second-rate film noir

Damon 2022-12-16 12:04:41

"Miss Shanghai" assumes that the heroine is from China and can speak Chinese, interspersed with a lot of Chinatown scenes to add mysterious elements and exotic flavors. As a result, the Chinese that the heroine speaks is neither Mandarin nor Cantonese nor Chaoshan dialect, just open her mouth there casually. Just talking nonsense. . . Thinking of the fact that the guns in the business card "The Eagle Over London" were criticized by experts for not being historically true, the behavior of "Miss Shanghai" can only be a shoddy comment.

The story is about a sailor who gradually fell into the abyss because he was fascinated by a rich young woman. Yunyun, a young lady from Shanghai, the director just wanted to use exoticism and trickery to win the box office, but he accidentally touched the essence of film noir by making things up It expresses the impermanence and absurdity of life's circumstances, although even in the single category of film noir, it can only barely squeeze into the second-rate.

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The Lady from Shanghai quotes

  • Mrs. Elsa 'Rosalie' Bannister: I wasn't sure you'd come.

    Michael O'Hara: I'm not stayin'.

    Mrs. Elsa 'Rosalie' Bannister: You've *got* to stay!

  • Michael O'Hara: [voiceover] And what was I, Mike O'Hara, doin' on a luxury yacht, pleasure cruisin' in the sunny Caribbean Sea? Well, it's clear now. I was chasin' a married woman. But, that's not the way I wanted to look at it. No. To be a real prize fathead like Mike O'Hara, you've got to swallow whole all the lies you can think up to tell yourself.