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In Reply to: Re: The Bishop's Wife posted by patrickU on April 26, 2005 at 07:49:52:
I am not sure that love would be the right word. I think he experienced something akin to love, but I think that he fell in love with the concept of love, and wanted to stay. I think he liked the idea of building a life with someone, rather than entering a life, doing his job, then leaving for another job. He comments at the end of the film that he would like to stay. But I think it is more because of his desire to have the life that the Bishop has. In the end, the Bishop's jealousies, well founded or not, forced him to appreciate his wife more. Certainly, if you are David Niven, and an angel shows up looking and acting like Cary Grant, and you have an attractive wife, I suspect that jealousies will rear their head. Better an angel that looks like Ernest Borgnine.
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Ah ha! That is really true! Better Ernest!
Still I think this film is not as " innocent " as it look at first glance.
Grant not only manage to win all his family but made all the wrongs to rights, being a caring would be husband & father & church manager ecetera...
A little weaked, would you not say?
I am not sure if that is the movie, or Cary Grant. Grant always had that demeanor that regardless of what he did, or was supposed to do, he had that menacing glint in his eye - like he always had something else in mind, and that something else usually had to do with the ladies. I suspect that Grant could be a priest, in a monastery, could not utter a word, and he would have that look of being up to no good.
That is perfectly true, and Hitch used him for that glance in " Suspicion ". But the script let me no doubt about what I wrote...
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