“It happened one night” charming wild and unpredictable romantic comedy directed by Frank Capra. The protagonists, two beings who move in two totally opposite poles, wealth and poverty, intelligence and stupidity, and that destiny causes them to meet, the dramatic tension will be maintained by the confrontation between Ellie Andrews (Claudette Colbert), a rich and capricious young woman from high society and Peter Warne (Clark Gable) belonging to a popular class, more worldly and who must work to earn a living, which will produce a stark class struggle between both individuals
The young Ellie used to having everything she wants and annoyed by her father's prohibition to marry King Westley, a young playboy who seems only to seek a personal interest in this relationship, runs away in search of her fiancé and on the way, to she is a true adventure, she will find her totally opposite pair, Peter Warne, an attractive reporter who will help her meet her lover in exchange for a report, and what at first seems to start as a mere relationship of mutual interest, will end up becoming a true love.
Winner of the five most important Oscars in 1935: best film, best actor, best actress, best director and best screenplay for Robert Riskin, this director-screenwriter tandem would be one of the most fertile associations in Hollywood, in this case the screenplay by chance from a short story published in Cosmopolitan magazine entitled “night bus” Riskin was very interested in the text as a starting point for a cinematic comedy and the film opened the doors to the entire subgenre that came to be called screwball comedy, that typically American romantic comedy that populated movie screens between the 1930s and 1940s. The peculiar characteristics of this type of comedy are the tone of the dialogues with sharp and prickly retorts, exchanged at breakneck speed, and the esoteric and absurd aspect of the situations and environments used, in which the unexpected can arise at any time, in short, an unconventional appearance. In this Blog, we will remember many of the films belonging to this genre, since it seems to us that they fit in with how eccentric, picturesque and unpredictable life should seem.
