Vivien Leigh's cat-like eyes in Gone with the Wind became her most gripping sign. In the films since then, it is either feminine and agile, or confused and sad, and the eyes are full of endless styles and stories. We now follow the moving moments in her different films and miss her and those unforgettable film characters again.
[Sidewalks in London] Sidewalks of London 1938
Vivien Leigh's early films. There is a stubborn stubbornness in the pure and innocent eyes, and there is more self-protection in the independent and strong look, and he is looking at others uneasily.
[Gone with the Wind] Gone with the Wind 1939
It is said that Vivien Leigh practiced a cat-like smile on the mirror every day when playing Scarlett Hao. Feminine and mysterious, elusive, and in this way to create a warm and bright hao scarlett with great contradiction tension, eventually became a classic.
[Soul Break Blue Bridge] Waterloo Bridge 1940
Also set against the backdrop of war, the naïve and lonely dancer Mara is completely different from Scarlett Hao, and the tearful eyes accuse the creation of people, which is particularly sympathetic. Mara seems passive and helpless, but there is Vivien Leigh's stubbornness in her eyes.
[Mrs. Hamilton] That Hamilton Woman 1941
Vivien Leigh and her husband Oliver worked together on the film, male and female appearance, at that time can be regarded as a commercial film. Vivien Leigh plays a natural and skillful, naïve and playful all the way. Funny eyes and expressions can be made into emojis.
[Caesar and Cleopaura] Caesar and Cleopatra 1945
Cleopatra, played by Vivien Leigh, is not often mentioned, and unlike the setting of Elizabeth Taylor, Vivien Leigh mainly plays her teenage years, with a playful and cute girlish face, and deals with the world of men in horror.
[Anna Karenina] Anna Karenina 1948
Also a remake of the famous book, Anna, played by Vivien Leigh, is more sad. Although Anna herself has a certain resemblance to Scarlett Hao, the hesitation displayed by Vivien Leigh fits her low state at the time and also shapes another rich Anna Karenina.
[Desire Street Car] A Streetcar Named Desire 1951
Seeing the Street Car of Desire only to see Vivien Leigh's true subversion. She plays Blanche, who develops femininity to the extreme, but eventually falls into despair. The shape of an old woman in one night with a gloomy look makes people shudder.
[罗马之春] The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone 1961
Vivien Leigh in [Roman Spring] already has a lamentable beauty twilight state. Although she is not this past actress, loneliness and haggard are all in the unspoken. The telephone was her connection to the human world, but it was as if the world had abandoned her.
[Fool Ship] Ship of Fools 1965
Vivien Leigh's last film is still the same, and there are vicissitudes in her eyes that are difficult to hide. Whether it is their own makeup on the mirror, or looking left and right on the ship to hook up with the crew, it is not willing to be lonely and infinitely lonely, which is heartbreaking in vain.
(This article was originally published on the WeChat public account of "Watching Movie Weekly" magazine)