[My Fair Lady] plays the role of poor flower-seller Audrey Hepburn in suburban English that is difficult to identify with a bird. After being ridiculed by a linguistics professor, she decides to change her mind and learn a good London accent to enter the flowers. Shop work. The professor spent six months building her for a bet. Hepburn, who finally became a lady, was considered the princess of Austria at the ball. The professor and his friends celebrated their success. The lost and hesitating Hepburn found that this was just the perfect plan of their men, so she went to pursue herself and successfully plunged the professor into great pain.
At the end of the movie, the professor found that he could not do without Hepburn, and Hepburn found that he could not do without him. So Hepburn returned to the professor's side...
[The Philadelphia Story] In [The Philadelphia Story], Catherine Hepburn played an independent and arrogant queen, she strengthened her second boyfriend after dumping her first husband. They were about to get married again, and after meeting a newspaper reporter, the two became ambiguous. In this scene of a woman and three men, we see the loneliness and hesitation of a proud woman.
At the end of the movie, Catherine flew her second fiancé before the wedding and terminated the ambiguous relationship with the reporter at the same time, and reconnected with her ex-husband at the last moment...
These two hazy feminist features in Hollywood movies in the middle of the last century Women finally returned to the tradition, so the morals and ethics seemed to be saved, which also shows that the fragile values of the people at that time did not withstand too much impact. Of course, we can simply think that the heroines just regained their love. And I always feel that this is just to make Nora in [Doll's House] finally return to the bondage of the family. As a flower girl, Audrey Hepburn returned to the professor and not only brought him slippers and coffee, the queen Catherine seemed to have recovered her humanity, her love, and then returned to her ex-husband, but as long as the person’s personality remains the same, How big a turn can a marriage that has failed?
It just doesn't want women to take that step.
I don't know how Catherine Hepburn, who has always been very feminist, thinks of her [Philadelphia Story], whether it just feels like a compromised bourgeois revolution. So all the independence and pride of Catherine in the movie turned into a woman's arrogance and unreasonable trouble, but the men were the most reasonable and affectionate.
The professor in "Slim Lady" repeatedly emphasized how much noise a woman at home would bring to her life, and kept asking, why can't a woman be like a man? Why can't women have brains like men instead of caring about their clothes and hair style all day long? Why can't women go to study and pursue the truth and waste their lives on comparisons and dance parties? Women are so wronged... Yes, why are we so stupid and mundane? But... I don't know who gave birth to a woman in that era to get married instead of working. I don't know who allowed a woman to marry. He can only participate in the dance with her husband and child, but can't participate in the discussion between men. How many choices does a woman really have?
It is no wonder that feminism in the 1960s and 1970s will set off a wave in Europe and the United States.
[Jules et Jim] filmed by French director Truffau in 1962 also involves a story between a feminist Catherine and three men. Catherine's feminist performance is more impactful. She drinks and smokes to pretend to be a man and is sexually liberated. At first, Catherine, Juul and Jim maintained a harmonious triangular relationship, but slowly as Catherine became dissatisfied with the ordinary life, the relationship between these people fell into huge chaos and heaviness.
This movie wants to say that women's independence entails huge desires and eventually leads to tragic destruction.
Juul said that he had watched a Chinese play. The emperor in the play said that he was very unhappy because he had a big wife and a little wife. This is undoubtedly saying to Catherine that her unhappiness comes from dealing with many followers and never being satisfied, and at the same time falling into a huge sense of insecurity and unconfidence in the process.
In fact, this matter...not only for women, but also for men.
12.25.08
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