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.
刚开始还认为91分钟怎么够讲完一个种族歧视题材电影，看完之后发现五分钟就好了，前面的86分钟的内容就略显寡淡了。全片精华都在最后五分钟的皮影动画里，简单的配乐，简单的画面再加上一些字幕，诠释了糖果人的本质：糖果人不是一个人，而是无数无辜灵魂的蜂巢。
新版Candy Man在Jordan Peele的操刀下也成了critical race theory 影响下creative exploration.以种族议题为作品内核的现代艺术家一步步走向urban legends的深渊。虽然把诸如白人至上，police brutality等问题进一步简单化脸谱化，但只杀White people的candy men在电影最后竟然有种大快人心的正义感。与其说是恐怖片，更像是带有奇幻元素的剧情片，毕竟这片的血浆程度还不如malignant
幸亏candyman是黑人 要不这一身蜂窝看的太清楚就是密集恐惧
摊开来讲的黑人政治恐怖电影，设定跟配乐都挺不错，剧情差了点，结局像是我刚铺垫完就结束了？
这个政治明喻和恐怖元素的结合不如Get Out来得自然通透，而且触发机制和误伤可能性无法调和。
隐喻比较深
果然乔丹·皮尔参与了剧本，我说这黑人受迫害主题怎么有逃出绝命镇那味儿，但整体被困在了向白人复仇的情节里，恐怖感反倒被削弱，其实有几场戏拍得还不错，运用镜子映射出男主与糖果人的身份重叠，美术馆切开幕布像是撕碎资产阶级虚伪生活，后面剧情有些乱，精简些会好看点儿。
被预告片吸引，在下线前终于去看了。种族题材恐怖片，恐怖的是根植于人心里的歧视。每个人看着镜子里反射的自己，看到的是内心深处最黑暗的东西和个人身份所带来的阴影。镜头运动和画面都很拿得出手，室内装潢好像翻看家居画册。剪纸的叙事手法我好喜欢，风格特别鲜明。（这边还是建议受伤后立即就医，不要拖延。）
不看解读根本不知道讲啥，那些评论说是种族问题，是怎么看出来的？
我觉得我可能就是特别吃peele的风格，他真的拍啥我都觉得好看。。。就缺点也挺明显，有些隐喻本来挺清爽硬是拐了两三拐就直接玩儿掉了，剧情里面不合理的地方有不少，但对我来讲都不是事儿。我就喜欢看他的愤怒，和那种不太正经但还是有点吓人的恐怖片呈现方式。另外男主太帅了👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
这就是一帮无聊的小bk，自个儿找死脑子玩儿（请大家用天津话理解我说的）
一部要什么没什么的恐怖片，实质是招魂类恐怖片，还带着苦大仇深的黑人元素，但剧情实在是太碎太不连贯，讲的一点不吸引人，还莫名其妙的
开头就在泄气，恐怖的氛围没起来，我就看见一群人在喊口号似的，告诉我一切多么恐怖，黑人社团只要肤色不对，在哪里都不对。糖果人，不如说是给你裹了一层蜜糖的毒物，正如黑人的处境。咋说呢，我随便你写啥议题，问题是，这片子，它不行啊，它就是很无聊，作为一个打着恐怖片的旗号的片子，我看了啥啊。
原来是一个政治话题的恐怖片，恐怖倒是不恐怖，演技也略浮夸
鬼怪塑造有成熟的基底，新时代政治话题+杀戮包装让其更有质感了。
在恐怖片和政治诉求两方面的努力都做得很失败，做不到逃出绝命镇那种剧本高度强行融入种族议题的电影多半会向本片那样扑街，同时对种族问题的观察也太片面太远了，祖师爷斯派克李还会拍吃喝嫖赌坑蒙拐骗的黑人底层劣根人物来体现这个群体的复杂性，到现在年轻导演镜头下就唯恐出现负面人物，白人女都对黑人饥渴难耐倒贴，一个gay哥哥的角色更是毫无作用纯粹作为政治正确锦上添花，这就是粉比黑更招黑的理由，结尾煽动对警察的仇恨更是low，从没有任何问题是靠偏见和仇恨能解决的，有这力气不如多拍拍整个制度系统性制造黑人贫民和犯罪者的过程，信不信所有倪哥都有班上被社会接纳，整个黑人群体立马变成社会一等良民？揭露点制度真相不比这装神弄鬼煽动仇恨强？
糖果人不是他，是他们。黑人的战斗宣言电影… #补标#
49 恐怖片不恐怖 想借此来讨论社会问题也并没有多好的效果 反而形成了司马昭之心路人皆知的模样 看得我尴尬到脚趾抓地 整部影片不三不四的像个笑话 作为周末爆米花电影都无聊到让人昏昏欲睡的程度
再一次说明了，没事不要玩什么奇怪游戏。倒没有那么吓人，故事也不是很复杂，连真相的揭晓都有点“就这？”的感觉。但是视听语言还算丰富，剪纸的运用也蛮有意思。而且剧情也算紧贴实事，警察最后闯进废弃房间一通乱射和Brianna Tyler案的情况如出一辙，就连女主也叫Brianna，可以说在恐怖中揉进了对racial justice的诉求。PS，后半段密恐患者慎看，男主手上蜂窝型的东西真恶心。
故事可以当作老版续集来看 鼓点配乐及霓虹画廊和剪纸的美术设定都透露出现代的美感 但远不能给人老版candyman口中吐出女主飞出蜂群的震撼 感觉candyman的精髓被通过洗衣房老板太具体太详尽地画像 甚至最后亲手制造 种族社群阶级的各种隐射都被泄了个底朝天 反而更都市传说似的入俗了 再精致包装的糖果也永远比不上蜂蜜甘甜 老版的高度终究难以企及啊
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