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Part A: I chose to watch the movie His Girl Friday. I found the concept of the movie to be quite entertaining and felt that it would be interesting to watch. I found the characters to be intriguing. The storyline also seemed very interesting; I wanted to learn more about it. I find an old classic movie to be very entertaining. The film work was very old fashioned and fascinating to watch.

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1. The main journalists are Walter Burns and his ex-wife Hildy Johnson. Walter is a hard-boiled editor for The Morning Post who learns his ex-wife and former star reporter, Hildegard "Hildy" Johnson, is about to marry bland insurance man Bruce Baldwin and settle down to a quiet life as a wife and mother in Albany, New York. Walter does everything he can to keep Hildy from leaving, including setting Bruce up so he gets arrested over and over again on trumped-up charges. I could tell that Walter and Hildy were married before, but I assumed that since Walter wanted Hildy to stay in his newspaper company and marry her again, he still had feelings …show more content…

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