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.
非常有趣且有深度的作品。大体模式类似黑泽明的《罗生门》，同一个事件，但三个人讲出了三个不同的故事。且并不止于故事，还展现出了那个时代的政治系统，交际状况，查理六世的无能导致法国的混乱，还有那个时代女性的困境。虽说故事在最后还是如《罗生门》一样没有定数，但也正因如此在值得细细品味。
又是一部被人提前说得太多的。实际感受是不同视角的叙事在事实上的差别没有预想得大，反而是细节上的差异更值得玩味。2021年的Ridley Scott过时了吗？并没有。我看还是Damon和Affleck更容易被时代淘汰。
本以为是中世纪罗生门大戏，它显得对历史结构缺少兴趣，也不关心悬疑设置。多视点叙事看着很普通，让我误以为它想全方位讲一个乱局，视点变但摄影机视角却没怎么变，汇聚力量到最后时刻，指向唯一的真实，像社交媒体上众声喧哗的当下，通过明确的技巧，讲一讲“男人视域里的”性别话题。等一个男性电影人自省的成熟电影良久，终究还是老雷硬核。
壮观的决斗画面，另外引起对中世纪司法制度的兴趣
没有法律的社会将是黑色的，可怕的，不可思议的。
稳！不过的确是闷/漫长了一点 最后司机被一刀直接插入口腔杀死一下子有点吓到 这竟然不是三级？！香港电检处真的应该吃屎 该做的不做 然后吧…I do get the charm of Driver but come on is it necessary to keep saying he is so dangerously handsome ?????
依然直男视角下的“女性都不容易”：她们是欲望的工具，她们是政治的博弈，她们是生育的机器……世界电影下的女性表达都翻出花来了，他们还搁这喊大口号呢
围绕着“她”，但又与“她”无关，摄影和导演太棒了，最后的武戏能让人产生这么大的代入感，真是厉害，值得所有的制作团队学习
一起发生在欧洲中世纪因强奸而起的决斗，三段章节三个不同的人物视角，《最后的决斗》最为巧妙的是电影中的三个当事人都没有撒谎诉说着自己眼中的真相，但无一不再揭示着着骑士精神背后虚伪自私的男权，展现着女性的困境与抗争。雷德利·斯科特借古喻今的讽刺，拍案叫绝。
对着司机说英俊大概是在考验大家的演技🙄在颇具讽刺的中世纪罗生门下，男主们虚伪且自以为是，简直是在比烂，决斗结果虽显“正义”，但无非是拿女主遭受的伤害来成就那个时代的骑士“荣誉”，所幸最后的最后，结局大快人心。社会发展让人们逐渐意识觉醒，越认识到旧世界男权至上与教权当道的残酷压迫，越要批判和清除当今依旧残留的旧日余孽。
老实说，第一次点开这部电影应该是去年，马特达蒙的视角真没太看进去。今天看了一点儿男二的视角后，重新从头看这部电影，果真不一样的体验。像罗生门，一个事件，受害者丈夫，施暴者，受害者分别讲述，究竟谁说的才是真相？又或者都是假的吧。中世纪的社会制度扭曲残酷，到了决斗时刻，非常害怕尚会输，那样，妻子就将被活活烧死，还要烧二三十分钟…太恐怖了。明明是受害者，为什么还要承担被处决的风险？电影中反复强调的“愉悦”问题，不就是爱吗，很明显，女主和尚之间并没有爱。然而，别无选择，婚姻还要继续。这也是很多人说这部电影回归到nvquan的原因吧。女性一旦觉醒，会很可怕的。
很简单的故事，看似用《罗生门》式三人视角讲故事，其实三段更多是互相补充，更像《金刚川》那种一件事讲三遍的弱智做法。三段最大不同是，情夫眼里是勾搭成奸后一次被拒绝的性，而女主的立场就是单纯的强奸。这故事本有两个点，一是达蒙拼死维护（包含妻子的）名誉，二是女主声张女性权利，但本片更偏重后者，导致结构不均衡且内容单薄，另外女主观察家里母马遭遇后若有若无的感触，她后面对权贵的那些发言，基本已经是个现代女性的形象了，雷德利的古装片基本都借古讽今表达偏保守的政治立场，这次却响应较极端的女权，不知为何迈这么大步子——毕竟强奸本身不是个好的议题立足点，强不强奸还是看证据，而不是听特定性别的人类讲故事。电影虽表达了对女性权利的关注，但虐马较狠，连印度电影人都知道用CG代替真动物，雷德利有生之年是蹭不上动物权利了
全方位展示中世纪风土人情，路是真泥泞，头发编的是真漂亮
罗生门式的讲述，决斗将女人的无力、矛盾与绝望推向高潮
为3个视角，为真实故事改编，为电影结构，为电影，为女性。
硬是将一个城堡情爱暴力的三角狗血生搬硬套一个罗生门的角度来讲150分钟而变成教科书般了无生气。。。。。硬生生将大女主抗争叙事压缩到最后的1/4。。。哎😔~
雷德利斯科特老爷子的影迷有福了，如果你喜欢《角斗士》、《末路狂花》和《罗生门》，那么这部卡司堪称豪华、编导演俱佳的《最后的决斗》不容错过。个人年度十佳预定。
首先中世纪欧洲的质感做的很棒，战场杀戮显得血腥野蛮而真实
第一悲情男和第二普信男的视角里，女性是严重被物化的对象，第三视角告诉我们，在冷冽粗暴的男权底色上，仍有微弱的女性坚持自己的色彩自己涂抹。可悲是类似的戏码千百年来依旧在上演，幸运是女人不用再将自己的命运系于男人间的生死之搏。朱迪很棒，在一众老戏骨里，表现依然可圈可点。
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