"Victor" is definitely one of MGM's best musicals. But it's rarely seen as a standard musical, for one reason it's so exotic—good-looking, but atypical. In many classic musicals, it seems so out of place. It allows people to see how musical films can be made without the narrative logic of Hollywood. The film is different from the story setting of ordinary musical films that are divorced from reality. Although its time back is set in Paris in the 1930s, this musical film with the theme of sexual inversion obviously caters to the sexual liberation trend in the early 1980s. The musical is a rare liberation. If a gay film abandons the discussion of sexual orientation, it is relatively deviated from the realism attribute. But in "Victor," Edwards handles both very neatly. Beyond the understated lyricism, the film also has powerful passages. When Marchand chose to be with Victoria when he didn't know her true identity, his phrase "whether you are a man or a woman" is almost as good as "no one is perfect" in "Passionate". And Marchand's bodyguard inadvertently smashed him after being "bent" and said "So boss, you are gay", which is even more amazing. Victor, played by Julie Andrews Edwards, is a woman trying to imitate a drag male singer. She not only found a balance between the two, but also made people discover a kind of neutral beauty that has never been seen before
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Extended Reading
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Shakira 2022-03-27 09:01:21
The film won the 55th Academy Award for Best Adapted Score and was nominated for Best Actress, Supporting Actor, Supporting Actress, Adapted Screenplay, Art Direction and Costume Design. A lighthearted and humorous plot. A woman who pretends to be a man disguised as a woman, or a pure girl who pretends to be a fake girl, why is this sentence so hard to say?
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Chelsea 2022-03-27 09:01:21
I really want to write an ancient version of the story. A man pretends to be Kunsheng in Yue Opera for a living (most men in Peking Opera pretend to be women, and Yue Opera more women pretend to be men), and finally finds true love.
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Toddy: You know, it's very strange. At the club, I thought you were just about at the end of your rope.
Victoria: Oh, I was. I am! This is the first decent meal I've had in almost four days.
Toddy: And you can't pay for it?
Victoria: [makes breaking motion with hands] Caseé!
Toddy: [chuckling] And you want me to have dinner with you?
Victoria: I want you to have the best damn dinner you ever had. Have two! I started off with the roast chicken and I segued to boeuf bourguignon. It's anybody's guess what I could end up with.
Toddy: Oh, I'd guess about thirty days.
Victoria: If all goes well, I expect to leave here poor, but sated. I have a... a bug in my purse. At the appropriate moment, it goes in my salad.
Toddy: It'll never work.
Victoria: A bug in my salad?
Toddy: In a place like this, it would be an event if there WASN'T a bug in your salad.
Victoria: What about a... cockroach?
Toddy: [shocked] A cockroach!
Victoria: Shhh! Bigger than your thumb!
Toddy: Ew, God!
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Victoria: The bourguignon was just a little tough.
Waiter: Maybe the way you are eating your jaws are getting tired.
Toddy: Speaking of overworked jaws, why don't you treat yours to a sabbatical and fetch me a wine list?
Victoria: [holding up a glass] This is all they have.
Toddy: This? The last time I saw a specimen like this, they had to shoot the horse!
Waiter: [irritated] How lucky can you get? In one evening a Rockefeller... and a Groucho Marx.
Toddy: Oh, they didn't shoot a real horse... just a costume with two waiters in it.
Waiter: I shall think of a sharp retort while I am getting your roast chicken.
Toddy: It's a wise man who knows when to throw in the towel.
Waiter: And it is a moron who gives advice to a horse's arse.