The role of props in "The Young Mistress's Fan"

Mike 2022-10-30 02:07:21

This film is adapted from Wilde's play "The Young Mistress's Fan". As a play, there are essential contradictions and conflicts. How to present the emotional link in film and television through some means is the presentation of the director's superb narrative skills. In the film acted as an extremely important object image link.

First, at the beginning of the story, Mrs. Irene's reputation was extremely poor. When she first met Windermere, she told Windermere in an intellectual and public way that she might prefer a fan to a jewelry woman. , which portrays the audience that she is well versed in the relationship between men and women, and has created a romantic image. At the same time, her ambiguous teasing of Windermere seems to have deliberately guided the plot into the direction of the relationship between the two.

Second, the discovery of the fan in the cabin made Mei Qi panic, and Mrs. Irene came forward to excuse the fan as her own, at the risk of sacrificing her own feelings to prevent her daughter from following suit. The fan here will be tense. Pushed to a climax, and at the same time, it was handled in a dramatic way similar to a small reversal. Through this incident, Mrs. Irene's moment became taller. It can be said that this fan has reshaped her image and pushed the whole plot forward. to the climax.

Third, the fan drives and connects the firm love. When Windermere was instructed to give Maggie's fan, Maggie looked excited. It is true that such a unique and refined gift won her heart, and she could feel her husband's love. However, when she found out the check, the disheartened Maggie was wearing a revealing dress and holding the fan that symbolized love at the birthday party. She looked beautiful but desperate. The folding fan gives a strong sense of irony. When Irene decided to leave for her daughter's reputation, she found that her suitor, Tup, also got on the plane. Tup said that the fan was given to her by Maggie. Qi's best wishes for the love between Mrs. Irene and Tupu. The folding fan has witnessed the ups and downs of the two loves, but also witnessed the consummation of the love at the end. As the narrative clue of the whole story, the film echoes the beginning and the end, and the structure is complete.

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A Good Woman quotes

  • Cecil: Devilish women are a bother, and good ones are a bore.

  • Cecil: My dear Tuppy, in this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, the other is getting it. The last is very much the worst. The last is a real tragedy.