BRINGING
UP BABY (1938)
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Summary: "A series of misadventures from beginning to end." |
Bringing Up Baby is admittedly one of my all-time favorite
films, and
not because I think it's a great film, or that it makes me think,
but
that it takes me back to a simpler time. A time that to me is
idyllic
and dreamlike... and it inspires me creatively.
Now all that aside, it is a great movie, and proved Katharine
Hepburn
could not be typecast. The times, the chemistry, the dialog,
the
craziness. All work together to paint a timeless masterpiece
so
palpable it has endured for over 65 years.
Bringing Up Baby is what happens when 2 actors with perfect
comedic
chemistry let loose. Much of the script becomes improvised physical
comedy, from the high heel's unintentional break, we find these
two are
able to pull out of any accidental dive without a slip of step
or
momentum.
Cary Grant is David, a zoologist who is supposed to be getting
married
to a woman who is just so wrong for him, and Katharine Hepburn
is
Susan, a crazy, manipulative woman with a leopard.
This movie is quirky, crazy, and fun.
A movie about paralleling mix-ups on every level from golf
balls, cars,
shirttails and dresses, dinosaur bone, to even a leopard that's
escaped
from a zoo! This movie keeps raising the ante and the tension,
in an
effort to bring these two fated soul mates together.
Harold Lloyd (Cary Grant) the bumbling bespectacled silent
film
comedian was the inspiration for Cary Grant's David Huxley.
In turn,
Christopher Reeve's Clark Kent was patterned after Huxley! Isn't
it
neat how all this things come together? It's almost uncanny
how many
comedians and television characters got their start because
of Cary
Grant and Katherine Hepburn. Ross from Friends, Christopher
Reeve's
Clark Kent, the list is really endless, these two have influenced
comedy and film forever.
"Now it isn't that I don't like you Susan because after
all, in moments
of quiet I'm strangely drawn toward you, but well, there haven't
been
any quiet moments" Or when the Colonel sees the leopard
and says in
much distress to Elizabeth, "Don't you think it's kind
of chilly out
here without a gun?"
