We don't want a heroine with such a high moral sense.

Burdette 2022-10-31 06:05:51

The story takes place in Hollywood in the 1930s. 14-year-old Judy was spotted by an agent and entered Hollywood to sing and make movies. Fame brought her fame and wealth, but it also gave her a lot of pain. For example, she has lost her childhood, can't eat a lot, can't fall in love normally, and she has to make a lot of movies that are suspected of satisfying pedophiles. For example, many of her opponent scenes are played with adult men, and many of her actions are sexually suggestive. .

So this also affected her life. She is very talented, but also neurotic. When she was middle-aged, she experienced a failed marriage and brought two children alone. In the end, it was really bad. She gave the children to her ex-husband and went to the UK to work hard. And in this process, the movie showed her to be quite unbearable, drinking, taking drugs, escaping from practicing singing, falling in love with Xiao Xianrou and falling out with the audience. But when she took the stage, she shined again, because Hollywood's polishing penetrated into her bones.

There is no counter-attack, inspirational, successful learning in this movie, it is to present an unqualified singer/mother. Hello Li Huanying is very popular recently, I am thinking about why I like Li Huanying more than Judy. I understand now, because I still like a perfect mother. This is something I need to reflect on. I think the film and television works should show a mother who is different from the mainstream requirements. She is not necessarily a moral model, not necessarily a success. We want to present the different situations of more different women and see these different women as audiences.

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Judy quotes

  • Louis B. Mayer: Your name is Frances Gumm. You're a fat-ankled, snag-toothed rube from Grand Rapids. Your father was a faggot, and your mother only cares about what I think of you. Now do you remember who you are, Judy?

  • [first lines]

    Louis B. Mayer: What do you see beyond this wall? Picture it. You've got an imagination; go ahead. What I see is a small town in the Midwest. A handful of churches, somewhere for the farmers to get drunk together. Maybe a salon for their wives to do their hair on the holidays. I visit these places. These are the people who send us our profits. Who send us your wages. I make movies, Judy, but it's your job to give those people dreams. The economy is in the gutter, and they pay for you. And I'll tell you something else: In every one of those towns, believe me, there's a girl who's prettier than you. Maybe their nose is a little thinner at the bridge; they have better teeth than you; or they're taller, or slimmer. Only you have something none of those pretty girls can ever have. You know what that is?

    Young Judy: No, sir.

    Louis B. Mayer: You have that voice. It will maybe take you to Oz. Some place none of those pretty girls can ever go.

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