I love this (and your post on Marty, a movie which makes me weep all the way through for how cute and helpless they both are). I also happen to agree with all of these, except I haven't seen To Have and Have Not. I'll add it to the list!
I think Audrey Hepburn at her romantic best is definitely Roman Holiday. Still one of the best movie endings in history by my estimation. Saw it recently in theaters and I still got chills at the way she looks at Peck when he's waiting in line to meet her at the end. And Peck's silent, echoing, lingering walk out is devastating. They both could act the hell out of a "dignified" role, but they also had so much playfulness in that.
I always tend to like the bickering romances with sharp, biting dialogue. The African Queen is a personal favorite (similar in some ways to Marty, just in terms of them both being broken, hopeless people who find each other super late--only Bogey and Katherine Hepburn are LOUDLY broken where Marty and Clara were so quiet and still), as is The Shop Around the Corner (which also has wonderful secondary characters with beautiful little subplots of their own--frankly I think I prefer their side stories to Jimmy Stewart and Margaret Sullivan's).
I think the thing I appreciate about all those movies is that, even though all those characters act like children sometimes, they're actually adults with responsibilities and weight that they're carrying with them from their life journeys. They don't feel constructed out of thin air to be stylish or cool, like Bogey and Hepburn do in Sabrina. Blech.
But I also will never turn down a madcap comedy romance, like Bringing Up Baby or His Girl Friday. Inject that silliness right into my veins. More movies should have multiple leopards get loose and repeatedly mixed up to facilitate a vapid love story between a lunatic and dinosaur bone collector.
weird, going by the fiction i pegged you more as a fan of the b̶e̶t̶t̶e̶r̶ other hepburn.
(audrey i really loved in My Fair Lady tho; now every time i hear someone saying "the way [film] embraces yet subverts the mpdg trope is revolutionary" im like ಠ_ಠ)
I love this (and your post on Marty, a movie which makes me weep all the way through for how cute and helpless they both are). I also happen to agree with all of these, except I haven't seen To Have and Have Not. I'll add it to the list!
I think Audrey Hepburn at her romantic best is definitely Roman Holiday. Still one of the best movie endings in history by my estimation. Saw it recently in theaters and I still got chills at the way she looks at Peck when he's waiting in line to meet her at the end. And Peck's silent, echoing, lingering walk out is devastating. They both could act the hell out of a "dignified" role, but they also had so much playfulness in that.
I always tend to like the bickering romances with sharp, biting dialogue. The African Queen is a personal favorite (similar in some ways to Marty, just in terms of them both being broken, hopeless people who find each other super late--only Bogey and Katherine Hepburn are LOUDLY broken where Marty and Clara were so quiet and still), as is The Shop Around the Corner (which also has wonderful secondary characters with beautiful little subplots of their own--frankly I think I prefer their side stories to Jimmy Stewart and Margaret Sullivan's).
I think the thing I appreciate about all those movies is that, even though all those characters act like children sometimes, they're actually adults with responsibilities and weight that they're carrying with them from their life journeys. They don't feel constructed out of thin air to be stylish or cool, like Bogey and Hepburn do in Sabrina. Blech.
But I also will never turn down a madcap comedy romance, like Bringing Up Baby or His Girl Friday. Inject that silliness right into my veins. More movies should have multiple leopards get loose and repeatedly mixed up to facilitate a vapid love story between a lunatic and dinosaur bone collector.
Thanks for the post!
the african queen, roman holiday, & his girl friday are all bangers 🤌🔥
weird, going by the fiction i pegged you more as a fan of the b̶e̶t̶t̶e̶r̶ other hepburn.
(audrey i really loved in My Fair Lady tho; now every time i hear someone saying "the way [film] embraces yet subverts the mpdg trope is revolutionary" im like ಠ_ಠ)
porque no los dos
spoken like a true alexandr dugin