The Cinemark Classic Series this go-around includes the classic rom-com (or screwball comedy) It Happened One Night, starring Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert. I went to see it last night so I could cross off one more Best Pic Winner from my 35 by 35 list.
Colbert is the rich, pampered socialite Ellie Andrews, a woman so controlled by her father that she married a man just because he didn't want her to. When she jumps off the yacht (?) her father owns at the beginning of the film, she ends up meeting newspaper man Peter Warne (Gable) on the bus at the depot in Miami. She's trying to make her way to New York to her husband without getting caught by the press (apparently nothing else of newsworthy note is occurring in the world). He's trying to get the scoop on her to save his career and together the two make a deal - he'll get unlimited access and the story, she'll get to New York unnoticed.
This is what is called the meet-cute in movie parlance.
And their meeting on the bus is pretty cute. Along with their interactions throughout the film, most memorably the way they play off each other in their hotel room when being interrogated by detectives sent by her father. They just click, and they both realize it.
There are of course some miscommunications, but all ends well with the "walls of Jericho" finally coming down. Being the first rom-com, it set the stage for what all of them contain - opposites attract, initial dislike of each other, the falling in love over a very short period of time. As the first, It Happened One Night is quite charming (just overlook some of the dated gender stereotypes about men and women).
Thursday, August 24, 2017
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