這個女人飽受爭議,我卻看到她才華橫溢。
Gentlemen prefer blondes
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我說的是在Gentlemen Prefer Blondes裡大放異彩的Marilyn。




(以Gentlemen Prefer Blondes為原型的公仔)
"Men grow cold as girls grow old / And we all lose our charms in the end" - according to Gentlemen Prefer Blondes' most famous number, 'Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend'. But the film itself shows no sign of losing its charm: agreeably silly, this comedy-musical remains riotously enjoyable more than half a century on. And the luminous appeal of its two stars Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe certainly hasn't dipped by a single candela.
Modelling a series of startling outfits - lovingly captured via intense Technicolor - They dance, sing and show a real flair for comedy (both physical and verbal) as daffy gold-digging showgirl Lorelei Lee (Monroe) and her rather more practical-minded best pal Dorothy Shaw (Russell). After Lorelei gets fortuitously engaged to bumbling millionaire-in-waiting Esmond (Tommy Noonan), she and Dorothy embark on a trans-Atlantic cruise - only to be tailed by a private eye (Elliott Reid) hired by Esmond's disapproving father to uncover dirt on his lad's vivacious intended.
Dorothy (implausibly) falls head-over-heels for the pipe-smokingly square snoop, just as she and Lorelei are getting themselves mixed up in silly shenanigans involving a titled, buffoonish Brit (Charles Coburn), his snooty wife (Norma Varden), and the latter's priceless tiara. Events spiral further out of control once the ship finally reaches France and our heroines make a bee-line for 'gay Paree'...
The script - by Charles Lederer, based on the novel of the same name by Anita Loos (and its play adaptation by Fields and Loos) - has an amiably anything-goes feel, with perhaps even a slight screwball atmosphere as the chaos mounts. Though the big set-piece numbers are terrific, elsewhere a couple of the less spectacular musical numbers could perhaps have been profitably pruned. But then again it would be a shame to lose even a single frame of Russell and Monroe on this kind of form, enjoying one of cinema's great female friendships: turns out diamonds aren't a girl's best friend, after all.













