I could write about the way the shots do not change as much as they do in other movies or how the dialogue is faster in His Girl Friday, but we have already heard that in class. I like the characters. It was funny how they made Walter look like a smooth ladies man. I tried to get my ex-wife to take me back by framing her boyfriend for counterfeiting and having a thug grab his mother, but she was not turned on by any of that stuff. She said I was a beeping creep. Fortunately for me, the jury thought my money was real and the counterfeiting charges were dropped. Walter did the same thing in the movie, but he did not end up looking like a creep.
I also love how everyone is evil in that movie. The mayor delayed a reprieve. The reporters in the news room drove a lady to attempt suicide, and there was that one killer guy that was getting executed.
It does not end happily for anyone either. They are arrested, dead from a car crash, arrested along with loosing their mother and fiancé, dieing in a hospital after a suicide attempt, going to be executed or sent on a honeymoon with Walter in Albany. I would take the execution over any of those. None of those sound at all happy.
I think it would be funny if Lifetime made a remake of this movie. I bet if they did, Walter would not be the charming young charismatic man who’s big blue eyes you could get lost in and who’s- … … (I should take this moment to remind the reader that I am a straight man and I am into straight guy things like muscle-cars and hunting.) Anyway the way Walter likes to coerce people makes me think that a Lifetime remake of this movie would portray him as a creepy stalker that whats her face is escaping from. I do not watch any Lifetime movies, I have only seen the parodies on SNL that I switch to during the adds on ESPN’s hunting programs, televised NASCAR events or that show where hunters do drive by shootings on deer out of muscle-cars.
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I think that a funny thing about comedies is that the characters get in such sticky situations. Usually the situations they are in are higly unlikely and far fetched. That is how they are funny though I guess.
wow you see everyone is evil, I think like that too but I don't think that Hildy and Bruce is evil. but I think that Walter is evil because he was like so jealous that he always make Bruce get into the jail.
i really liked the characters in the film too, they were very funny expecually bruce. nice review
everyone else does seem to be evil as you said (besides Bruce, Earl Williams, and his girlfiend). I say this becaulse they cared more about the personal succes then the lives of anyone else. Even Hildy considered turning Earl in just to add to a story.
Of cource, comedys can do that without being seen as a "film noir"
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