It's No Mystery Why The Thin Man Is So Entertaining When It's Lead Performances Are So Enjoyable

My first thought after finishing my first ever viewing of the 1934 thriller The Thin Man was "Wow, what an enjoyable film!". My second thought after finishing my first ever viewing of the 1934 thriller The Thin Man was "Thank God Johnny Depp never got to star in a remake of this." Depp was slated to play the lead character of these Thin Man movies Nick Charles in a Rob Marshall directed motion picture back in 2011/2012 and good gravy, that just sounds like a disaster waiting to happen. Just imagine Mortdecai waltzing around in the 1930's solving crimes while wearing an assortment of funny hats and making goo-goo eyes at an actress at least twenty years younger than him. Jesus Christ, I'm almost certain that's what his Thin Man movie would have ended up as.

Properly Maintaining Its Light Tone Is Not One Of The Stronger Suits Of The Mostly Pleasant L'Atalante

Sight & Sound Voyage Entry #29
Placement On Sight & Sound Top 50 Movies List: #12

It can be tough sometimes to review classical movies through a millennial prism, only because not everything from older movies is going to hold up. Pieces of dialogue and actions now considered to be unacceptable in our modern society may have once been deemed fine as rain to do in even the most serious circumstances. You can even see this phenomenon in films made as late as the 2000's; there's plenty of gay panic jokes or gags that are incredibly demeaning towards the LGBTQA community in plenty of supposedly light-hearted comedies. Times change, but art is always stuck in the era in which it was made which means the vast majority of cinema, for instance, may carry over aspects from certain eras that seem unsavory in today's world.

It Happened One Night Review (Classic Write-Up)

Frank Capra spent 35 years directing feature films for Hollywood, accumulating a resume brimming with noteworthy titles today well up by film historians as some of the best motion pictures ever made. Hell, It's A Wonderful Life alone would give Capra a pass even if the rest of his filmography solely consisted of him directing direct-to-video Land Before Time sequels. But like I said, there's plenty of other significant projects that the fellow helmed back in the day, one of those features being the subject of this review, the 1934 romantic-comedy It Happened One Night.