In fact, it only took me more than half an hour to watch this film - this is the third time I have watched it, and I have watched it for nearly half an hour each for the first two times. Because of this, I realized that I am not really a material for writing stories and screenwriting.
The first time I watched it from the beginning, Woody Allen was an old gangster who didn't do his job properly. He had a wife Frankie who loved him but complained about the hard life, and a few friends who played cards and drank together. Lei was very confident in his own wisdom, so he was always thinking about making a big business. In the end, he valued a rental shop next to the bank. He planned to rent this shop and then dig a tunnel to the bank. The shop was rented, and French opened a pastry shop to cover it, while Ray and a group of his friends were digging holes below, and of course, the digging was a mess. But French's dim sum is very popular, and New Yorkers, like Tianjin people, can queue up for food.
The first time I saw the end here, my prediction for the ending of the film was that in the end Ray and his mates still failed after all kinds of hardships, while Frankie's dim sum shop continued to grow, and finally Ray and Frankie had money, The old princess and the old prince lived a happy life...
As a result, the plot developed much faster than I imagined. The second time I watched it for less than five minutes, the film has already arrived a year later. Frankie's pastry shop Blowing up into a group, Ray and his group of friends all became rich and lived in big houses. Ray's life goes on, playing cards in a tavern with old friends, but in a suit, and the stakes rise to a few hundred dollars. And Frankie was dissatisfied with this kind of life, hoping to improve spiritually and enter the upper class, after being criticized for being tasteless at a banquet (Ellen wore a zirconium blue suit at the banquet, goose yellow trousers, so cute), French found an artist and begged him to be his tutor, training him in all things "elegant living."
The artist is played by Hugh Grant.
When I saw this, my eyes were almost straight. Why did Hugh Grant come here? I have some very strange memories of Hugh Grant. The only film I saw of him was probably three years ago. A great movie I don't know the name of. It started with two noble ladies sitting and chatting in a room. Hugh Grant broke in for God knows what happened, and then kept apologizing. He blinked nervously, not the kind of ordinary people's blinking, but the kind of blinking and blinking as if a bee flew into his eyes. Just when I wanted to flatter him, something weird happened. The two young ladies in the film looked at each other with a tacit smile, and they both thought Hugh Grant was very sexy. And then, something even weirder happened, the girl next to me even thought Hugh Grant was sexy. My God, is sexy all about winking? I collapsed in an instant.
However, this film has changed some of the original impressions of Hugh Grant in my mind. He wears a decent black suit, his face is quite calm and kind, and his thick black hair is meticulously combed, and the shine can be seen. makes me a little ashamed. The most important thing is that Hugh Grant plays a bad guy in this film, and his plan is to trick Frankie into marrying him, and then defraud her of her property. Intellectuals are the most rascal. And Frankie, like all women, was fascinated by Grant's character, and became more and more despised by the vulgar little old man at home. And Lei is also getting more and more uncomfortable with this rich life, and he longs to live the free and poor life of the past.
The second time I saw it was over, I adjusted my prediction for the ending of the film to be that Frankie and Hugh Grant got married, but Hugh Grant cheated on the property, so she saw the face of "high society" . Back to Lei's side again, living a normal life.
It turned out that the plot was moving faster than I thought once again, and before Francie was married to Hugh Grant, her group went bankrupt because of the accountants. Hugh Grant leaves immediately, making Frankie aware of his hypocrisy, while Ray conspires with Frankie's sister to steal jewelry from a high-class friend, but under the tension, he makes a mistake and takes it. The imitation with the bag removed was brought back as the real thing. The two each made a mistake, canceled each other out, and snuggled together again. But this time, Frankie took out an expensive cigarette case, which she had given to and stole from Hugh Grant, and they could rely on this treasure to start a new life.
Maybe it's because skinny people also need less energy? The old Woody Allen still looks so agile and spirited. Looking at him, there will be some beautiful imaginations of "oldness", and he thinks that this is the stage in life when wisdom is accumulated to be able to produce fun. Allen has been writing humor columns for magazines since he was fifteen years old. Although he makes jokes, his mentality is not generally good. When it comes to filming, he is already very familiar with it, and brings his talents into full play. He has read a lot of books and is considered an "intellectual" by our standards, or an "artist". But he never forgot to laugh at these two types of people. Just as he also laughed at the stupidity of scoundrels like Ray. He made the world easy by laughing at everything, and he made the film warmer because of his trust in love. Love and money, like a pair of strong contrasting colors, are embedded in this richly colored caricature. In the end, when Frankie smashed the glass necklace that Lei brought back, we saw the glass slag on the ground. Lei's reaction was heavy, and he sat down slowly, saying, "This is this. If you mess up, I don't clean it, you have to clean this place." Ha, in Frankie's understanding smile, the gold ends and rosy love arises.
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