The heroine and pilot in the 1955 original were people from two completely different worlds, and the movie wanted to highlight this feeling, so Vivien Leigh and Kenneth Moore were cast. The faces of these two goods are placed there in a static form, making people feel that one is a veteran capitalist exploiter, and the other is a working people who are still poor and lower-middle peasants three generations up.
So some people commented on the lack of acting skills, because the pilot he played looks like a high-level student with a complete higher education, rather than a vulgar pilot. Hidden and Rachel are more like people from the same class, except that one is a dull 30-year-old woman, and the other looks like a college student who has just graduated.
I was going to watch the 1955 version of "Blue Deep Sea" at 16 fast-forward speed, but because the movie is so old, I really can't find it, so I'm not qualified to comment on the original movie's plot. But what the Dowson version of "Blue Deep Sea" should highlight is obviously not the difference between the heroine and the pilot, but the change in the heroine's mood. The heroine was originally a person who lived according to the stereotypes of women in the upper class of the last century: get a good education, receive the influence of art, marry a man who can rely on, listen to her mother-in-law to pick her own thorns, have a baby, grow old, die. It was a safe but dull life. When the heroine met the pilot, a hole in her life was broken. She stood in the middle of this hole, trying to grasp the security of her past life and the splendor of the pilot's life. It was not until the heroine attempted suicide and the pilot left that the heroine began to realize that life is difficult to balance.
In a word, the heroine's state of mind can be summed up as follows:
Omg, my mother's life is so boring → Oh boy is good → The old lady wants to divorce the old man → The old man refuses to divorce → The old lady's life is so sad that the old lady is about to commit suicide → It's impossible to commit suicide by the trough → Shenma, do you think the guy is leaving? →Okay, let's have a good time alone
... Okay, let me analyze the heroine's state of mind seriously:
Dependent on a male life in a patriarchal society → Trying to get rid of one's own life stereotypes → Trying to attach to an unreliable person → The unreliable person is determined to leave → Get rid of the attachment state and get a new life
So what Dowson needs to play is not a vulgar, and The heroine does not belong to the same world at all. What he needs to play is a person who is as bright as fireworks but short-lived, a medium that helps the heroine gain new life. Higgins used the word alive in his description of the pilot in an interview about Deep Blue. Pilots are accustomed to the life in which they may die in battle at any time, and are willing to use up all the energy of their lives just for a moment of brilliance, so they have a strong vitality.
Hitherto shows this very well. The movie also shows this very well: when the pilot and the heroine come to the house where they are going to live together, the pilot opens the curtains of the room. When the heroine is alone in the room, the curtains in the room are always closed or half-closed; when the pilot is in the room, the curtains are always opened, and the whole room is much brighter.
After the pilot left, the heroine opened the curtains by herself for the first time and began to look at the outside world.
I really like the scene outside the window that the heroine sees after opening the curtains: in the early morning, the old man in the neighbor is standing in front of his windowsill with a coffee cup, and old vines are pouring out from the windowsill; the woman downstairs opens the door to take Milk and newspapers; someone pushing a stroller and carrying a grocery basket on the side of the road; a man in a suit going to work; a white delivery van driving by; three children playing in front of a burned-out house Chasing, it feels like the place where the house sits will soon be rejuvenated again. Everything looks hopeful.
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