Ang Lee, as the most successful film director who wanders between Eastern and Western cultures so far, once talked about this issue in an interview. He said that the core of Western culture is sex.
As everyone knows, although he did not give a similar substantive answer to the interpretation of Chinese culture, but the diet men and women and push hands, Lust Caution has given the perfect answer.
Even a foreigner who has no knowledge of Chinese culture can draw a conclusion by walking around in any city in China. The signs related to Lin Cijiebi’s restaurants and bathing can explain everything.
In fact, Ang Lee only mentioned one aspect of Western culture, and its other manifestation is violence.
The pornography and violence of Hollywood movies that people often criticize are the truest manifestations of this culture. Even harsh and cruel Christianity has not been able to completely tame the violent and enthusiastic Westerners in their bones. They are always trying to break free from this spiritual chain and restore the brutal and rough personality of being a Roman and barbarian, the kind of respect for honor and enthusiasm. The worship of victory, the kind of arrogance that tries to compare with Tiangong, the kind of irrepressible desire for the flesh.
The form of entertainment of a nation is the most accurate portrayal of the spiritual world of this nation.
The nerves and muscles of Westerners are in a state of tension, whether it is the tense muscles in Roman sculptures, or the torture of the soul and the mind that almost breaks the nerves in typical Western art works, this kind of culture always They are pursuing an ultimate goal, regardless of body or spirit, they must seek the most thorough answer, even at the expense of destruction.
The most perfect and accurate portrayal of the Roman spirit is the Colosseum.
This spirit of the Colosseum still exists in the blood of Westerners. When the
amphitheater collapsed, it was the time when Rome fell.
These are the words of an English poet.
So can it be said that when the competitive-struggle spirit disappears, it is the period of the decline of Western civilization.
It is impossible to understand the Roman spirit without understanding the Roman arena. This combination of grandeur and honor, blood and killing, freedom and slavery, and the dramatic carnival is the personality of Westerners.
Anyone who often watches Italian football matches and American ice hockey matches will be shocked by the frenetic and violent scenes. When the Italians are singing Aida's triumphal march in the stands, you will conclude that the Roman spirit has never been completely destroyed, and they have never been completely tamed.
Treating life as a tragedy is a concept shared by both the East and the West, but as Hamlet said, whether to stand up or endure silently, the two civilizations have chosen different paths. This is the watershed between the two cultures.
The free nature and speculative logic of Westerners do not allow them to escape to a state of meditation and half-death. Instead, they try to use a Sisyphus spirit to constantly fight and to blame God’s will. Their personality has blackness. The hard reason Geer said is not allowed to escape, not to deceive yourself, and to face the bleak life bravely.
I always admire the greatness of Rome more than the glory of Greece.
If the Greek civilization is still a brave boy, then Rome is a tough and mature man.
Everything is strength, strength, and masculine beauty, everything is related to honor and life.
Whenever I see the powerful marble sculpture, the curly hair covering the animal lips and the bulging bridge of the nose, I feel a compelling force. Whether the statue is an emperor or a slave, it exudes impossibility. Enthusiasm for suppressed life.
Greece is beauty, Rome is power.
The gladiatorial fight that originated from the Etruscans was carried forward with Rome, a city that has been associated with war since its birth. This is another kind of catharsis and fighting, and it is the most intense of all the tragic dullness and boredom of life. Resistance is a means of exchanging life for freedom. In the eyes of Rome-Westerners, life is a doomed tragedy. People are going to die. So why should we fear death? Rather than just waiting to die, we should stand up and resist. It is death anyway, so we must die gloriously. This is the value of a fighting nation. They despise the wisdom of the wise old man to protect his body and tortoise, because they are warriors, robbers, not wise men in the reclusive mountains and farmers who guard 30 acres of land with their wives and children.
Kill him! Kill him!
What is more exciting entertainment than killing/
Cicero said that the Romans hated those cowardly gladiators because they opened their hands and wanted to keep them alive.
What they despise is not so much the exhausted slave, as it is the hatred of this kind of life attitude of life and fear of death.
Those of us who are dying greet everyone, said the gladiators. This seems to be the most honorable speech, because there is nothing more respectable than a person who died in battle.
Either die or become king. This is the ambition of the Romans.
Westerners are eager to move. Although on the surface they seem to be self-enclosed, it is an explosion bred in silence. What they pursue is the elasticity and maximum limit of a rubber band rather than its length.
What they pursue is the beauty and cruelty shown by the tragic consciousness of life. Although victory is commendable, the defeated fighters will always be their eternal heroes.
This film embodies the sexual and violence in Western culture, the complexity and darkness of human nature, and the hints of incest-Westerners like this subject very much, and this is a concentrated expression of their desires that are almost irrepressible. However, the biggest shortcoming is the description of the protagonist's nostalgic family.
Many people seem to appreciate the warrior's nostalgia for his wife and children, and think this reflects his family concept.
And I thought this was the failure of this film.
Since the film's director is British-American, he portrays a Roman soldier as a model husband and father in British and American culture, and a good man who regards family joy as his biggest goal. This is a combination of the pure Dickensian concept of happiness in the British family and the ideal of a good Christian town man in the United States, so it should not be a Roman man who has no family concept-a family concept, but definitely not coveting a mediocre family life. Template. The salvation concept of the mixed Christian Protestants is also reflected in the overall concept of the film. In fact, the historical themes filmed by Americans can not get rid of this problem, so despite the creation of magnificent scenes and shocking plot processing, No one is better in the world today, because the United States is the Roman Empire today, no matter its wealth or influence, it is the shadow of Rome. However, American culture is civilians, merchants, and a new empire that pursues the spirit of Protestantism. It lacks true aristocratic spirit, a tragic and majestic aura. Even in films such as Saving Soldiers, it still shines with American innocence and preaching. , Thus suppressing the tragedy consciousness that only aristocratic culture possesses.
Just finished reading a Montesquieu's book on the rise and fall of Rome, the French did not have the power to write strong historical works, and American films lacked a true sense of history. Although the former is witty and the latter is simple, after all, After all, we don't have the sense of tragedy endowed by that era. Our era is the era of secular comedy, so we can't create beautiful classical works.
Lassekro does not look like a Roman, but more like an Australian shepherd. The character is written so perfect, there are almost no shortcomings, so it is very easy to win the award. It is hard to say whether his acting skills or the script gave him the honor.
On the contrary, Jokunfinix’s performance is greatly underestimated. He is a very good actor and has personal characteristics. I have never forgotten his eyes.
Those eyes are really shocking. Under the thick eyebrows, a pair of eyes mixed with melancholy, pain, loneliness, wildness, madness, bewilderment, and sadness.
This is not an ordinary man. His eyes are enough to explain everything about him.
The rise and fall of the ages, the
golden horse of the iron horse, swallowing thousands of miles like a tiger, and
even more able to withstand the wind and rain, the
wind is always blown away by the rain.
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