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before watching this old movie, I actually watched Harrison Ford and Julia Omon's re-interpretation of "Love to Paris" in 1995. At that time I only remember that Ford was very famous. He used to inspire people with his tough-guy screen roles such as "Air Force One". In this film, the image of a business tycoon he portrayed is affectionate and gentle... To be honest, I don't remember the heroine's appearance and her name, I just don't think it can attract the attention of the audience. To a certain extent, she is not as glamorous as Audrey Hepburn in 1954, although the characters in the old films They all fall in love in a nostalgic black and white picture, but they don't weaken the aura at all. Strictly speaking, the Chinese translation of the old film "Dragon and Phoenix" is inaccurate. Linus deserves it as a "dragon", and Sabrina is a sparrow at best. A story of a sparrow turning into a phoenix came into being, and it incorporates elements such as love triangle and romance. In any case, people will suspect that this is the old model that Korean dramas follow. The only reason why Audrey Hepburn is not suitable to play Sabrina is her too noble temperament and stunning appearance.
At the beginning of the film, we are taken into a manor, and a large number of people are led out, and finally it is settled on the driver and his daughter Sabrina. As soon as the simple beginning is over, the picture immediately shows a ball in the manor, and Sabrina looks like a stranger
The yellow-haired girl who was involved in the incident hid in the bushes with a ponytail, her gaze was always on one person. At this time, the voiceover continued to introduce the members of the manor. There were two brothers in this family. The eldest, Linus, was in charge of the family business. The second, David, divorced three times. Her infatuation with David, David didn't know and didn't want to pay attention to it. It was the night before she was going to Paris to study cooking. She wanted to stay with David, but the rambunctious David had an appointment with a beautiful woman. , using the usual tricks to hide the champagne glass in his trouser pocket and run to the tennis court, where Sabrina is heartbroken as she witnesses him kissing other women. So she cutely wrote a suicide note, and ran to the garage to open the exhaust system of all the cars and wanted to die in the poisonous gas. Reluctantly, Linus found out (here the director deliberately made Linus and Sabina's father ignore the reason for her suicide, the letter and her act of opening the car's exhaust system did not surprise them, in There is no explanation in the next episode). I don't know why the talented director Billy Wilder arranged for her to study cooking in Paris. This topic is now a fashionable move. For example, in the Korean drama "My Name is Kim Samsoon", Kim Samsoon, the heroine, studied cooking in Paris. And the combination of food and love is very sentimental. But in this film, the director did not explain Sabrina's original intention and ultimate purpose of learning this skill. If it was her father's wishful thinking to prevent her daughter, I am afraid there is no need to let her learn to cook... But When she was studying cooking, she met a baron in the same class, which taught her a lot of life experience, and also allowed her to enter and leave the upper class, and she became a lot of manners. When she returned from Paris, the story took a turn. First of all, her father happened to be busy with work and missed the opportunity to pick up his daughter. David happened to pass by and saw this beautiful girl. The screenwriter was very interesting and created suspense. David didn't know her anymore, and was seduced by her beauty and took the initiative to speak up. From guessing her father's occupation to where she lives, to when they were in the courtyard and the servants hugged Sabrina, David had a sudden realization. This section is interesting, the dialogue is clever, the audience finds it amusing and at the same time can not help but be infected by Sabrina's beauty. Samuel Taylor's writing prowess is largely down to his design of the lines (but I'm guessing it's due to director Billy Wilder, who has a lot of wit and silliness in his writing work. witty lines), such as Sabina forgot to turn on the oven switch when she was learning to steam cheese puff pastry in cooking school, the old baron in his 70s said Sabina: You are a girl who is disappointed in love at first sight , women who are proud of their love tend to be scorched
Of course, with that said, smart viewers know that David is going to like Sabrina, which is probably the vanity of all men - walking with pretty women makes their faces glow. But David's brother Linus thinks otherwise. He married his younger brother and the daughter of a plastics producer, and the two family businesses could merge into business. In the dialogue between the brothers, this scene is very comically vivid. The older brother talks to his younger brother about plastics, and the younger brother talks to him about women. After that, the older brother's plan immediately made the younger brother understand. Linus called the secretaries to stand on the big plastic board and jumped up and down together. It was very funny. His brother's old trick was repeated, and it happened that there was a dance that night, so he invited Sabrina, who happily went there, completely unaware that David was engaged. She appeared very much like the Cinderella in the fairy tale, wearing a long evening dress, became the focus of the audience, and even the hostess of the manor, David's mother, did not recognize her. David manages to leave his fiancee and asks Sabina to meet at the tennis court. However, when Sabrina's long-awaited scene is about to come, David is blocked by his father, accidentally sitting on the bottom of the champagne glass (his own hidden in his trouser pocket) and unable to come, Linus dispatched. He went for David because the marriage of the two business magnates could not be ruined because of the driver's daughter. But obviously the director is a little off the mark here, at least I think the scene on the tennis court shows that Linus loves Sabrina in his heart, not just for her to be with his brother. From dancing with Sabrina in his arms and kissing her on the lips for his brother, it shows he loves her.
