The first time I watched "Roman Holiday" 20 years ago, I only felt full of regrets, because I felt that it should not be the final ending of a good love. At that time, when I was young, I felt that love should be like the fairy tale: "From then on, the princess and the prince lived happily together."
Because of regret, I have not seen this movie for 20 years, until today.
Today, it was an ordinary day, only because it was raining lightly outside, and suddenly some sentimentality became. A line popped out of my head: "Well, life won't be as good as it is now, will it?" After thinking about it for a long time, I remembered that this was a classic line in the movie "Roman Holiday".
So on this summer afternoon, revisit this classic movie.
"Roman Holiday" is a romantic love film made by Paramount in the United States in 1953, which tells the romantic story of a royal princess and an American journalist who meet in Rome, Italy, and spend a beautiful day and holiday together.
Starring Gregory Pike and Audrey Hepburn, the film has become a classic black-and-white film in Hollywood. Audrey Hepburn also won the Academy Award for Best Actress for this film.
Now, the male and female protagonists of the film have left this world one after another, leaving only the eternal classics.
Audrey Hepburn is my favorite actress, not only because of her beautiful appearance, but also because of her own charm. So sometimes, I can't tell if I like Audrey Hepburn because of Roman Holiday or because of Audrey Hepburn. Perhaps, the two are inseparable, it is Hepburn's successful interpretation that makes "Roman Holiday" an eternal classic, and it is also "Roman Holiday" that has achieved audrey Hepburn that no one can replace.
I liked her very much, in fact I loved Audrey very much; everyone fell in love with her easily. She was the most charming and elegant person I had ever met, and I met a person in Roman Holiday who I would always be a supporting character, and with her, I would always feel like A foil for her. (Gregory Pike review)
Gregory Pike, the male protagonist of "Roman Holiday", said of Hepburn, indeed Hepburn is beautiful and charming, she is like an angel who lands on earth.
I. Audrey Hepburn's childhood.
Hepburn was born on 4 May 1929 to the son of Joseph Victor Anthene Hepburn-Ruston, general manager of the Brussels branch of the Bank of England, and a mother named Ella van Hemstra, a baroness of direct aristocratic descent from the Dutch royal family.
As a child, Hepburn was not lucky, and between 1935 and 1938 she attended The Misleadon School, an aristocratic boarding school in The Township of Elheim, Kent, England. In 1939, Audrey Hepburn entered the Netherlands to study ballet at the Anheng Conservatory of Music.
In 1940, the Netherlands was invaded by the Nazis, and many relatives, including Uncle Hepburn, were mutilated. In the following years, due to lack of food, Hepburn could only fill the hunger with tulip bulbs, and his health deteriorated rapidly, so Hepburn grew up to be weak.
Hepburn's father was inclined to Nazism and even fascism, and when Hepburn was six years old, his father left his wife and ran away from home, and then the European War broke out, And Hepburn followed his mother to the Netherlands, where the mother and daughter lived in poverty during the years of war and famine.
Second, Audrey Hepburn's career achievements.
She is fluent in many languages – English, Dutch, French, Italian and Spanish – and perhaps languages I don't know. (Comments by Slidan Duning)
Hepburn was versatile and won many film awards during his lifetime, except for "Roman Holiday", which won the 26th Academy Awards for Best Actress in 1954, and was nominated for the award a total of 5 times in his lifetime, and won the 65th Oscar in 1993. Hersholt Humanitarian Award.
Dedicated to philanthropy in his later years, Hepburn was a representative of UNICEF's Goodwill Ambassador for women and children in the Third World, and in 1992 he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
In 1999, Hepburn was named third by the Motion Picture Association of America as "the greatest actress of a hundred years." In May 2002, in recognition of Hepburn's contribution to the United Nations, UNICEF unveiled a 7-foot-tall bronze statue at audrey spirit at its headquarters in New York.
In addition, she has won the world-renowned Golden Globe Award, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts Award, the Italian David Award, the Emmy Award, the Tony Award, the Grammy Award, and her life is full of scenery.
Iii. Audrey Hepburn's love life.
Hepburn's love life has always been inextricably linked to Roman Holiday and Rome.
Hepburn's first marriage was Mel Feller, a friend of Gregory Pike, the male protagonist of Roman Holiday. He was introduced to Hepburn by Pike, and the two fell in love at first sight and married on September 24, 1954. Hepburn was Feller's third wife, but unfortunately their marriage did not come to an end, and on Christmas Eve 1968, Hepburn and Mel completed their divorce procedures.
Hepburn's second marriage was André Dotty. It is said that when "Roman Holiday" was released in Rome, and the 14-year-old teenager André Dotty also went to see the movie, and he became fascinated by Audrey He, who played "Princess Anne" in the film.
When he came home after watching the movie, he said excitedly to his mother, "When I grow up, I will marry that beautiful actress." And years later, fate miraculously met the two men.
In the fall of 1968, on a cruise ship to Greece, Hepburn met and fell in love with Andrea Doti, then 30. On January 18, 1969, the two flashed marriages in Switzerland, and a year later they gave birth to their second son, Luca. It's just that fairytale love has a good start, but there is no fairy tale happy ending, due to Doti's temperament, In 1982, Hepburn and Dotty's second marriage relationship ended.
In the winter of 1980, Hepburn and his soul mate Robert Wards met in a friend's study, and for more than a decade the two fell in love, and although they were not married, Hepburn called Robert a soul mate.
The movie "Roman Holiday" tells a love story, but it is not purely a love story, through the protagonist Princess Anne's day in Rome with the reporter Joe, let us see Anne's kindness and Joe's integrity, these more valuable qualities in human nature.
When the two first met on the street, Joe thought Anne was just an ordinary girl who was drunk, and as a kind gentleman, he took her home. There are also a series of interesting things happening in the house, such as the scene where Joe lifts Annie from bed to the recliner, which makes people feel funny and warm.
Later, when Joe learned of the princess's identity, he saw it as a good opportunity to get ahead and earn money. So, he decided to make a scoop, so Joe and his friends jointly secretly took many photos of the princess's life on this day. However, in the next relationship with the princess, Joe fell in love with the princess.
In order to protect the image of the princess, Joe gave up the opportunity to produce exclusive news and earn money. And Princess Anne, after a day in Rome, also realized her responsibility to the country and the family, returned to the embassy for the sake of responsibility, and abandoned the budding love.
Although the ending is somewhat regrettable, it is unforgettable because of regret.
"Roman Holiday" is a black-and-white film film shot in 1953, due to its age, there are no special effects in the film, not even large scenes, and the plot is simple, but it has become a classic. Although more than half a century later, it is still an unforgettable film.
From the first time I watched this movie, I really wanted to go to Rome, but I still haven't done it, and because I haven't done it, Rome is still a fairy tale dream in my heart. I think, maybe I won't go to Rome in this life, let the fairy tale still be a fairy tale, the dream is still a dream, just like love, only the love in the fairy tale is more beautiful, isn't it?