Appreciation Humphrey Bogart Has It All Backwards (1 Viewer)

[Emanresu]

Humphrey Bogart Has It All Backwards



Sabrina.

1954.

My favorite Audrey Hepburn film.

Love it.

Except they got it all backwards.


The whole show is predicated on the idea that Sabrina "improves" when she comes back from Paris, cuts her hair and starts dressing and acting like a sophisticated woman.

That somehow she was unsuitable before (as a dress wearing chauffer's daughter) and after suddenly people (and suitors) start noticing her and how she's suddenly interesting and pretty.

As Wikipedia puts it:

"she returns home as an attractive and sophisticated woman"


Returns attractive?

By God she returns worse!

I mean don't get me wrong. I love all Audreys.


But I just ain't on the same page as circa 1950s era idolization of the sophisticated Harper's Bazaar Long Island ideal woman.


Early movie Sabrina up in a tree, her long gorgeous hair tied in a bow, in a long pretty dress with dirt smudged on her wide eyed face under the moonlight is so far superior to "improved" Sabrina I nearly laugh every time I watch the show (despite enjoying it so).


Sabrina on a yacht?

Nah.

Give me the chauffers daughter. She's too pretty for words.





"Improved" Sabrina

The Chauffer's Daughter AKA Eman's Pick

Good. Lord. 1950s people are crazy.

 

[Jungkook]

I couldn't agree more lol

Girls almost always look more attractive to me when they have long hair

 

[RandAlThor]

Audrey Hepburn is the perfect holly wood sweetheart.
There is an aura of everything beautiful about her.

Yoona really strikes that cord with me also.

i think one of the things you are noticing is the false narrative that Hollywood has pushed for decades about beauty and femininity.

I do like both version of this movie.
Both were more interesting as the daughter, part of the charm of the movies is the elder brother recognizes this. As both see the girl in her yet the younger brother is drawn to the superficial image and finds the charm after.

 

[Emanresu]

Audrey Hepburn is the perfect holly wood sweetheart.
There is an aura of everything beautiful about her.

Yoona really strikes that cord with me also.

i think one of the things you are noticing is the false narrative that Hollywood has pushed for decades about beauty and femininity.

I do like both version of this movie.
Both were more interesting as the daughter, part of the charm of the movies is the elder brother recognizes this. As both see the girl in her yet the younger brother is drawn to the superficial image and finds the charm after.

Yoona has always reminded me of Audrey as well.

Both physically and in much of their delicate graceful feminine aura.