Movie Review - Platinum Blonde
Platinum Blonde (1931)
directed by Frank Capra
rating: 5 out of 5 cravats
on DVD from Netflix
"Platinum Blonde" is as great a Capra movie as you could hope for, like "The Philadelphia Story" stripped of its uncomfortable but inevitable reverence for the upper class. In that movie, Dex gets to be hero - the instigator and redeemer - and it's Tracy who changes Macaulay's mind about their marriage.
In "Platinum Blonde," Stew makes his mistake, marries the socialite, then falls in love (or back in love) with the woman he should have married in the first place. He makes it right, too, with her help. Gallagher's essentially Liz Imbrie's character, but more elegant a working girl - truer, I think, like Ozu's women - a little sadder, and also Liz's near ten-year precedent.
"The most ordinary guy in the world, me," and that's why Capra's a genius.
It's been awhile, so pick of the week.
directed by Frank Capra
rating: 5 out of 5 cravats
on DVD from Netflix
"Platinum Blonde" is as great a Capra movie as you could hope for, like "The Philadelphia Story" stripped of its uncomfortable but inevitable reverence for the upper class. In that movie, Dex gets to be hero - the instigator and redeemer - and it's Tracy who changes Macaulay's mind about their marriage.
In "Platinum Blonde," Stew makes his mistake, marries the socialite, then falls in love (or back in love) with the woman he should have married in the first place. He makes it right, too, with her help. Gallagher's essentially Liz Imbrie's character, but more elegant a working girl - truer, I think, like Ozu's women - a little sadder, and also Liz's near ten-year precedent.
"The most ordinary guy in the world, me," and that's why Capra's a genius.
It's been awhile, so pick of the week.
posted by NPK at 7:59 AM
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