Rivals: Betty and Joan is more than just a textbook guide

Vivien 2022-04-20 09:02:53

This article was first published on the WeChat public account think-and-create.

"American Horror Story Season 7" premiered in the United States in early September, but today I want to introduce you to the
history of Hollywood movies in the 20th century. A ripped-off war called "American Horror Story"
This ripped-off war lasted nearly 30 years, protracted
slander,
deceit
. Bette Davis, Joan Crawford



Director Ryan Murphy
put this terrifying battle on the screen after more than half a century in

"Rivals: Betty and Joan"



The film mainly tells the story of Joan Crawford (Jessica Lange) and Bette Davis (Susan Sarandon) falling in love and killing each other during the filming of the movie "Landscape".


▲The picture above is the publicity photo of the movie "Langui's Change" in the play, and the picture below is the publicity photo of the movie in reality.

Joan Crawford was born in poverty and had a bumpy growth experience. Before
she was born, her father abandoned her mother and her brother
's mother Remarried, and their stepfather abandoned them when they were 11



The breakdown and indifference of family relations, and the colorful love experience of her mother
all make Joan not knowing how to manage a marriage, let alone be loyal to love
. In real life, she has had 4 marriage experiences
. person, to director, agent
and the movie presents her frivolous and rambunctious life



In order to get more opportunities to read lines, she slept with the director
so that she would not attend the film promotion conference, and slept with the producer
so as to avoid the film producer's lawsuit for
seducing the medical staff of the crew .



This kind of behavior of "things that can be solved by lying down will never be solved by standing" is
bound to be inseparable from a similar mode of thinking.
She therefore uses herself as a standard to speculate on others . For
example, Betty has more roles than herself, and Joan doubts it. It was she who slept. Director
For example, after Marilyn Monroe won the 1961 Golden Globe Award,
Joan satirized that Monroe won't win without showing her breasts.



We often say that what kind of person you are, how will you look at the world
. You are pure, the world is pure and
you are evil, the world is evil
, and what makes you pure and evil
is life, time, and the people and people you experience. It's also your understanding.

Joan's unfair competition by selling her body makes people angry, but it's also
the pain and pain that life imposed on her when she was young,
so that her frivolity and debauchery can be understood and even forgiven.



Unlike Joan, Betty is highly educated and proud.
She won two Oscars for Best Actress for "Woman Woman" and "Tears in Red Shirt".
In 1999, she was named "the best actress in a century" by the American Film Institute Great screen legend"
ranked second after Marilyn Monroe



But Betty looks mediocre, not as outstanding as Joan,
so she was ignored or even insulted by the director



It is conceivable that Betty is so jealous of the outstanding Joan who looks
at people with tinted glasses because of jealousy.
In Betty's opinion, Joan was able to get the chance to star in "The Surprise of the Blue Girl" is
just a dirty trick by the unspoken rules.



If you can't eat grapes, just say it's sour.
Isn't this practice a kind of self-paralysis and compensation
? I think many people are familiar with this practice. So what if
her grades are good, what if she marries well, she So what if the salary is high...
We need to constantly seek out or smear other people's flaws and misfortunes to imply that
TA is not that good and I am not that bad so we can breathe
under the weight of the ubiquitous contrast and feel balanced and
hapiness



Joan, who is eager to be recognized by women (especially Betty) through her acting skills, rather than simply coveted by men through her appearance,
does not have a good face, so she is jealous and despised by the
two Betty who let Joan go all the way through her appearance advantages, just like two The powerful bomb
is bound to detonate more than one mushroom cloud when filming the movie "The Surprise of Langui"



During the promotion, the two competed for the position on the left side of the table for the cover of the magazine.



▲The picture above is a photo in the play, and the picture below is a real-life photo

. During the filming, Joan was laughing frequently at Betty's home scene, which made her tired.
Betty was eating snacks at Joan's home scene and made noise, which interfered with Joan's shooting
. In the scene where Betty was dragged by the weight, Betty sprained her waist.
Betty actually kicked her head twice in the scene where she pretended to kick Joan



When Betty was nominated for an Oscar, in order to reduce the probability of Betty holding a golden statuette,
Joan colluded with gossip reporters and called her colleagues in the film and television industry and the Oscar Organizing Committee one by one to
magnify or distort Betty's mistakes and habits in filming and life.



In order to humiliate
Betty Jean lobbied two other Best Actress nominees to agree to take the stage for them both.



These two women who have torn apart most of their
lives played a game called "regret" at the end of the film,
Joan said, "I regret that I didn't be more generous to you
at that time," Betty said, I wish I could be your friend at that time

. However, there are no "what ifs" and "what ifs"
in life. In the short and long time of their acting careers, Joan
really plotted Betty Betty and Betty really disdain to be friends with Joan . The word "regret", after Betty learned that Joan had cancer In making that speechless phone call, Joan told gossip reporters again and again to smear Betty's entertainment report and couldn't find any foothold . Finally, when Betty received Joan's obituary, it was finally in Betty's succinct "good" Found a home after nearly 30 years of absence










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  • Milton 2022-03-23 09:03:37

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  • Ewald 2022-04-23 07:05:54

    After watching it for 18 minutes, I decided to give it five stars. The dialogue is simplified and the performance is perfect.