Comet Beauty received a record 14 Oscar nominations, including six awards for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Supporting Actor, and still holds the record for the most Oscar nominations to this day. The film is more of a literary work, with many of the original English lines using dramatic rhetoric. I think that if you want to remake, you can only rely on dramas and TV series. The theme of this film will also be used for reference by various film and television works in the future. At that time, Hollywood allowed such a film to be released and won many awards, which surprised me. In addition, the young Monroe also made a stunning appearance in the film. Although she did not have many roles, the audience was bright when she appeared on the stage. The young woman is indeed a beauty and a disaster.
The story can be simply understood as a woman's struggle history, which includes the exploration and philosophy of human nature. This is a movie full of satire. The film uses flashbacks to tell the story through Karen's narration. The beginning of the film is not the beginning of the story, but the end of the story. The first scene is set at the venue of the award ceremony for the Outstanding Achievement in Dramatic Performance. The first shot begins with a close-up of the trophy. From this scene, all the characters in the play appear one by one. The theme of the story is also subtly implied in the first shot. The presenter who presented Eve on stage went out of his way to praise the outstanding young actor Eve, but the various characters off the stage reacted differently. The lines of the presenter are also intriguing. The film uses Ederson's mouth to introduce the characters in the story one by one. The talented actor Margo, who appeared on the stage at the age of four, and Karen, who entered the drama circle because of her husband. The character of Edson plays the role of the exporter in this film, and what he exports is the value of the film. It is up to him to tell the audience the story behind the glamorous circle of stars in the theater world. Unknown deeds and intrigues in trophies and flowers with glamorous halo. The director wants to tell us the story behind fame and fortune, subtly hinting at the theme of Comet Beauty.
As the plot progresses, the more you look at Eve, the more like a scheming bitch. She and Margo are like two sides. The more you look at Margo, the more attractive Betty's performance is. In the beginning, Margo was a proud actress. In the first half of the movie, she was arrogant and unreasonable, making troubles and making troubles. In fact, she was just afraid, insecure, afraid that young Eve and other people would take everything from him now. Her love with Sampson is also worthy of praise. Although Sampson is eight years younger than Margo, the sentence I only pursue what I pursue, and I don't want it to pursue me, shows the deep love for Margo, which is the love for Margo. Fu Yongchang refused, and the unique way of quarreling between the two brought different sweetness. It is precisely because of Sampson's love that Margo is no longer afraid of the future of female stars and love. At the same time, Margo easily gave up the opportunity to perform Carat, which is exactly what Eve deliberately planned to threaten Karen. And household registration, which is what made Karen laugh out loud.
Eve perfectly showed her talent for lying and acting in the first half, deceiving almost everyone. The only one in the show who has never been blinded by her pitiful and moving appearance is the maid and critic Ederson, while everyone else falls into her trap, especially the two women who are deceived when they suddenly find themselves irreversible The situation of being controlled and coerced, one chose to retire as a housewife, and the other was only saved from being deprived of her husband because of the plan of the wily drama critic. There are two scenes in which her lies are finally revealed through the eyes of the critic. One is that, after her successful debut as a superstar, this is a turning point in the film, where her true intentions and image are finally revealed. Critics saw her in the crack of the door seducing Sampson, a director who seemed repressed in front of Margo, but the man turned her down after seeing through her tricks. The greatness of this scene is that it was completed through a half-closed door, and at the same time the audience became a voyeur. The second classic scene is when the critic visits Eve's dressing room and asks her some questions about her past and background. At this time, the audience can't see Eve herself, she is changing clothes under the pretext, so we can only vaguely see her shadow on the door. The questioner is in the bright place outside the door, and the answerer is in the dark place inside the door, but in the process of questioning, we can feel her panic from the contrast between the heroine's shadow and language, and it is implied that she is in the lie. This classic scene is that it does not expose the heroine's lies directly face to face, but tells the audience that she is lying in a way that only hears her voice and does not see her. So the effect is even more shocking.
The English literal translation of this film should be everything about Eve. As the saying goes, three women are in a play, and there must be a scheming bitch in it. At the end of the movie a new girl starts her adventure again, she stands in the mirror trying on the clothes of the famous Eve, and then her shadow in the mirror suddenly becomes countless. It's of course a metaphor and means that countless stories and women like this exist forever. What this girl is doing is brewing the next Eve.
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