Recently watching a movie on the imdb top 250 list, this movie doesn't really appeal to me by the title - apartment? What good story can an apartment have? comedy? What depth can comedy have? What's more, it's a black and white movie from 1960. I watched this movie today just because my Youku membership expired, and Youku doesn't allow me to cache this movie. So I didn't expect much before watching the movie.
But this movie taught me a little - don't make a movie by name, boy.
The story is actually very simple. CC Baxter, a young college graduate, is an ordinary employee of a large company in New York, but he has contacts with many managers-the managers want to borrow his apartment to meet with his lover, and in return, give him a promotion chance. One day, a manager wanted to borrow his apartment and gave him two movie tickets. He took the opportunity to make an appointment with Fran Kubelik, the lady in the elevator, but he was finally let go. It turned out that Fran and the manager had a tryst at his apartment that night. Lost to the manager's rhetoric and vows to divorce his wife. Later, on Christmas Eve, Fran learned that the manager had had an inappropriate relationship with several female colleagues. After the manager met Fran at Baxter's apartment and perfunctory, Fran took a lot of sleeping pills and was rescued by Baxter. Later, Fran rested at the Baxter apartment for two days. Fran recognizes the manager's true face and the fact that there is no hope of marrying the manager, and Baxter also falls in love with Fran. Originally, Baxter wanted to tell the manager about it and wanted to be with Fran, only to find out that the manager's wife knew about his constant affair and was going to divorce and be with Fran. Knowing that he had no hope of being with Fran, Baxter stopped lending the apartment to the manager and was about to leave New York. Fran was overjoyed to learn that the manager could marry him, and finally recognized his face, left the manager, and went to Baxter.
It seems to be a very clichéd comedy, in which ordinary people finally get their own goddess, or "diaosi counterattack" in the popular phrase, the wonderful thing is that there are enough and obvious foreshadowings. In the bar, the female secretary saw the manager and Fran. This scene gave enough shots and emphasis, paving the way for the female secretary to inform Fran and the manager's wife later; the manager and Fran once had a tryst with Fran in a broken car. Ye stuffed himself with money but didn't prepare the gift carefully, his perfunctory after his recovery, and the plan to meet him in the car again on New Year's Eve made Fran's departure reasonable; The scene of taking out the gun while carrying the luggage also gave enough shots, so when Fran rushed to the apartment and heard the gunshots, I believe many viewers' hearts were suspended, but when Baxter opened the door with champagne, it was easy to recall The champagne that another manager had left in the apartment before (and he even talked about it when he returned to the company), so this scene was unexpected and reasonable.
A good comedy needs to have a logical plot, and Peachy Apartments isn't obviously unreasonable after watching it once. Why would managers risk being leaked by borrowing a clerk's apartment? The film specially arranged for the landlady to rush to the camera and say to us: "This is a high-end apartment, not a low-class hotel." I believe that this high-end apartment and hard-to-find hotel room give managers enough reasons to use both hard and soft to get this small apartment. The right to use the staff's apartment, otherwise why would Fran and the manager run errands in a broken car? Why do so many people choose to linger in the company at the Christmas party?
And a classic needs the addition of actors. Baxter's demeanor in the movie is very good. At the beginning, when he talked to Fran, he was humble. He caught a bad cold because of the manager and had to coordinate the time of the managers to use the apartment. This kind of unhappy but incapable look, these are all easy to make us, as little people, feel a sense of substitution, and people look forward to whether he will have a moment of majesty in the end. So he finally turned down the manager's tryst with his beloved Fran in his apartment, and when he threw away the funny hat that once represented his assistant manager's status, it was the little man's strongest voice for power. Fran's performance is also very good, at least I can believe that this is a silly girl who really fell in love, but was deceived by rhetoric, not a green tea bitch who was greedy for money and finally found an honest man.
Looking back at the movie, Fran was coveted because of his beauty, was played with, and was not taken seriously; Baxter just rented an apartment because he was better, so even if he wanted to go home and rest with a cold, he had to coordinate with others. If he was not careful, he would face the risk of being fired. Even the woman he loves doesn't dare to fight for it. Giving them a happy ending is also a beautiful consolation for many ordinary people who are unknown and oppressed by their bosses and bosses. A comedy doesn't necessarily need to be full of laughter, just let the audience smile when they walk out of the movie theater.
Some people say, isn't this a yy movie? I want to say, as long as a dream is realistic enough, what's the point of being confused for a while?
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