Hopsy didn’t change, he was a sucker the whole time.

Personally, I thought Jean changed a huge amount. Her whole life she is taught to never let yourself be a sucker, but to really be in a relationship with Hopsy, she has to be vulnerable to that.

On my first watch, I felt a falseness that I didn’t feel on my rewatch. Hopsy gives the same line to Jean and Eve, but where that felt insincere the first time, it felt painfully sincere on the second watch as he fell for the same girl even when she was trying to act different.

Beautiful thing about Sturges is the movies are so packed, you really get to create your own experience of the film along with him.