When watching this movie, the title of the movie "Pretty Baby" reminded me of another movie - "Pretty Wamon" and "Pretty Woman" - Julia Raditz's famous work that year. While it's a little odd to put the two together, it's interesting to compare them.
First of all, from the title of the film, compared to the original title, the non-literal translation of the title has obvious subjective colors, reflecting the completely different styles of the two films. Although "Yanwa Biography" has the word "Yan", it is actually very cool. "Wa" here does not refer to women in general, but to children as intended, and the collocation with the word "Yan" shows the conflict. The word "biography" reveals the narrative style and attitude of the film. The combination of content and attitude, the film presents the audience with a sense of distance (as the movie goes deeper, this sense of distance will become very subtle, of course, this is a later story).
And "Fengyue Pretty Lady", even with the existence of "Fengyue", it can't weaken the lively atmosphere brought by the word "Pretty", what's more, when Fengyue is used as an adjective, there is almost no dust smell, but it adds the romantic atmosphere Romantic atmosphere. And "beautiful woman" is very easy to think of a typical love fairy tale. Lively, romantic, intimate, with almost no sense of distance, because there is no need for reality, it exists in everyone's imagination.
The biggest commonality between the two films is that the heroines are prostitutes. The story of "The Legend of Yanwa" takes place in a brothel in the early 20th century. Violet played by Brooke Shields is already the third generation in the brothel. The grandmother gave birth to her mother in the brothel, and her mother gave birth here. down her. Although she is only eleven years old, she is already used to seeing men and women, and it is easy to please men. Her fate also seemed to be doomed from birth. And when she welcomed her first man, although it was emotionless, it was still something to look forward to and excited about. Later, her mother got married and left her alone in a brothel, and she didn't feel the sadness of being abandoned. When her mother settled down and came to pick her up to go out and live a normal life together, she didn't want to at first, what she wanted was a man of her own.
In "Pretty Woman with the Moon", I can't remember how Ruizi became a prostitute, and it seems that there is not much involved. Anyway, it's to beg for food for a living, and it's also for money to be hired as a lover. When hiring a lover seems to be a naked money transaction, it actually adds points to the character. While slowly withdrawing and diluting the original image of a prostitute in the minds of the audience, it also creates a witty and romantic conflict point. A dream come true and a happy ending of love is completely what the audience is willing to accept.
Comparing the two, although they are both prostitutes, one is growing up and the other is fading away the traces of the past. As mentioned earlier, one is the special environment of an unfamiliar era, with a sense of distance, a reality with a sense of oppression; the other is beautiful, kind and even warm, satisfying the fantasy of people from all walks of life. The bottom layer is dancing. Dreams that are free from reality, the upper layer is the expression of compassion without cost. Slightly involved in taboos, but innocuous, not as naked as "Yanwa", which scared everyone to scold them in a hurry to show Gao Zheng's innocence.
And there is love. Love is the focus of "Pretty Woman", needless to say. In "The Legend of Yan Baby", Violet fell in love with the photographer. Although she knew how to please men in some ways, she couldn't get rid of the fact that she was still a child. The details of the relationship between them are ignorant, and it is easier said than done to live a normal adult life. On the photographer's side, falling in love with a young girl and even marrying her back home, of course, seems abnormal now. At that time, except for the small environment centered on the brothel, it was unacceptable to outsiders. In other words, it's okay to play, but it would be embarrassing to put it on the table in an upright manner. In the context of the film, the photographer's question is how to treat and get along with Violet, whether to treat her like a child or an adult? It is very painful, very hard, and it is not destined to have a happy ending.
At the end, both heroines "get out of the sea of misery". "Pretty Beauty" should have lived a happy life since then. "Yanwa" went to live with her mother and left the photographer who was extremely painful. When her mother came to take her away, she did not struggle and feel awkward, because she was only a child after all, and this special life and memory may also be slowly forgotten in the process of growing up .
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