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.
美国梦主旋律电影。以歌舞类型来呈现，叙事支零破碎，大幅消解了主人公原型本身浓厚的悲剧色彩。加菲与原型相比只有形似，表演出了年轻人的激情，却没什么艺术家气质。但此类悲剧艺术家的传记片，总是会博得颁奖季的青睐，啧啧啧。
拔萃的歌舞片，即使毫无前置信息，也能在第一曲渐入佳境，直奔简洁鲜明的主题。电影抓住了而立之年梦想如何从清晰到成为破片的过程与精髓。不仅如此，音乐在传递年轻的视点和无处安放的情感之上，在结尾升华为燃烧生命唤醒年轻一代的艺术本质，放在现在依然具有极强的激励和反思价值。
作为路人粉觉得无功无过，作为音乐电影应该在镜头、艺术设计上多加功夫，电影明显更像一部舞台剧，倒是加菲的表演提升了一个档次。
米兰达也许会拍一部只在舞台上演出的音乐剧，但他并不会拍电影，影像不是音乐、独白、台词的补充，MV都不至于如此。更别提那些政治正确的符号，实在差劲。还是看看斯皮尔伯格的《西区故事》会拍成什么样吧。
传记歌舞片还是第一次看，感觉电影好像有意的回避那种“快闪式”编舞，大部分的歌舞场景都放在舞台排练或者独角戏，更有沉浸感和真实感，而且加菲唱歌居然这么棒！！惊喜
21-311. 不太明白好看在哪裡？後半段還可以，前半段剪輯跳躍得不能看，實在受不了這種剪輯風格。堅持夢想很重要，但是當你沒有“麵包”的時候，談夢想只是空話。看到有人拿這部和《愛樂之城》做比較，根本不在一個檔次好嗎？😓😓
懂了，我离灵感乍现梦想成真就差学会游泳了，明天就去游。加菲是我能get到的那种带着聪明劲儿的帅气，加上手长脚长，演得挺有说服力。歌好听，用一出戏来串场也很美好。人到后来才发现，一生的导演演员观众，都是自己罢了。幕拉开的时候没有人是准备好的，天才也一样。而落幕的时候，所有人都觉得不够。
很多即兴音乐段落很棒，甚至有几段相当天才。4星。
Jonathan Larson与《Superbia》。在29岁零9个月时看了这部电影。主创们对艺术的热爱是可以直击灵魂的，热烈而深沉，顺理成章，我的情绪就被牢牢的攥在了tick tick的时针嘀嗒声中。
Jon是幸运的 他有在自己无法坚持下去时 相信他并告诉他 他是独一无二的朋友 有爱他的人 有赏识他的伯乐 有一大群欣赏他的作品的人 / 如果Jon没有写第二第三个作品 而是选择进入广告业 这个世界上会多一位无人知晓的白领 少一位家喻户晓的音乐剧奇才 / 看完音乐剧回来 LMM真是奇才 / 96-1-25 Jonathan Larson去世了 21-11-26 Stephen Sondheim去世了
这部电影没有全然采用那一套常规的“有志者事竟成”理论，相反，它指出了一个艺术家想要被认同是异常艰难的，他需要付出巨大代价，付出时间、金钱、爱情，最后还可能输给命运。电影对梦想的质问也充满哲学寓意：究竟是因为热爱，还是惧怕？我想这是一种习惯，更是一种不甘。“梦想”与“自由”听起来都是遥不可及的概念，但是你努力的每一天，可能都是走向成功日的倒数。
8.2分！相当棒的音乐歌舞传记片，导演功底很棒，很难相信这是导演处女作，用画面来讲述整个故事，娓娓道来，叙事节奏相当出色，画面相当有电影感，连续且壮阔，还有多个画面的连续剪辑，同时辅以动人心弦的音乐演唱，开场的音乐剧和过去的故事两条线并行前进，相当有吸引力！
电影里呈现出的Jonathan Larson，其实和他的那部最著名的作品一样，充斥着某种程度的自私、自以为是、自我中心……但是，我无法讨厌这一切，因为我无法拒绝其中蕴含的真挚和才华。看了不少关于Rent的各种缺点的小论文，很多我也无意反驳，但它始终打动我心，Jonathan Larson也始终让我无比难过——如果他能够继续下去，他一定会创造出不留任何遗憾的作品。
讲述可以说改变现代音乐剧形式的天才剧作家乔纳森拉森的人物传记片，他却也没能逃脱早逝的命运。
好想看音乐剧Superbia了。我还挺喜欢此片的音乐的，知道朋友得绝症时那段很动人。
很多人终其一生也没有找到自己喜欢的领域和愿意为之奋斗终生的热情。但拉森找到了，他的一生虽然短暂，但我相信他享受在小公寓里创作的每一秒钟。
其实能感受到创作表达欲的喷涌，不知道导演是不是也借男主之口说得那段表达自己的观点。串讲故事的手法在近些年的电影里还是算新奇的，所以看的时候觉得信息量很大。但是也如一位豆友所说，全片都在情绪高点没有启程转折，有点难入戏。然后我对音乐剧的欣赏能力也比较有限吧，歌声穿耳过，挺难留下什么深刻印象的。
能够坚持到最后的追梦者都是英雄，无论梦想是否成真。
這部戲激不起我内心絲毫漣漪。。。可能是題材hit不到我吧。
加菲尔德演得还是挺用力的，可总觉得他还是《血战钢锯岭》中的样子，没法跳脱成音乐人。另外对原型人物Jon也没啥了解，不知他好在哪里，影片中的歌曲，说实话，没有一首好听的，都比较一般吧，难以让人感到共鸣。
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