Many classic movies have left fond memories for people who lived through that era, and I don't know how many people still remember this fantasy romantic comedy in Hollywood in the 1980s.
The film tells the love story between a window designer and the model he created. If it weren't for the veteran Hollywood fans, I'm afraid I wouldn't know much about this work. That's okay, today we take you to a recap, it is:
"Spirit Alive"
=Movie Info=
Director: Michael Gottlieb
Writers: Edward Rugoff / Michael Gottlieb
Starring: Andrew McCarthy / Kim Catroll
James Spade
Genre: Comedy / Romance / Fantasy
Country of Production: United States
Release: 1987-02-13
Jonathan put all his energy and passion into creating the department store mannequin model Amy, a work that made him feel like a real artist, and the reality of repeated unemployment and emotional frustration immersed him in his perfect artwork, and he even fell in love with this model.
In order to escape marriage, the heroine Amy magically crosses from Egypt more than two thousand years ago, resurrects the model, becomes a real person, and falls in love with Jonathan.
At first, Amy can only be seen by Jonathan alone, and once a third person is present, Amy will immediately revert to a model.
Amy with a third person present
Amy when Jonathan was left alone
And in the end, when Amy was about to be crushed, it was Jonathan who grabbed her tightly and saved her. Perhaps heaven was touched by the love between the two, and Amy was resurrected with a third person and became a real person.
The love setting of "Man and Model" has since become a source of inspiration for many films, such as Air Dolls directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda in Japan (nominated for the "One Kind of Attention Unit, One Kind of Attention Award" at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival, the nomination for Best Actress at the 33rd Japan Academy Awards, and the nomination for Best Actress at the 4th Asian Film Awards)
"Sex Doll Love" directed by American director Craig Gillespe (nominated for Best Original Screenplay at the 80th Academy Awards and Best Actor in a Musical/Comedy Film at the 65th Golden Globe Awards)
The cultural trends of the 80s can be seen everywhere
In the 80s, pop culture swept through American society, and Hollywood also left the sad social realism behind, and commercial blockbusters became popular.
Conservative economic policies, tense and restless social trends, and blockbuster movie markets have given light fantasy low-budget urban romantic comedies a place in American audiences. The film also records the culture and fashion trends of the time.
01
Fashionable wear
It is said that fashion is a reincarnation, and the big red lips, wavy curls, shoulder pads, and dress skirts in the 80s in the movie are simply not at all contradictory to the present.
02
Disco
With retro disco music and a large dance floor (department store) under dazzling lights, Jonathan and Amy swing their bodies freely.
Just look at the "Ready Player One" tribute meme to know the '80s
How deeply disco is
03
Stallone and Schwarzenegger
sequela
In the movie, a dog next to the security guard of Prince Department Store is called "Rambo", and John Rambo is the role of Stallone in the movie "First Blood", which was popular in the 80s, and later after the security guard was fired, he went to work at Elise Department Store, and his other dog was named "Terminator", which was the series of films starring Schwarzenegger in the 80s.
Classic songs that never fade
Maybe you haven't seen the movie, but you've definitely heard the song.
nothing's gonna stop us now
starship - no protection
As the theme song of the movie "God Alive", the song was composed by the prestigious Jefferson Starship Band in the United States and was nominated for Best Original Song at the 60th Academy Awards in 1988.
This was followed by the 1994 film True Lies, directed by James Cameron and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, which also used the song as the theme song.
And Lin Zixiang's song "Dare to Love dare to do", which is very familiar to everyone, is a cover of this song, and has also become one of the classic Cantonese songs. Singer Zhang Liangying also used this song to make a competition track in the 2005 Super Girl, and successfully advanced.
A team of male and female actors
It is worth mentioning that the actor Kim Caterol, who starred in the heroine of this movie, is the actor of Samantha in the popular American drama and the movie version of "Sex and the City".
Compared to the simple and beautiful Amy in "Divine Vitality", the character of Samantha represents the new American woman who lived out of me in the late 1990s.
Amy from "Divine Spirits" is alive
Samantha in Sex and the City
Actor Andrew McCarthy became a young idol by starring in films such as "High School Student", "Seven Graduates" and "Pink Lady", and once became the Prince Charming in the minds of many female audiences in the 80s.
He once co-directed the super red American drama "Gossip Girl" (one of the episodes), but it is such a person who looks so beautiful that you can't imagine that he was depressed for a while.
Because of his reclusive personality and the pressures of life, Andrew McCarthy worked as a travelogue, traveling to remote areas of South America and Africa many times, describing his unique experiences and feelings in primeval forests, prehistoric glaciers, gold panning towns, the Amazon River and even the summit of Kilimanjaro, and published a book called "Traveling to Get Home".
As a result, he became a contributing editor for National Geographic Traveler magazine, writing for the New York Times, The Atlantic, and The Wall Street Journal. In 2011, he received the "2010 Travel Journalist of the Year" honorary award from the American Travel Writers Association.
The film's villain, James Spade, won the Best Actor Award at the Cannes International Film Festival for his performance in "Sex, Lies and Videotape" two years after starring in "The Spirits Of Life", and later won three Emmy Awards.
In 2013, James Spade starred in the Marvel universe film Avengers: Age of Ultron.
"Divine Vitality" was innovative and unique in that year, and was one of the earliest masterpieces in Hollywood to play with the "crossing" element. Of course, its core charm lies in capturing the two most important words of romantic comedy: romance.