Critical Review for Film: It Happened One Night (1934) Since this week is a very busy week for me, so I decided to choose a film mentioned in this week’s reading that I have never watched before and watch it at home. A lot of the films mentioned in the chapter are great representations for certain film genres, and after reading the brief synopsis about each film, I chose a classic romantic comedy: It Happened One Night. It Happened One Night by Frank Capra is about a spoiled heiress named Ellie Andrews who married a wealthy playboy named King Westley despite her father’s objection. In order to keep Ellie from marrying the playboy, her father puts her on his yacht and wants to take her away. Ellie escape from the family by jumping off her father’s yacht and swims to the shore. After she gets to the shore, she slips onto a bus where she meets a newspaper reporter, Peter Warne, who has been fired from the job. Ellie makes a deal with Peter about helping her to get to New York then he can write a scoop about her in the newspaper, after Peter reveals that he knows her identity. Peter refuses and tells Ellie that he is not interesting in her money or anything that is related to her. Things changed while they are traveling together to New York. They faced a lot of difficulties during this “trip” and finally, Peter and Ellie fall in love …show more content…
Still the class difference is a huge gap between the newspaper reporter and the heiress. The newspaper reporter’s salary is only 30 dollars a week, but for the heiress, the amount of family property she is going to get is inconceivable. At the end of the film, the difference between classes is put aside, the heiress runs away from the wealthy playboy to the newspaper reporter. Ellie’s father also approves their relationship because he thinks Peter is a honest and hardworking