While drawing a blank on what to write about for His Girl Friday, because I feel like my opinion is getting a little bit boring, I decided to explore why it fits so well as a screwball comedy instead of a romantic comedy (I know, really thrilling, right?).
First of all, the characters are ridiculous. Take Earl Williams for example. Looking back on the film, he killed someone after sitting in a park for awhile and losing a job and shot someone maybe to escape something? Whatever his true story is, it's very wacky and no one ever challenges the validity of what he says or does.
Also, the romantic aspect is not played up at all. There is one kiss (I think) in the whole film, which is literally just a goodbye peck. This adds to the screwball-ness of the film because the focus isn't on the lovey dovey relationships, it's on the fact that Walter and Hildy have a career together and nothing - not even Bruce - can keep her away from it.
Lastly, there is only one main time when the audience ever "agonizes" over whether Hildy and Walter will get together, and it only lasts for maybe a minute before they've made up their minds.
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Very succint...unlike the film. You justified the film's screwball-ness very well. I'm not sure about you, but it was a bit too much for me to handle. All of the dialogue cluttered up the plot. And no, your opinions are not getting boring.
The dialog was a good fake and exaggerated one, but that isn't saying that much. Those types of dialog bug me a lot. Just too unrealistic.
too unrealistic? i think it's fun for movies to be unrealistic, they are just movies, right?
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