The Road Leading to Romance
The pleasure of escapism is an ageless one. For an eighty-two-year-old picture whose main storyline and pun centers on the sexual innocence of its key female character, It Happened One Night is nonetheless astonishingly innovative. Theoretically, it happens upon the course of 4 nights.
The film which is equally escapist and classless performs fine in a country which is struggling with The Great Depression. It Happened One Night is nevertheless deemed to be one of the original romantic comedies. It is also generally agreed to be the first ever road film, along with one of the original screwball comedies. Therefore, it is relatively difficult to view the movie today without associating it to the whole thing it provoked.
What was revolutionary in 1934 may look quite unimaginative today, but it was this film that pioneered it all: they meet on public transportation, the couple who squabbles tirelessly until they fall in love, the spontaneous sing along, and the whacky minor characters we encounter. Possibly, the most recognizable cliché in the film is the dominant but kind man taking the clever but sheltered girl under his wing. Peter loves the sound of his own voice. Over the course of their …show more content…
Banned were ‘‘scenes of passion.’’ Adultery, illicit sex, seduction, and rape could not even be alluded to unless they were absolutely essential to the plot and condemned by film’s end.” The most obvious and most frequently used symbol in the film is, of course, "the Walls of Jericho." The irony was that in the actual Battle of Jericho, in the end, these walls were totally brought down by a lot of noise. Trumpet-blasts are traditionally credited with this feat of destruction, and that's why, in It Happened One Night, the last thing we hear about is Peter's request for a
The pleasure of escapism is an ageless one. For an eighty-two-year-old picture whose main storyline and pun centers on the sexual innocence of its key female character, It Happened One Night is nonetheless astonishingly innovative. Theoretically, it happens upon the course of 4 nights.
The film which is equally escapist and classless performs fine in a country which is struggling with The Great Depression. It Happened One Night is nevertheless deemed to be one of the original romantic comedies. It is also generally agreed to be the first ever road film, along with one of the original screwball comedies. Therefore, it is relatively difficult to view the movie today without associating it to the whole thing it provoked.
What was revolutionary in 1934 may look quite unimaginative today, but it was this film that pioneered it all: they meet on public transportation, the couple who squabbles tirelessly until they fall in love, the spontaneous sing along, and the whacky minor characters we encounter. Possibly, the most recognizable cliché in the film is the dominant but kind man taking the clever but sheltered girl under his wing. Peter loves the sound of his own voice. Over the course of their …show more content…
Banned were ‘‘scenes of passion.’’ Adultery, illicit sex, seduction, and rape could not even be alluded to unless they were absolutely essential to the plot and condemned by film’s end.” The most obvious and most frequently used symbol in the film is, of course, "the Walls of Jericho." The irony was that in the actual Battle of Jericho, in the end, these walls were totally brought down by a lot of noise. Trumpet-blasts are traditionally credited with this feat of destruction, and that's why, in It Happened One Night, the last thing we hear about is Peter's request for a