好心的仙女 The Good Fairy(1935)
简介：
- Young, naive Luisa Ginglebusher, who loves fairy tales, leaves the Budapest orphanage to become a movie usherette. Soon she befriends paternal waiter Detlaff and not so paternal Konrad, a meat-packing millionaire. Uninterested in Konrad's rich gifts, Luisa schemes to be a "good fairy" and divert some of this wealth to poor stranger Dr. Sporum. But it's not that simple...
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1935年《好心的仙女》（The Good Fairy）马歇尔饰演Dr. Max Sporum，也是独具匠心。前半段，留着别具一格的小胡子。神经兮兮独居在公寓里，这位马克斯博士上半身西装下半身围裙，做家务清洗餐盘。打开家门前，他还是谨小慎微的律师，傲娇中带着小个性，梳理小胡子的小样，真想夺了他的梳子。
玛格里特•苏利文（Margaret Sullavan）饰演的“美丽精灵”，称他为“没有胡子的小男孩”，恰如其分。天降馅饼，傲娇律师得到了一份年薪从两百到十二万的工作，并拿到预付的一万后，是痴痴呆呆、疯疯癫癫、自言自语的样子，特别精彩，似乎看到Bart在舞台剧里的灵气。他像孩子一样，为卷笔刀兴奋了很久，开车不停的捏喇叭，说话抢白，语速特快。小细节中，为展现童心，还会不断抖动大拇指。与人交流中，又带着戏剧的张力，仿佛看到了莎士比亚的舞台剧。剃胡子的段落，尤其可爱，简直是像小男孩去剃头一样的不安。为了让“精灵”认可他是不丑，忍一忍剃掉胡子，又舍不得拿出梳子再“刷”两下。
从有胡子的小男孩，变成没有胡子的小男孩，倒是名副其实，依旧是带着赤子之心的小男孩。最后结尾时，Bart说了一句“我没有妻子”，表情特别好笑。哄“精灵”的样子，直接撒一把狗粮，甜啊！
- Pretty pleasant. Interesting beginning that doesn't get followed through. The Preston Sturges screenplay doesn't have the bite of film he later directed. Basically it's a Lubitsch without the verbal and visual wit (the camera has not sense of humor), or a Sturges without the social satire. Too comfortable; too sweet.
That being said, a few notes:
-Magaret Sullavan, wife of the director, W. Wyler, plays the heroine. She has the silent-era look, large, lively eyes and an impish half smile that seems to make words appear superfluous sometimes. Sullavan has the plausible, semi-cheap charm of a street waif, mousy, eager to please, and more than a little insecure. A little chipmunk.
-Classical Hollywood comedies from teh 30s and 40s have more juicy tidbits on the story bone, those little digressions that deliver a smacking relish. An example here is Marshall's child-like marvelling obsession with a new pencil-opener. OK, Wyler overdid it a little here, but isn't refreshing?
-Isn't this movie among the first comedies that feature a "bull in a restaurant kitchen" mayhem?
-Marshall: ""There should be more orphans". This has to be the most unqiue love overture on big screen, doesn't it?