jueves, 8 de abril de 2010

Movie Review: Libeled Lady

This movie is from the year 1936 and its stars are William Powell, Myrna Loy, Spencer Tracy and Jean Harlow. It has one nomination for the Oscar as best picture.
The Libeled Lady is about a man(Spencer Tracy) that works in a newspaper company that invented a story about a romance between a high society woman(Myrna Loy) and a married man. Despite of their efforts to stop production and prevent her from reading the story she does, and with the help of her father they sue the company for enought money to make them go bankrupt. At the same time, Jean Harlow is the fiancee of Spencer Tracy and are supposed to marry on the same day, but because of the situation pospone the marriage. He goes to a friend he had (William Powell) who is known as a ladies man and tells him that if he makes the high society woman fall in love with him, then he will give him a lot of money and ends falling in love of her.
What I love about this movie is that there are 2 strong and leading ladies in the same movie, aka Loy and Harlow, which developed their characters really good, making them as believable as possible. While Loy had to be a little bitchy at the beggining and egocentric, we see her changing as she falls in love and decides to marry Powell, making it a perfect love story between the 2 of them, along with its inside drama. Harlow, on the other hand is the angry but still caring fiancee of Spencer Tracy, who doesnt see what he has in front of him and, in a desperate attempt to get attention, falls in love with Powell and creates a problem with the newlyweds, making this a most want comedy-love story and a must see.
What I also love about the movie is that it is in black and white. In my opinion, I think that black and white movies make the actors in the screen more real and able to make more face gestures which are more believable(because of the lack of effects) another thing is that because all the things that are around the actors in the film are black or grey, the only thing that stands is their faces, which you see white, making it an advantage to them to caputure the attention on the actors, which also represents more charisma from them.
Finally, i definitley reccomend this movie, as you can see really good actors in the same movie and have a laught at the comedic elements that there are.

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