Post by Blue on Jun 23, 2013 15:27:28 GMT
Flipping through various renditions of 台灣小調 on youtube of which one rendition is featured in the 1959 movie 空中小姐, I happened to encounter the full version of 空中小姐:
This movie features scenes of Hong Kong (and its airport), Taipei (and its airport), Bangkok (and its airport), and Singapore (and of course its airport) circa 1959. You can also get a rough idea of what Taipei looked like around 1959.
In a way, this movie is awfully predictable and reminiscent of Western movies of the 1950's and 1960's. The movie's slow pace showing of the training of the flight attendants is analogous to the slow paced showing of the training of nuns in the 1959 movie The Nun's Story. The 空中小姐's lead character's true passion is singing and dancing rather than her regular profession as a flight attendant, just like The Sound of Music's female protagonist's true passion is singing and dancing rather than her profession as a nun apprentice. Finally, both the main female characters in the movie The Greatest Show On Earth as well as 空中小姐 fall in love with their respective male protagonists who initially treated them coldly and too professionally. Later the male protagonists open up to reciprocate the love, but ultimately both the male and female protagonists place more importance on their careers and see their other colleagues get married instead. Mystery in the form of crime is also intertwined in the plot of both空中小姐 and The Greatest Show On Earth.
Wait a minute . . . . . how did I write this impromptu comparison and contrast essay between a 1959 Asian movie and Western movies of the 1950's and 60's? And I'm an engineer; not a liberal arts person based on the stereotype that many people impose on me simply because I say that I work in an engineering company.
This movie features scenes of Hong Kong (and its airport), Taipei (and its airport), Bangkok (and its airport), and Singapore (and of course its airport) circa 1959. You can also get a rough idea of what Taipei looked like around 1959.
In a way, this movie is awfully predictable and reminiscent of Western movies of the 1950's and 1960's. The movie's slow pace showing of the training of the flight attendants is analogous to the slow paced showing of the training of nuns in the 1959 movie The Nun's Story. The 空中小姐's lead character's true passion is singing and dancing rather than her regular profession as a flight attendant, just like The Sound of Music's female protagonist's true passion is singing and dancing rather than her profession as a nun apprentice. Finally, both the main female characters in the movie The Greatest Show On Earth as well as 空中小姐 fall in love with their respective male protagonists who initially treated them coldly and too professionally. Later the male protagonists open up to reciprocate the love, but ultimately both the male and female protagonists place more importance on their careers and see their other colleagues get married instead. Mystery in the form of crime is also intertwined in the plot of both空中小姐 and The Greatest Show On Earth.
Wait a minute . . . . . how did I write this impromptu comparison and contrast essay between a 1959 Asian movie and Western movies of the 1950's and 60's? And I'm an engineer; not a liberal arts person based on the stereotype that many people impose on me simply because I say that I work in an engineering company.