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His Girl Friday (1940) The
IMDB250 series has returned to the fourth of the last century Ten years. I have watched too many old movies, but I think the Hollywood movies of the 1930s and 1940s are the best. The Hollywood "golden age" is indeed the golden age.
The film tells a noisy day of a female journalist. A shrewd and capable female reporter brought her fiance to the former newspaper office and told her that her ex-husband was also the boss, and that she was going to get married and resign. The ex-husband was very upset and wanted to keep her and destroy their marriage. He used the law to enlist the female reporter to agree to interview a case about the death row prisoner, and hired someone to frame her fiancé and put him in jail. After interviewing the death row prisoner, the female reporter learned the truth, was very upset, and wanted to leave. At this time, the death row prisoner escaped, and the reporter's instinct could make her work again and forget about finding a husband. The heroine who grabbed the news happily asked her ex-husband for credit and waited to be reimbursed for her expenses, but her ex-husband sent him counterfeit money, but she didn't doubt it. When he was about to leave to find her husband, the escaped prisoner climbed up to the female reporter's room. The excited heroine hid her, and began to appeal to the newspaper. It was big news to catch the escaped prisoner. Subsequently, the released fiancé, ex-husband, fiancé’s mother, ex-husband’s little friend, mayor, sheriff, and a bunch of reporters started a controversy of lies in this room. One party must hide the truth and the other party must Discover the truth. Finally, the fiance's mother told about the death row prisoner and left with her son who was holding the counterfeit banknotes. Both the female reporter and her ex-husband were arrested for hiding criminals. However, the probation order relayer who was not bought reappeared, and the situation changed suddenly. The mayor, who was afraid of revealing the truth, let the female reporter and her ex-husband obediently. The female reporter went down to look for her fiance after her ex-husband’s persuasion, only to find that he was arrested again for counterfeit banknotes. Only then did the heroine realize that true love is by her side. She then abandoned her fiance and returned to her ex-husband's arms.
This movie is a farce, and it's a pure "farce" drama, it's really noisy. There are so many dialogues in the movie, and the speed of speech is so fast, it almost becomes a kind of noise. I have a headache after watching this movie. Some movies are dull and give me a headache; some movies are obscure and give me a headache; but this movie is very noisy and gives me a headache. There are tens of millions of movies in the world, and there are really all kinds of movies. The characters in this film all speak faster than machine guns, and the dialogue they speak is mostly witty, with few straightforward expressions, usually with modified sentences, which is quite in line with reporters’ habits. . So when I watch a movie, I basically spend most of my time watching the subtitles, and the time spent watching the picture is pitiful. Hey, I really admire the audiences of that era. How did they appreciate this movie?
In addition, in addition to a lot of dialogue and fast speech, the plot of the movie is also a farce. Women who want to get married, ex-husbands who want to destroy their ex-wife’s marriage, executed prisoners who were wrongly convicted and then escaped from prison, confused sheriffs, and some unscrupulous reporters for the news, all these people come together to make a farce. From the plot point of view, this is even more so: one is in jail for a woman, one is to jail for counterfeit money, and one is for stealing a watch. This man is so stupid; just after the interview, the condemned prisoner escaped from jail, and he was still looking for him after he escaped. I went to the reporter; the kind woman helped the executed prisoner, but was forced to jump to death; the big living person was locked in the table, but no one could be found; Xiao I could do any illegal activities without being caught; The mayor can bribe people at will, etc. These miscellaneous plots will inevitably not appear in real society. They can only appear in movies, and there is nothing ridiculous about the setting of these plots. They are all deep satires of social phenomena, so this film is a farce. Not a comedy.
The subtitles before the start of the film have already expressed the theme of the film, showing the lives of journalists, their unscrupulous lives for news, and even their private lives. In order to make news, he did not hesitate to fabricate lace news about death row prisoners, and forced to death an innocent woman; to get close to death row prisoners, he bribed prison guards; to steal news and bribes various people; to write articles, even his fiancé could be ignored; to grab headlines and even At the expense of harbouring death row prisoners, escaped prisoners, etc., we can see how absurd this industry is. The purpose of the director to shoot this film is to satirize the industry and expose the inside story of the industry. In addition, while exposing the inside story of the industry, it also shows the private lives of journalists soaked in this absurd industry. Whether it is work that has changed their character, or character has changed their work, in short, the personal lives of journalists are as full of intrigues and tricks as they are to get news and get headlines. The most ridiculous thing is that the people here are happy to live in such an environment and are not tired of them. Journalists in the news industry have completely integrated with this absurd industry.
Since this film is a farce, it is more demanding than comedy. Fortunately, the actors in this film are very good. The leading actor, Cary Grant, is so wretched and treacherous in the film, he plays a man who is skilled in calculations. His image in this film is completely different from what I have seen in other movies, and now I know that he has also played such a character. The performance of the heroine Rosalind Russell is amazing, and she is the most outstanding in the whole film. Not only is she tall, beautiful, and beautiful, but most importantly, she is also very good at acting. In the play, she speaks at the same speed as a machine gun, and she speaks a lot of headaches. At the same time, she perfectly interprets the superwoman with her body language, which is really incredible. Especially many funny and quarrel scenes, the performance is too perfect. Her image in the movie is completely different from the images of classical beauties in Hollywood movies, giving people a refreshing feeling. After watching this film, I know that in the 1940s, there were such outstanding women in both actors and roles. The other actors in the film are all tricks, and the fiance is also a trick, not to mention it.
In addition, there are many translations of the film, such as "Tabby News" and "Friday Girl". I think the translation of the tabloid Miao Yuanjia is quite appropriate, while "Tabiao Miao Yuanjia" and "Friday Girl" are far from the topic and have nothing to do with the plot. What exactly is this Friday?
In short, a noisy farce film has a deep irony. The film is spoken too fast, it is necessary to watch it twice, once to watch the plot, and once to watch the performance. In addition, Rosalind Russell's performance is too eye-catching, and now it is also a very different actor.
Rosalind Russell
Rosalind Russell
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TLF.IMDB.Top245. Friday Girl. His. Girl. Friday. 1940. D5. MiniSD-TLF
2011-08-27
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