Film Review: Frank Capra’s Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

When Mr. Smith of Frank Coupla went to Washington, innocent Jefferson Smith served as a senator in Washington, DC. So, he learned that politics was not so transparent. Mr. Smith, released in 1939, was the most successful year in the history of movies, became a huge hit and it was easy to become the second biggest movie of that year. But this popular movie, which was also the year of World War II and the relationship between war and the Great Depression in 1939 is to cause conflicts and controversies among the audience including the world audience.

In Hollywood, Potomac from Frank Coupla's Mr. Smith to Mr. Washington (1939), Mr. Canning considers the general view of the capital to be negative. Looking back at the content of hundreds of movies that even used Washington, Canning said that the city was seen as basically politically corrupt as a city. "The city where the real inhabitants really do not resonate, it was not so, Washington is a stereotype," Miss Sloan is a good example. She shows Jessica Chastain as an intense lobbying for Washington officials. It is a person. Like James Stewart played Thomas Jefferson Smith in Capra's movies, early movies like Mr. Smith are more discreet, innocent and steep independent from the classical American theme independent and challenging It is a system.

Frank Coupla's controversial 1939 film "Mr. Smith goes to Washington" is a young, innocent young man who was taken to Washington on behalf of a fictitious senator Samuel Foley who recently died It is a story of an inexperienced politician. There are many themes in this movie, but the most prominent is the idea that the media controls citizen politicians' perception. They can make people a dedicated and hardworking civil servant or a self-centered and enthusiastic person. By using roles such as Governer Hopper, Jim Taylor, Senator and Chick McGann you can see how Capra is looking at Washington's politics.