The first work of the famous German director FW Murnau to the United States to shoot, won the first Oscar for best actress, two golden awards for best photography and a special award-the art quality award. This film marks the highest artistic level of the silent film era, and is also the pinnacle of German expressionism (although in theory it should be considered an American film). Even today, it still has a strong emotional appeal. "Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans" is shrouded in soft light and rich poetry. This film adapted from a German novel has a distinctive German style: the variability of the lens and the angle of view, the effect of subjective photography, and expressionism. The expressive technique of the movie allows the viewer to be sure that this is an undisputed classic film in the first few minutes of watching it. The two different worlds of city and country have been dealt with by FW Murnau genius. The inner world of the characters echoes with the outer world. The characters appear in different places in the city and the countryside with different moods. They are expressed in different ways. The change becomes part of the interpretation of the character's heart. The actor's grasp of the characters is very measured, showing the different characteristics of the main roles: such as men’s overwhelming and dilemma; the wife is moving and weak; the city woman is the ultimate loser, and she herself seems to be irresistible. Fooled by Destiny's fate-ingeniously blended with the style of the film, in the first Oscar, "Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans" won two awards-Best Actress Award (Janet Gayner) And the best photography award, and the special award-the art quality award.
Sunrise background creation
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Extended Reading
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Camylle 2022-03-26 09:01:07
Watching "Sunrise", you will suddenly realize the origin of Ozu's aesthetics. This too simple story shows strong conservatism tendencies, the demonization of cities and urban women, the choice of men between traditional family ethics and modern society, and the handling of female images, all of which were in the late 1920s. The embodiment of conservative thinking, not to mention the whole story, is the reunion treatment of Dresser's "American Tragedy." But with the dramatic advances in film technique and sound processing in the late silent era, none of that matters anymore. The most magical passage in the film is not the application of various superimposed paintings, but the silent scene between a man and a woman on the tram. Murnau found endless emotional poetry in the two, and this is the human power that the conservative Ozu has been able to capture in his life pictures. No wonder he likes to shoot trains so much. Rail travel is a cinematic experience.
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Kiana 2021-12-20 08:01:15
flying camera, the contrast between city and countryside, later picked up by Sun Yu.
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The Maid: They used to be like children, carefree... always happy and laughing... Now he ruins himself for that woman from the city - Money-lenders strip the farm - and his wife sits alone.
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The Woman From the City: Tell me! You are all mine?