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A Close Reading and Analysis of Top Hat (1935)
Title: A Close Reading and Analysis of Top Hat (1935)
Category: Entertainment / Movies & Film
Details: Words: 1298 | Pages: 5.5 (approximately 235 words/page)
A Close Reading and Analysis of Top Hat (1935)
‘Top Hat’ is one of the all time great musicals of the 1930’s, and is the epitome of the RKO productions of the time and of the films of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. It had a familiar cast and plot structure, Astaire as an entertainer who stumbles upon love, which called for many to consider it as simply a remake of their earlier film ‘The Gay Divorcee’ (1934). It was one of the nine films …showed first 75 words of 1298 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1298 total…isn’t that much that “The Piccolino” does to drive narrative or relationships forward but acts as spectacle and celebration, and a way of rounding the film up. In tradition the final scenes of the film are played for comedy, we also see the final mistaken identity of the film, with Bates dressing as a clergyman, bringing things full circle and then the couple dancing into the distance in true ‘happily ever after’ Hollywood style.
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