After watching "Comet Beauty", my first reaction was that this is a story about a green tea bitch. Marg Channing is a theater superstar, high above the board, and dismissive of fans who don't take it seriously. And Eve Harrington, who loves theatrical performances, entered Margo's life as an extremely humble fan image through Margo's friend Karen, from assistant, to stand-in, to overshadowing Margo's superstar halo. Step by step design for her, from behind the scenes to the front of the stage, even trying to seduce Marg's fiancé and director Bill (which ended in failure), and seduce Karen's husband Loy (screenwriter) with a vengeance Seen and captured by the wily drama critic and the film's main narrator, Addison Davitt. In her acceptance speech, Eve still humbly thanked the many people who "helped" her, including her four former friends-Marg, Karen, Bill, and Roy, but she also stepped on it. With these people boarded the highest hall of the theater. These four people either hated her deeply, or had complicated feelings for her. So far, our typical green tea bitch seems to have succeeded. Yes, in terms of drama performance, Eve has infinite love and excellent ability, and she is a well-deserved genius. I don't know how the so-called "right way" in the entertainment industry is going, and it doesn't work, so I can't judge whether Eve's scheming and tricky designing friends is the "shortcut" to success, but she obviously succeeded. Any success comes at a price. Of all the lies she made up when she first met Margo, these must have been true: "I've loved acting since I was a kid, doing everything, just for fun. But then acting took over my life, and I Gradually I can't tell the difference between the real and the unreal, and I just feel that the unreal is more real than the real." For the theater workers in this room, these words were so sincere, so sincere that no one would doubt the authenticity of the other words, and what she said to Margo worship. This was her first step into Margo's life. After that, she managed Margo's daily life in an orderly manner, and slowly began to use the kind Karen to snatch Margo's career. The credit will always be overdrawn one day. When this day comes, Eve, as a budding star in the drama world, with her excellent artistic ability and magical ingenuity, is ready to fight Margo "to the death". And after so much experience, Margo has given up competing with her and is willing to immerse herself in the love she has just stabilized. Eve succeeded, but in the fight between the two, it was Mag who finally won. The film does not show how high artistic expression Eve has on the stage as an actor, but only narrates Eve's grass-roots career. name passing. This suggests that what the film is really talking about is not Eve's artistic side, but her existence as a person. On this level, Margo, who has both friendship, love and integrity, is clearly the winner. Margo is still a former superstar, but because her fiancé Bill rejected Eve's seduction, she sincerely expressed her sincere affection to herself. Karen, her friend who accidentally betrayed her, also saw Eve's true face and stood with her again. This is very important and precious to a woman. I think the most brilliant part of the film is the depiction of each person's personality. Eve, Margo, Bill, and Addison are all people who know exactly what they want, so their personalities are more distinct, while the other couple, Karen and Roy, are more easily controlled. In other words, can't stand the temptation. Bill was going to Los Angeles to direct a film in Hollywood, Margo and Eve took him to the airport, and as they parted, Margo told Bill: "Don't mess around." "I'll try. "Bill replied. Here we can see that Margo, as a woman, has the most normal demand for a partner, that is, the search for a sense of security. Love (and friendship, actually, only Margo didn't know Karen betrayed her) double threat, showing a weak side of a strong character. Alcohol stimulated her at her birthday party for Bill. She was so nervous that, at the age of forty, she admitted to Roy that she was getting older, and also expressed her deep fear of losing Bill: "Bill is only thirty-two. He looked thirty-two years old. He looked like this five years ago, and he will still look like this twenty years later. I hate men. "And the Bill, who was warned by Margo not to mess with flowers just now, faced the seduction of the young and beautiful Eve, but said bluntly: "I will take the initiative to chase whoever I want, I don't like it. The kind Karen was Margo's good friend, but she also became Eve's "assistant" because of pity for Eve. Although she didn't know that she was being used at the time, she felt very guilty in her heart. First of all It helped Eve become Margo's stand-in, and managed to trap Margo in the countryside, so the crew had to let Eve perform Margo's play as a stand-in. This eventually became Eve's perverted coercion of Karen The reason. After Eve failed to seduce Bill, she went to seduce Karen's husband Loy. Karen also showed vigilance. She felt that she was loved by her husband, and her husband had long been accustomed to it. Here, the film also pointed out The second biggest demand of a woman in love is to hope that she can remain attractive to her partner for as long as possible. However, the gentle Karen is at a disadvantage, contrary to the other two female characters, she is almost not tough Loy began to care about Eve very much, and even went to see the "sick" Eve in the middle of the night, but in the end, because the two couples separated from Eve, Loy was able to change his mind. He tried to destroy the two loves. As for Eve, there is a scene in the latter part of the whole film, which I think is the climax of the film. It is the plot where Addison completely tore up Eve's mask and pursued her. It's just that this pursuit is not romantic, With his attention to Eve, Addison exposed all Eve's lies with facts one by one, and adopted a coercive method. Eve, who was "stripped up", was almost in a state of collapse, and everything he carefully arranged It was revealed like this. This is a person who is much smarter than her. Then, Addison said to the already real Eve: "I suddenly feel that I need you at this most impossible time, maybe 'impossible' is reason. You're an oddball, and so am I, and that's what we all have in common. look down All beings are unable to