was quick to acknowledge that he used Hawks' technique of overlapping dialogue in HIS GIRL FRIDAY when he made KANE. And I think it made the film a lot more palatable.
Anyway, as far as I'm concerned HIS GIRL FRIDAY is one of the greatest screwball comedies ever made.
Actress and screwball fan Anna Kendrick counts 'His Girl Friday' among her all-time favourite comedy films ...
"It is transcendently flawless for like the first 45 minutes, and then it kind of goes off into crazy town. But you still stay with it, and the tone completely changes and it gets really weird and dark, but I guess that’s what happens in some of those movies. But it’s the perfect distillation of that kind of fast-talking, thin-line-between-love-and-hate style relationship. It would definitely be the kind of movie that, if somebody was trying to get into movies from the ’30s and ’40s and wanted that kind of patter and that kind of style, I would definitely point them in that direction. 'The Women' (1939) is my favorite film, but it’s kind of a lot to take in, and I would understand if it scared people off a little bit. Whereas if you watch the first 20 minutes of 'His Girl Friday' (1940), you’re in."
- Anna Kendrick
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