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.
有点too in your face? 不过很喜欢用剪影的方式callback老版故事 【彩蛋：virgil abloh的展览；老版candyman的演员最后出现
3.5，对于黑人剥削电影范式的一次元叙事运用
好难懂的有色惊悚片，但又觉得隐喻得好明显，我只能强行理解最后的几分钟，那聚在一起的一只只蜜蜂就是一个个委屈的灵魂
赞美影片的镜头！首先是多段穿插剪影的表现方式，有种内敛的震撼力。然后是构图，不管是男主角独自走在曲折的回廊里，镜头由下往上使得四壁给人以不断挤压的狭小场面，亦或是相对镜子里呈现无数映象，高楼大厦中一扇窗上映出谋杀现场等的宽阔场面，都十分具有张力。
密集的孔洞 层叠的创伤 画笔与手的折损 探寻真相的女记者和当下评判艺术品价值的批评家 黄衣王在等待一个信奉历史正义的代言人 但白人的法理后置随行 语义的镜像对应灵活运用 意旨在告诉所有人 但是否是“说教式的 下意识的陈词滥调” 厕所蜜蜂照小镜子那个有意思
重新定义candyman，这个版本可能局内人看着更共情，但是作为局外人，这个故事我感觉还是老版本那种拍得很哀伤的感觉更好。
好多巧思，剪纸，不断撕扯腐烂的手皮，蜂巢蜜蜂，镜子中的人影，最爱的一个镜头，是从大厦由近及远，人被杀在窗户前，唯一难受的是对黑人脸盲，感觉男的都长得一样。
不止于标签化的银幕恐怖形象，糖果人传说背景下承载的社会病结使其具有更深一层的解读意涵，也与现实挂钩。视听耳目一新，配乐很能带动节奏与气氛，文本过度纠结于致敬及控诉，终究不甚大气。
5。观众被骗了。一部简单明了的黑白种族电影，相当无趣乏味无聊。
其实这片是糖果人系列的续集，还是有很多前几部的场景
女主最后在警车上自己笑着念Candyman那段表演很不错 老版糖果人出现很惊喜 但是结束的太突然
Anthony 小小的身影在高楼大厦和贫民窟间穿梭的画面给我留下了深刻印象，而故事最后往宿命论上靠则削弱了”一个人背后站着一个群体“的历史感，反而像阴魂不散的幽灵寻找替身的寻常路数。最后的皮影戏升华全片，倒是不小的惊喜。以及，看到豆瓣职员表才意识到，原来电影不是乔丹·皮尔导演的。（囧）
三星半，说说看法：
隐喻太明显，然后整个感觉不是恐怖，而是科幻了。一点没有惊悚的效果。
欲言又止的表达，说了又好像没说，文艺片，激情戏倒是不错
密恐慎入。原来就是老的candyman的续篇。才发现那个街区就在我家附近还经常从边上经过。拍的挺一般的，氛围很有乔丹皮尔一罐的风格，但是还是有点弱。最大收货就是知道了一个芝加哥有故事的社区，而且那么近，下次可以去走走。
扯太多艺术上的事了明明就是披个外衣，有点尬，结尾更是突然，神神鬼鬼怎么就又变人为了，融合得有点僵硬。
观感好过《逃出绝命镇》 但也没好到哪里去 但uysy特别喜欢这篇的镜头语言和皮影戏以及配乐 可以说一部制作精良的作品 但故事不是一点点的拉 立意很好 但即不恐怖也不深刻 糖果人直接变成超级英雄 且故事节奏过于缓慢 还加进去一些意义不明的片段
2.5。恐怖元素和社会问题没有有机结合起来，最后既不恐怖，也没多深刻。镜子用的还不错吧。
3.5。作为原作粉我本来没指望着便能给我惊喜。但编剧把原作“都市传说一直口耳相传蔓延在我们身边”的概念升级为以现代艺术的方式呈现确实进了一步。讲Candyman作为蜂巢的概念虽好，但确实与前作会有脱节。然后弱就弱在这部没有原版那种由菲利普格拉斯的音乐+城市大部分景观镜头辅助都市传说所造成的一种包围感。（片头和中间的逆城市景观镜头确实有在尝试就是了）
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