love and be loved, their unfulfilled desires, and their inexhaustible talents. We are a perfect match. "Whoever you are truthful in front of, you will depend on whom we all know. For the sake of her career, she has tried her best to be despised by others, and she has been honored. This honor really belongs to her. Even if the way is despicable, it is in line with herself. In the end, she also gained a lot. In terms of love, the two men she pursued successively acted as a third party, and they were all for the convenience of her career, not because she loved each other very much. It can be seen from the change of goals. The results were not successful. What she seeks in the relationship between men and women is only the help of her career, the thrill of victory, and the feelings she feels for. At this point, we have returned to the issue of the upper position in the entertainment industry. One of the most wonderful parts of the film is that Marilyn Monroe, who was not yet famous at the time, plays a newcomer to the entertainment industry, who appears at Margo's birthday party for Bill, and Addison introduces her to the ugly but important. Producer Max, urging her to "get up there quickly and find a backer for yourself." When Monroe's character secretly escorted Max, the following dialogue appeared: Drama critic Addison said to Monroe: "Good job , I have seen your acting career like the rising sun. Then he turned to Bill and asked, "What do you say?" "Director Bill: "I said that if you want to gain a foothold in the theater industry, you have to rely on 90% of your hard work, blood and sweat, hard work and talent. I agree that to be a great actor in theater requires a lot of ambition, and it requires more ambition and more sacrifice than any other industry. And I agree that those who accept these tests are not idle people, they only ask about the hard work and not the harvest. "Eve:" If you don't ask about the harvest, you say you don't ask about the harvest? At least there is applause. I always hear the applause of the audience in the background, as if waves of love come from the bare feet to surround you. There are thousands of people who love you every night, their smiling eyes and glowing eyes, and you have pleaseed them. They need you, you belong to them, and that alone is worth the sacrifice. "In the environment where they exist, the struggle between the strong and the weak is normal, but what the movie shows is not a profound helplessness or even an elusive despair of human nature, but a dynamic balance of gain and loss. This is a A work with a satire as the keynote, and Bill's words above are also the values that the film wants to express. Eve obviously agrees with Bill's words, but in her heart, she yearns to be noticed and to be loved, but she is wrong because of this desire. Sacrificing everything, chasing love is chasing the wrong love in an improper way. At the end of the film, Eve, who returns from the award, finds a younger, beautiful girl in her room Here, this uninvited guest seems to be more direct and more powerful than his own intrusion into Margo's life. After Eve entered the bedroom, the girl put on Eve's award-winning uniform, picked up Eve's trophy, and started looking into the mirror to look forward to her future. That's the irony of the movie, and there's a lot more to go into it. In addition, the narrative technique in the film is also crucial. The cross use of sequence and flashbacks, as well as the transformation of multiple characters' perspectives, directly determine the appeal of the story to the audience. The title is narrated from the perspective of drama critic Addison Davitt. From the beginning, the focus is on the "Sarah Sidden Special Achievement Award". It doesn't matter what kind of award it is, it matters. What we know from this is that it must be some kind of ruler that marks someone's ultimate success. Addison (narrator) then introduces that secondary awards have been given to writers and directors, as their function "is just to build a tower where the world can applaud the lights on the tower," when the shot They were given to two men respectively, indicating that they were the stepping stones for the lights on the tower, and they were very important and not worth mentioning. We can notice that during the narration, Addison smokes a cigarette and observes the important characters he is introducing to the audience with seemingly dispassionate eyes, showing the critic's insight into everything. The ability to control, the confidence conveyed in his voice confirms this. Addison did not introduce the radiant "lights on the tower", but followed the host of the awards ceremony to sell off. When the host praised how humble and dedicated the young winner was, the camera gave Ai. Deason introduced us to Karen and Marg Channing, and their disdainful expressions told the audience that there may be other hidden meanings, which have earned the audience's curiosity about the award-winning actor. And so, with a few scorns and a thousand cheers, Eve Harrington finally came out. The picture freezes at the moment when Eve is about to take over the trophy. From Addison's question, "You all know Eve Harrington, is there anything you don't know?", the perspective turned to Karen. The process of changing the perspective is also very interesting. Addison, who was originally talking to himself in his mind, turned his attention to Karen, who was sitting in the same seat, after asking the question, so Karen took over the "talk" and also took Narrative right, to start recalling what "you" didn't know about Eve Harrington. Taking Addison, Karen and Eve as a scene, the first two people start the narrative separately, their monologues are like dialogues, like a TV show, around the protagonist Eve. The original name of the English version of the movie is also called ALL ABOUT EVE, which reflects such a discussion-style, gossip-style biography. Interestingly, these "gossip" people are not Eve's fans, but people who have been calculated by her (Addison is his suitor, which cannot be ignored), and this "silence" There is a kind of secret history-like, tacit feeling in it, and if you taste it carefully, you will have that kind of comprehension. "Loy always said that in drama, a season is a lifetime, and a lifetime is a season." What would Eve think of her long season?
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