Roman Holiday

 

           I went down a trip in Audrey Hepburn Lane if you sort of catch my meaning, mainly because it was on my brothers list of cinemas I needed to watch but more importantly, they represent the month of February as well as Saint, Valentines Day also. Roman Holiday is in fact Audrey Hepburn's first major role in a movie, moreover, won her a Golden Globe for her performance in the movie as well. Also staring Gregory Peck and if your curious about the films I watched in terms of the males being older than their female co-stars I didn't really peg this till after watching this film as well as another Audrey Hepburn classic. 

           Overwhelmed by her suffocating schedule, touring European, Princess Ann (Audrey Hepburn) takes off for a night while in Rome. While falling asleep on a park bench, reporter Joe Bradley (Gregory Peck), who takes her to his apartment for safety. At work next morning, Joe finds out Ann's legal regal identity and wagers his editor he can get an exclusive interview with her, but romance gets in the way. 

           Audrey Hepburn long before Roman Holiday came into her life she started off mostly in the British movies during Post World War II era, moreover during finished production of Secret People, director Thorold Dickinson made a screen test with the young Hepburn and sent the screen test to director William Wyler, saw the test and was immediately wanting to cast Audrey Hepburn in the role and even the producers during pre-production wanted to cast Elizabeth Taylor, though after watching Audrey Hepburn's test they were also on board in skipping out on Elizabeth Taylor, which I would actually love to hear that situation in terms of who the producer that had to give Ms. Taylor the bad news and after that conversation got so upset that she married her latest male victim. And for me personally that was a great choice because she indeed has a great sense of charm and innocence and more importantly, she was funny and that shows from this movie as well as another Audrey Hepburn classic as well. Granted I've remembered seeing Breakfast At Tiffany's and thought that it was okay-ish considering she abandon's a cat for which me being an animal lover is a d**k move spoilers she really does reunite with her cat in the movie but still a d**k move I mean if you’re going to abandon anyone abandon your toxic boyfriend or girlfriend. But seeing this movie all the way through, I must say that she really does a fantastic job playing a Princess overwhelmed with of course being a Princess like most of the royal family is around the world (Hell take Prince Harry for example), and she gets one day where she gets to have all the time to herself as well as having fun with no one telling her what to do, moreover think that's a nice warm hearted story that everyone can relate too. And you have the ever-talented Gregory Peck playing the leading man for the young Audrey Hepburn too and let's not forget Cary Grant turned down the role because he himself, considered himself to be too old and yet he makes out with Grace Kelly, two years later with To Catch a Thief talk about hypocrisy. What I like most about the movie is that they simply shot the entire movie in Rome and used real locations as well as real shots of Rome in 1953. More importantly this film ends in the best way possible, mainly I imagined that something I would predict would happen and it didn't and I'm glad that they made me feel silly. I think if any movies to watch on Valentines Day or never seen any of Audrey Hepburn's filmography I would start off with the movie that made her famous and Roman Holiday is a perfect romantic comedy to set down with the love of your life and enjoy from beginning to the final frame.