Ivan Lapikov

Ivan Lapikov

  • Born: 1922-7-7
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  • Extended Reading
    • Colleen 2021-12-22 08:01:13

      8/10. The old tower injects mysticism into the biographical film. For example, the bloody hands dipped into the stream and the milky white liquid was poured out, the geese that fell from the sky when the Tatars ransacked the town, and the many images of sacred and foolishness put the audience into a spiritual realm: riding heat The peasants with balloons died to practice their ideals, the clowns of folk art ignored the worldly vision, the idiots weaving whips for the dead expressed the desire to get rid of the troubled times of happiness, and the brave and persistent young bell-casting boy was more like a saint. The earth is closely dependent on life beliefs. The flying peasants watch the earth and inevitably fall back to the earth (struggling horses implicitly the pain of death). The bell-casting boy is looking for the material for the prayer bell on the rainy and concrete land, ending with a group of horses. Playing on the grass under the rain curtain, as a declaration of spiritual baptism. The light and shadow modeling pursues the characteristics of portrait painting: the depth of field is diminished, the foreground light is concentrated on the face of the character, and the perfect balance of the composition is sought. The soothing atmosphere mobilizes the infinite space experience. When the long lens moves from the groove for guiding the molten iron to the bellows to make a fire The workers in the city use the model of the prayer bell to pan the Grand Duke and his guards and the onlookers, conveying the poetic connotation of the image.

    • Colleen 2022-04-24 07:01:14

      The film has gone beyond the narrative to a poetic expression, the footage of the old tower is like a stare, all suffering is sublimated.

    Andrei Rublev quotes

    • Andrei Rublyov: You just spoke of Jesus. Perhaps he was born and crucified to reconcile God and man. Jesus came from God, so he is all-powerful. And if He died on the cross it was predetermined and His crucifixion and death were God's will. That would have aroused hatred not in those that crucified him but in those that loved him if they had been near him at that moment, because they loved him as a man only. But if He, of His own will, left them, He displayed injustice, or even cruelty. Maybe those who crucified him loved him because they helped in this divine plan.

    • Kirill: [admiring one of Feofan's icon paintings] As Epiphanius said in "The Life of Saint Sergeius," "Simplicity, without gaudiness." That is what this is. It's sacred... Simplicity, without gaudiness - you can't say it better.

      Feofan Grek: I see you are a wise man.

      Kirill: If so, is that a good thing? If one is ignorant, isn't it better to be guided by one's heart?

      Feofan Grek: In much wisdom there is much grief. And he who increases knowledge increases sorrow.