First day of the week, so let's talk today about comedy, so that we can get rid of the darkness of Monday. And because the work week almost always goes at a crazy pace, let's remember one of the favorite movies that combines dizzying screwball comedy with love story.
Bringing up baby
Meet **David Huxley (Cary Grant)**: paleontologist. His main goal is to complete the assembly of the skeleton of a Brontosaurus, but he lacks a bone, the "intercostal clavicle." (What kind of name for a bone, huh?).
source Second goal, to marry his fiancée and partner Alice, a terribly strict woman, who puts David's career above their marriage. Add to that the need to persuade a wealthy lady, Mrs. Random to make a generous offer to the museum to continue his research. And you know how when someone makes plans, someone up there laughs. And here comes the typhoon Susan Vance (Katharine Hepburn).
When David meets the rich lady Radom's lawyer on a golf course, he falls on Susan, the complete opposite of David, a free-spirited, abstract spirit far removed from reason. She "steals" his golf ball, his car and finally his heart.
> "I will be with you in a minute, Mr. Peabody"Through a series of funny situations that reach the limits of the absurd, scenes that make you think how they can not happen to everyday people, this movie comes and make us believe that all these happening in the screen is something so natural.
Because, after all, who hasn't had a second appointment with the rich lady's lawyer in a club, where he meets the absolutely charmingly absurd Susan, accidentally she tears his jacket, he tears the back of her dress and they both have to leave the club cuddling in order to hide the tear in the back of Susan's dress.
> "I will be with you in a minute, Mr. Peabody"And who does not accept as a gift for their estate a tamed leopard, who loves caresses and jazz music?
> "This is probably the silliest thing that ever happened to me"Or finding the one bone you are looking for to complete the Brontosaurus skeleton and having stolen by George, the family dog, and hidden in a hole -unknown to you- dug up in an 1 acre yard? And following that dog to see where it hid that bone?
> "Susan, do you think George is really trying?"Our heroes get involved in incredible situations, due to Susan's "irrational logic", some random events and certainly thanks to the demonic script of Nichols and Wilde. But above all because of this almost "unknown" director, Howard Hawks, who has given us amazing films in various genres, "Scarface", "His Girl Friday", "Big Sleep" and other masterpieces.
Characteristic of all his films: the dynamic female characters, like Susan in this film. Susan falls first in love with David and does everything she can to conquer him (even hiding his clothes so he can not get married, leaving him only a woman's robe)
And this dynamic woman wins the heart of our dull, conservative professor, David, who knows that Susan is the love of his life, making his life more entertaining than ever, even though she may cause mayhem in her way. Even if she destroys four years' work...
Should you watch it? Yes, yes and yes. It is considered a classic and one of the must see films of all times. It is a love story, the protagonists have chemistry, "Baby" the leopard is an adorable kitten but most of all it is a hilarious film, that will make you laugh from scene one to the end.
“How can all these things happen to just one person?”
Thank you for reading!
