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How to do "rich" in America

Posted by Bambi B (A) on November 11, 2005 at 10:18:47

In Reply to: Carole Lombard truly sparkles in My Man Godfrey posted by Victor Khomenko on November 11, 2005 at 07:24:03:

Victor,

"My man Godfrey" is just an excellent movie on so many levels.

Of course, the humour is marvelous, but it has a more subtle, deeper side- the story of two kinds of Depression-era elite: the ones that are idle, superficial, and completely self-indulgent (the Bullocks), and the ones who take responsibility (Godfrey) and do everything they do with fairness, compassion, dignity, and for long-term and broader benefit.

The Bullocks shatter store windows, play humiliating games where a "forgotten man" has the same value to the game as a goat, and ride stolen horses into the library (to me, symbolic of shitting on culture). By contrast, the Godfreys, ruin themselves rather than robbing their stockholders and employees for another Packard, take a job as a servant to live at least on a basic level of dignity, and at the earliest opportunity take a trash pile and build a business on it.

It's fun, entertaining, side-splittingly funny- and tells a timely story about how to do rich in America. I'm not rich, but when I see "My Man Godfrey" I ask myself: am I a Bullock or a Godfrey?***

A great one !

Cheers,

Bambi B

***Of course, a little of both !

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