I love this movie. I was reduced to tears the first time I saw it and am reduced to tears every time I've seen it in the 50 years since. Talk about a movie holding up over 70 years. To my mind, it's the Citizen Kane of comedy. Everything about it is pitch perfect. To watch the boys as they sink deeper and deeper into absurdity in explaining their arrival back ahead of the rescue ship is a marvel to watch. There are so many subtle, nonsensical and memorable moments that stay in the mind years later one almost doesn't know where to start. The solemn dark lighting of the opening scene spoofing fraternal organizations, eating the wax fruit, the range of facial expressions of the wives throughout, the shot of the boys from the back sitting facing the fireplace as Stan disses his wife, Stan's wife in hunting regalia returning shotgun in arm carrying ducks, Ollie flirting on the phone not realizing it's his wife he's talking to, the stream of consciousness dialog in the attic, and on and on and on. A subtlety perhaps missed by many is the wonderful song and dance number at the night club....a simply wonderful lampoon to perfection of crooner Dick Powell and spoof of Busby Berkeley with those clunky but charming Hula dancers, struggling in a valiant but ultimately hopeless attempt to dance, fanning out to the camera and culminating in that marvelous overhead shot near the close. Just great. I could write a book on this movie, but I'll just suggest to viewers to get William K. Everson's book on the films of Laurel & Hardy and read what one of the great critics has to say about this gem. 译文(2): 我喜欢这部电影。我第一次看到它时就泪流满面，50年来每次看到它我都泪流满面。说到一部电影坚持了70年。在我看来，这就是喜剧界的公民凯恩。一切都很完美。看着男孩们越陷越深，越陷越深，越陷越深，越陷越深，越陷越深，越陷越深，越陷越深，越陷越深，越陷越深，越陷越深，越陷越深，越陷越深，越陷越深，越陷越深，越陷越深，越陷越深，越陷越深，越陷越深。有许多微妙的、无意义的、难忘的时刻，几年后仍然留在你的脑海里，你几乎不知道从哪里开始。开场场景中严肃的黑暗灯光欺骗兄弟会组织，吃着蜡制水果，妻子们各种各样的面部表情，男孩们坐在后面面对壁炉的镜头，斯坦羞辱他的妻子，斯坦的妻子在打猎，手里拿着猎枪回来，手里拿着鸭子，奥利在电话里调情，没有意识到他正在和他的妻子说话，阁楼里的意识流文学对话，等等等等。许多人可能忽略了一个微妙的地方，那就是夜总会里精彩的歌舞表演... ... 这是对低吟歌手迪克 · 鲍威尔的完美讽刺，也是对 Busby Berkeley 的讽刺，伴随着那些笨拙但迷人的草裙舞演员，他们在勇敢但最终没有希望的尝试中挣扎，向镜头呈扇形展开，最终在接近结尾的那个绝妙的头顶镜头中达到高潮。太棒了。我可以写一本关于这部电影的书，但我只是建议观众去看威廉·K·埃弗森关于劳雷尔和哈代电影的书，读一读一位伟大的评论家对这部电影的评价。
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