This article compares the romantic formula of the 1930s film 'History Is Made At Night' with the success of James Cameron's 'Titanic'.
Nobody needs to be reminded of how successful Titanic was, as James Cameron has taken enough victory laps lately. His 11-time Oscar-winning smash proved cartoonishly popular with...well, seemingly everyone, staying in theaters for over a year. It proved how effective a simple formula could be: take one attractive heterosexual couple, have them avoid numerous pitfalls and threats as they fall in love, have the climax be a ship sinking, and...
profit! But maybe people shouldn't have been so surprised by this, as it's a formula that worked nearly 60 years prior with an underseen and truly chaotic 1930s romantic comedy called History Is Made At Night. What Is 'History is Made At Night' About? All Irene (Jean Arthur) wants to do is divorce her ship-owner husband, Bruce (Colin Clive), but he's too busy being pure evil to let her. Not willing to let her go, he seeks to stop the divorce by making her look like a cheater, getting his poor driver, Michael (Ivan Lebedeff), to'get caught' in the same hotel room as Irene by a hired detective. Luckily for Irene, she's saved by the dashing Paul (Charles Boyer), a waiter who moonlights as a wannabe jewel thief who was planning on robbing her hotel room when he witnessed the frame-up. Once the two get past their awkward introduction, they quickly hit it off and fall into vintage Hollywood love, one that's built off of the contrast in energies that they have. Jean Arthur was well known for her frenetically voluble voice and easily ruffled demeanor, while Charles Boyer was always a cool customer with a slick playfulness hidden beneath his suave reserve. It makes for fertile ground for a push-and-pull romance that's less'enemies to lovers' and more'two dreamers approaching life from different angles,' which makes their gradual melting into each other so dream
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