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to watch the whole film, although the plot is exciting and fun, but Audrey Hepburn is like a flash in the pan, except for the first 30 seconds Less than the appearance of the scene, there will be no trace. Like a senior socialite in the metropolis, she smiled like a lady, greeted the hero, took the money, said "thank you" and turned away. If you look at her acting career, this movie is undoubtedly a stepping stone for her first entry into the film industry. Due to malnutrition in her childhood, Audrey's body was slender all the year round, but she was less than 100 pounds at 1.70 meters. Fortunately, she specializes in ballet and has a very beautiful and tall figure, which made her a model for a period of time. Later, he was discovered by scouts. It is said that her first film was a tourist scenery film, acting as a tour guide to explain in front of the camera, and the work that really made her famous was "Roman Holiday". In this 1951 film "The Thug of Lavender Hill", she ran a trick, but the startling smile she appeared on the scene must have stunned most directors, so that her beautiful appearance has since forged a relationship with the screen. Indissoluble bond.
This film tells a very interesting story: a transporter who has been escorting gold bars in a bank for 20 years suddenly had the idea of robbing gold bars, so he recruited an old sculptor and craftsman. My friend, found two more habitual thieves and planned a robbery together. For a time, the case of a bank robbed of 1 million pounds of gold bars shocked the whole country. The British police dispatched a large number of personnel to search for the perpetrator. Instead of being punished, the transporter was treated like a hero. He and his sculptor friend then cast gold bars into a model of the Eiffel Tower and shipped them to Paris as handicrafts. By the time they got there, the careless clerk had already sold six to the British schoolgirl. The two guilty thieves hurriedly followed the group of female students back to China, and used the staff of the model company to exchange for five Eiffel Towers, but the other one fell into the hands of the police. He grabbed the model and ran away, and a cat-and-mouse chase started immediately. Of course the thieves won again.
This story was told at a party in South Africa by the already rich transporter. I only read the beginning and thought he was just telling the story. After watching the end, I realized that he had been arrested and that he had been arrested by the police. He was handcuffed together, stood up, and walked towards the door, but he was already a prisoner without losing his demeanor. Such a crime based on high intelligence is not fictional. As far as I know, similar theft cases have indeed occurred in the United States or the United Kingdom, and no clues have been found to solve the case, but this film fills the whole plot with clues. With the novelty, under the temptation of a high-intelligence crime plot, people had to sweat for these thieves. The story is very exciting, but also makes people laugh. For example, in the scene where the protagonist and his friend are running on the stairs of the Eiffel Tower, the hat and clothes are flying off in the fast chase, which creates a high degree of tension, and also makes the character's madness obtained in the fast rotation. To vent, although a certain studio effect was used in the shooting, the combination was quite successful. Also, when the ship started, they went through a series of troublesome procedures such as ticket checking. The sound of the ship's roaring sound complemented their nervous and comical performance. The contrast, and to a large extent, with the help of exaggerated body language, is like a humorous pantomime that makes people laugh in anxiety.
It should be said that the highlight of the film is in these "chasing" scenes, one is robbing gold, one is chasing gold, and the other is winning gold. In the "Robbery of Gold" play, several personnel were contacted and dispatched, and fake images were created, but because the criminals felt guilty in their hearts, they couldn't help but suspect each other when they faced the police several times. "Chasing gold" is chasing after those little British girls all the way from Paris, which is very ironic. The last "gold win" was even more exciting: the two thieves stole the police car and ran all the way, while using the walkie-talkie to lie about the "military situation", so that the police department misreported the information, and finally, those innocent police cars were at an intersection. A chain collision occurs. Unexpectedly, the car chase scenes in those Hong Kong films have already been presented in 51 years of British black and white films. The police are portrayed as a group of idiots, and the intelligent criminals drive stolen cars, listen to music, and get away with it. But the film was really creative at the time and won a lot of awards. One of them was awarded to Alec Guinness, the actor who played the leading role, an actor who has played many roles on the screen, as we now call "the ever-changing emperor".
Guinness is an illegitimate child whose mother married when he was three years old. After that, he became a sailor and then entered the film industry, playing a lot of well-known roles, including "Doctor Zhivag". , "The Bridge on the River Kwai", "Star Wars" and other films, has also won many Oscars, and was awarded the title of "Jazz" by the British Royal Family. Died of liver cancer in 2000.
The transporter he plays in the film has a very philistine side. When he played this role, he gave "him" a gentle appearance, but he concealed a very hypocritical side. The characters are very familiar with the attitude of dealing with things, showing a gentlemanly gentleness, and when they are playing against the police or accidents, they let this kind of hypocrisy show inadvertently, resulting in a very dark humorous side, which makes the characters show many faces. sex.
The ending of the story is also very clever, letting the characters finally exit the stage in a high-sounding appearance, showing the tolerance of the director to the characters, but it is true, when we stand in the perspective of criminals, we don't feel how hateful they are, And when what they do makes us laugh, we've seen the burglary as a chase after all.
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