Adam's Rib (Man and Wife) (1949)
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"Feministinen tai ainakin feministisillä teemoilla leikittelevä komedia juristipariskunnasta jotka taistelevat toisiaan vastaan oikeudessa samassa keississä. Oikeuskeissin argumentit ovat aika kummallisia ja paikoin leffa menee ihan liikaa melko hölmöksi farssiksi, varsinkin kohdauksessa jossa naisvoimamies nostaa yhdellä kädellä Spencer Tracyn ilmaan lakihuoneessa (ja siimat näkyvät äärimmäisen selvästi kuvassa). En tiedä oliko leffalla tarkoitus olla joku kärkevä sanomakin, mut"
" Notes: Back in those days, Katharine Hepburn was the best actress around and it has always been a pleasure to watch one of her movies. Since this flick was one of her classics, I was really eager to check it out and it turned out to be an interesting romantic-comedy. I mean, you had the usual slapstick common for this period but it had also some actual serious thoughts about women rights. Actually, I think they tried to deal with a sensitive subject but, to make it more bearable to watch, they"
" Notes: Back in those days, Katharine Hepburn was the best actress around and it has always been a pleasure to watch one of her movies. Since this flick was one of her classics, I was really eager to check it out and it turned out to be an interesting romantic-comedy. I mean, you had the usual slapstick common for this period but it had also some actual serious thoughts about women rights. Actually, I think they tried to deal with a sensitive subject but, to make it more bearable to watch, they"
"First viewing - May 8th I was really enjoying Adam's Rib up until its final moments. Hepburn and Tracy are expectedly wonderful playing off each other, and their performances cannot be faulted. I can imagine the impact this film must have had at the time of its release given the way it looks at female equality, and for the most part the script handles the subject wonderfully. But then the ending comes along and kind of goes against it and it just didn't sit right with me. So I'm not sure I'd si"
"“By the conclusion, any number of archetypal male-female eruptions occur, and both Hepburn and Tracy are remarkably eloquent from their opposing viewpoints…. had a way of not quite learning his lines perfectly. He learned them, but just to the point where he wasn’t quite sure he knew them – so that he would sometimes seem to be searching for the word, as we do in life.” -Peter Bogdanovich"
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