A hilarious study in the gentle art of murder

Liana 2022-01-09 08:01:05

The title is copied from the British version of the poster--The French translation is probably the nobility's gratitude (Noblesse Oblige, perhaps the inevitable destiny of the nobility)
The plot is probably about a young man of noble blood. His mother is the daughter of the Duke, but he eloped with the poor opera actor. His father died of excitement because of his birth. Then the fucking relatives completely ignored their existence, so they were mother and son. The two had a miserable life, and then his mother died of illness, seemingly because there was no money to cure (there is no subtitles so I can’t understand it), his first love (in fact, you can see that this is a femme fatale at the beginning) married a rich classmate, too Because he has no money. Then he thought that he had the right to inherit the title of duke (show him the genealogy if his mother had nothing to do), although there were more than 10 people in line. So he waited and waited every day, read the newspaper when he was fine, to see if his relatives died. But this was too inefficient, so he started approaching them one by one, and then tried to kill them all (these processes are very magical, and in these processes, the femme fatale is ambiguous with him again). Finally, he became famous, he became rich... Femme Beauty’s husband went bankrupt. She shyly ran to the actor who was about to inherit the title and said that she wanted to become a duchess. Unfortunately, our actor was not a fuel-efficient lamp. He and his relatives (one of the people he killed) )'S beautiful, noble and generous wife has been engaged, and the femme fatale departs sadly. So he and his new wife seemed to live a happy-ever-after life. At this time, the movie's climax came. The detective arrested him and said that he was murdered. He thought that the previous incident had been revealed, and it turned out that the femme fatale accused him of murdering her husband. In fact, it was suicide because of bankruptcy. The magical court even found the guilty guilty. I understand everything in the courtroom. I privately think that if a lawyer in a capitalist country speaks badly, there is nothing wrong with it, because if he asks you a question, you can only answer yes or no, and you are not allowed to explain. Then he was sentenced to hang. Femme beauty found him and said that if he was willing to kill his new wife and marry her, she would testify for him that her husband committed suicide. What can he do, he can only agree to it (this visit has a close-up of femme fatale's face, and his eyes are very good). Then, the night before the execution, he had nothing to do and wrote a memoir, in which he wrote all the murders. Then his pardon came when he was about to be taken to hang, and he walked out with two carriages at the door. With his wife on one side and femme fatale on the other, he sighed and was about to walk towards femme fatale. A guy from a publishing house came up and said, Lord Duke, I want to talk to you about publishing your memoir— —Oh my god, I forgot to bring the manuscript when I left! It's over.
Also, the title of the film comes from a poem "Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood." This is exactly what our male protagonist used to evaluate him, who was completely kept in the dark by the noble wife.

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Kind Hearts and Coronets quotes

  • Edith: But I have often felt that the attitude of my husband's family has failed to move with the times. That they think too much of the rights of the nobility and too little of its duties. The very honesty of your behavior would appear to me to prove them wrong.

  • Louis Mazzini: The D'Ascoynes certainly appear to have accorded with the tradition of the landed gentry, and sent the fool of the family into the church.