Rich daughter Ellie falls in love with pilot Kim. She runs away from home because of her father's opposition. She meets Peter, a journalist who lost her job on a long-distance bus. Ellie is willing to show off her sexiness in order to get a ride, but Peter has to use a blanket to separate her in the same room. open. Ellie's father hires a private detective to track down his daughter and publishes the news in the newspapers, and Peter discovers Ellie's identity. In order to grasp the scoop, Peter took care of Ellie along the way. The two fell in love while getting along, and after some setbacks, the lovers finally became married. 1. Background (1) Frank Capra 1. Comedy His films are almost all comedies, mostly describing the daily life of ordinary people in small towns. The protagonists are often eccentric, so they are called "weird comedies"; , Character characterization and dialogue have been carefully conceived and ingeniously arranged, focusing on mood and details, so it is also called "exquisite comedy"; Capra opposed money worship, he believed in the doctrine (Christian) "love your neighbor", through the film Expressing that people of different classes can live on an equal footing, his comedies are full of rich life materials, touching on acute social problems during the Great Depression in the United States. The car trips and traveler's camps set up in " are the latest things in the United States at that time), so it is also known as "social comedy". Watching Capra's films, the story often begins as a light-hearted farce, but as the story unfolds, the audience will see the meaning of the extraordinary response from the comedy. 2. Improvisation may be influenced by the creation of traditional comedy films. Capra is good at improvising at the director's site, including temporarily changing the script and inspiring actors to improvise. 3. "Miracle", "American Dream" and "Miracle" are the motifs of Capra's films. Almost all of his films tell the audience about various miracles: Shangri-La in war, the rich falling in love with the poor, and the humble becoming Congress All dreams of congressmen and hapless people came true overnight... In fact, the essence of this motif is the "American Dream", and Capra has always maintained a tribute to traditional American characters such as loyalty, idealism, and social responsibility. American Dream Since 1776, generations of Americans have believed that a better life can be achieved only through hard work and perseverance, that people must through their own hard work, courage, creativity and Determined to prosper, not dependent on specific social classes and aid from others. (2) One night romance In the social background where people are facing unemployment and bankruptcy, such a legend of marrying a rich girl with 39 yuan of investment is very American spirit, such a scene of poor people from all walks of life all over the country on a broken bus What a theme to sing a song with joy. In the end, the big capitalists abandoned the rich children and handed over their daughters to the poor boys. It can make people forget the disaster that this country is suffering in a short 100 minutes, and with high fighting spirit, like the little characters in the film, accept life happily and open up their own American dream. Movies in the classical Hollywood period were subject to the prohibition of "Hays Code", which did not allow kissing scenes on the screen, so Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert didn't want to kiss in the scene, they couldn't kiss. But the director Capra was very smart to use some edge balls to tease the lower limit of the conservative audience at that time - when Clark Gable's various thumb stops did not work, Claudette Colbert's thigh wrapped in stockings caused the Exclamations came from the cinema. 2. The narrative follows the principle of three uniformity, and tries its best to achieve the unity of time, place and theme. Its narrative structure is clear and compact, starting from paving the way for the two people’s identities, embarking on a journey together, and finally reaching a happy ending in their love. At the end, the occurrence of each event revolves around the identities and contradictions of the two people, and the foreshadowing of emotions and plots is also fully in place. The biggest attraction in the play is the rich bickering of the two people. The lines are natural, smooth and funny, and love also bursts out in this, and later became the benchmark of typical romantic comedies. The story mainly takes place in a car or a bus, and has the characteristics of a road romance movie. The joyous scene of the crowd singing together on the bus reflects the warmth of human feelings and fits people's inner expectations. 3. Audiovisual 1. The beginning of the film starts with the story of the heroine, depicting her identity background and the beginning of running away from home, and then uses two slightly longer shots to frame the hero and heroine in the same scene, that is, the heroine. When the host waited for the car, the camera turned and saw that the male protagonist was fired on the side of the phone, while the male protagonist was in the follow-up conversation with the flight attendant, and the female protagonist passed by in the foreground. This ingenious technique quickly brings the story to the fore, and the foreshadowing is very natural. 2. The use of light is very characteristic, indoor and outdoor, day and night have different styles, sometimes clear and sometimes soft, especially when the two are in the suburbs, the soft moonlight blurs the outline of the heroine, and the two are almost close to each other. On the kiss, there is a kind of beauty like a classical oil painting. But when the two of them were separated by a curtain for the first time in a rainy night, the lights went out, there was only the pattering rain and the shadows of the two of them. In the two narrow spaces separated by a curtain, the curtain was soft and fluttering. Destructible, dark and ambiguous, all add to the romantic atmosphere. In the end, when the male protagonist and the male protagonist's father were waiting on the road to find the female protagonist, one after the other, cross-editing, the emotions of the two were completely different, and the atmosphere was extremely tense
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