{"id":65079,"date":"2013-02-25T12:48:07","date_gmt":"2013-02-25T17:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=65079"},"modified":"2015-07-02T08:36:04","modified_gmt":"2015-07-02T12:36:04","slug":"youre-getting-a-little-normal-howard-hawks-to-cary-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=65079","title":{"rendered":"“You’re getting a little normal.” – Howard Hawks to Cary Grant"},"content":{"rendered":"

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From Who the Devil Made It: Conversations with Legendary Film Directors<\/a>\"\"<\/i>, by Peter Bogdanovich<\/p>\n

By the end of the film, would you say that [Cary] Grant has abandoned his scientific life?<\/p>\n

Well, let’s say he mixed it. He had an awfully good time and if anyone had to choose between the two girls, they’d certainly choose Hepburn. We start off, as I said, with a complete caricature of the man and then reduce it to give him a feeling of normality because he certainly wouldn’t have had any fun going through life the other way, would he? You’ve got a rather happy ending. You have to almost overdo it a little in the beginning and then he becomes more normal as the picture goes along, just by his association with the girl. Grant said, “I’m kind of dropping my characterization.” I said, “No, she’s having some influence on you. You’re getting a little normal.”<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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