Creating Opportunities vs Waiting for Opportunities

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Comet Beauty All About Eve (1950) - The 23rd Academy Award for Best Picture

has always felt that a lot of right and wrong in the entertainment industry are not groundless, just like the rise of Eve in Comet Beauty. It often takes a lot of effort to succeed, and some efforts are defined as unscrupulous. Eve is a good actress by nature, she's too good at disguising her life as a script. Only by hard work and waiting, success may not come, opportunity is very important. Eve's way of creating opportunities is not recognized by the universal concept, but she has to admit that she is a powerful master. If you were to be a sidekick by Margo's side for decades and create opportunities to become the Eve she is now, which one would you choose? I hesitated for a moment, even though I've always been disdainful of Eve's actions while watching the movie. Perhaps being there is another experience. The lines in the film are impressive, literary and elegant yet philosophical.
Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night.
Keep your eyes on her. Don't let her get lonely. She's a loose lamb in a jungle. ( Look at her! Don't let her be lonely, she's a lost lamb in the jungle.)
I like that girl. That quality of quiet graciousness.

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All About Eve quotes

  • Lloyd Richards: Karen, let me tell you about Eve. She's got everything - a born actress. Sensitive, understanding, young, exciting, vibrant...

    Karen: Don't run out of adjectives, dear.

  • Karen: [narrating] Newton, they say, thought of gravity by getting hit on the head by an apple. And the man who invented the steam-engine, he was watching a teakettle. But not me. My big idea came to me just sitting on a couch. That boot in the rear to Margo. Heaven knows, she had one coming. From me, from Lloyd, from Eve, Bill, Max and so on. We'd all felt those size fives of hers often enough. But how? The answer was buzzing around me like a fly. I had it. But I let it go. Screaming and calling names is one thing, but this could mean...

    Karen: [continues] Why not? "Why," I said to myself, "not?" It would all seem perfectly legitimate. And only two people in the world would know. Also, the boot would land where it would do the most good for all concerned. After all, it was no more than a harmless joke which Margo herself would be the first to enjoy. And no reason why she shouldn't be told about it... in time.

    Karen: [on the phone, calling Eve to let her in on her little "joke"] Hello. Will you please call Miss Eve Harrington to the phone?