It Happened One Night Scene 17 Meaning
Emi Bullard
It Happened One Night
Scene 17 As the ever-changing relationship between Clark Gable as the rough around the edges reporter Peter Warren and, the leading lady Cauldette Colbert as the spoiled heiress Ellen Andrews also known as Ellie. In It Happened One Night Frank Capra portrayed how two people from opposite lifestyles could fall in love. The only way that the two became so intimate is because Peter treated Ellie as a child.
Ellie and Peter are a classic lady and the tramp scenario, where the guy from the wrong side of the track leads the girl back to where she belongs. In the beginning of the movie Peter is shown to be a terrible reporter that needs a great story to be on top again. As they get closer together Peter starts treating her as if she were a child this can be seen vividly in the haystack scene (). In the beginning of the scene they have just left a broken down bus and from shapely a shift character who wants to get the reward on Ellie. As they are walking it becomes dark and they stop at a cow pasture. …show more content…
He throws the bag over the fence, goes through the fence then he offers his hand but she didn’t take it so he grabbed her arm to help her through (00:54:32). He pulls down the hay out of the haystack to make her bed as a father would his little girl. And when she tells him she is hungry he says, “it’s just your imagination”(). He writes off her hunger then he tries to reason her out of her “imaginary hunger”. As he is doing this he is shifting the hay so that it is more comfortable to sleep on for her and she is just watching, not even offering to help. He tells her that her bed is ready; guilt starts to settle in for him as he looks at Ellie the shot cuts back and forth a couple times. Then his line of vision goes outside the boundaries of the scene he looks off screen essentially.
It Happened One Night
Scene 17 As the ever-changing relationship between Clark Gable as the rough around the edges reporter Peter Warren and, the leading lady Cauldette Colbert as the spoiled heiress Ellen Andrews also known as Ellie. In It Happened One Night Frank Capra portrayed how two people from opposite lifestyles could fall in love. The only way that the two became so intimate is because Peter treated Ellie as a child.
Ellie and Peter are a classic lady and the tramp scenario, where the guy from the wrong side of the track leads the girl back to where she belongs. In the beginning of the movie Peter is shown to be a terrible reporter that needs a great story to be on top again. As they get closer together Peter starts treating her as if she were a child this can be seen vividly in the haystack scene (). In the beginning of the scene they have just left a broken down bus and from shapely a shift character who wants to get the reward on Ellie. As they are walking it becomes dark and they stop at a cow pasture. …show more content…
He throws the bag over the fence, goes through the fence then he offers his hand but she didn’t take it so he grabbed her arm to help her through (00:54:32). He pulls down the hay out of the haystack to make her bed as a father would his little girl. And when she tells him she is hungry he says, “it’s just your imagination”(). He writes off her hunger then he tries to reason her out of her “imaginary hunger”. As he is doing this he is shifting the hay so that it is more comfortable to sleep on for her and she is just watching, not even offering to help. He tells her that her bed is ready; guilt starts to settle in for him as he looks at Ellie the shot cuts back and forth a couple times. Then his line of vision goes outside the boundaries of the scene he looks off screen essentially.