At the beginning of the film, Tang and Linna walked on the red carpet, and the screams of fans were endless. When asked by the host how to debut, he said that he and Cosmo have been praised for singing and dancing since they were young, and after graduating from college, they were appreciated for their smooth sailing and entered the stardom. But in fact, he has whitewashed everything, they are like the people who are drifting north now, and their living conditions are extremely poor. A job that has something to do with acting is to perform tap dance performances in bars and other places, and act as extras in commercials. And in order to get more opportunities, he took all the stunt shots, on the plane, in the car, in the house that was about to explode…. Like many stories, he survived and became the protagonist and became the "screen male god" at that time. When looking back at the audience, he doesn't add fuel to the bitterness that he has endured as a selling point to attract attention, on the contrary, he chooses to whitewash everything and understate it.
Like most of us, with such impressive results, it's natural to think women all over the world are going to be crazy about it. When I met Kathy, I talked to her, and when I felt her admiration, I grabbed her. It's just that Casey is not an ordinary person. She is a stage actor. Unlike the silent movies starring Tang, she pays more attention to the coordination of voice and body. She has the opportunity to perform on stage, but she is not famous, and even if she admires a big star like Tang, she will be a little dissatisfied. So of course she thinks he's a womanizer when he gets his hands dirty and starts belittling him and the movies he starred in. After the unhappy parting, they met again, but made him realize what a lovely girl she was.
Linna's stinginess caused her to lose her job, and he couldn't find her until the two worked together again. The best thing is that when I toss and turn and can't sleep thinking about you, you have the same thoughts. Together, naturally, in order to save Don and Lena's first sound film, Kathy willingly voiced Lena behind the scenes.
Linna's fall from grace was actually caused by herself. She has a beautiful appearance, and although her voice is flawed, it would be fine if she changed her defiant attitude. Seeing that sound film was a huge success, felt that it was all his own fault, that he could bring in more money for the company than Casey, and asked Casey to dub every film (which just happened to ruin Casey's perform a dream). Take out the contract and find a good lawyer to threaten the director of the film and television company to do as she said, buy the company's shares, and even want to control the company. Previously, when Tang approached her as a stunt performer, she was arrogant and rude. He was highly regarded and changed his attitude to flattery, wishful thinking that the scandal hyped by the company was the truth - she and Tang were a natural couple and would eventually enter the palace of marriage. .
In addition to the shaping of these characters, the attitude of the plot to the innovation of film technology is also thought-provoking. From silent to sound, they initially thought talkies were a freak and thought they wouldn't make them. And when the first movies with sound were so popular and every movie theater started updating their sound equipment, they had to jump on the bandwagon and make movies with sound instead. The initial resistance was probably because I was accustomed to being handy in silent movies, and I felt panic and didn’t know how to do it well because of the new technology I didn’t understand about sound movies. But when they step out of their comfort zone and fail a few times to make a good movie, things are very different.
What makes this film enduring is of course the large number of songs and dances in the play. Whether it's Tang singing and dancing in the rain or the early stage when he and his friend Cosmo performed tap dance and juggling, they are all classics. The singing and dancing of the 1950s will not feel "outdated" at all, but will marvel at how their legs are so flexible.
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