"Magic Black Forest": a boring reality fairy tale

As an adaptation of a Broadway adult dark fairy tale stage play, the content presented is obviously much more refreshing. As a song and dance movie, the scenes and actors' performances still follow the stage play form too much, and there is a lot less movie form. Taste, there is too much chasing for the form of stage play. It has to be said that people who are used to watching movies but not watching musicals really can't adapt to the feeling brought by movies. The movie combines several fairy tales in series, and connects the stories with the stories through a common scene. From the content, you can clearly feel the mystery of the connection in the story, but from the feeling, the independence of each story. It's too strong, and it always feels that there is a wrong way to a large extent when placed together. As the director's co-ordination of the whole story, he cut out a lot of details, so that the storyline jumped too fast, and did not give enough foreshadowing, and the flashbacks in a trance between several stories had to be It is said that for the audience who are familiar with the content of the story, they can still see what kind of thing the story is about, but for the audience who are not familiar with the content of the story, the plot of the story is really too messy and complicated. , I don't know what kind of story the movie wants to express. In fact, the film restores the entire content of the stage play to a large extent, but the rhythm and main line controlled by the film do not allow the core characters to guide the development of the story, so that the story and the story are less in the process of mutual exchange. A medium that can connect and polish each other makes the overall plot of the movie much more difficult to understand.

The director's choice of actors can be said to be quite standard. The actors from the old to the young are all from the stage play. For a song and dance movie, the actor has established the classic quality of the movie, which is relatively fixed compared to the stage play. It not only highlights how the story develops and evolves, but also highlights the style and delicacy of the actors in their individual performances, and pays more attention to the individual The description of the characters also enriches the importance of the characters to the development of the story. However, as a song and dance film adapted from a stage play, there is still a considerable gap with the traditional song and dance film. First of all, in terms of songs, the unified singing method does not leave a deep impression on people, and it does not reflect the character's desire. The strong style of expressing the emotions at that time not only makes people unable to appreciate the songs that come from the heart and unique emotional melody, but also ignores the performance of the differences between the characters, and the actors in the movie are almost There is no kind of dance choreographed to give full play to the joyous fun brought by singing and dancing movies, and only relying on the actor's own self-talk and self-singing to express the inner thoughts and situation at that time can really not satisfy people's emotions. For visual and auditory enjoyment, simply interpreting the plot of the movie in the form of a stage play makes us not enjoy the spiritual shock brought by the beauty of art. The most important thing is that the movie does not clearly express what kind of plot it wants to tell us, nor does it explain what kind of meaning lies behind the story. It simply puts the content of the stage play in the movie. , the scene effect has been greatly improved, but the integrity of the plot story has been destroyed. I have to say that this adaptation was an extremely tragic failure, and did not inject fresh blood into the story. And vitality, and did not create a new plot story, just apply the conversion between form and form, and forget to give it a meaning as a movie, which makes people feel very pity.

The movie can be described as a star-studded, dazzling star, but the lineup of three generations of luxury stars, the old, middle and young, is difficult to restore the film's bland fate. Meryl Streep's performance didn't impress us. As such a role in the movie, the value she plays in the movie is only to explain the background of the story. She can play a role. The impact is almost non-existent. As a relatively certain villain, her existence is almost a mask of intimidation, and there is no real deterrent at all, so that the story develops to the end without even the climax. I have to say The director's arrangement of the plot is really terrible. For other actors, there is no brewing feeling in the movie. Whether it is the prince and Cinderella, or the baker and his wife, the so-called love hardly has a feeling worthy of believing, and there is no emotional performance. It is simply cruel to the arrangement of the plot. It not only obliterates the communication and collision between the plots, but also obliterates people's interest in watching movies. It makes the original rich and colorful content lose all the feeling.

The original dark fairy tales for adults have been tampered with, and the film does not even describe a specific story completely. The original story revealed a profound human meaning, but in the film it has become understated and insignificant. The movie also tries to change people's understanding of fairy tales, but it fails to fill in new understandings and meanings. The important plot is placed in it, and it is inevitable that people will not feel the emotional atmosphere that collides between the characters. The filming of this film was too difficult for the director Rob Marshall. It was impossible for the film to develop in a positive and bright direction. Too much content interprets the dark parts of human nature. How could it be possible to create a positive and sunny side? Even if the performance doesn't make people feel gloomy, it really makes a bad movie.

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