Then his actions made this clearer, when he dressed up in place of his younger brother and went out to sea with Sabina, revealing to her the fear and escape of love in his heart. Sabrina clearly expressed her strangeness in what she said to her father: there is an unexpected tender side to such a person who seems to be cold on a daily basis. This is a very important basis, an important proof that Linus broke into her heart. Later, as the wedding date approaches, Linus takes action, booking a ticket to Paris and tricking Sabrina into getting on the boat. But Sabrina had fallen in love with him, not David. After learning about it, David angrily punched his brother and persuaded him to chase after him. So the heir to the family business took a hat and an umbrella and ran desperately to the pier. The ending is very interesting. Sabrina was sunbathing on the deck, and a waiter took a hat and said that a customer asked her to help her fold it into the most elegant shape. After she folded it, she followed the waiter's back and stood at the door to watch for a long time. However, Linus stood behind her in the folded-up hat, leaning on an umbrella, and the two hugged tightly.
Putting such a love triangle in contemporary times, it seems to be boring, but at that time, especially with the participation of beautiful beautiful women like Audrey Hepburn and first-class acting Humphrey Bogart, the film looked different. The brilliance of the 1995 "Return to Paris" is still eclipsed by this old film. At the beginning, Audrey was a newcomer, and her salary had reached half of Humphrey Bogart's salary - that is, 150,000 US dollars, but Bogart did not recognize her acting skills very much, and strongly recommended his wife to take the role, about Caused an unpleasant story. Because Humphrey had his upper lip injured during the war, he rarely speaks, and his appearance gives the impression of a very tough guy. We are more familiar with his representative work in "Casablanca" co-starring with Ingrid Bergman. I think Personally, I prefer "Casablanca", let's put it aside for the time being; the director of this film, Billy Wilder, especially likes Audrey Hepburn, and he also invited her to participate in the later "My Fair Lady", and He once praised the actress: "God kissed a little girl on the cheek, and Hepburn was born".
Before shooting this film, Hepburn had already participated in "Roman Holiday" and starred in the musical "Gigi" on Broadway, but "Roman Holiday" has not yet premiered, and many people do not know this new face, Even when Hepburn went to Paris to meet Givenchy in preparation for the film "Dragon and Phoenix", the young costume designer thought it was Catherine Hepburn. But since he met Hepburn, he was completely overwhelmed by her beauty both inside and out, and the two of them reached a consensus that they were brothers and sisters, and they maintained this close relationship for decades. Hepburn has always had a unique fascination with clothing, and Givenchy has become a part of her life, both in this "Dragon and Phoenix" and in her later life. Therefore, those who study Hepburn must also study the brand of Givenchy.
It is worth mentioning that in this film called Sabrina in English, Hepburn is like a young girl who is just starting out. She looks like a schoolgirl in a ponytail. She is pure and lovely. When she is dressed in Givenchy, she is tailor-made for her. She looks like a princess in a custom-made evening dress, so many times, I think Hepburn is lucky, she has a vase-like face, but God is very kind to her, so many talented friends surround her and build her , sometimes we prefer to compare her to a piece of pure and smooth jade, and some of those brilliance are reflected to her by her surroundings.
In addition, there is a beautiful song in this film, "Rose Life", when Sabrina is writing a letter in front of the window in the dark, there is a playing sound from the window, and her heart is open for love. The same music appeared in Feng Xiaogang's work "A World Without Thieves" a few years ago. In the bloody dusk, the thieves drove their stolen cars all the way, so I heard this song performed by Lisa Ono.
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