Bringing Up Baby was pretty funny from start to finish. Here you have a troubled paleontologist paired with a free-spirited woman (although some may refer to her as absentminded) trying to find a leopard. Just going off of the title I assumed that the show would be about a married couple raising a child, but it was the complete opposite. I argue that this movie was about letting go and learning to appreciate life. Further, one should always focus on what makes them happy and not be assuaged by the judgement of others. I’ve gathered this solely based on the change of character portrayed in the main character, David, as he interacted with Susan.

 We first notice that David may be unhappy when his fiancee, Alice, insinuates that he nails his meeting with Mr. Peabody in order to guarantee a million -dollar donation to the museum. While he is most excited to get married and enjoy his honeymoon, Alice is more concerned with David finishing the remake of the dinosaur. She says  “Once and for all nothing will interfere with your work” and “Our marriage must entail no domestic requirements of any kind.” David face continues to drop when he realizes that his wife wishes not to have children and only wants to focus on the future of the museum.

Throughout the film, he continues to try to impress Mr. Peabody to get the donation (probably for his wife’s sake) but Susan always gets in the way of that. First with stealing his golf ball and car at the golf course, ripping his suit at dinner, and later (after she’d drawn affection for him) she sends his clothes to the cleaners knowing it would delay his wedding. While he’s well aware that she continues to inconvenience him, I noticed that after agreeing to help Susan look for her missing leopard, he stops worrying about missing his wedding day and practically gives up on trying to be liked by Mr. Peabody. Instead, he concerned with getting the Leopard back to Susan’s grandmother to make Susan happy.

Towards the end, Alice confronts David in the Museum when the fiasco is over and says that she doesn’t like the change in David that he has endured while spending time with Susan, and decides to leave him. Although he seemed discouraged, as soon as Susan arrived and told him that she had gotten him the money for the museum (which essentially was what he was after the ENTIRE movie), he did not seem in the least bit excited. However, what he did realize was that he was in love with Susan. In the bigger scheme of things, him realizing that his time with her (Susan) was the most fun he’d ever had, was an indication that he wanted to do more with his life. Frankly, after the dinosaur collapsing it was probably much easier to leave his career at that final point. Susan represents the change in his life as she made a big impact on him in such short time.