When it comes to Hollywood love movies, many people's first impressions will refer to "Roman Holiday", which was released 68 years ago, which was directed by Gregory. Pike and Audrey. The love movie starring Hepburn has left an unforgettable screen impression on many fans. Especially Audrey. The heroine played by Hepburn, with her angelic temperament, in the era of no beauty, let the audience just see her innocent face will be mesmerized. However, as everyone knows, this classic movie that lasts for 2 hours has a simple plot, and from the current point of view, this work is like a 24-hour Rome travel reality show of a princess and a poor journalist.
Throughout the film of "Roman Holiday", the whole film has neither the ups and downs of the plot, nor the use of luxurious stunts and epic scenes, the whole film gives the audience the feeling, relaxed like the male and female protagonists in Rome a game of love adventure. The most dramatic conflict in the film is that Hepburn plays a noble princess, while Parker plays a poor journalist. Two people with very different identities, because of a chance to meet by mistake on the streets of Rome, this kind of plot setting, in fact, is not a major innovation. After all, in the classic love story of our country, there is already the legend of Dong Yong and the Seven Fairies.
But it is such a clichéd love story that is vividly interpreted by Pike and Hepburn. Here we have to first affirm Hepburn and Pike's contribution to the success of Roman Holiday. Some good movies make actors, and some good actors make movies, and Zhou You believes that "Roman Holiday" is just a classic work that Hepburn achieved. Without the interpretation of Pike and Hepburn, the plot of this film is at most a passing rotten love film. But with these two natural actors, this film has become one of the few masterpieces in the history of cinema.
Apparently, the original plan of the film at that time was to invite two more famous stars to star, but because the budget of the entire film was only $1 million, the film's producers had to choose a low-profile actress as the female number one after determining that the male lead was Parker. Unexpectedly, this decision attracted Audrey, who was not well known at the time. Hepburn, who was only 23 years old when he participated in the film, was not very famous, so the name of the original movie poster Hepburn was typeset in a corner. Later, under the correction of the male protagonist Pike, Hepburn's name was placed in the same conspicuous position as Pike.
Unexpectedly, the film "Roman Holiday" completely achieved Hepburn, her innocent eyes, unpretentious acting skills, and angelic face gave the role of the princess in the film a full soul. It is precisely because of this that this monotonous film has been interpreted as a classic in film history. Looking at the entire film of "Roman Holiday", in fact, the whole film is like a reality SHOW with the audience as the perspective. The setting and entry point of the whole story plot satisfies the audience's curiosity to spy on the princess's life and love state through the screen.
The male protagonist of Pike's starring role in the film is a poor journalist with a scruffy life, and he desperately needs a sensational interview to solve the dilemma of his current life. At this time he was confused and met the princess who had run away from home on the streets of Rome, and then when he and his boss quarreled over the issue of being late, he found that the girl he was staying at night was the subject of his interview. This situation made him quickly realize that he had the opportunity to change his current life situation, so he tried his best to take a "day trip to Rome" with the princess.
But at this time, there is a detail worthy of our attention, although the poor journalist played by Pike is sloppy, his style is very gentlemanly and upright, which is also the key to the whole film becoming a classic. Some movies are fairy tales, some movies are myths, some movies are dreams, and some movies are dreams. And the film "Roman Holiday" is a fairytale love. Although there are scenes of deep kisses in the film, most of the film's themes focus on a sacred and pure love story.
Such a story setting is also the key to the film "Roman Holiday" to become a classic. Many people say that the movie is the "dream journey" on the screen, and "Roman Holiday" brings the audience a fairytale love story of a princess and a gentleman. It is well known that Gregory Pike is one of the few gentleman stars in Hollywood history, in his long career, there has been almost no scandal, even when Heke's first marriage was on the verge of divorce during the filming of "Roman Holiday", but he and Hepburn still simply maintained a working relationship.
And Hepburn has conquered generations of audiences around the world on the screen with a hibiscus-like face and the personality of a simple little girl. Such a single plot work as "Roman Holiday" is a model of the art of film that cuts out the complexity and simplifies it. Although there are several scenes of slight dramatic conflict in this film, its realization is entirely dependent on the exquisite performance of the actors, such as the bridge section of the "Truth Stone", the essence of which lies in gregory Pike's exquisite performance and Hepburn's nervous expression.
And even the scene where Hepburn sits on the railing and eats ice cream has become one of the lifelong dreams of movie fans all over the world, but unfortunately, the City of Rome has now banned sitting on that railing to eat. And after "Roman Holiday" swept the world, the pedal motorcycle in the film also became popular around the world, and such popular culture, "Roman Holiday" has influenced the world to this day. And all this stems from the natural charm and personality texture of the two protagonists in the film.
"Roman Holiday" uses the simplest actors and the most single story line to interpret the purest and simplest love story. I think this film should really find the purest and most beautiful side of love, and because of this, this film gives a unique inner meaning to the scenes and objects related to the film. And the film's creators were able to find Pike and Hepburn, which made the film find its soul. This movie, which is similar to the plot of a reality SHOW, needs actors with such a pure texture in this personality.
The love story of this day, although not long, the ending is not perfect, but it does not let the audience in front of the screen have the slightest regret. Because through the screen, the audience has already experienced the most beautiful and should be the way love should be. It is Hepburn simply eating ice cream, it is their indulgence riding their beloved little motorcycle on the streets of Rome, it is Hepburn's frightened expression, it is the long shot of Pike finally walking to the screen.
Such a simple film, after 68 years of time, can still make the audience believe, still can move the audience, and can still shock our hearts. This is inseparable from Hepburn and Pike's passionate interpretation, although the story of the two people is not as perfect as the plot in "Roman Holiday", but they at least let us appreciate the fairy tale love should be. I think that was enough, even though it was only 24 hours, although in the end they were separated. But beautiful love, like Hepburn's face on the screen that does not age, all of this only exists in a moment of light and shadow carving, and this moment has achieved an eternal classic.