Analysis

Analysis

Symbols and Tropes

Hero's Journey

Ordinary WorldThe Hero's Journey most closely mimics Eve's journey, making it more of an anti-Hero's journey. Her ordinary world is on the outside, waiting by the backdoor of a Broadway theater for...

Setting

Broadway, 1950Like the run of a play itself, All About Eve takes place over a few months in the "present day" of time period 1950. All About Eve couldn't take place anywhere else. Eve's scheme, whi...

Point of View

All About Eve… and Margo… and Karen…All About Eve is told almost entirely in flashback. From the moment Eve accepts her award at the beginning of the film, she hangs there suspended while we...

Genre

DramaAll About Eve might be the ultimate classic drama. It doesn't do anything to play with the genre or attempt to twist it in any way. It features masterful performances, a traditional character...

What's Up With the Title?

All About Who?"You all know all about Eve... what can there be to know that you don't know...?"That's what Addison says at the beginning of the movie, but he couldn't be more wrong. We don't know a...

What's Up With the Ending?

What goes around comes around. In the final scene, we see that Eve's about to get her comeuppance in the person of a star-struck young fan whose brazen invasion of Eve's life puts Eve's own invasio...

Shock Rating

PGAll About Eve was made in 1950, which means that it couldn't be shocking if it wanted to. Due to the Hays Code, a morality code for Hollywood pictures, there was very little "mature" language, ha...