As the name suggests, the film must be a masterpiece of drunken fans. Beautiful costumes, Paris before the First World War, full of romance, charming scenery, and all kinds of parties. When I first watched it, I always felt that the theme conveyed by the film was difficult to associate with the best Oscars. However, after thinking about it carefully recently, I suddenly felt that this movie is a very obvious feminine color. In European society, the status of women is not as high as we now seem. It was not until the beginning of the 20th century that women in Britain and the United States had just had limited rights to vote and be elected. When society entered the 1950s, the feminist movement of white middle-class intellectual women caught one after another, making European and American societies dominated by white men caught off guard. It was against this background that such a beautiful and beautiful work was brewing, allowing these elegant women to return to the rule of men.
The heroine Qiqi is an energetic girl. Although she is young, she has been born in a middle-class family (no father or grandfather), and she is full of so-called civilian temperament. The handsome Fugaston Rachary, a real nobleman, is a little tired of doing nothing, this unchanging noble life. His uncle Aurora, an old gentleman in the game world. For this immature nephew, it is also a very headache. The turning point of the movie is a bit inexplicable, they suddenly met Kiki, and Gaston also liked to interact with Kiki very much. Maybe it's because of Kiki's grandmother Mamita. Mamita and Aurora used to be a couple, but due to various entanglements, they couldn't make it to the end.
Kiki’s aunt Alicia is a very delicate celebrity. There are many people who admire her when she is young. Qiqi's grandmother hopes that she can train Qiqi and become a celebrity, so that she can enter the upper class society and get rid of the poor, instead of taking the old way of her grandmother and marrying a short-lived dick. Who doesn't want to live a comfortable life? Especially in the background of the story, that extravagant France is a bit too much. However, it is not so easy to become a celebrity smoothly. Especially for Qiqi who didn't realize that she needed to take on the heavy responsibility of rejuvenating the family. The setting of women in the movie here is basically the mainstream idea of the patriarchal white American society. What we say here is the evil feudal dictatorship that is crippling women. Don't think that European and American women have a high status. The American Puritan women's experience is basically similar to that of the family members of the feudal aristocrats in the Qing Dynasty in China. Just look at the American novels in the mid-19th century.
Although Qiqi is becoming a celebrity, she still has a long way to go. But the handsome Fu Gaston always comes uninvited. With the unworldly Kiki, she sees the charming upper class of Paris. Miss Noble Lanney, Gaston's potential marriage partner. Lenny has recently become obsessed with skating, or as a skating coach. At that time, the noble lady in France always liked to have some dewy fate with some absurd people. This made Gaston feel the loss of face, and also made his glass heart take a hit. He felt disappointed with the wealthy aristocratic ladies, especially disappointed with their corrupt private lives. So at the instigation of his uncle Aurora, he severed Lenny's contact. Even if Lanney wanted to commit suicide for this, he still hadn't recovered, this relationship that was about to be broken. The movie here seems to want to warn us. Regarding your potential marriage partner, or your own wife, you should strengthen control, otherwise this group of women who have leisure time and money will not know what they will do to embarrass you.
Uncle Aurora, a Parisian wind and moon field, the top five masonry king. To comfort him, his nephew, who had lost his dignity for a ridiculous woman, began to line up banquets and arranged various luxurious balls. He hoped that Gaston could get rid of these annoying things and use his money to make himself happy again. But our poor Gaston did not find any comfort from one banquet after another. He suddenly thought of Kiki who can bring him joy. After a very good beach trip, Kiki's grandmother found Gaston. He also said that Gaston had a close relationship with Kiki, which would affect Kiki's reputation. The handsome Fu Gaston had a real quarrel with Mamita for this reason. Grandma used to be a veteran who wandered around Fengyuechang, and made a move to advance. This trick worked quickly, and the rich second-generation Gaston felt that he might really fall in love with Kiki. This was Cinderella's counterattack, or the sparrow flew on the branch and turned into a phoenix. Or maybe it's a little sick, the dude pedophile and Lolita developed a plan.
Aunt Alicia and grandmother Mamita are determined to consolidate Kiki's position in the hearts of the rich second-generation Gaston. And give Qiqi assault training, hoping that she can become an excellent woman worthy of a rich family. The director uses this setting to tell us that we must trust the judgment of the elderly in the family for important matters of marriage, after all, they will not harm you. And I will wholeheartedly help you arrange a wishful man. This expresses that in the late 1950s, Americans who gradually changed their concept of marriage and did not want too much interference from the elderly at home when they got married. This result led to the United States at that time. The divorce rate is close to 50%. Kiki’s mother, who has never been seen in the film, is a good proof. He did not accept the advice of his grandmother Mamita and ended up being abandoned. At first, Kiki's progress was not smooth, and he did not accept Gaston's love. Gaston was very angry about this. After all, he was a man of wealthy family background, well-educated, and hardly any bad habits. It is impossible to imagine being rejected by a woman whose conditions are not as good as his. But inspired by the power of love, he lowered his proud head and put away his little pride. He expressed a noble chivalry here, of course, the core theme of chivalry is a kind of asexual love. Throughout the film, the director did not let Kiki and Gaston have any excessive physical contact, even her boudoir did not step into it. The whole pursuit process is also very gentleman. Its core is to hope that those rich second-generation generations will not spend time and money just because they have money. The portrayal of Kiki is also quite positive. She is not just obsessed with Gaston's money. The combination of the two of them is also based on feelings. Through these settings, the director ultimately hopes to reshape the concept of marriage at the time, so that people should not be too impetuous about emotions, nor should they be too fancy to certain hot substances.
In the end, the two entered the palace of marriage hand in hand. As the best film of the year, "Golden Powder World" showed that some of the ideas expressed by it were affirmed by mainstream American society. Although the film was adapted from the work of the same name by the French female writer Camelot, the screenwriter’s ingenious adaptation incorporated certain problems in the United States at the time. This kind of routine of borrowing the past and figuring out the present is very used by American screenwriters. Almost all adaptations of the original novel, Oscar Best Picture, use this technique. The movie is through reshaping the love story of Gao Shuaifu and Cinderella. To stabilize the agitated view of marriage and love at the time, to alleviate the increasingly fierce middle-class feminist awareness and the high divorce rate. MGM is indeed worried about the country and the people.
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