The Contenders:
All About Eve (winner)
The Asphalt Jungle
Born Yesterday
Broken Arrow
Father of the Bride
Showing posts with label Born Yesterday. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Born Yesterday. Show all posts
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Watching Oscar: Born Yesterday
Film: Born Yesterday
Format: DVD from Northern Illinois University Founders Memorial Library on big ol’ television.
Format: DVD from Northern Illinois University Founders Memorial Library on big ol’ television.
I think it’s hard to play dumb convincingly. Sure, plenty of people in the movies play dumber than they are, but a lot of them don’t do it very well. That vacuous, nothing-going-on-behind-the-eyes look takes real talent. Judy Holliday could pull it off so well that it’s tempting to think she might really have been that empty between the ears. That’s talent. Bette Davis couldn’t do it and neither could Katherine Hepburn. If you really want to see someone very smart act very, very dumb, you’ll want to take a close look at Born Yesterday.
Harry Brock (Broderick Crawford) is a junk dealer, and one who has never really worried too much about the legality of what he does. Because of this, he has a great deal of influence and money and he’s looking for more of both. He arrives in Washington where he meets with Jim Devery (Howard St. John), his lawyer. Their discussion is (we gather—it’s never very explicit) on how to spend enough money in Congress to get some shady deals moved through.
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