Billy Wilder and Marilyn Monroe have worked together in two films, "The Seven Year Itch" and this "Passionate Like Fire", which are almost Monroe's most famous films. Billy Wilder knows how It shows Monroe's sexy. Every time Monroe is shot, she can't bear to close her eyes. When she appears, the whole theater is talking about Monroe and her breasts. She on the screen is much more charming than the photos!
The two male protagonists, Joe (Tony Curtis) and Jerry (Jack Lemmon), describe Monroe for the first time at the train station: "Look at the way she walks like a spring. It's like jelly." Look at the way she reads the dialogue, like a deer who has always been innocent, with sparkling eyes, a proper neckline, and a tone of voice that is innocent and sexy, just like her name in the film— — "Sugar".
In this way, the director took Monroe to tease the audience in a super method. During the late bedtime on the train, Monroe got out of the sleeper curtain, and the camera was just intercepted on her bare chest, looming; when the girl band performed, the singing Monroe was wearing a see-through tight dress with a transparent tulle above the chest. The texture, the light subtly hits the position below the neck and above the chest, and uses the shadow to press the part that is about to come out, but it can't divert everyone's attention. Even the kiss scene can be filmed in a simple and natural way, that is, Monroe "treatment" Curtis, who is known as aloof, on the boat. The full kindness has nothing to do with pornography, only Curtis's raised foot and pun dialogue, let behind him. The audience will smile.
In the words of an anonymous film critic in the United States, "The modern parody is so pitiful, they throw tons of absurd and obscene jokes on the screen, which do nothing but soften and dampen the mood, nothing compares. A raised foot in the kiss in "Like Fire"."
This somewhat crazy romantic comedy was also rated as "No. 1 in the 100 Best Comedies in Movie History" by the American Film Institute. Its interest is very high-level, and it is closely related to the plot. Starting from the background of the times and human nature, it is a joke that contains two or three layers of irony. The more you think about it, the more interesting it becomes, and you don't have time to think about it, the next one appears.
The film is set in Chicago in 1929, during the era of Prohibition and the "Great Depression", so the first conflict in the film is the conflict between the gangster who smuggles alcohol and the police department. Unfortunately, Lemon witnessed this conflict, and on the snowy Valentine's Day, he accidentally became the only witness to the murder of the gang, so in order to escape, the two disguised themselves as women and became the musicians of the girl band, and went to a sunny place. Florida.
When a gangster movie is added to a crazy comedy, this contradiction and contrast create the fun of this somewhat off-line comedy.
The two tall and handsome male protagonists were forced to dress differently in order to escape. It turned out to be a stalk that existed so early, but they still dress so well! It is said that the director asked them to go around the women's toilet when trying on makeup, but no one responded.
After mixing into the girl group, Lemon, who was originally going to be with Monroe in the future, became everyone's good sister, and was pursued by a rich old man (Joe E. Brown). At the beginning, he reminded Jerry to pay attention to his Girls can't have crooked Joe, but she fell in love with Marilyn Monroe, and Marilyn Monroe, who regarded him as her best friend, once said that she was always hopelessly in love with the saxophonist Abandonment, contradictions and inversion settings are everywhere.
Curtis and Monroe are a playboy who deceived the foolish sweetheart who dreams of marrying a rich man. Jack and the old rich are a man who cheated a playboy for the sake of stability. Their love also helped to make Curtis' lie . In the end, Lemon also confused the identities of his men and women, and announced directly to Curtis that he was engaged! The dialogue between the two of them is particularly interesting, so I won't spoil it.
Lies are the catalyst for this comedy, it helps to create all kinds of embarrassing situations for the protagonist, it is a satire of reality and an unabashed pride in human nature, and the innocent and direct protagonist has our sympathy, and their motives make We find it so cute to lie.
From the beginning to the end of the plot, two emotional lines run through the infighting of the gang and the cat-and-mouse game with the police station. Violence and love are exactly the honey and syrup of this comedy. In the stimulation, we expect that the multiple identities of the two male protagonists will not be discovered.
After the two confessed their true gender to the male protagonist in the last scene, their lover's reaction was touching. The last line of dialogue made all the rotten girls in the audience hold their hands on their chests and let out a nympho-like wow——
"No one is perfect." The
enthusiasm has continued to us outside the play.
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