These days, anyone can be a "goddess" or "BB"; before, we used words more elegantly and deliberately - for example, "lady" is not just called casually, and there are certain requirements. The story of "Populaire" and "My Fair Lady" in 1964 are the same: the middle-class/petty-bourgeois protagonist meets the female protagonist from the humble background, and she is trained in a forbidden room to give her some special training. As expected, the heroine stepped up to a blockbuster. During the period, the seeds of love germinated, but the leading actor was indecisive and almost robbed people of love. Among them, the actor’s good friends are indispensable, betting with the actor whether the heroine will become a talent. It's just that the deportment training of the ladies that day was replaced by the special training of the speed typing competition; the lady accent changed the voice of Dada's typing. So the plot is basically as expected by the audience.
Some expectations are straightforward: Déborah François, who plays the heroine, has a sweet appearance and can interpret the taste of the girl next door, which is satisfying. The male protagonist is not handsome, the effect is just right, otherwise it is too much like a playboy, and does not cooperate with the affectionate and restrained character design. What is quite interesting is that the "goddess" referred to in the title is no longer the upper-class and elegant Fair Lady, but the populaire with a distinct class ─ namely the "working class" or "popularity." In Paris after the war, the secretary was the "sun worker" in the eyes of ordinary women, and the hard-working and rich second-generation male protagonist was the "sun plate." The heroine is already good at typing, and she works in the city for the fashionable life of a "Huadu Girl" - she doesn't want to stay in the small town and inherit her father's grocery store, she wants to venture outside and develop in the fashionable city. She is also more proactive and assertive about feelings and desires, on the contrary, the actor is twisted and twisted. Later, her typing speed became the first in the country, and she became an advertising star, acting as a spokesperson for a brand-name typewriter, like today's female star became a "goddess," and behind the scenes she became a prey in the eyes of playboys.
After all, "goddess" is a populaire product, even if it transfers to other identities, such as secretary (working class), or "typist" and then "brand spokesperson", the nature is the same.
However, the ending is reversed: the key to the heroine’s victory is to re-face the past that she once rejected ─ ─ symbolized by the typewriter used in her hometown ─ ─ she switched to the dilapidated typewriter and abandoned it. Brand-name typewriters that use endorsements (even if that means breaking the contract, it will have a bad impact on their career development). In the continuous struggle, she is not only a fair lady who is molded and then desired, but a self-made person. Probably that's what makes the male protagonist fall in love with.
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