"My Week with Monroe" tells the story of the experience of Lawrence Oliver and Marilyn Monroe in the 1950s when they filmed the film "The Dragon and the Phoenix". Oliver needed Monroe's fame to revive his film career. And Monroe also hopes to restore her reputation and gain more respect by working with the famous actor and director.
The entry point of the film is very coincidental. Through the perspective of a 23-year-old third assistant director, the protagonist Ke Lin, he tells about the brief encounter between the assistant and Monroe during the six months of the filming of "You Dragon and the Phoenix". The real Monroe, in the film not only Monroe's troubles as a big star, but also a detailed performance of Monroe's little girl-like honest heart, which is close to life and real.
"As long as Monroe is right, you won't look at other people at all."
Surrounded by many flashing lights at the airport, Monroe made her first appearance in the film. The lyrical music was mixed with noisy vocals. Everyone The perspective of the film is all focused on Monroe. The director deliberately uses a slow lens to let the audience focus on the characters in the picture. The soft yellow light and the reminiscence lens seem to express a kind of nostalgia, a kind of nostalgia.
The heroine Michelle Williams played Monroe is really amazing, which is also the highlight of this movie. Between gestures, every detail is very appropriate, and the superb acting skills are enough to make up for the lack of appearance. , to make the Monroe in the movie more real.
In several other outdoor scenes, Monroe's every appearance will be more or less a sensation, appearing in the pure boys' Eton College, the British gentleman's enthusiastic reaction is very interesting, for everyone's love for him, Monroe is immersed in it, natural and enjoyable. Monroe's laughter looking back, the hurried steps under the pencil skirt, represent the memory of that era. For today's movie fans, Monroe's images are no longer simple images, but mixed with the special feelings of that special era.
In the film, for Monroe, the innocent and confident Colin can relieve the pressure brought by Oliver, but for Colin, the myth of Monroe's sexiness makes this young lad extremely lucky and extremely painful. Two unrelated people are drawn together by a movie, destined to meet and also destined to separate.
The illegitimate daughter, the orphanage, and the tragic childhood made Monroe a young girl, sensitive and fragile, suspicious and unconfident. At the age of 30, she was still asking which side Colin was on, and she was sure it was her. The people on this side will immediately believe it, let Colin call her Marilyn with a smile, rely on him when she is in a bad mood, and run away mischievously and casually when she is in a good mood. Compared with Vivien Leigh's elegance and decency in the film, Monroe is more helpless and straightforward like a child, showing no hidden emotions, and her emotions and likes and dislikes are directly reflected in her words. This kind of innocence is intoxicating and heart-wrenching.
Every couple felt suitable when they first met, and the insecure love also caused great harm to Monroe. She hasn't had a real date since she was 13 years old. 3 failed marriages made Monroe too persistent and serious about love. She may be really attentive to her sweet love with Colin, but the difference is that Miller's The representative marriage is her longer-term dependence, the sweet and melancholy first love, what Monroe brought to Colin is by no means as simple as love.
The first half of the film creates a very oppressive atmosphere for Oliver and Monroe's different views on performance. An actor who has been labeled as sexy, after being packaged in Hollywood, has become more and more vague about his own positioning, and enjoys long-term performance. After chasing and cheering, a little bit of malicious remarks will be considered fatal slander. She feels extremely uneasy about her beauty that will eventually fade away. She has a fragile heart that is extremely incompatible with fame. She needs to find it in the audience. Self, she needs the audience's approval for herself.
For family, for love, for Hollywood, the things that Monroe has to face are too vulgar and too heavy. Despite this, she still maintains a pure and innocent innocence, which further highlights her charm. As Oliver said at the end of the film, "She is so perfect, she has no training, no skills, she just relies on intuition, she is really shocking, maybe that's why she is so great." Yes, beautiful and innocent, all problems are solved.
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