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.
外国导演眼中的女性：《最后的决斗》。中国作家眼中的女性：《三体》
是一部优秀的女权电影，但不是一部好看的商业电影
要说法有两个官方渠道：1选教会，对被告有利。2选王庭荣耀决斗，胜方代表真相，败方就是诬告还要被脱光烧死，800年前的古人就是这么愚昧这么笃信上帝必然保佑说真话的……博学精明的女主居然不了解当时的风俗，还声称不能让上帝决定自己和孩子的生死……女主想法太现代了，要是把女主自述挪到第一段，我会猜她女扮男装上演《威尼斯商人》智斗法庭，或者变身《杀死伊芙》的杀手……总之掌握自己的命运不靠上帝不靠男人……然而她只是怼怼怼。
很稳，也很无聊。在拍摄有不同素材的情况下，仍在三重视角的前述叙事中没有明显的差异化，在以悬念牵动走向的类型预期下，这样的执行效果可能还不如《金刚川》。
中世纪女权电影，三个章节层层递进，前面可能有些让人瞌睡，但是转到第二章起故事就精彩了起来，第三章以当事人的视角，展露了男人的虚伪。看电影的过程中一度恨得咬牙切齿，（司机真的太丑了丑到让人生理不适，竟然还可以演这种女人口中的英俊角色），Jodie和达蒙都很不错，可惜这种题材票房遇冷也是意料之中，服化道真的很绝。
“强暴不是对女人施加的罪行，而是侵害她男性监护人的财产”
1、什么是爱？就是去哆嗦那两下吗？2、打工的最高境界应该就是勒格里了，能力突出，老板信任，有钱一起分，有女人一起玩，比只会傻傻做事、有问题就逼逼的卡鲁日强多了。3、直男跟自大都是傻逼。4、因为是女性电影，所以对女性的立场有所侧重，包括对家庭的支持，社会、庭审、丈夫对女主的恶意，这种感情最容易打动女性观众，但其实不应该，卡鲁日在那样的环境他也的确做了很多对得起这个家的事。5、就像国王讲的，很多人不明白很多事情的微妙差异（nuance），不懂这个世界的运行规则，非黑即白，二极管自古有之。
三种叙述视角似乎是现实中很真实的现象，每个人都会选择袒护自己，做出利己的辩护，而忽视一些不利的要点。不管哪个视角，这里面玛格丽特作为女性似乎都成为男性压榨、占据的战利品。
4.吵什么女权的真的太恶心了，总说歧视女性，你拿着中世纪的十万八千里外的改编故事硬要套在整体男性身上，我也不知道自己曾做错过什么，走到哪都要被歧视，被鞭笞一番，好似我是个强奸犯，再不济也是个帮凶，即使我像男主一样上场厮杀，为女性呐喊，我也只是个为了满足自己高尚价值观的自我满足感的伪君子。
换人物视角，看似一场metoo大戏，但编剧对事件的悬念不感兴趣，讲男人和女人如何看待事件，而上帝总会站在正义的一边。老雷拍这种历史剧也是好莱坞第一人了，功力毋庸置疑。
在片中十四世纪那个时代，因为生产力落后，女性的社会地位极低，女人只是工具，贵族妇女也不例外。
太多细节和线索值得品，每个人物都被多角度立体透视，试问自己你的关注点是落在真相上？还是决斗输赢上？
男人的决斗真令人窒息，丈夫看到了名义的胜利，却和正义、真相不相关。女人不言不语吞咽耻辱，朝堂上声嘶力竭争取声音，Jodie演得很有分量
如果说《决斗的人》讲的是宿敌之恨化解于历史大义的故事，那么这部电影就毫无保留地戳破了这种“大义”，斯科特的中世纪也摒弃了《角斗士》里的返古浪漫主义，留下的只有泥泞、寒冷、一帮自私的男人和一个坚毅的女人。
个人年度十佳！斯科特老爷子功力依然精湛。两位男主最后的决斗，堪称近些年银幕上最令我牵肠挂肚提心吊胆的一场搏杀，然而，这份动容却不是为了场上的两人……
非常工整也很稳的命题作文，看之前以为是「罗生门」，但其实特意留下的「the truth」已经表明了整部电影并不意在扑朔迷离——只有婆婆带着所有仆人离开这段没有给出明确解释。比为了美化自我而说谎更恐怖的，是从头到尾都认为自己的真相合情合理。哪怕是慷慨勇猛自诩爱妻的骑士，也只是把妻子当成财产。
——你想我吗？——我很想你。——那我们上床吧。被伯爵玩弄的两个将军。男人养家真命苦。简单粗暴的叙事。
与《古驰家族》同样陷于出品过度的通病，既是大导身份之下的自信沉着，也为对抗快速文化的固执坚守；被莫名抨击（年龄歧视），被莫名塞金酸莓提名让人作呕，也更横生几分“怜爱”。场面调度、最终之战的宏大感还有几分“内容为王”的黄金年代Déjà vu，都让人感受到稳健；可能最弱一环也就是力图让情绪四溢的人物视角依然单调，女性角色的不尴不尬也制造了表达上的困境。Jodie的能量与这里的赋予，没有做到最理想的实现。
维权还是猎巫都是靠女主的起心动念，那么这事走向了反面。整个故事女主道德光环就在于雷得利斯科特强行加入的预设。
天堂里一定每周都能看到雷老的新片不然不足以为极乐世界
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