Lubitsch has the brushstrokes of Lubitsch, and Billy Wilder has a unique style. The similarity between the two lies in the grasp of the subtle rhythms between men and women.
Marriage and love are sometimes really like the underworld. Men go to and fro, trying to occupy as many women as possible. When I get home, I have to play a good Mr. and a good father. Women are not alone, and everyone wants to own resources. Girls are fantasizing about innocent love.
In fact, where is there any love, love is just a good medicine used by people in this world to give themselves in this world full of turmoil, anxiety, deceit, and ugly humanity. As soon as love appears, people are automatically divided into several classes according to their faces, wealth, and resources. A beautiful girl who likes to dress up and play, has a market, is chased by someone, and has nothing to fear. If you are more independent and resolute in character, you will basically not be hurt. As for a man, as long as he looks good, has some money, and is more proactive in character, he doesn't have to worry about not having girls. Love, too ridiculous, is a very illusory word at all. Just like aliens.
Therefore, in the film market, love has been out of stock for a long time. Lovelorn people want to watch romance movies, single people want to watch romance movies, and people in marriage siege also want to watch romance movies. The theme of love is a rigid need in the movie. If a director can pull the illusory love in the sky back to the reality on the ground, and pull out the rotten bug in a certain part of the audience's heart, it is like saving them.
Baxter is an honest man, honest and distressing, living alone, and conscientious about his work. It cannot be said that he is opportunistic, only that he does not know how to refuse. Falk is a naive girl, desperate for true love. Aren't honest men and innocent girls the two most people in the world who should be together? There is nothing wrong with the character, the character is perfect. The male protagonist and the female protagonist dig the characters in the script into their expressions and behaviors. 30% of the success of a movie is to find the right actor, an actor who is related to the role and fits well. Like the hero of The Bicycle Thief, like Jean 'Pierre' Leaud in the Truffaut movie.
Isn't it just an emotional resonance to watch a movie? Only suitable actors can inspire such resonance.
And the only reason why a good movie can sell well and be immortal can only be because of two words: good-looking.
Hollywood movies have been pursuing these two words since their birth. So it will be dumped all over the world.
I think the film Peachy Apartment can be called a teaching film for many directors who want to make marriage and romance films. Although he is a black and white film, and it is in the 1960s, it has been more than half a century since then. But from the point of view, the smooth narrative, the male and female protagonists keep a distance for practical reasons and finally get together, and the indistinct editing can be seen as skilled scheduling, composition and framing like a craftsman. And inside the set furnishings, big companies, apartments, restaurants. Although there are only a few places, the scenes are as few as sitcoms. But it still makes people feel the warmth of the apartment and the class differentiation in the big company.
There is never a superfluous reason for a good movie, the only reason is that it is made for the audience. Audiences yearning for love give them the white lotus of love dug out of the filthy quagmire of human emotion. Audiences crave heroes to shock fantasy, and give them perfect heroes that never die. The audience, eager for a laugh, gave them a humor in their unforced lives that they couldn't see.
We don't need entertainment. We need emotion.
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