John Kent (Randolph Scott), a former star football player at Harvard, goes to Paris with his friend Huck Haines (Fred Astaire) and the latter's dance band, the Wabash Indianians. Alexander Voyda (Luis Alberni) has booked the band, but refuses to let them play when he finds the musicians are not the Indians he expected, but merely from Indiana (Huck Haines and his Indianians Band).
John turns to the only person he knows in Paris for help, his Aunt Minnie (Helen Westley), who owns the fashionable "Roberta" gown shop. While there, he meets her chief assistant (and secretly the head designer), Stephanie (Irene Dunne). John is quickly smitten with her.
Meanwhile, Huck unexpectedly stumbles upon someone he knows very well. "Countess Scharwenka", a temperamental customer at Roberta's, turns out to be his hometown sweetheart Lizzie Gatz (Ginger Rogers). She gets Huck's band an engagement at the nightclub where she is a featured entertainer.
Two things trouble John. One is Ladislaw (Victor Varconi), the handsome Russian deposed prince and doorman who seems too interested in Stephanie. The other is the memory of Sophie (Claire Dodd), the snobbish, conceited girlfriend he left behind after a quarrel over his lack of sophistication and polish.
When Aunt Minnie dies unexpectedly without leaving a will, John inherits the shop. Knowing nothing about women's fashion and that his aunt intended for Stephanie to inherit the business, he persuades Stephanie to remain as his partner. Correspondents flock to hear what a football player has to say about feminine fashions. Huck gives the answers, making a lot of weird statements about the innovations John is planning to introduce.
Sophie arrives in Paris, attracted by John's good fortune. She enters the shop, looking for a dress, but is dissatisfied with everything Stephanie shows her. Huck persuades her to choose a gown that John had ordered discarded as too vulgar. When John sees her in it, they quarrel for the final time.
John reproaches Stephanie for selling Sophie the gown. Terribly hurt, Stephanie quits the shop. With Roberta's putting on a fashion show in a week, Huck takes over the design work, with predictably bad results. When Stephanie sees his awful creations, she is persuaded to return to save Roberta's reputation.
