Parenting Qi Tan: Guess who will have dinner

Edwin 2021-12-21 08:01:13

Although it is also a film played by Catherine Hepburn, this is not the 1967 comedy with serious social problems. In 1938, Catherine was just in her early 30s, tall, young and beautiful, courageous and fearless. In Scorsese's "The Aviator", which made a splash at the Academy Awards a few years ago, the scene where Catherine Hepburn played golf with Howard Hughes played by Cate Blanchett seemed familiar. It is as if more than 70 years later, Miss Susan, who made our paleontologist cryless, is resurrected again. There is reason to believe that the indifferent posture and the same look originated from Bringing Up Baby in 1938.

Guess who will have dinner? Susan Vance, Aunt Elizabeth, Major Horace Applegate, and the neurotic Mr. Bone? Obviously missed out the weird dog George and the African leopard Baby who loves pop music!

The fact is that more mindless people and animals have joined this nonsensical carnival-the gardener couple Gogarty, the psychiatric professor Lehman couple, the escaped wild leopard, the zookeepers, and the brains are a little unaccustomed to turning around. Slocum police officer. Everyone (or animal) takes care of his own use and talks to himself. Bringing Up Baby has nothing to do with babies. This is an absurd comedy that is full of misunderstandings. As a docile pet leopard, Baby became the wildest supporting role in the history of comedy in the 1930s. Of course, our eyes will still focus on the protagonist-don’t forget, this is a well-known offline comedy, with unparalleled typical routines: men and women; poverty and wealth; elegance and absurdity; wit and mediocrity ; Confrontation and identification. The most important thing is that this is an innocuous and gorgeous war between the sexes. If you want to fight beautifully, the more seasoning you add, the better.

Hepburn's self-confident and elegant, neutral and glamorous, and indifferent lively and active, has become the true choice for off-line comedy heroines. The heartless rich lady doesn't need any worries even if she gets into trouble all the way, not to mention that this woman is clever and pleasant, and she always saves her dangers. Probably this sweet and boyish temperament became the dream lover of helpless men who entered the cinema to spend their time in the Great Depression in the 1930s. The rich and noble breath that does not need to worry about life and the boldness and liveliness that come to face are just the material and spiritual dreams that were scarce in that era. So it is not surprising that our eyeballs move along with Hepburn's charm. Gary Grant is still so gentle and charming and charming, but here he has never raised his mocking eyebrows. He is a kind and reliable intellectual. He may be a close relative of the Huxley family of the famous "Origin of Species". Although he has a staid and anti-life character and a fiancee who has no taste at all, he is able to look at him. Tolerate absurd situations with ease and carelessness, such as quarreling with aunt in soft chiffon pajamas. At the same time, he has a reassuring noble sentiment and morality. This is enough! All the inspirational elements of the United States in the 1930s were sublimated in the laughter of the audience. Of course, like all the expected and confirmed genres, there are also indispensable high-class night banquets and the protagonists’ jokes, as well as the elders who intentionally or unintentionally become the obstacles between the protagonists’ feelings. .

I don't know if Hepburn's dress was torn off at the handsome dinner party, revealing the contemplative underpants, whether it made the defenders Joseph Breen embarrassed. As a love story in the era when Hays Code became popular, since it is not as passionate and unrestrained as today's movies, the innocent passion has to turn into a mad romance, and sexual attraction spews from another outlet. It’s hard to say that in the 1930s, the Secretary of the U.S. Postal Service Willam Hays took the film seriously as a shocking event about weathering, whether it created a large number of "American Depression Demeanor" film sages, anyway, Howard Hawkes knows How to express the charming male and female style of "estrus, but only etiquette" in the life of madness, whether it is "Spring Dawn by the Lake" or "Nursing Strange Story".

The taste has become quite satisfactory, but it doesn't have the craziness of the 1930s. And Mr. Smith and Mrs. Smith, the black and wild off-line comedy, are the ones who do their part. The complacency and intellectual and physical competition of each of this life treasure couple, as well as the superior feminine consciousness led by the proud and chronic Angelina Jolie, and finally the two reconciled and sat in front of the psychologist and talked about the improvement of the couple’s life. , Both seem to be off-line comedies in the 21st century post-modern cult replicas. Their dinner is also quite suspenseful. Although there is no such thing as a personal animal carnival in the 1930s, but they did not agree with each other, and even overturned a house, which is really enough for Screwball. Screwball must remind us at any time to remember the 1930s. A famous saying by Dr. Fritz Lehman, a neurologist in China, "The love impulse inmen very frequently reveals itself in terms of conflict."-of course, it also applies to women.

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Bringing Up Baby quotes

  • [David and Susan have just discovered that Baby is missing]

    David Huxley: Now don't lose your head, Susan.

    Susan Vance: My what?

    David Huxley: Don't lose your head!

    Susan Vance: I've got my head, I've lost my leopard!

  • David Huxley: You don't understand: this is *my* car!

    Susan Vance: You mean *this* is your car? *Your* golf ball? *Your* car? Is there anything in the world that doesn't belong to you?

    David Huxley: Yes, thank heaven, YOU!