Roman Holiday

I like to keep things changing on the blog by watching things of different genre's so as to avoid the boredom of having only action posts appearing one after the other. I know that I haven't yet done a silent movie but I have a Buster Keaton one that I want to watch so it will feature within the next two weeks.

I've taken a trip back towards the beauty of old films and have turned back to Audrey Hepburn, this time alongside Gregory Peck for the film 'Roman Holiday'.

My admiration for Audrey Hepburn just grows and grows every time that I see one of her films. To an extent she plays the same characters but like Colin Firth, she is exceptionally good at playing similar characters. I found her character of royalty a treasure to behold and I was very satisfied with her performance. There were some crazy moments in the film that made me laugh and there were some other moments when I almost wanted to bury my head in my hands. None of it was bad but the naivety of some of the characters was at times too much to bear.

Gregory Peck was calm and composed. At times he was so calm that it was hard to think that he was anything but a fictional character because all the excitement was controlled, almost boxed away somewhere. The character was fantastic and something of a treasure. A guy that ends up with royalty staying in his apartment hardly shows any excitement or emotion about it- a reporter who's financial situation very much depends on getting a story from this woman and yet he doesn't write it down and doesn't publish it.

The scenes of Rome were lovely and even though it was a black and white film the sight of Rome was captured perfectly from the motorbike scene. I was very pleased with this film and so relieved to be able to say that I have seen Roman Holiday.