If a person is considerate to you and is too perfect to be true, then ta really isn't that true.
At the award ceremony of the highest award in the stage play, the host with white hair is introducing the various "virtues" of the best actress winner: humility, kindness, and helpfulness... The camera swept over several guests in the first row, they Their complex expressions that are indescribable, implying to the audience, "That's not it!" They are the director, the screenwriter, the screenwriter's wife, the arrogant drama critic with the cigarette holder in his mouth, the "big heroine" Marg who is gorgeously dressed and rolled his eyes... Eli's protagonist is a drama rookie: Eve. The title of the film is All About Eve, which is translated into Chinese as "Comet Beauty". Eve, a civilian girl full of acting talents, managed to get close to the stage star Margo, and won the trust of Margo's friends including the producer, director, screenwriter couple, etc. , from Margo's assistant and stand-in, to becoming a stage star and being photographed by Hollywood.
This is a "women's play around men", and the main male characters include the theater director (boyfriend who is eight years younger than Margo), Margo's royal screenwriter (written by young women, and wanted to replace Margo for a long time) ), and the key characters driving the plot: the see-through, wily drama critic.
Compared with the "tool man" male, the three female characters are more brilliant, and the stage queen Margo created by Bette Davis seems to be herself. Sister Pei started on Broadway and won the Oscar in 1938 with "Tears in Red Shirt". At her peak, she was called "The First Lady of Film". "The Comet Beauty" also won her the Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival. Personally, Sister Bei's fierce aura is very similar to "Hollywood Gong Li", and she is born to play a big woman. What's interesting is that Margo, who is in his 40s, has a very immature character under the stage, but he has a very immature personality: he stays in bed, has a messed up self-care ability, has a violent temper, even the producer is angry, and he is awkward with his little boyfriend. Breaking up at every turn... From her two dialogues, it is not difficult to find the deep reason for her "immaturity": One was at her boyfriend's dust-cleaning feast, and Margo privately complained to the producer: "Two months ago, I'm forty and it feels like I've been stripped and I don't want to keep playing teenage. And Bill (Margo's boyfriend) is thirty-two, looks like thirty-two, he looked like this ten years ago, two It's still like this ten years later. I hate men!"
A section is Marg confiding her heart to her best friend: "Women all over the world have a common cause, whether we like it or not, sooner or later, we have to run it, and that is: be a woman." This dialogue took place after Bill ran away. In short: age anxiety in women. Everlasting, there is no difference at home and abroad. Off-screen gossip: The actor playing Bill is Sister Pei's real-life husband, and the two married shortly after the release of "The Comet" in 1950. Sister Pei and Joan Crawford's grudge entanglement lasted a lifetime and was made into the American drama "enemy". In the movie, Margo, who has been reading countless people in the entertainment industry, soon realized that Eve had ulterior motives, but at this time Eve had already won the trust of the crew, and one of the key characters was Margo's best friend, The screenwriter's wife Karen.
Karen is younger than Margo, but she plays the role of mother everywhere, tolerant of Margo's bad temper. She wanted to teach Margo a lesson by missing the show, but instead gave Eve a chance to take the stage. The film does not clearly explain whether the latter result was her original intention. From the fact that she introduced a strange fan (that is, Eve) in the rain at the entrance of the theater to Margo, it can be inferred that she is sympathetic and easy to be deceived. The movie is called "All About Eve", but Eve is rarely shown in front of the character, mainly based on how others react to her: how she wins love and how others are convinced of her. The film is clever, and Eve, who is a "green tea bitch", does have a very high level of professionalism.
The third time I watch it, I'm still surprised by Eve's voice. (Eastern aesthetic prejudice, I always thought that Millennium Green Tea should be sweet and squeak) Eve spoke for the first time, mellow and gentle, not like a mosquito humming pitiful, but a mellow alto, full of emotion, very suitable for drama dialogue. The only time Eve revealed her feelings was in the banquet scene in the middle of the film: five people were sitting on the stairs, the director and the screenwriter were exposing the cruel competition in the entertainment industry, the camera shot the two people upwards, obviously from Eve's point of view, and then a The mirror is Eve's frontal medium shot, her eyes glowing with ambition, she couldn't help refuting the two of them, consciously slipped her words, and stopped abruptly. In this scene, Marilyn Monroe, who was still unknown at the time, took a glimpse and left a classic line of dialogue: "That's a mink, but it's really worth a girl's sacrifice." Eve, the play Outside of Monroe, everyone understands that you must make sacrifices to step into Vanity Fair.
In addition to Margo's director boyfriend, there are also poisonous critics who have long seen through Eve's scheming. After Eve took the stage for the first time, he heard Eve teasing the director outside the dressing room and became furious after being rejected. He still walked into the room as if nothing had happened, and asked Eve's background in a congratulatory tone. This scene is a half-minute character medium shot. The critic sits in a chair and asks questions. Eve changes Eve in the bathroom. Only the voice goes out. From the subtle changes in the playwright's facial expressions, the audience can guess: Eve Made up her life experience, she is not a military martyr, nor is she a fan of Margo, and she doesn't even remember the name of the premiere theater.
What I still don't understand is the playwright's motive for helping Eve: to admire her talent, or to be jealous of her body? Probably both. It is very likely that if you watch this movie again in a few years, you will naturally understand. Just like when I looked at Eve before, I was surprised how such a person could exist, but now I see that this "character type" is everywhere. Everything about Eve comes from other people's scrutiny of Eve. Producers, directors, writers and critics are all male. In the plot, the screenwriter calls Margo "the body that makes a sound", which means that the actors are just tools, and the quality of the content of a play still depends on the screenwriter and director.
Do women need all kinds of "bitch" means to climb up in the male-dominated power structure? It's not a necessity, but it's a shortcut. How cruel is the entertainment industry, how many people are willing to pay the price of "bitch", and not only women? In the end, the title is written this way because I can't think of anything more eye-catching than a bitch in the subject of Comet Beauty. . . Although I think labels like "green tea" are extremely politically incorrect for 21st century women.
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