It's not just that people like women's clothing and neutral beauties. It's the same in the past. Take a look at the top 100 American comedies selected by AFI. The first and second places are actually sex inversion comedies - " Some Like It Hot (1959) and Tootsie ( 1982) are both about men disguising themselves as women, which may not mean much, but at most, that cross-dressing is very easy to make laughs fruit.
Once, "Passionate" was banned in Kansas on the grounds that it was disgusting for men to wear women's clothes.
More than a decade later, Dustin Hoffman put on women's clothing, and people exclaimed: You are so much prettier as a woman!
Hoffman himself is very similar to his character in My Fair Lady. The play is wide, and all kinds of roles can be controlled. The film opens with Michael Dorothy auditioning, but the director always finds a reason to turn him down.
"It's okay, you're not the right height."
"I can be a little taller."
"No no, we're looking for a shorter actor."
"Oh, I can be short too, I put on a booster pad."
"I know, but we're looking for something different."
"I can be different too."
"We're looking for someone else, not you."
As a result, he could no longer find work to do.
Hoffman himself had studied acting theory and technique at a famous workshop in New York, but his plain looks and straightforward temper kept him from having a chance to become famous. Reduced to work as a nurse in a mental hospital and a dishwasher in a restaurant. There is also this scene in the film. Hoffman, who can't find a job, can only go to the restaurant to wash the dishes.
The starting point of Hoffman's brilliant career was "The Graduate" (The Graduate, 1967), which was his first important film. At the age of 30, he played a college graduate who was seduced by a beautiful woman, and won the Oscar that year. Like an award nomination for Best Actor.
For actors like Hoffman, the basis of performance is "acting" rather than "watching", so he can act like anything, unlike actors like John Wayne, who are The same type of character framed. Sick and hungry gay pimp in Midnight Cowboy (1969); middle-aged dad and mother in Kramer vs. Kramer (1979); Rain Man "(Rain Man, 1988), the autistic patient with eccentric behavior and dementia... With the latter two films, Hoffman twice won the Academy Award for Best Actor.
In fact, My Fair Lady was the idea Hoffman had in mind while filming The Kramers. He felt that his role in it was both a father and a mother, so he began to think about how to play a man and a woman at the same time.
British magazine "Time Out" asked a group of world-renowned actors and asked them to choose the greatest movie, "My Fair Lady" ranked first, which reflects the perspective of the actors to look at the film, indicating that they agreed that the film is performing very outstanding.
In this film, Hoffman is not just playing a woman, but an actor who plays an actress who plays a female role in a soap opera ... When he takes off his thick female makeup, he is Michael; When he put on high heels and fake boobs, he was Dorothy; when Dorothy stood in front of the camera, he was again a character Emily. Hoffman's freedom to switch between the triple performance, the two genders at any time, is amazing.
"My Fair Lady" may have the most complex emotional relationship in movie history. Michael pretends to be Dorothy, he likes his co-worker Julie, Julie's dad likes Dorothy, and Michael's student and friend Sandy likes him too, and an old actor molested him. Julie thinks Dorothy is lesbian and Sandy thinks Michael is gay. The old actor thought that Dorothy and the male roommate were lovers... Although the gender meme was played, it was not confusing at all, and the story progressed in the middle of the misunderstanding caused by gender misidentification.
A famous line in the film is as complicated as the plot: "I was a better man with you, as a woman, than I ever was with a woman, as a man."
This sentence in 2007 "PREMIERE" magazine selected "100 most classic movie lines", ranked 61st, and another sentence "It's a strange hospital" ranked 44th.
"My Fair Lady" raises a social issue, and that is the stereotype of women. Take a look at the men and women in My Fair Lady.
Male director: feminist, macho, thinks that he can charm all women, and that women cannot surpass men. The role that Dorothy auditioned for was, in the director's eyes, "a woman who has become masculine because of her power."
Julie: Single mother, attached to a male director, maybe prone to alcoholism due to stress. Finally gained independence due to Dorothy's influence.
Sandy: After going to bed with Michael once, he automatically defaulted to a relationship between men and women, and he was submissive, and finally broke out because of Michael's "mental derailment".
Old man actor: pervert, sexually harassing female colleagues.
Julie's father: A traditional American male who also believes that women should not do anything that men do.
The irony of the film is that Michael can only get a job by dressing up as a woman, and he reached the pinnacle of his career with his female role, "This is the best role of my life", referring to both the head nurse Emily and Peach. les.
The poster of the film is Hoffman in women's clothing in front of the American flag. It contrasts such a solemn thing with a witty person, which is very spoof and satire.
There is no such genuine and charming sex comedy anymore. Ambiguous gender and homosexuality seem to have become a fashionable thing, and people only focus on consuming it and rarely think about the essence of the phenomenon.
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