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Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
This movie wanted to watch the beginning , But out of control, watched the whole movie in one breath. It can be seen how beautiful this movie is and how attractive the plot is.
The main plot of the movie is a memoir of a death row prisoner. The hero's mother was born in a noble family. She abandoned her family for love and gave birth to the hero. After the actor's father passed away, his mother wanted to return to the family, but the family was still reluctant to accept the two of them again. When the mother died, her last wish was not fulfilled-buried in her family's cemetery. Seeing all this, the actor decides to kill all the people in the family, so that he can become the heir of the family justifiably. The actor is boarding at a childhood playmate's house. He likes her and makes a marriage proposal, but she refuses, just because he is poor and has no status, which further urges him to complete his plan. He killed everyone in the family one by one according to the plan. At the same time, he also won the heart of a widow in the family, and the two were engaged. One day after the engagement, he met in private with his childhood friend’s old convention. The actor was discovered that he was trying to meet with her wife. In fact, he was just asking him to borrow money. The actor resolutely refused, and the two of them fought together. stand up. Later, the childhood playmate also found the actor and tried to force him to marry himself as a wife, but the actor refused. When the protagonist attended the ceremony of inheriting the title and his wedding, he was arrested by the police. It turned out that the husband of the childhood playmate died, and the actor became the main suspect. After the trial, the actor was sentenced to death. Before the execution, his childhood playmate suggested that the actor had evidence of exonerating him, but his current wife must die, and the actor agreed. All of the above were written in his memoirs, and the triumphant male protagonist only remembered that the memoirs had fallen in prison after he was released from prison. In this way, the movie ended with the pale face of the male protagonist.
Kind Heart and Crown comes from Lady Clara Vere de Vere (1842) of the British poet Lord Tennyson. The original text is "Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood." This poem appears in the film In the conversation between the widow and the male protagonist, the subtitles were translated as "Benevolence is more important than a crown, and faith is more important than aristocratic blood." I thought about the name of the movie for a long time. After checking the information above, I finally understood the meaning of the movie's name. Judging from the plot, the benevolence of the film refers to a benevolent heart, which is a kind heart; the crown refers to the crown, which is power and desire. The film shows the hero’s abandoning his "benevolence" The process of pursuing the "crown". This process always runs through the film, and at the end of the film, the pursuit of this process does not stop. This is kindness and the crown. For the male protagonist, the crown is more important than the benevolence! In contrast, according to the second half of the poem, the protagonist’s mother chose the belief in love and abandoned the blood of the nobility. The mother’s choice was in sharp contrast with the protagonist’s behavior. When the mother had already understood everything At that time, the son was moving in the wrong direction. This is also a kind of irony to the hero’s mother, who worked hard to raise her son to adulthood, but the hero did not understand the relationship between benevolence and crown, faith and noble blood. Which one is more serious. The hero’s mother is tragic...
Through the hero’s revenge plan, we can also see how great the temptation of the "crown" is for people. When the desire is satisfied, the human heart's desire for the "crown" will return Will grow and swell with it. When the actor is lucky enough to kill the first person, he starts to plan to kill the second one, and when the second person finishes, he starts to plan the third one, until finally for He wants to kill his wife to save his life. When a person does evil to a certain extent, he can no longer rely on "kindness" to restrain him. This person has lost his reason and will only continue to do evil endlessly. It is also a manifestation of the evil of human nature.
A woman like the male protagonist's childhood playmate also walks the same way as the male protagonist. She doesn't have a "benevolent heart", she also pursues a "crown", except that her crown is for the hero. In order to achieve her goal, she framed the hero, instigated the hero to kill his wife, and did not want to bring justice to those in the hero's family who died. In her heart, the crown is also more important than benevolence. For her, it can be described in another way-femme fatale, venomous enough, and cruel enough!
As mentioned earlier in this movie, the plot is very attractive and very beautiful. There are many factors. First of all, the plot is unconventional. Although the narrative method is step-by-step, each murder process has been carefully planned, which is unexpected and very interesting. Secondly, the structure is compact, the rhythm is bright, the movie has no redundant plots, and each picture has its own unique function. Last but not least, the suspense of the movie is very attractive, and the direction of the plot is always unpredictable. Although we know that the male protagonist has been in jail, we have not explained the reason for his imprisonment. Because every time he kills, he may miss and get caught, which also attracts the audience to fully engage in the plot, for fear of revealing any details of his miss. In addition, a good-looking movie is indispensable for the successful shaping of the characters. The actor has already said a lot just now, so I won't say it. The images of the two women in the film are very plump, especially the male protagonist’s childhood playmates. Through the details, she slowly lays out her character and scheming. When she first started watching the movie, she felt that she was just a silly woman with big breasts and no brains. , But didn't expect that she actually framed and killed six or seven male protagonists in a row! For the kind-hearted widow, the film also uses few scenes to outline her character. In short, the good-looking plot, attractive suspense, plump characters, and simple and clear structure make the movie a highly watchable movie.
In terms of actors, the actors in this film really opened my eyes. Alec Guinness plays multiple roles in the film. All the members of the D'Ascoyne family are played by him except the actor and the widow, which is amazing. In the process of watching the movie, I felt that some of the characters looked similar. I couldn't believe my eyes at the time, thinking that they were just similar in appearance. I checked the information online and found that not only these similar appearances were played by the same person, but also several characters with very different appearances were played by Alec Guinness! Alec Guinness's appearance and acting skills really fooled me. The picture below shows how ever-changing Alec Guinness looks. Dennis Price also plays multiple roles in this film. The actor and his father are both played by him, as well as the multiple identities he disguised in order to kill people, such as priests and photographers. "Noodles" and "hundred noodles" are also qualified. I didn’t recognize the father of the actor played by Dennis Price when he was watching the movie. Looking at it this way, although there are many characters in the film, there are only two main actors: Alec Guinness and Dennis Price.
Alec Guinness in Renxin and Tiara
The actresses of this film are also two beauties, with different styles. Joan Greenwood is petite, charming, and has a delicate face. Which man doesn't love? Her voice is more distinctive, with sexy in the hoarse, with a special taste. Valerie Hobson is a kind of beauty with elegant temperament and indispensable beauty, and also a kind of beauty. However, the sharpness of the two male protagonists in this film is too revealing, which obscures the acting skills and beauty of the two beauties.
In short, a good-looking, profound, and ironic drama. There is also a group of powerful actors in this film, which is very worth watching. The IMDB250 ranking and score of this film should not be so low, at least 100 places ahead.
Joan Greenwood
Joan Greenwood
Valerie Hobson
Valerie Hobson
sequence: 0515
TLF.IMDB.Top181. Kind.Hearts.And.Coronets.1949.D9.MiniSD-TLF
2011-08-22
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