The show is a triumph, helped by the entertaining of Huck, Countess Scharwenka, and the band. (A pre-stardom Lucille Ball, with platinum blond hair, appears uncredited in her first RKO film[4] as a model wearing an elaborate feather cape, after the vocal by Dunne, in the fashion show.[5]) The closing sensation is a gown modeled by Stephanie herself. At the show, John overhears that she and Ladislaw are leaving Paris and mistakenly assumes that they have married. Later, he congratulates her for becoming a princess. When she informs him that Ladislaw is merely her cousin and that the title has been hers since birth, the lovers are reunited. Huck and Lizzie, who decide to get married, do a final tap dance sequel.
像是Kaufman的劇情，再配Garland的美學，太拼貼了🤯
前几日看到女子被尾随的男性跟踪回家并拉其电闸引其出门，还有最近的唐山打人事件。诸多社会事件皆可联想这部集合多个不同男性角色却共同一张演员脸的表达方式。窒息的爱人、窥伺跟踪的陌生人、轻蔑的不同社会地位的男性态度对女主的反应和行为。可能我们男性永远无法深切的共情女性在这个社会面临的一切污糟阴暗的凝视与侵害，但我们需要尝试着去理解，包容，保护。
5.0 结尾的模棱两可，可以将主题进行180度转变，这才是全片最惊悚的地方
我的理解是，不管他们是什么职业什么性格，都是同根生，本质上是一样的
喜欢man made out of man的那段
一个男人 地脱身换骨多少遍才能得到女人的爱
厌男症电影，从这个电影里我看到，女人看男人也是很主观和片面的
膈应人；只是放大了“男性社会对女性压迫这个问题”，没有起到任何缓解作用（根据导演男的看来这也是合理的）。
所表现的女性感受到的来自男性的压迫和对恐惧，不到真实社会里的百分之一，而男人们已经都破防了。“什么你居然敢挑起性别对立？”呵
像是Kaufman的劇情，再配Garland的美學，太拼貼了🤯
在男权社会各种buff加持下的男人们总是如此地团结，暴躁的丈夫、伪善的房东、野外的变态、厌女的男孩、不作为的警察、道貌岸然的牧师，正反夹击，黑脸白脸红脸各司其职，为女性布下天罗地网。
最近两年最好的恐怖片 远好于同一题材的《隐形人》
从这部电影的标题开始，它就只打算“简单直接”，因此这也形成了这部电影“完全恐男”的基本盘，这样的性别议题反思并不能算到位，只是用了一个《逃出绝命镇》似的外壳重复了一种恐怖类型片的拍摄模式。影片的优点主要是导演对心理环境的把握以及源源不断的图像隐喻上，从苹果到乌鸦到蒲公英，从绿色静谧的女性空间到隧道口突然出现的裸男，其中有些太过直白，不过最后的男生男与丈夫的伤口倒确实是一处妙笔，代表了父权社会遗毒的代代延续毫无改变。除此之外影片在恐怖类型处理上并不算高明，导演很明显过于依赖自己在情绪段落处理的优势，结尾女友的视角其实是可以给人最后一拳的点睛之笔，但也被情绪一笔带过，也让整部电影最后只能落在“情绪层面”的恐男，而无法进一步深究。全片的性别反思也就刚好达到《逃出绝命镇》似的政治正确算计。
我觉得Garland学Ari Aster学岔了，前半段有太多inconsistent的意象和空镜头。还好摄影优秀没被不明所以的剪辑给埋没。喜欢展现出来现代关系中的manipulation比暴力更让人反胃，相较而言某些只象征slut shaming的分身反而显得弱了。
A24佳作
视听配乐和怪异的氛围塑造，继续延续了导演从机械姬开始的一贯个人风格，从影片一开始这种不安的感觉就一直存在，但是直到最终的分娩，也没有顶到一个嗨点。如果说这一部的核心思想在于探讨男女之间的凝望与关系的话，那真的是没有讲好。
本以为这次加兰会给我们玩出一点新花样，结果最后还是向我们重复了一遍《湮灭》中相似的“高概念”。但好在这次没有那么嗨，用女性主义议题去有力回击了这个男权为主的社会，用最简练明了的视听语言去展现了男权压迫下的女性生活，以及加兰对于这个议题最终的结论——让男的自生自灭。 这部电影从开篇的摄影和调调就摆明了这是一部属于A24的标准恐怖片，用文艺片的外壳包装了惊悚片的内核。罗利·金奈尔用一人分饰N角的演出hold住了千人一面的恐惧感，讲道理这就有够惊悚的了。但如果你是抱着传统恐怖片的期待去看的话恐怕你就要失望了。只能说这次加兰在继承前人优秀理念的同时也没有让自己的表达脱俗。二者的有机结合也让这部电影会成为今年的年度盘点名单里的一位。
看未来罪行觉得没看到什么东西的人，一定不要错过这部。之前看开拓者很生气。现在我觉得也许我误解了加兰？也许他就是想呈现所谓弥赛亚的自私和自大呢？？？女主看到了“我不想剧透”的那一幕惊悚场景之后，她竟然就平静了，甚至有点可怜那一套东西。加兰对音乐的运用也是服气的，这里面的四个音符和湮灭里的惊悚音乐，这辈子都忘不了了。女主演之前的我想结束这一切也很好，还有一个关于女性内心暴力的电影，好像叫野兽还是什么。这个女演员真的赞。看到一些评论试图用女权不女权来解读这个电影，但是显然某些人也根本不知道女权是什么。国内的男性还是停留在女权就是女人想得到更多好处更多保护。当然这也没错。但是不止于此。就如使女的故事，第四季的主题是以牙还牙以眼还眼，想了解女权的男性应该看看。
暴力伤害、身体侵犯、荡妇羞辱、宗教训诫、道德指摘、情感勒索、权力支配、母职绑架、生殖压迫……一边集齐厌女的层层面向，一边剖开女性的深层恐惧。接踵而至的嵌套式厄运，如梦魇和回声般循环往复阴魂不散。最后的血腥套娃场面简直惊世骇俗。
感觉这部电影只有意向跟不错的摄影，完全没有故事，最多有个人物小传设定罢了。根本就没好好讲故事。还好电影比较短，要不三星都不想给。
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