Hollywood mainstream cinema’s dichotomic gender conventions are rambunctiously breached in 1982, Sydney Pollack’s TOOTSIE has a bruised male ego get a fresh start by purporting to be the opposite sex, and Blake Edwards’ VICTOR VICTORIA is the obverse, a woman in drag, pretending to be a man who pretends to be a woman.
电影开场给人很舒服的感觉，几幅简笔画的镜头慢慢切换，配上口琴演奏的Crazy World，十分惬意放松。
电影版的歌曲比音乐剧少了很多，能给人留下深刻印象的只有You and Me, Le Jazz Hot和Crazy World。Le Jazz Hot是Victoria首次以Victor的身份上台演出的曲目，很容易让人联想到All That Jazz，不过里面没有任何讽刺的意味，就是纯粹的玩酷、玩辣。You and Me是Victor成名以后，和同性恋Toddy一起回到以前Toddy工作的夜总会被邀请上台表演的歌曲。Julie和Robert的搭配十分默契而幽默，中间不少地方插入对话和简单的踢踏舞步，非常自由随性。Crazy World是全剧的主题，一个女人假扮成一个假扮女人的男人，这的确是个疯狂的世界。这三首歌在音乐剧中都保留了下来，新增的歌曲中有一首It's Almost A Love Story比较突出。
原电影的作曲家是鼎鼎大名的亨利·马契尼。不过，在他完成《雌雄莫辨》音乐剧版本的改编时就已经撒手西归了。我们现在听到的1995年百老汇版本的音乐中就有一部分是《变身怪医》的作曲家弗兰克·怀德霍恩创作的。电影虽然说有几首歌曲的表演
The only reason I’m not giving a five stars is that I’m doing gender studies now and this film feels no more and no less than an average lecture I have. It makes me laugh, it makes me cry. It makes me happy, it makes me sad. It inspires me. And it has a specific historical context. The discussion is only applicable to a specific social formation. And I’m not rating my lectures.
【雌雄莫辨】[Film Review] Victor Victoria (1982) 7.5/10
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