“Roman Holiday” is one of the outstanding film that through the film history.
The charming Hepburn has her first starring role in this sweet romance, playing a European princess on an official tour through Rome. Frustrated by her lack of connection to the real world, she slips away from her protective handlers. Fatefully, she meets Joe Bradley who is an American newspaper reporter.
Because of him, she has unforgettable experience, living for one day as a normal person. She does all the things that she was not allowed to do before, such as cutting her hair, eating ice-cream, strolling down the streets and falling in love with an ordinary man -- Joe.
Andrey Hepburn as Princess Ann ('Anya Smith')
Joe Bradley, a young and charming journalist, is looking for news that might increase sales of his newspaper and bring some money in his pocket. At the beginning, he takes pictures of Princess Ann without her knowledge. However, in the end; he does not sell those photos to make money.
His relative "poverty" and Princess Ann's fabulous wealth and station present a barrier to their ever finding true love and happiness.
“Roman Holiday” is the film that brought Audrey Hepburn to prominence in Oscar, and the world movie audience went weak at the knees.
It is the natural and ingenuous performance that makes her such a charming and unforgettable character, a graceful presence on the screen. I have seen most of Miss Hepburn's movies and I can say that she was never more enchanting than she is here. She is gorgeous and cute at the same time, charming and impish, sweet, regal and very winning.
This is the most romantic film I have ever seen. Instead of the woman finding that the man she is in love with has fabulous wealth and position, it is the other way around. The ending manages to be realistic yet romantic so that one can almost believe the story is true.I believe that everyone of us would like to dream about what is like to be lost in the "eternal city" for one day and enjoy the simple things of life.
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It's interesting, Ming, that you would choose such a film to review. Some people your age might look askance at spending time on such an old film. I'd be interested to know why you chose this in the first place. Was it because you have seen other films with Audrey Hepburn and liked those?
In some case, when reading your writing here, I have the feeling that you used info from an outside source for this review. Remember that when and if you do so, you must quote the source.
In any case, you do a good job of describing the main story. After reading this review, I felt that I should watch this one again as well!
Thank you!
Hey Ming,
HHmmmm, how come and what drives you to watch this kind of movie.. and where did you watch this?
And.. what happened to them in the end? Did the royals finally accepted him? Or they run away and live happily after?
It makes me feel that you are very special to like to watch thic type of film :)
My comment to your review is that you have did a great job in the film description but i can't read much of your opinion to this film since this is a film review ...
So maybe you can add more of your opinions to this film review to make it better, perhaps? :P
hi Ming,
When I looked at your movie review, the first thing that attracted me was the pretty actress..she is very pretty. The actor looked older than the pretty princess. The story is interesting. As same as Sin's question, I am curious to know the ending part of the story too ...
Yeh, the movie is very interesting.
It expresses its theme in a simple but beautiful way. To some extent, it is like a comedy.
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