“The Philadelphia story” is a movie that was released in 1940. Why am writing about this romantic comedy.. am I growing sappy being lonely horny and virile.. (proved by the fact that Santosh saw spidey 3 based on my suggestion..;).. lukd like he would hav murdered me if he wasn’t that many miles apart..;)..).. maybe all of that at some level but the main reason is that I found something more as to the roots of the fourth estate. Now I am sure you did not see that coming.
The movie as such has a brilliant script and is extremely comical. The whole satire with very well defined characters is held together with some brilliant acting from three of my all time favorites Cary Grant, Katherine Hepburn and Jimmy Stewart. If you got till here don’t give up..:).. Jimmy Stewart plays a reporter in the movie who is disgruntled by the fact that he has to cover social events in uptown Philadelphia rather than do some hard hitting factual writing. He is asked to cover one of the most upscale weddings ( Katherine Hepburn’s) and his editor gets him exclusive passage to get the behind the scene scoop on the wedding of the century by blackmailing her EX (Cary Grant) with some info on Hepburn’s dad.
The editor is extremely unscrupulous and will do anything to cater to the public which acts in the form of some justice towards the end of the film. It told me something about the media. This was a movie made almost 60 years ago and the issues of the fourth estate catering to what the public wants to hear was very powerfully said in a very comical storyline given that wasn’t the main storytelling point. On a side note the screenplay was brilliant because it was adapted from a Broadway stageplay .
Do watch the movie if you can find a copy.. I would give it a rating of 4/5 stars.
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