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1936
For all its profusely fussy politicking, this feels like a very early manifestation of 7 WOMEN’s conflict between the Bancroft character and the Leighton character, which is to say a combat of women and worldviews — down to the same shot of two women facing each other down across a table with a light source between them. The other apparent thing here is that John Ford was so incredibly in love with Katharine Hepburn, close-ups like shining gold tokens charitably handed out.
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1936
For all its profusely fussy politicking, this feels like a very early manifestation of 7 WOMEN’s conflict between the Bancroft character and the Leighton character, which is to say a combat of women and worldviews — down to the same shot of two women facing each other down across a table with a light source between them. The other apparent thing here is that John Ford was so incredibly in love with Katharine Hepburn, close-ups like shining gold tokens charitably handed out.
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2021
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one of the first things gary says to alana is that they aren't going to forget each other. many detractors of the film have cited (without having the vocabulary) the picaresque plot and the rotating cast of characters as making the film loose or poorly structured. but is that not the point? alana and gary are traipsing through a myriad of adventures featuring the zaniest of san fernando's citizens and the film is literally forgetting them, while our protagonists themselves…
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1946
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The understated beauty of the way the film delineates gendered ideas of “building” — the way George wants to build cities and skyscrapers; late in the film, his hopes long abandoned and his security threatened, he destroys the models in his home in a blind rage.
Mary, meanwhile, has the patient mind of a termite and it is her imagination and hope for rebuilding 320 Sycamore that blooms metaphorically into Bailey Park; she makes out of George’s unwieldy, purposeless ambitions the very thing that makes his life so wonderful and so important, which is that he rebuilds and maintains the town of Bedford Falls.
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2021
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one of the first things gary says to alana is that they aren't going to forget each other. many detractors of the film have cited (without having the vocabulary) the picaresque plot and the rotating cast of characters as making the film loose or poorly structured. but is that not the point? alana and gary are traipsing through a myriad of adventures featuring the zaniest of san fernando's citizens and the film is literally forgetting them, while our protagonists themselves…
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1946
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The understated beauty of the way the film delineates gendered ideas of “building” — the way George wants to build cities and skyscrapers; late in the film, his hopes long abandoned and his security threatened, he destroys the models in his home in a blind rage.
Mary, meanwhile, has the patient mind of a termite and it is her imagination and hope for rebuilding 320 Sycamore that blooms metaphorically into Bailey Park; she makes out of George’s unwieldy, purposeless ambitions the very thing that makes his life so wonderful and so important, which is that he rebuilds and maintains the town of Bedford Falls.
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