John Kent (Randolph Scott), a former star football player at Harvard, goes to Paris with his friend Huck Haines (Fred Astaire) and the latter's dance band, the Wabash Indianians. Alexander Voyda (Luis Alberni) has booked the band, but refuses to let them play when he finds the musicians are not the Indians he expected, but merely from Indiana (Huck Haines and his Indianians Band).
John turns to the only person he knows in Paris for help, his Aunt Minnie (Helen Westley), who owns the fashionable "Roberta" gown shop. While there, he meets her chief assistant (and secretly the head designer), Stephanie (Irene Dunne). John is quickly smitten with her.
Meanwhile, Huck unexpectedly stumbles upon someone he knows very well. "Countess Scharwenka", a temperamental customer at Roberta's, turns out to be his hometown sweetheart Lizzie Gatz (Ginger Rogers). She gets Huck's band an engagement at the nightclub where she is a featured entertainer.
Two things trouble John. One is Ladislaw (Victor Varconi), the handsome Russian deposed prince and doorman who seems too interested in Stephanie. The other is the memory of Sophie (Claire Dodd), the snobbish, conceited girlfriend he left behind after a quarrel over his lack of sophistication and polish.
When Aunt Minnie dies unexpectedly without leaving a will, John inherits the shop. Knowing nothing about women's fashion and that his aunt intended for Stephanie to inherit the business, he persuades Stephanie to remain as his partner. Correspondents flock to hear what a football player has to say about feminine fashions. Huck gives the answers, making a lot of weird statements about the innovations John is planning to introduce.
Sophie arrives in Paris, attracted by John's good fortune. She enters the shop, looking for a dress, but is dissatisfied with everything Stephanie shows her. Huck persuades her to choose a gown that John had ordered discarded as too vulgar. When John sees her in it, they quarrel for the final time.
John reproaches Stephanie for selling Sophie the gown. Terribly hurt, Stephanie quits the shop. With Roberta's putting on a fashion show in a week, Huck takes over the design work, with predictably bad results. When Stephanie sees his awful creations, she is persuaded to return to save Roberta's reputation.
The show is a triumph, helped by the entertaining of Huck, Countess Scharwenka, and the band. (A pre-stardom Lucille Ball, with platinum blond hair, appears uncredited in her first RKO film[4] as a model wearing an elaborate feather cape, after the vocal by Dunne, in the fashion show.[5]) The closing sensation is a gown modeled by Stephanie herself. At the show, John overhears that she and Ladislaw are leaving Paris and mistakenly assumes that they have married. Later, he congratulates her for becoming a princess. When she informs him that Ladislaw is merely her cousin and that the title has been hers since birth, the lovers are reunited. Huck and Lizzie, who decide to get married, do a final tap dance sequel.
印度电影也跟随韩国电影的脚步，安上了飞翔的翅膀
4+ 社会议题大杂烩的政治爽片。反转只是形式，复仇也是形式，核心是，当全民事件转化成运动，暴力+宣传机器被开动以操控民意，这里头最不重要的就是那件事本身，如果不是内部反水，你永远都不知道自己的情绪是为谁所用。
众人更多是对罗列议题的自我脑补感动。
如果纯从电影的叙事角度考虑，电影整体太过于沉闷，拖沓，叙事感比较差，得耐着性子来看，最好看的就是庭审部分。
过于脸谱化了。当然商业电影的目的就是为了满足尽可能多的人的观影需求。在印度具有广大的被种姓制度压迫的底层民众以及长期处于不平等地位的女性群体。这类电影很容易激发民粹主义，后半段的反转给予了警示。
其实我比较伤心的是，小狗狗肯定会和芬奇一样死去，那杰夫怎么办啊
不知我们何时可以有这种自信。
印度这些年的不少片让我们这边的观影者感慨：敢拍。我觉得更可贵的是，能审批通过，能上映让全国全世界的人看到——有了这样制度的前提，制片方到导演到团队，不存在“敢不敢”的问题。
【6.5-】看完回想这个故事一开始到底起始于什么主题，女性主义、社会movement 、法律与正义、后真相、种姓制度、政治阴谋…无数次剧情“反转”的背后也是主题的反转，大部分问题讨论到一半就被另一个问题所替代，两个半小时的篇幅仍然没有一点让人喘息的空间，导演似乎想把整个印度社会都放进影片中，放大每一个相关者的情感，但终究在一次次的抒情、闪回与反转中再而衰三而竭。就像片中法庭戏上的那句台词说的，问题太多，每十五分钟就要高血压一次，直到最后疲惫到无力关心人物与事件的结局。凭借剪辑与叙事诡计造就的人设反转又何尝不是一种后真相时代的叙事常态呢？最遗憾的其实是，这些我们一个都拍不了的主题他们都能拍，但大多都只浅尝辄止了。
可能剧本还行，但导演真是太水了，音乐滥用，表演也差。。。
当人与人没了沟通，对陌生人就会产生天然的不信任。
诸如韩国印度等大部分国家在电影里能够触碰的话题尺度要超出我们太多，这类影片的受众靠别人的作品来反观自身，从而获得某种程度的心理慰藉和释放。与我们内心不可告人的期待基本一致，这也是很多印度影片在我们这里获得好评的心理基础。就拍摄手法而言，印度导演多少年始终固守的抒情手段、渲染技巧都太过陈旧，叙事的节奏与逻辑就好像在做复制粘贴，所以在印度干导演的难点全部来自内容输出方面。一部将政治、女性、教育、司法体制糅合在一起的犯罪片，后半部分密集的翻转让人生厌，尴尬不说，漏洞百出。
科幻末世感的<一条狗的使命>，苹果出品的好莱坞俗套老陈旧就不是俗套老陈旧了？
片尾曲不错。
剧情设定很套路，Finch和人类社会的分离一带而过，他又是否渴求与人交流呢？重点想表达的信任，只是靠离去升华是否多少有点被动？
一股脑未打磨的半成品点子塞得倒满当，
后半段的反转略精彩~结尾有些拖沓，不干脆~
其实科幻末日背景挺弱的，借助阳光灼人的设定讲人的封闭孤独和不信任，当杰夫芬奇和狗狗建立起信任时，生命就能重返阳光下，人害怕伤害不愿信人，但又总是渴望获得赞扬陪伴和信任，就像芬奇始终保留来自父亲的明信片，杰夫想获得芬奇和小狗的认同。所幸芬奇离开时身边有杰夫和狗狗的陪伴，杰夫领略桥上明媚的风光后还有信心去看新的世界。 汤姆汉克斯独角戏carry全场，机器人杰夫呆萌，小狗值得一座狗界小金人，难得能看到一部如此舒服的电影。
情绪被配乐塞得很满，慢镜头多到想两倍速，探讨的议题也不新鲜（我们拍不出不代表主题很新）。这片子更多的分都是打给“片子之外的共情分”吧，片子本身没啥意思。
好看是好看的，但是最后那个反转抛弃了这部电影最有价值的部分，程序正义和政治正确到底哪个更值得保护，沦陷到阴谋论里，就变得无趣了。多给一颗星，印度电影经常让我们汗颜。
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