wordless encounter

Shirley 2022-04-21 09:01:40

"The Artist" is a pure screen movie, not showing off, but only when you see this light and shadow on the screen in the theater can you savor every bit of its beauty, and go to the movie with a skeptical and uneasy mood. After watching the movie, I was deeply moved by such a pure story. It was like a long-lost friend, greeting across time and hitting my heart easily. The so-called success is also Xiao He and Xiao He is also Xiao He, do the critics who criticize the movie for playing gimmicks also see the price this movie pays for it? With the current film industry being driven by such great interests, how many directors still have the courage to make silent films again? Can you guarantee that black and white silent films will please audiences? In fact, if it wasn't for this French commercial film wonderman who created the box-office miracle in 2006 with a collage satirizing the retro version of 007's "OSS117: Cairo Spy", he might not have the courage to do so. Push the time back a few decades and challenge black and white silent films.

Even so, the film just fell into another issue that people criticized: if the film wants to restore the silent film, why does it lose the charm of the silent film? Movies can be said to remind the audience lightly and eloquently all the time: the era of silent films is gone forever, but the artistic value of silent films will always exist, just like the great artist George Valentine in the film, After the baptism of time, the talent remains undiminished. Ingenious conception and intelligent "dialogue", "The Artist" also uses the word "black and white silent film" branded on itself, which is exactly the same as the plot in the film to prove that art does not exist outdated, this is probably the content of "The Artist" 's authenticity.

If you study whether "The Artist" is a 100% restoration of the silent film era, digging into the flaws of technology, disputing the heroine's eyebrows, and lamenting the poor copying, the viewer may really fall into the situation of the great artist in the film: too obsessed with that In the 1990s, he was obsessed with the weight of the word "silent film", but ignored the development of film as an artistic carrier. How can the film technology of the 21st century be the same as the silent film technology of the year? Film is only a carrier of art. The black-and-white film of the film, the live-action capture up to now, the film is still a film, and it is still a time machine where we put down our sorrows in front of the screen and fascinate them.

Rather than saying that "The Artist" is an Acura tribute to the art of silent film, it is better to say that it is an encounter and reunion between us and silent film. It is about love, the mole that George put on for Pepi, the tear that Pepi shed when he saw a lonely George in the car, and the one that George held tightly in the fire, so beautiful The Encounter of Light and Shadow.

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The Artist quotes

  • George Valentin: [first lines, heard in one of his films] I won't talk! I won't say a word!

  • Peppy Miller: Make way for the young!