Trouble In Paradise (1932) :
Brief Review -
It could have been Wonderful, glorious, divine but the trouble in Climax.. A pre-code romantic comedy and con drama gets mixtured too early than expected in Hollywood and may be that's 'Too early' is the reason for the trouble in climax. Trouble in Paradise begins on hilarious note where you see 2 Cons are impressing each other by stealing things from each other and then falling in love. Then comes a rich widow who falls in love with the crook, whose only aim is to rob her. This creates a live triangle towards the end and all of sudden a good looking film loses all the charm and intelligence for the sake of Love angle. I could never go along with the leading character of the film, the male crook who changes his decisions like oscillation in the last 10 minutes. First he wants to rob the rich lady and run away with his girlfriend but the mext moment he's in love with the rich lady. Suddenly, he becomes man of the principles and confesses all his sins to her and the next moment he's back to his old loving girl. Okay, love happens like this? Seriously? Was it really Love or a clockwork bell who keep changing the direction from right to left every minute? To hell with the philosophy. Now coming to the positive sides, Trouble In Paradise is fact paced, less boring and overall really good film but the climax insisted, "It could have been wonderful" (as they say innthe film). This dialogue from film is my Verdict of the film. The leading trio Miriam Hopkins, Kay Francis and Herbert Marshall holds the narrative very much. Screenplay in the begining is too good but lost the charm towars the ending part. I don't know what's that people call 'Lubitsch Touch' which at least I couldn't find in the film. Or was it just me who expecting too much from the film that released in 1932 when there were hardly few films with promising cult ending. His direction was fairly good but far away from what i call a Quality Cinema. I am referring very much to the fiasco and oscillating climax. I can call Trouble In Paradise a one time watch but Classic? A big NO by far and i think the typical love angle in the climax is the reason.
RATING - 6/10*
By - #samthebestest
It could have been Wonderful, glorious, divine but the trouble in Climax.. A pre-code romantic comedy and con drama gets mixtured too early than expected in Hollywood and may be that's 'Too early' is the reason for the trouble in climax. Trouble in Paradise begins on hilarious note where you see 2 Cons are impressing each other by stealing things from each other and then falling in love. Then comes a rich widow who falls in love with the crook, whose only aim is to rob her. This creates a live triangle towards the end and all of sudden a good looking film loses all the charm and intelligence for the sake of Love angle. I could never go along with the leading character of the film, the male crook who changes his decisions like oscillation in the last 10 minutes. First he wants to rob the rich lady and run away with his girlfriend but the mext moment he's in love with the rich lady. Suddenly, he becomes man of the principles and confesses all his sins to her and the next moment he's back to his old loving girl. Okay, love happens like this? Seriously? Was it really Love or a clockwork bell who keep changing the direction from right to left every minute? To hell with the philosophy. Now coming to the positive sides, Trouble In Paradise is fact paced, less boring and overall really good film but the climax insisted, "It could have been wonderful" (as they say innthe film). This dialogue from film is my Verdict of the film. The leading trio Miriam Hopkins, Kay Francis and Herbert Marshall holds the narrative very much. Screenplay in the begining is too good but lost the charm towars the ending part. I don't know what's that people call 'Lubitsch Touch' which at least I couldn't find in the film. Or was it just me who expecting too much from the film that released in 1932 when there were hardly few films with promising cult ending. His direction was fairly good but far away from what i call a Quality Cinema. I am referring very much to the fiasco and oscillating climax. I can call Trouble In Paradise a one time watch but Classic? A big NO by far and i think the typical love angle in the climax is the reason.
RATING - 6/10*
By - #samthebestest