I love every scene with Peter O'Toole and Katherine Hepburn - they just burn down the world. He says to her "I marvel at you after all these years. Still like a democratic drawbridge: going down for everybody. " and she replies, oh so laconically, "At my age there's not much traffic anymore. "
But its hard to watch the scenes between Eleanor and Richard, they are all too Edward Albee-like. I feel like I'm watching some demented historical version of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woofe?"
And I do agree with you about "Bringing Up Baby" and even "Philadelphia Story" - the acting is so overwrought, exaggerated, stylized. I don't think that until the great '39, there's a movie from that decade that really stands the test of time.
And if you really want to be nauseated, watch "My Man Godfrey" OMG, Carol Lombard makes Katherine Hepburn in BUB seem as nuanced as Meryl Streep in Silkwood.
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Date: 2015-09-13 10:11 pm (UTC)But its hard to watch the scenes between Eleanor and Richard, they are all too Edward Albee-like. I feel like I'm watching some demented historical version of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woofe?"
And I do agree with you about "Bringing Up Baby" and even "Philadelphia Story" - the acting is so overwrought, exaggerated, stylized. I don't think that until the great '39, there's a movie from that decade that really stands the test of time.
And if you really want to be nauseated, watch "My Man Godfrey" OMG, Carol Lombard makes Katherine Hepburn in BUB seem as nuanced as Meryl Streep in Silkwood.