In 2013, "Beijing Meets Seattle" became a topical film in China. At the end of the film, Wen Jiajia reunited with Frank on the top floor of the Empire State Building, reaping the true fruits of love. Director Xue Xiaolu admitted: The Empire State Building is a way to pay tribute to "Sleepless in Seattle". In 1993, the climax of "Sleepless in Seattle", Sam and Annie finally harvested the long-planned love at first sight in the Empire State Building, which has since become a classic love paragraph in film history, and director Nora Ephron pointed out: She used the Empire State Building to show her love. Think of the greater love film "Jin Yumeng" as a tribute. In 1957, "An Affair to Remember" was released. When Nickie, played by Cary Grant, waited until late at night on the top floor of the Empire State Building in a thunderstorm to go to the covenant, and left alone, the rambunctious playboy became a faithful lover at that moment. The infatuated gentleman of promise, a classic love movie has stood firm in film history, and the love created by "Golden Jade Alliance" is as difficult as a believer accepting a trial.
"Golden Jade Alliance" is a remake of director Leo McCarey's "Love Affair" filmed in 1938. Cary, 53 years old Grant plays Nickie, a playboy who is "well-known and famous". This person is personable, but he has constant scandals and a romantic nature. This time, he has changed his mind and is going to New York on a cruise ship to marry his girlfriend who has just inherited a wealthy family. Gossip reports from many European media. On the cruise ship, the bored Nickie meets Terry, a female tourist who fascinates him. The two used tender and sweet words as a sword to fight against each other. They knew that the other party was a veteran in love, but they were attracted to each other in each other's games. The cruise ship stopped on the coast of France. Nickie invited Terry to visit his grandmother with him. In his grandmother's paradise, Terry saw Nickie's unknown sincerity and talent, and the two fell in love. They had no choice but to break up when they sailed to New York. Looking at the Empire State Building, the couple vowed: for a period of six months, if both of them can break off their engagement and find a job to support themselves, they will be in six months later. We will meet on the top floor of the Empire State Building, and we will end our lives together. Nickie firmly believes that his talent for painting does not bother to work hard, and even earns a living as a painter. Finally, he has passed the most difficult initial stage as a painter. After half a year, he fulfilled his agreement and came to the top floor of the Empire State Building. After waiting for a whole cold rainy night, he did not see Terry. At that time, Terry sang at the bar for half a year, and hurried to the Empire State Building, but was accidentally hit by a car and couldn't walk when he woke up. Nickie left the United States sadly, traveled around painting, and sent off his beloved grandmother. Terry, on the other hand, was determined to make a living independently, and joined a church charity to teach children to sing. No one could have imagined that the reunion would be a ballet ending. Nickie left the stage accompanied by his ex-rich girlfriend, and met Terry who had not left the venue and his ex-fiance who was with her. Hello. Nickie leaves, Terry waits until the end of the show before getting into a wheelchair. Out of dignity, she forbids her well-meaning ex-fiancé to tell Nickie the truth. Nickie declined the ex-girlfriend's suggestion to get back together. She couldn't resist the doubts and anger in her heart, and finally knocked on the door of Terry's house on Christmas Eve. In fact, the truth is always on the painting hanging in Terry's bedroom, but Nickie has to go through painful questioning and doubt before finally choosing to believe in his love.
There is no doubt that this is a classic love movie. The male and female protagonists have undergone emotional inner identification respectively, and they have determined that the other is the right person, determined the common values of each other, and then honored their promises and guarded love with dignity. . More than half of the story takes place on the go—on a cruise ship, at my grandmother's house. On the luxury cruise ship, Nickie faces a group of bored high-society passengers. They are polite and secretive but gossip to the point of no bottom line. They even inquire about Nickie's privacy and snap up ambiguous photos of Nickie and Terry... Only Terry of the same background can Get Nickie's attention. Neither of them belonged to the upper class, but they each got the golden key, and after the cruise ship docked, they could open the road to the upper floors. However, in the humble and quiet chapel of her grandmother's house, Nickie discovers Terry's sincerity; and Nickie's gift to her grandmother - a portrait of her grandfather drawn from memory - allows Terry to see Nickie's sincere pursuit of beauty. The grandmother lives in a corner, her residence is in contrast to the luxurious cruise ship, Terry admits in amazement that she would like to live her whole life here, which shows that what she pursues is not to marry into a wealthy family, but to idyll, pure freedom. The two returned to the cruise ship again, completely abandoning the hypocritical upbringing that the upper class should have maintained, and instead joined hands to blackmail themselves and laugh at the sadness of the rich people on the same ship. That's when they saw each other and became a real couple.
