The first is improper casting. With Cooper's characteristics and acting style, he is more suitable to play a husband who catches a rape like "Blue Beard", rather than a playboy who is caught. She looks like a mature lady again. It feels very unsuitable.
The right person is not selected, and emotional development is also far-fetched. The second time Cooper saw Hepburn, he didn't recognize it at first. This is a true portrayal of the nature of Playboy, and it also shows that the innocent female students of the Conservatory of Music did not impress him very much. But when Hepburn made up 18 lies about his ex-boyfriend, he was like a jealous big boy in the beginning? The two fell in love inexplicably, making the sadness before parting seem extraordinarily affective.
There are many places in the film to learn from Liu Bieqian. Such as catching rape. In "Blue Beard", the wonderful catching of rapes has been written before, here let us see how "Love Parade" (Love Parade) is done. The husband broke in and the wife shot himself. The husband who hated the cross picked up the pistol and pointed it at the adulterer. The gun fired, but the man didn't fall. The magazine is empty, and the woman is pretending to be dead! But this unexpected ending made the couple reconcile.
The funniest part of this scene is still the subversive nature of the character's behavior: the adulterer and her husband study pistols together; the adulterer zips up the woman in front of her husband...In contrast, Wilder’s catching rape scene is quite satisfactory. , Lack of novelty. And that puppy is redundant and unreasonable: a man doesn’t even know his wife’s pet dog? ! Of course, he can't know! Otherwise, Hepburn's disguise loses its meaning.
The use of the right door did not capture the essence of Liu Bieqian's comedy. Blocking the viewer's sight and not showing it to them is just a form in itself. The more important thing is whether the plot is interesting and subtle enough. For example, "Nilochka" shows how three Russian envoys were corrupted by the drunken and decadent life of Paris. The door opened, and a young girl selling cigarettes rushed out and ran downstairs. What's up with her? Why run? Not sure. Don't worry, wait a moment for the sound of footsteps, and the three cigarette girls rushed upstairs and entered the room just now. The subtlety of this episode lies in the girl's career! Not a waiter or a manicure, but a cigarette girl with a suitcase! what does this mean? It means that no matter how addicted the three Russians in the house are, the cigarettes in a girl's box are enough for them to smoke. But she ran out and called two colleagues. So what they were selling was not cigarettes, but...
the three gypsy musicians under Wilder, although they did not go in and out. But what kind of implicit hints or comments do these actions themselves have on the romantic encounters of old Cooper in the house? no! They are just going in and out. But the violin music played by the Gypsies could have become an important drama element. If used properly, it should release as much dramatic energy as the broken mirror in "The Apartment Spring". It's a pity that Billy Wilder has too many fragments behind him, an anklet and a leather jacket for a while, making the detective dad vaguely aware that the girl he associates with Cooper is his daughter before the melody.
Billy Wilder’s comedy movies are generally longer. Two hours or so is a common meal, and it is not uncommon to stretch it to 130 minutes or two and a half hours. There are many reasons for it. Old Billy's gimmick and chattering screenwriting style is one of them. For example, in this film, Hepburn called the policeman when he answered the phone. "Madam, you have to know that there are 7,000 hotels and 220,000 suites in Paris. Every night there are at least 40,000 rooms like what you said. If we lined up a policeman everywhere, That is, the entire Paris police is not enough. I am afraid that the fire brigade, prison, and even the Boy Scouts will have to be mobilized. But I don’t want those little boys in shorts to get involved in this kind of thing..." You would hang up if you didn't accept it. . Never mind, Billy Wilde insists on taking advantage of this one-faced trick to tease the nightlife of Paris! A dragon set is so vernacular, and the protagonist is even more trivial. Hepburn’s list of eighteen boyfriends is repeated no less than three times in the film (Does Wilder really think it’s funny?). In this way, this movie can't be long!
Unlike Liu Bieqian, Billy Wilder’s humor emphasizes more on what it says, rather than how it says it. Therefore, the audience often remembers his lines, not the role of the lines—for example, in the above paragraph, I had forgotten the expression of the policeman at the time when I typed it. You can say that this is a style feature, but it can also be said that it is a weakness that is not easy to overcome after the screenwriter changes his career as a director.
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