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INTROS MEME 3

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What hill are you willing to die on?

And this can be about anything?

Try not to depress me.

The Philadelphia Story should have ended in a three-way relationship between Hepburn, Grant, and Stewart.

Grant and Stewart have as much chemistry with each other as either does with Hepburn, and the film spends much of its runtime luxuriating in the tension among all three. Every scene in which Grant and Stewart verbally spar is alight with the same sexual frisson that screwball comedies usually reserve for male-female pairings. The eventual ending (pairing Stewart off with Ruth Hussey) is simply the most socially acceptable way to collapse a genuinely triadic dynamic back into respectable couples. To me, this is an act of narrative cowardice.

Design for Living had the courage to embrace a bolder resolution seven years earlier -- before the Hays Code made such things unthinkable, of course. By comparison, The Philadelphia Story's conclusion blunts the very energy that makes the film so alive. This timidity -- along with some of the film's dated gender politics -- ultimately hampers it. Hepburn and Grant's other collaborations, like Bringing Up Baby and Holiday, are far more adventurous and satisfying.

Edited (typo) 2026-01-15 10:21 (UTC)

Are you embarrased ever about your past in television?

Ah. Sometimes, yes. Sometimes it feels like a frivolous way to have spent one’s youth. So many of our compatriots were busy becoming indispensable while I was learning how to look good under the right lighting.

This is during the Fall?

Before.

What would you do differently?

I don’t think I would have accepted the chip so easily, though there’s a good chance I would have ended up with one anyway. I would have been more careful with my affairs in my twenties.

I go back and forth on whether I would have settled down before the Fall. There are some things that now feel as though it’s far too late to pursue.

Aren't your twenties for affairs?

Never too late.

Yes, but you may recall the decapitation incident.

Nonsense. Marriage and children -- those are a young man's game.

Edited 2026-01-15 10:33 (UTC)

Using the retrospectoscope, doesn't the decapitation incident strike you as a little funny? Certainly more exciting than anything that happened in the three years of my twenties before I became a zombie.

And now I'm depressed. You did that.