Only Angels Have Wings Howard Hawks, 1939, USA, Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Thomas Mitchell.
The splendid ode to friendship in this movie firm Howard Hawks must be one of the most deep and emotional that have rolled jamás.De extreme sensitivity Only Angels Have Wings fits naturally within the corpus Hawksiano "delves into key issues as developed throughout his work filmografía.Una which highlights their ability to roll films of any genre to be a pioneer in some of them ( Scarface, 1932, violent criminal foray into film) and reaching the highest levels in others (the same Scarface, the hilarious comedy The Bringing Up Baby , 1938) succeeded in developing a clear personal imprint under the rule of the studies through a lively style and quick with a camera and undetectable sober, far from other great directors like his contemporaries Hitchcock, Ford or Welles with a visual mark but the universe acusada.No "hawksiano" is readily identifiable, and, on this occasion, film one of his most personal, not only to include autobiographical episodes ( Hawks was a lover of motor sports and became a pilot cars and planes) or adapt a story itself, co-written with Jules Furthman the script, produce and direct, but to compose a story in which the loyalty and camaraderie (authentic leitmotifs of his work) are the axis on which it pivots.
of the concepts of friendship, honesty and loyalty and how people face death in this film is that it reflects the vital nature Howard Hawks and his way of trying life.This understand the concepts of capital importance for filmmaker they are presented with an apparent lightness and superficiality but as the emotional depth of the film very hondo.La construction of a magnificent character played by Cary Grant is symptomatic of the issues raised throughout the story: the spiritual leader of the group is a understanding person, caring and selfless you have to disguise their true feelings under a shell of hardness in order to unite the community they represent the aviators and tackle their intended fatalism given the difficulty of the undertaking diariamente.El rushing drama death is taught without falling into sentimentality and the viewer is aware of its continued presence for protagonistas.A Unlike many director's films, this time the female character is limited to breaking into the male world of the pilots and try to take their code of ethics to be the romantic subplot of the film's least successful probably because the filmmaker is focusing its efforts on the approach of the values \u200b\u200bquoted on any matter, about this we can say that the appearance of a young Rita Hayworth , the role that launched her fame, the story does not turn into a possible love triangle but develops into a much more interesting such as the communication and understanding within a relationship.
entertaining movie, much more than an adventure story, in which Hawks succeeds in translating their concerns, as always with a touch of humor, and manages to capture the definitions of the ideas of loyalty and friendship (especially in the relationship between Carter and Kidd , so often displayed in his films) in addition to including a good story of redemption, star starring Richard Barthelmess silent in what was his re-appearance after a hiatus of three años.No forget aviation scenes truly remarkable for the time taken in an imposing mountain landscape plays a critical role in the film trama.Precisamente was rewarded with a nomination in the first official edition of the Oscar that reward these spectacular special effects scenes that demonstrate the capacity for innovation and anticipating Hawks, in this respect include the discovery of the coin tricks would be used by Bob Kane to define Dos Caras / Harvey Dent in the Batman comic (reason recovered by Christopher Nolan in adapting to the character held in 2008, The Dark Knight ).
Only Angels Have Wings won commercial success but spends more or less unnoticed by the magnitude of the releases that occurred the year of its release (the mythical 1939) and is an interesting product that serves as a pretext to see the work of one of the greatest directors yesterday , today and probably forever.
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