tell me why we watched this to study queer feminist cinema when it wasn’t queer or feminist apart from hepburn looking a little bit like a lesbian

yelling—angry.
waving my HANDS a lot.

specific point of view on things.

cynthia cyn-THI-a
jesus DIED for our cynthia (darrington)s.
jesus CRIED. runaway bride. 
katharine hepburn. katharine HEP...burns

CYNTHIA
mmmm cynthia 
YOU’RE DEAD 
you are dead

bop boop beep boop bop you’re dead

I like to think Katharine Hepburn's performance here served as inspiration for some; some young girl who saw this and wanted to be just like her and just pretended it had a different ending. There's a commentary to be found here, a progressive one hidden behind the conventional moral here; you could turn this easily into an argument for, say, Choice, or against traditional views of men and women, or against monogamy, even. Still, there's undercurrents here that have unfortunate ideas lurking within them; noble sacrifice for a man is ignoble in my eyes, for instance. Mostly, though, it mystifies why Hepburn's character isn't the title character and why she isn't first billed.

Glad I watched this, even though the messages here regarding women are suspect. One thought that consoled me as I watched Katharine Hepburn make sacrifices for a lover who sacrificed nothing is that, well, at least this film wasn’t directed by a man 🥴

J'ai décidé de couper dans le café cette semaine (le café de trop, pas tout le café, je suis pas fou) pour essayer de régler des problèmes d'insomnie persistants, ce qui fait que quand arrive le soir je suis dans un état semi-comateux où j'arrive pas à savoir si je suis fatigué ou si c'est le manque de caféine qui parle (sans doute les deux). C'était parfait pour regarder Stranger Things dans les derniers jours, mais moins pour ce film, perçu bien loin à travers la brume, et dont il ne me reste déjà ce matin que le souvenir de la silhouette souveraine d'une jeune et fière Katharine Hepburn. Mais bon, c'est déjà beaucoup, il n'y avait pas ça dans Stranger Things.

Conclusion: je buvais trop de café, et Hepburn survit à tout.

everything here feels half baked. dorothy arzner had a lot of interesting ideas. unfortunately, they were mostly diluted by early/mid 20th century ideas about womanhood. i wish she was working today so we could see her truly shine. 

(side note: this is a film in which katharine hepburn attempts to break records through aviation and repeatedly risks her life doing so while her partner is made miserable by her antics. from my limited knowledge of the hepburn/howard hughes romance, wasn’t that the nature of their relationship? him almost dying and her shitting her pants over it? life imitates art.)

christopher: cynthia i love you and i would never make you stop flying

not five minutes later

christopher: give up your career, i'm horny

couldn’t stop LAUGHING because katharine hepburn was so not straight, or maybe she was straight and just wore pants a lot and everyone made it more than it was? which is still funny  to me in this context, and dorothy arzner was ALSO so gay like why did she make this,  dorothy i just wanna UnderSTAND! i jusr wanna taLK! 

watching it without this context it is boring, BUT with that knowledge it becomes so much more interesting.

also THE ENDING?????? i had to laugh 

Ironicamente o filme mais feminista de Arzner tem o título original de 'Christopher Strong', sendo que o homem nada mais é nesse filme que um grande coadjuvante.

Ég hata þessa mynd

Pre-Code étonnant que ce Christopher Strong, qui dénonce l’adultère en faisant mourir la non-officielle mais le personnage est tellement charismatique et bigger than life que le châtiment en reste stérile.
Katharine Hepburn, dont c’est le deuxième film, incarne un personnage idéal, une femme libre, indépendante, s’affranchissant de toute norme, toute barrière. Les autres personnages sont mièvres face au sien et même les dialogues, souvent prononcés avec une tonalité à la limite du ridicule, ne réussissent guère à affecter le charme vénéneux qu’il diffuse.

Watched this last night and forgot to log it. 
Dorothy Arzner is a wonderful director, and as slow and uninteresting I found this film to be I still greatly admire how much she has influenced cinema. There were certain technical aspects in this film that caught my attention even though I found myself getting quite tired of it soon in.

“Courage conquers death.”

"Now talk about me!"

yelling—angry.
waving my HANDS a lot.

specific point of view on things.

cynthia cyn-THI-a
jesus DIED for our cynthia (darrington)s.
jesus CRIED. runaway bride. 
katharine hepburn. katharine HEP...burns

CYNTHIA
mmmm cynthia 
YOU’RE DEAD 
you are dead

bop boop beep boop bop you’re dead

Katherine Hepburn is fantastic, why the heck is this film called Christopher Strong though?? If anything it should be Cynthia Darrington. Oh well...