Lauren Bacall's Fashion Style - Digression

Corine 2022-10-02 18:45:33

The only reason for me to pay attention to this film and watch it is the heroine Bacall.
If it weren't for her graceful grace, an indescribable unique beauty that blends sensuality and indifference, I can't stand it anyway.

Hemingway's work has always been adapted by Hollywood quite lame, like the author himself, urinating in his beer.
So, even though this movie was made by Hawks, it still can't hide its mediocre and messy. It seems to be Casablanca's routine, but it doesn't look like it. If it hadn't made a pair of fairy couples, Bogart and Bacall, I really watched it. It is fundamentally different from other noir films of its time.

Bogart's acting skills have always been praised by the American film critics. Perhaps it is his cynicism, cynicism, and his style of being cold on the outside and hot inside. The way. Especially with the heroine, they all say that Nabukasa is very classic, but he still gives a feeling of misogyny.
I couldn't appreciate his American gloom and arrogance.
But after all, he had a little feeling with the heroine in this film, because he really fell in love with the young actress herself.

Lauren Bacall is not beautiful.
Flat chest, big feet, too thin, as she herself said. But if you're fascinated by her, you can't extricate yourself from her phoenix eyes, which are not commonly seen in Westerners - the other pair of phoenix eyes is Ava Gardner, and the beautifully lined lips and slightly masculine facial contours.
Especially the cold, yet seductive sexiness on her body, the naughty of a little girl and the enchanting of a mature woman. If you can appreciate this kind of beauty, she is beautiful, born with the bearing of a noble lady, rebellious and charming, noble and unrestrained.

To say she's a fashion icon, I don't think it's an exaggeration.
Just taking her clothes in this film as an example, can reflect her personal style very well.
Her figure is not perfect, and she has a boyish temperament, so her clothes always use a wide shoulder pad suit and a one-piece dress with a tight waist to highlight her strong and sexy, in order to make up for her too flat. The chest, the clothing is mainly patterned with plaid and stripes. Generally, these two patterns are best for women who don't have full breasts. Her most classic striped robe, which appears in a scene that seduces Bogart, complements the film's noir-style shuttered photography.
After watching her performance in this film, I realized that stripes are seductive. They are both restraint and resistance, and there are contradictions. The same is true of plaid. It is a mixture of aristocracy and fashion. No wonder the British like to use plaid as a design. Theme of.
Her hairstyle is dominated by the styles popular in Hollywood in the late 1940s, similar to Veronica Lake's classic oblique comb, but shorter than hers, less feminine and more fashionable, even if Today, her hairstyle in the movie is also timeless.


Handsome and sexy, heroic, with both classical beauty and modern style, although not a mainstream beauty, but her own taste, no wonder Bogart fell in love at first sight, heroic beauty is always a perfect match.

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To Have and Have Not quotes

  • Eddie: Drinking don't bother my memory. If it did I wouldn't drink. I couldn't. You see, I'd forget how good it was, then where'd I be? Start drinkin' water, again.

  • Steve: Anybody got a match?

    Slim: Change your mind?

    Steve: No money, those guys cleaned me out.

    Slim: I forgot too - maybe I can do something, its been a long day and I'm thirsty.

    [surveys club patrons]

    Steve: Picked him out yet?

    Slim: You don't mind do you?

    Steve: You're thirsty, go ahead. If I get tired of waiting, I'll be back at that hotel.

    Slim: All right

    [starts moving through tables]