"Roman Holiday": The most beautiful thing in life is the first sight
Huang Zihong
The 1953 Hollywood black-and-white film Roman Holiday, starring Audrey Hepburn, tells the story of a romantic affair between a princess of a European principality and an American journalist in Rome, Italy, in one day.
In the film, a young and beautiful princess of a Certain European country visits a European country, and the first stop is Rome.
She had a powerful aura as soon as she appeared, but from the bottom of her heart, she hated the red tape of the court and those formalisms and dogmatism.
The princess's young and lively nature in her heart, wanted to visit the historic city, the ancient capital of Rome, but was rejected by her entourage because of her noble status.
After a long day of official activities and foreign affairs receptions, she returned to the palace and almost collapsed, tossing and turning. After her entourage gave her a tranquilizing and sleeping medicine, she reluctantly lay in bed.
After waiting for no one around, the princess went out over the wall to appreciate and feel the free and pleasant life of the people that she had been yearning for since freedom.
However, the medicine soon flared up, and the princess collapsed on a bench by the side of the park road, drowsy.
Joe Bradley, a poor correspondent for the American News Agency, happened to pass by, and he had just returned from playing cards with a friend, thinking it was a teenage girl who had been drunk in a revelry, and rented a cab to take her home.
But the princess slept so deeply that she couldn't wake up, so in desperation, Joe had to take her back to his residence, and was dissatisfied with her sleeping in her bed, so he put Princess Anne on the sofa.
Early the next morning, because the princess was missing, the media posted a special notice in a prominent position in the headlines.
After comparing the newspaper photos with the sleeping himself, Joe confirms that it is the princess.
When the luck suddenly came, he gently moved the princess back to bed, ready to write an exclusive report, so that he was in the bottleneck period of his career and the economy was stretched, and perfectly realized the salted fish turnover.
The princess who woke up saw the strange Joe, her face was discolored, and after listening to his explanation, she was relieved, washed and dressed, and borrowed money from him and went out.
The princess went to the barbershop to get a short haircut, ate cone ice cream in the square, and was given a flower to fully enjoy the hard-won civilian life in the Roman sun.
After the film was broadcast, Hepburn's short hair quickly set off a fashion trend, and even influenced the hairstyle design of the heroine in a youth romance film "Lushan Love" after the reform and opening up of New China. As for the same cone ice cream that the princess eats, it is still the Popular Punch Card food in Piazzale Roma.
Joe hurriedly called his photographer friend Owen and told him to get ready, to track the princess himself, to pretend to meet her in the square, to volunteer to be a tour guide for the princess, and to take her on a motorcycle to tour the city of Rome.
At the same time, Owen also drove a car behind them and took many precious shots. However, all this, the princess was completely unaware.
With Joe and Owen, the princess rides a motorcycle for the first time in her life, smokes for the first time, and goes to the "Mouth of Truth" with Joe, and a hilarious story occurs that confirms their love. When they are in trouble and almost trapped in the police station, the identity of the princess makes the three of them turn the danger into ruin.
At the same time, the disappearance of the princess for most of the day caused panic among the officials and attendants, and the king secretly sent many plainclothes to look around for the whereabouts of the princess. Plainclothes found them when Joe led the princess to the water ballhouse for the ball, and they asked the princess to go back with them, and the princess refused, the plainclothes wanted to kidnap her back, Joe and Owen fought with them, and the wayward and mischievous princess also fought, very happy.
The princess, with the help of the morning barber, crossed the sea and smashed a wooden guitar on the top of the plainclothes's head... All this shocking behavior did not escape Irving's camera lens.
Taking advantage of the chaos, Joe escapes with the princess, while the plainclothes are captured by the local police.
A day of Roman holiday passed, in this short day of travel, the two people gradually fell in love, happy time passed, the two still returned to their respective life trajectory. She knows that the relationship between the two sides cannot last, and she has her own obligations, so she gives up love and regains her social role.
At the press conference that followed, Joe revealed his true identity, much to the princess's surprise. But in the end, he did not fall into the strange circle of chasing fame and fortune, and cleverly secretly gave the photos he had secretly taken before to the princess as a souvenir.
In a deep look of affection, the princess said goodbye softly to Joe. The encounter of just 24 hours has achieved an eternal love.
When a reporter at the scene asked about the city where the princess was most impressed by this trip, she smiled tearfully and said: "By all means, Rome!" (Rome, of course)"
"Roman Holiday" with a tearful smile, light comedy romantic Roman scenery film, became a classic of Hollywood black and white films, Audrey Hepburn also won the Academy Award for Best Actress for the film, and became famous in one fell swoop, in that era of advocating blonde hair and blue eyes, devil figure, thin, thick eyebrows, square face, brown eyes, she has become a fashion benchmark that has influenced so far.
The most beautiful thing in life is the first sight, which is the warmest touch that "Roman Holiday" brings to people.