Laughing at money, satirizing class, and being content with poverty are the truly moving visual foundations of romance films. The real love in "Roman Holiday" is on the day when the princess becomes a commoner; the love in "Rocky" is when Rocky leads Adrienne clumsily on a closed ice rink; the love in "Sweet Honey" is founded in Melted chocolate, swimming trunks for underwear, and shabby love hotels, once you buy Jin Daiyu, you will immediately end your relationship.
The cruise ship segment ends with the birth of the Covenant. Looking at the Empire State Building, Terry sighed: It is the closest place to heaven. So the oath will be tested, the fidelity of love will be tested. The United States is the western country with the most conservative values. The name of the cruise ship is "Constitution" - "Constitution" means the foundation of the United States. This foundation was born from the immigrants of Mayflower, and the consensus of immigrants is Protestantism. In the story, the cruise ship returns to the United States from Europe, from a place with relatively open and diverse moral values, to the country of Puritans, which is destined to be a change of heart. Nickie and Terry are both famous and have a marriage contract, and regardless of the object's illustrious wealth, this marriage contract alone has branded the love of the male and female protagonists as immoral. This romantic tragicomedy begins with the betrayal of the protagonists, he and she each betray their other halves—both uninteresting companions with no moral flaws. Therefore, Nickie and Terry's love is an original sin. Ship to the United States, the two of them will bear their own original sins and go on an independent and steadfast trial journey.
For Nickie, he has countless debts, gave up the golden key, and betrayed his wealthy girlfriend who truly loved him. He will accept the test of survival in poverty and adversity, accept the test of faith in broken promises, and accept the test of the death of his grandmother whose spiritual pillar collapsed. In the end, he has to accept Terry's lie test. For Terry, she betrayed a modest gentleman who loved her deeply. She had to endure the test of survival in returning to a singing life, the physical test of being paralyzed by a car accident, the test of faith in loneliness, and finally the test of self-esteem.
The couple finally got married because they had survived ninety-nine-eighty-one hardships. After the car accident, Terry insisted on making a living independently. The means of making a living was still singing. However, the object has changed. From the original drunken consumers to the pure children of the lower class who are closest to God, she volunteered singing teaching. , sang the chorus in praise of the Boy Scouts and the chorus on Christmas Eve. There is no doubt that she has washed away the original sin she once committed due to betrayal or the awakening of love, and has become a supporter of mainstream American ideology.
Nickie's epiphany at the end gave him the direction of his previous paintings-Terry turned his back and looked up at Nickie's grandmother praying devoutly in the distant view. The ultimate salvation comes from faith. There is no doubt that the grandmother and widow living on the French coast, thinking of her deceased husband every day, praying devoutly every day, she is the secular embodiment of faith in the film. And after her death, she eventually became an immortal spiritual force, guiding Nickie to discover the truth and firm belief - that flawless shawl, that holy painting, brought Nickie back to Terry's side.
As a love movie, "Jin Yumeng" is a classic in the genre with its level of play and exquisite lines, and it makes people believe in the existence of love in terms of the effect of the play. However, the conservative core concept has to make people suspicious of love, because the price of this love is too high, and it is more regrettable that this love is only disciplined and well-behaved, but not provocative enthusiasm. The film's director, Leo McCarey, in 1952, at the height of McCarey's heyday, had made the "Red Terror" work My Son John, which was full of right-wing conservative ideology. Therefore, aside from his exemplary drama skills, it is necessary to conduct a perhaps overly sensitive reflection on a "politically correct" love that happened in "Golden Jade Alliance". And can truly touching love be expressed through Hollywood type films? This is yet another topic.
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