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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (view source)
Revision as of 17:55, July 17, 2010
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But by film's end, Jefferson Smith's simple decency has won her affection and her loyalty. Curiously, Susan Paine is absent from the second half of the film, as she has clearly gained nothing.
But by film's end, Jefferson Smith's simple decency has won her affection and her loyalty. Curiously, Susan Paine is absent from the second half of the film, as she has clearly gained nothing.
== Erratum ==
== Errata ==
Senator Paine, in the heartbreaking session with Senator Smith in Paine's office, tells Smith that "thirty years ago, I had your ideals; I was you." This is inconsistent with the repeated assertions, elsewhere in the film, that Joseph Paine had been a Senator for ''twenty'' years, and that Jim Taylor had given him his start in politics by "pick[ing] [him] out of a hole in the wall and building [him] up to ''look'' like a Senator." (Thus Paine's career in politics began with his election to the Senate and ''not'' with any election, ten years earlier, to the House of Representatives.) This is also inconsistent with Smith's probable age, which was likely the same age as that of the actor, [[James Stewart]], who portrayed him. This is most likely a script editing mistake, the one reference to the span of Paine's career that the editorial department did not catch before shooting.
Senator Paine, in the heartbreaking session with Senator Smith in Paine's office, tells Smith that "thirty years ago, I had your ideals; I was you." This is inconsistent with the repeated assertions, elsewhere in the film, that Joseph Paine had been a Senator for ''twenty'' years, and that Jim Taylor had given him his start in politics by "pick[ing] [him] out of a hole in the wall and building [him] up to ''look'' like a Senator." (Thus Paine's career in politics began with his election to the Senate and ''not'' with any election, ten years earlier, to the House of Representatives.) This is also inconsistent with Smith's probable age, which was likely the same age as that of the actor, [[James Stewart]], who portrayed him. This is most likely a script editing mistake, the one reference to the span of Paine's career that the editorial department did not catch before shooting.
In the scene in the Senate cloakroom in which Paine indignantly refuses to accede to a motion to recommit the Deficiency Bill to conference with instructions to excise the appropriation for the Willet Dam, Paine calls the [[Vice President]] "Henry" by mistake. The only "Henry" who served as Vice President during the [[President|Presidency]] of [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] was [[Henry Wallace]]. But Wallace served during Roosevelt's third term, not his second. The Vice President should have been addressed as "John," for [[John Nance Garner]], who served as Vice President during Roosevelt's first eight years in office, including 1939—during which time Henry Wallace was serving as Secretary of Agriculture.
== Likely true-life analogues ==
== Likely true-life analogues ==