In fact, to put it bluntly, just like the talented and beautiful women in ancient China, they have nothing to do, so they talk about love and love, and have a little romance and a little scene. All Hollywood romantic comedies are born based on the huge middle class in the United States. At the same time, after having an audience, another major feature of Hollywood romantic comedies is the rich Hollywood middle-class culture, such as their way of life, Social network, family background, consumption concept, etc. In addition to enjoying romantic or comical love, people also have a sense of cultural identity. Luxurious dance floors, high-end apartments, and the New York night scene at the beginning of the lanterns were the common aesthetic orientations of most people in that era. In fact, it is not so much that people are watching the love of the people in the play, it is better to say that people are fantasizing about their future beautiful love and high-end quality of life, as well as the life style of the high society.
And the pillow talk happened to two "just right" young men and women. The girl is beautiful and generous, independent and elegant, and has her own business. Boys are typical playboys, successful composers, handsome but not interested in marriage, and have many girlfriends. Two people need to share the same phone line, and after causing a lot of trouble, neither side has any good impression of each other. However, by chance, the two met, but the boy and the girl fell in love at first sight, and the girl didn't know that the man in front of her was the playboy she hated, and the two fell in love. In order not to let the girl find out who he is, the boy has to pretend to be another image, with traditional values, respect for women, gentlemanly, and very serious about feelings. So the girl is still arguing with the same man-made phone line every night while she's "associating" with the boy.
The story is like this, full of coincidences and adventures, and in fact the male and female protagonists in Pillow Whisper each represent the two tit-for-tat views of love that were popular among the American middle class at the time. The heroine naturally represents the traditional, serious view of love based on building a family and mutual trust, while the hero represents the opposite sex-based, hedonic-based view of love. The emergence of these two concepts of love, especially the emergence of the second, more modern concept of love, is based on the popularity of the values of pure materialism and pure hedonism caused by the economic recovery of the United States after World War II and the formation of consumer culture. As the male protagonist himself said, "Why should I get married?" It is a manifestation of instant pleasure.
Finally, as a film that broke through the US censorship system, Pillow Whispers caused controversy before it was released, because its title "Pillow Whisper" involved a sensitive topic in the censorship system.
In any case, as a classic of Hollywood romantic comedies, Pillow Whispering has successfully inherited the characteristics of Hollywood funny romantic comedies, and combined with the characteristics of the post-World War II American era, it has gradually explored a new path for romantic comedies.
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