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.
看前半部分的时候，我一直都有种网文的既视感，这种感觉还挺奇妙的(就是这个狐妖出现的方式有点不够国风)，当然后半部分的这个反转也在意料之中，而且这种剧情安排还挺让人难过的，又一次被人性的阴暗打败。电影的氛围的渲染还真的很不错。
这是向黑泽明致敬呢，灵感来自《梦》的太阳雨？最后还挺有表达
这种new sex让我想起了金基德的莫比乌斯
最后加了个长镜头，推向深渊。真着假假，假假真真。讲的有多假，故事就有多真。画面有多真，故事就有多假。
新器官、新性爱、新艺术，系统化、三位一体的未来世界，人类中心主义终结的宣言与挽歌。政府和资本阻挠一切的时候，艺术还是这个世界唯一的希望。其实柯南伯格跟迪库诺对感官的看法是完全相反的，后者用感官剥削出生理反应，前者用感官制造的是陌生化效果，他需要的不是简单的共感，而是更深层次的共情——跨越物种的最后或最初的那滴眼泪。身体无政府化和杜蒙的宽宽系列又是何其相似。
非常自恋，非常做作。比小K台词更令人不适的是自恋的老白男柯南伯格在这儿无病呻吟、故作深沉、秀深度
架空科技畸人秀，cult 还是原汁原味的柯南伯格鸡肠子罐头，对性、道德、艺术边界有那么一丢丢探索。但这《东方的承诺》+《感官游戏》的剧情缝合怪放在今天显得老气横秋，剧本节奏拖沓得可以，推进情节基本靠聊，切两刀+聊15分钟+跳个舞+换个屋子聊15分钟，如此循环三十年。难以想象body horror 宗师现在要当个跟随者，在《钛》这种风格强烈且极具冒犯性的新片面前，这部显得力不从心。过于架空的科技树失了现实质感，也让角色之间的冲突和伦理边界显得难以共情（唯一能有点撩拨的就是性了，拍的还那么少）。总之，还是熟悉的柯南伯格，但也是流于一般的柯南伯格。喜欢的导演，严格点儿2.5。p.s. 蕾雅姐那个包公4.0的整容方案tmd 给我看笑场了。
故事不复杂，但是赢在了叙事结构上，非常引人入胜，比起许多国产院线恐怖片的一惊一乍，这个故事显得有诚意多了。多给一星，是来自恐怖片爱好者的鼓励。
“人之初，性本恶”。比一般的网大好很多了，虽然演技多少也有点尬，鼓励给三星。
故事以狐妖鬼怪包装了一份人性的善恶美丑，不同的故事版本不同的人物角色，不同的结果，看似罗生门，但实际上真相只有一个，本片采用了分层叙事的叙述手法，也叫大故事套小故事，剪辑也是合情合理，最后让观众看到了真相背后比狐妖鬼怪更可怕的是人性的贪婪与邪恶…本片算是比较优秀的网大电影了🎬👍
没想到第一部戛纳居然是柯南伯格，虽然有些镜头让我恶心半天，有些却美的令人窒息，难以想象，这样主题下的画面居然也是美的
一种奇观。被高概念包裹噱头的是对人本身的探讨，或是”超人/非人“与人本身的区别何在。器官被撕扯成为艺术的展现，是对人本身的自反。
虽然惊喜不多，但算是自圆其说，没什么大缺点无功无过吧。今时今日能够坐在电影院里去看、去慢慢发现这样一部新片，还是非常非常非常享受的。Cronenberg把k用得真好啊！真难得。Lea的表演和往常差不多，没什么亮点也不差。Viggo就还是那么好。
这种new sex让我想起了金基德的莫比乌斯
可以说保持了柯南伯格的一贯水准，而且摄影布光好精致啊。对人类自身的思考，虽然算不得多么新的命题，但也绝不是陈词滥调，在这样一个都往“元宇宙”看的时代看到这样的题材还是很质朴很踏实地想讨论些事的。疼痛不再，器官增生，人类的演化造成了一部分人的觉醒、一部分人的不安。新的性也是有一定想象力的。而且呈现得也很有趣，先锋艺术的浮夸玄虚成了片中非常正经的探讨方式，内部纹身、切割、满身耳朵都是挺有艺术家思维的。台词再少一点或者再精准一点可能对于普通观众理解起来更友好一些，现在强加了太多自创的概念了。未来警察连吃喝都要管，只能说“关你屁事”。
暮年作者导演甩大词（当然你永远可以相信他的词汇量）反刍旧装置旧画面让评论家精神高潮，好莱坞studio重启重制真人化请前作卡司客座出演让粉丝乖乖掏钱，大家都有光明的未来。（KStew怎么又不会演戏了！
第一次给网大打4星。如果强化一下女性地位（别太弱太黑化），演员表演到位一些，可以到5星了。另片名和海报可以优化一点。
理念貌似先锋，实则内容很难看，属于是概念性电影，甚是无聊
从身体恐怖上升至身体艺术和身体政治，柯南伯格的想象力并没有倒退，反而随着急剧变化的环境与时代，演变出更深邃迷人的寓言。在构造严密的未来社会背景下，有着精准运行的叙事脉络，而诡异的人物与其复杂的行为动机具有暗涌流动的政治隐喻意味。处处留白的手法让传统的惊悚恐怖影迷失望而归，却令这个寓言故事瞬间敞开了丰富的解读空间，极端反常却引人入胜。
前面十分钟连世界观都交代不清楚，拿着“手术是新性爱”试图强行制造感官刺激，然而故事完全没讲清楚，台词过于造作，二倍速看完，看完感觉是对《钛》的拙劣模仿，却差了十万八千里。以及蕾雅赛杜能不能别演戏了，没有灵气资源再好有用吗，想到《沙丘2》有她我都无语，Kristen一如既往的没演技，尴尬死谁了。内核也不新了，疼痛就是快感拍得甚至不如金基德的《莫比乌斯》，让别人拿刀片割自己伤口和自己用石头磨伤口，谁更痛更爽也不用多说了。
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