This movie is as delightful as potato chips. I watched it many times, probably six or seven times, and every time I watched it, I would buy the original Lay's, and take a bottle of a certain black sports drink to refill the champagne, and then I found that the potato chips were really delicious dipped in it.
I feel like it's one of the most rewatched movies for me because it's lighthearted, even though it's not my favorite and I wouldn't rationally put it in the top ten. I like to watch the good movies I've seen over and over again. The ones I've watched the most are this one and "Do As You Want". I feel that this movie is like snacks and low-alcohol alcohol that can make me happy when I'm the least happy.
I think the reason for the relaxation must be Monroe in the film. I feel very comfortable when I see her and Sherman. She is generous and pleasant, and doesn't care about awkward scenes. It seems that she can always find a topic, because small things can make you happy, Makes me look happy too.
The feeling of liking can only be understood and cannot be expressed in words. Let me list a few points that I personally find interesting.
1. Sherman is not good-looking, but her flirting skills and emotional intelligence are online: it is mainly reflected in the part of getting along with the girl played by Monroe.
The first part of the movie is not very obvious, and there is a section in the back where Sherman becomes annoyed after thinking about Helen and Tom McKenzie's cheating small theater (Sherman has a lot of small theaters in his head), and then prepares to ask the dream to show it.
I think he's very skillful when he talks here (actually, I think it's amazing if he dares to ask her out, although Sherman knows her here), he starts with a tomato plant, first makes an appointment for dinner, then an air-conditioning movie, and finally adds his own The apartment that turned on the air conditioner vigorously brought Monroe home in one go. Fortunately, Sherman really had no idea, otherwise it would feel really dangerous. (Another Artistic Liberty)
After watching the movie, Sherman managed to get two kisses in the name of trying toothpaste, and it was funny to say: "My faith in the integrity of the American advertising is somewhat restored." .
After they both entered the apartment, Sherman mixed drinks for the girl. It can be seen that although the formula is similar to the previous one, but with a lot of sugar added, this is exactly the same as the previous girl said that she likes to drink Martini with a lot of sugar. It can be seen that Sherman is more attentive.
2. Sherman's small theater in the brain: a lot, Sherman's imagination is really rich.
Before Monroe officially appeared on the stage, he imagined Helen sitting on the terrace with him, blowing water to her about his experience of cheating (it was all based on his brain, with a strong sense of sight), and then Helen (imagined) said that he I watched too many movies, and when I was brainstorming, I started to add stereo to myself.
After failing to attack Monroe on the piano chair, he was afraid of being discovered, and the small theater in his brain spread all the way from the plumber to Maine, which was very funny.
After get off work, I showered with anger that was aroused by the completely imagined cheating plot, and in a fit of anger, I asked the young and beautiful girl upstairs to go out to play (oh, man).
Monroe spent the night at his house, got up in the morning to make breakfast, buttered toast, and then remembered that his wife took a gun and killed him all the way from Maine to punish him. In the end, he didn't even have a cigarette when he was dying. No pumping (mix of fantasy and reality hhh).
However, this is a delusional movie in itself. The male protagonist himself said that he can't do anything but his imagination. It starts with delusion and ends with reality.
Because the plot is very cute, I ignored the ubiquitous male gaze for the time being. In fact, I feel that the male gaze in this film is quite special, and it should be written separately. Sherman's gaze is quite different from that in Casablanca. same.
3. Lovely Monroe: The movie does not mention the name of Monroe's character from beginning to end, completely abstracting her, and has a meta sense, directly mentioning "Marilyn Monroe", breaking the fourth wall slightly, Make the most of her star character.
The girl played by Monroe is a very cute character, she is simply a collection of pure, kind and beautiful, and she will not fall asleep when her fingers are pricked. Although it may be a masculine image, I still like her very, very much from an emotional point of view.
The appearance is as beautiful as a doll, and the heart is simple and kind. In the end, it is equivalent to solving the mid-life crisis and family problems for the male protagonist. She is very childish beauty, not aggressive. It is also part of her iconography.
The role of Monroe must have a role of Sherman to match him, and Sherman also needs a role of Monroe to help him complete this delusional journey, otherwise, the young girl sees nothing but the imaginative middle-aged uncle, middle-aged The uncle was repeatedly enthusiastic about the young beauty and did not start. It was impossible and boring. In reality, other people's wives don't depend on other people's homes. How could it be purely to blow air conditioners, but Monroe really did it to blow air conditioners. The gap between movies and reality is here.
4. Humorous comic-style supporting characters: Kruhulik, a lecherous apartment manager with a strange name, is lecherous but devoted to his duties. When he saw Monroe, his saliva almost drooled, but after all, he did not lose his demeanor; the mother-in-law waiter of a vegetarian restaurant , looks very conservative but actually supports nudism, and also raises money for nude camps; Sherman's old boss, after his wife and children left, played poker all night, and got carried away with joy; wrote a book for Sherman's psychiatrist, brought a bit of funny It was obviously an imitation of the German accent. When I saw the beach photos, I couldn't take my eyes off it, and even wiped my monocle.
There are neta to other movies: I doubt that Sherman's first few fantasies can find a corresponding movie. If it's not good, there may be similar plots. Unfortunately, the number of readings is limited and I can't see it. In the movie, they The two went to see the Black Lake Monster Pool together (I haven't seen it, but The Shape of Water is good!) I don't know if it's meaningful or just released, it's a bit like a beauty (Monroe) and a beast (Sherman).
In addition to these, there are a lot of interesting lines that seem to be linked together, making people's mood really light up like potato chips dipped in champagne.
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