It Happened One Night

It Happened One Night

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This movie was great a while ago. It might not seem that way now. It's poorly constructed and the editing is insufficient. It's just not like the movies now made in 2013. But if you go back to the time it was produced, it broke down barriers like none of the its competition. It paved ways for others in its genre. It won Oscars and other awards for being so amazing.
I can see it.

Ironically, it happened one night. It Happened One Night is a movie about a young heiress, Ellie, that runs away, or swims away, from her father and then tries to get away to New York City. On the way, she meets a journalist, Peter who was fired from his job and looking for a story to make him famous. That story just happens to be her. Unbeknownst to Ellie, her father has put out an award to whoever finds her and brings her home for her wedding. The heiress and journalist end up falling in love, which isn't a surprise to anyone. Peter realizes that he loves Ellie and goes to get money for the two to run away and get married without telling Ellie. He took the car of the owners of the hotel they're staying at without telling them. The owners are mad and kick Ellie, who was sleeping all this time, out. Mad at Peter, she turns herself in to her father.
The two are depressed being away from each other. Ellie tells her father about Peter and how different he was. He called her a brat and that her father raised Ellie wrong. The father and Peter meet and instead of asking for the reward, Peter only wants the money that he spent on Ellie. Convinced that the two need each other, her father tells Ellie that if she wants to leave her fiancé for Peter, he would support her. During the wedding, Ellie thinks about it and chooses Peter over her fiancé. Like any other romantic comedy, the two meet to get married.
I don't really like romantic comedies, but I was expecting a really elaborate plot that was hard to get into like most movies of the time. I enjoyed it because it went to the point of the plot quickly. The shots were mediocre and had the old time film timey feel to it. Overall it gets a 6.96/10 for me.

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1 comments:

  1. UnknownTuesday, December 10, 2013

    I haven't seen this one yet...you do a nice job of summarizing it.

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