"The Corner Shop" 8.5

Braden 2022-01-12 08:01:06

Many years later, in the face of the casting problem of the hero of "Victorius", Hitchcock will hesitate several times on the brink of rejection before finally reluctantly continuing to cooperate with James Stewart. In a word, he despised him for being old.

When I wrote a film review of "Victorius", I checked the information up to this point, so I stopped to join Xi Pang, and recalled how this man was once so prosperous.

Before becoming the "hanging man" in the history of the film, James Stewart, who was still a fledgling man, stood in the grocery store on the corner of Budapest, and inspected the shop display routinely. His casual thoughts were half of how to talk to the boss. When mentioning a promotion and salary increase, half of it was just received from the unknown girl's letter.

At this time the bell rang at the door, and he got up to face the girl who broke in.

There are many street corners in the world, and there are many grocery stores on the corners, but she just walked into his one. They didn't even know about all the love and noise in the future.

"In ancient times, we didn't text messages, chat online, cross the oceans, or get stuck on the road. If I want you, I will walk five miles across two mountains to hold your hand."

The waiting based on distance, the solitude based on waiting, the loneliness of thinking about you every day and not seeing you, it is only in the gaps of these wild thoughts that the fragrance can be brewed.

So the later "Electronic Love Letter" was ridiculed as a clumsy parody of Dong Shi's example, and the crime was not with Nora Efron or Tom Hanks. It’s just that when movie fans walked out of the theater in 1998 and shook their heads to miss Liu Bieqian, I was afraid that it would not be long before there would be a variety of instant messaging IMs, and all the IMs that could be turned back and forth would be crushed by time. inside.

That’s why Gene Kelly was caught in the rain, and even if he got confused, he could enjoy singing and dancing in the end. Later, Ryan Gosling and his favorite people walked on the hillside of magical moments, and they were so beautiful. , But only dared to climb the telephone pole and turn around in shame.

Later, when young people talked about love, it was a pity that they didn't have to write letters or dance.

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  • Benedict 2022-03-24 09:03:00

    The handling of exposing the truth is really daunting, really daring. Possibly the most ingenious film in which Lubitsch ridiculed the dramatization, and it was done in a complete staged space. This cunning is simply exquisite.

  • Jasen 2022-03-27 09:01:14

    What a great director would it take to make a great love movie that is so subtle, incomparable, and perfectly balanced between real and fake drama and reality? Popular, clear, accurate, vivid, charismatic, talented, and captivating, I think Lubitsch's films have that fascination. This work, when viewed from a dissection, also integrates social division of labor, management skills, classification of company employees, director's art of expression, group performance, differences between men and women, and sophistication into the group division of labor. Under the statically transformed image, it is a fast/clear/accurate expression of extreme art, full of artistic charm! Video 90 points script 100 points director 95 points performance 100 points innovation 95 points In fact, it is rare in film history to express such a good work under the art of director, with group art as the frame and the love between men and women as the core!

The Shop Around the Corner quotes

  • Pirovitch: [spying through the café window] There is a cup of coffee on the table. She's taking a piece of cake. Kralik, she's dunking!

  • Alfred Kralik: Can you see her?

    Pirovitch: Yes.

    Alfred Kralik: Is she pretty?

    Pirovitch: Very pretty.

    Alfred Kralik: She is, huh?

    Pirovitch: I should say, she looks... she has a little of the coloring of Klara.

    Alfred Kralik: Klara, Miss Novak of the shop?

    Pirovitch: Now, Kralik, you must admit Klara is a very good looking girl, and personally I've always found her a very likable girl.

    Alfred Kralik: Well this is a fine time to talk about Miss Novak.

    Pirovitch: Well, if you don't like Miss Novak, I can tell you right now you won't like that girl.

    Alfred Kralik: Why?

    Pirovitch: Because it is Miss Novak.