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All About Eve (Comet Beauty) 1950
These two days have been busy with other things Thing, I only have time to write today after watching the movie. This is a black and white film released in 1950, listed in the IMDB250 series.
The story of this film tells the story of how a woman went from an obscure amateur actress to relying on her own means, and finally became a successful actress who won an acting award. The protagonist of the story is a poor girl from the countryside who concealed her true identity and made up a very pitiful and tragic life story. After winning the trust of famous actresses and their friends, she gradually integrated into the circle. First, imitating the various habits of actresses, and then relying on small means to become stunt performers, and then holding off the full-time actor, so that she cannot act, and she gets the opportunity to perform by herself. She relies on her beauty to win over various key figures, such as drama critics, drama investors, etc., and gradually become famous. In the end, relying on the advantages of his age and beauty, he seduced the well-known playwright, obtained a very good script and role, and finally defeated the older and well-known actress. She also achieved success with this role and won the acting award, which was recognized by people. It's a pity that all of her plots were seen through by drama critics, but he didn't expose them. After she became famous, she wanted to develop in Hollywood, but she met a woman younger than her. This woman is like a younger version of her, and she is also working hard to get the upper hand, and the film ends here.
The story of the movie is not particularly new now, or it is another embodiment of thick black school, just like last year's "Social Network". The heroine is thick-skinned and ruthless, and will use all kinds of strategies to achieve her goals. In the 1950s, such a theme was still quite beautiful. However, I have read countless films, and I guessed the truth of the matter in the first 30 minutes of the film. Such a film could not attract me at all. It took me three intermittent days to finish the film.
Of course, the movie is slow to watch, and there are other reasons. Another reason is that the dialogue in the film is too much, too thin, and it looks very dull. The length of the film is about 140 minutes, which is too much for the story of this film. For a simple story like this one, 90 minutes is enough. Most of the scenes in the movie are dialogues, and the content of the dialogues is nothing more than about the drama and the characters in the play, but 60% of the content in these dialogues is not directly related to the plot. The characters use a lot of metaphors, quotes, metaphors, allusions, etc. to say things that are actually very simple and completely unnecessary. The way the characters speak in a way that makes it difficult for me to understand the plot, and the translation of the Chinese subtitles is very poor, especially in the middle part, the sentences are often not smooth, so many of the dialogues are not understood at all. However, after watching the entire movie and looking back, I found that even if some of the dialogues are difficult to understand or the translation is inaccurate, it is not the development of the film's plot. Therefore, the lines of this film are very trivial and not concise, and it can be properly simplified to make the plot more A little more compact. It's such a talk-based movie, with a length of more than two hours, the most important thing is the dialogue content or some trivial matters. Can this movie look good?
The plot of this film is not the highlight, the highlight lies in the performance of the actors. Three men and three women, all of them have superb acting skills, and all six of them are beautiful, which is really rare. I've seen a lot of black and white Hollywood films, and I've seen a lot of handsome men, and beautiful women are indeed rare, but I was surprised that there were three big beauties in this film. What impressed me the most was the heroine Bette Davis. When the film first started, I didn't think she was the heroine, a middle-aged woman, and she wasn't pretty. But her superb acting skills after the movie started, made me admire her with admiration. I won't say much about her. Years of "Warner Actress" is the best interpretation of her. Anne Baxter is a veritable "beauty", both in the movie and in the eyes of ordinary people. Her beauty is simply invincible. Whether it is at that time or now, it is in line with our aesthetics. Her performance in the film is like character possession, she is Eve, and Eve is her, perfectly shaped. But according to the information, she later became a good wife and mother, but it is a pity for such a beauty. Another heroine, Celeste Holm, has also won the Oscar for Best Actress. She is also a beauty, but there is so little information that I don't know anything other than the award. The information on the male actors on the Internet is zero, so I will not say anything.
In short, the story of this film was a relatively new subject matter in the 1950s, but it is very cliché to watch it today, and the film is particularly boring. However, the performances of many great actors in the film are still worth watching.
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2011-06-23
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