Great reviews😊. Bringing Up Baby is one of my favourites of all time. As with all true classics it does improve each time you watch it. So many great lines, comic situations & set-ups. One thing I missed originally is the sexual subtext. Hen-pecked Cary Grant is engaged to a woman who doen't want children, in fact doesn't want a honeymoon or 'domestic entanglements of any kind'. Grant is on a quest to find his 'bone' (manhood) whilst being put through many humiliating situations including crawling on his hands & knees and forced to wear a woman's frilly nighty. And even at the start his fiancee, Ms Swallows (sic), in reference to the placing of a dinosaur bone, alludes to trying 'in the tail' yesterday and it didn't fit😂.
Sort of in this same vein, one of the things we forgot to mention was how Grant calls himself gay sarcastically in a fit of frustration, the first time anyone has used that term to suggest they were homosexual ever in film.
Great reviews😊. Bringing Up Baby is one of my favourites of all time. As with all true classics it does improve each time you watch it. So many great lines, comic situations & set-ups. One thing I missed originally is the sexual subtext. Hen-pecked Cary Grant is engaged to a woman who doen't want children, in fact doesn't want a honeymoon or 'domestic entanglements of any kind'. Grant is on a quest to find his 'bone' (manhood) whilst being put through many humiliating situations including crawling on his hands & knees and forced to wear a woman's frilly nighty. And even at the start his fiancee, Ms Swallows (sic), in reference to the placing of a dinosaur bone, alludes to trying 'in the tail' yesterday and it didn't fit😂.
Sort of in this same vein, one of the things we forgot to mention was how Grant calls himself gay sarcastically in a fit of frustration, the first time anyone has used that term to suggest they were homosexual ever in film.