George Bailey in "How Beautiful is Life", everyone can see that he is the incarnation of Mr. Stewart: a kind, gentle and intelligent young man in a small town + a brave and patriotic heroic air force pilot + a good husband who loves his wife and son Father... This male protagonist and Jimmy Stewart mirror each other so much that even at Stewart's funeral, everyone still remembers the chorus of "Friendship Forever".
Jimmy was originally a good person who made the world unanimously admired. He deserves to be the "American conscience." Mr. Stewart, with countless laurels on his head, has already passed the questioned and discussed "Wood Xiu Yulin" like "How Beautiful is Life". The category of "Wind Will Destroy It" has risen to the great altar of "not abandoning rivers forever." But I think that today, when Mr. Stewart passed away nearly 25 years ago, people sometimes forget that he is under the airspace and off the screen. Not only is he the "Great American" George Bailey, he is still content. Elwood P. Dowd, a well-known part-time philosopher in film history, and a full-time rabbit escort. He goes out to drink martinis with a 6-foot-3.5-inch rabbit (let's stick to the facts) every day, listens to the mundane world on the wine table, and occasionally works as a moon old man to help people who want to drink cold beer solidify. time. Even if someone tried to catch him and scold him and taunt him, he would not be angry. He always smiled, always opened the door for others and walked behind... He did not rush and slowly caused violent storms and waited for every crappy guy. He was hurriedly panicking with his feet up to the sky, but he fell behind in the middle of the night and bent down and began to sniff a flower intently and intoxicated. Elwood in "Harvey" is probably the part of Jimmy Stewart that ordinary movie lovers tend to ignore, and his fans cherish the most: innocent, sincere, gentle, likable, crazy love of life, So that every moment of ordinary flashes like the great itself.
In this way, "Harvey" and "How Beautiful is Life" actually have a very similar motif, that is, the joys and sorrows of life. The joys and sorrows seem to be the luscious Vermouth wine being thrown into the bitter foundation of Gin, forming a unique martini in everyone's hands, seemingly transparent and ordinary, but in the stormy waves, bitterness and sweetness fight, bitterness and Lusciously dependent.
There are no two martinis in the world that are exactly the same. Vermouth and Gin change proportions in everyone's glasses. However, these two movies seem to tell us, "Why are you looking for the golden ratio? What kind of martini is not a martini?" Where is the great? Where is the beauty? Not in the glass wine glass, not in the eyes of people looking far away over the glass, only at the tip of the tongue of someone who really loves wine.
Of course, none of us can practice Elwood. I guess for him, the whole world is a golden ratio Martini, and he and his rabbit are drunk in wine all the time.
I forgot which of Mr. Stewart’s colleagues or friends commented on him, saying that in reality there is no Harvey, a 1.9-meter rabbit, but Jimmy Stewart, a 1.9-meter. Although he did not practice the skills of "staring at the clock to stop" or "opening the door", Jimmy Stewart's awesomeness content is comparable to any "pooka". After all, he can also overcome time, space, and most importantly. , any objections!
I remember Orson Welles, the all-powerful editor and director, said at the Stewart Tucao Conference hosted by Dean Martin in 1978:
"People often say that the film industry is a savage jungle where the fittest can survive. I say this is a forest, a forest composed of thousands of trees, shrubs and plants. Some of these plants are in full bloom for a short period of time, and they will bloom soon. But it can’t last long, so it withered away. Hollywood has seen too many flowers like this. But Jimmy, your career is an evergreen tree. It will continue to grow if it rains or is sunny, because there is such a beauty in it. , A kind of will, will never die. We have always seen such beauty and will in you. When the momentary fashion and glitz have long passed away, it will still be here. As an image, Jimmy Stewart is indelible. As an actor-I watched his stage performance in New York, before he went to Hollywood, or before Hollywood got him-no, not like that, Hollywood never got Jimmy Stewart, he was The man who conquered Hollywood. He is a very good person, and I don’t just use this word to describe others. Here I want to make a digression, among the actors present today, Jimmy, I am the only one who has never Try to imitate you. Because in my opinion, we have never tried. The only thing we can do is imitate you."
Turn the Tucao meeting into a commendation meeting. Only Mr. Stewart has such a charm. What a Harv is he... What a rabbit.
Let us miss Mr. Stewart, a good rabbit that we have always imitated.
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