After watching "The Beautiful City" on Singles' Day last year, I have regarded it as my personal best in the 21st century so far. So what else Sorrentino shoots, at least for me, can't surpass the beautiful and sluggish eternal city of Rome under his lens.
Therefore, the perception of "Young and Vigorous" is similar to that of my friends Wen Bai, Chandler and Antoni, but in a different place, under the stunning scenery, telling the emptiness of self-pity. Sorrentino, who was determined by his youth and made his Italian counterparts envy and hate, once again tried to regret their youth with the vision of "everything is far away" as a successful old man, and whispered angrily at the disappearance of the light.
Just repeating myself no matter how much, even sacrificing the flying dream of a beautiful city, and falling into the soil of reality and logic, Sorrentino's picture is still beautiful, the rhythm is still refreshing, and the emotions will continue to inexplicably provoke the heart.
Is it really like this at the end of life? I still have to have money to go to Davos, Switzerland to get physiotherapy for the troubled prostate. I don't know. Anyway, he will be easily conquered by several oppositions he bluntly throws out—youngness and aging, desire and fear, emotion and music. Besides, Sorrentino still occasionally flew, so that the director Mick, who finally had self-doubt, met all the heroines played by Brenda Morel in the aforementioned movie on the grassy slope, and the lama in front of the hotel lawn flew up. , To correspond to the movie’s sub-theme "desire and fear" (if the main theme is "young and aging").
The stories and metaphors are too lazy to delve into it. If this film is from Antonioni or even Fellini before his death, would we not be so harsh?
Because of my interest in the location and the characters in the film, I will briefly sort out some specific facts.
On location:
Filming locations for "Young and Vigorous" include Kandersteg, Davos, a famous forum city in the canton of Graubunden, and Waldhaus Flims, a large resort hotel in the resort of Flims (Films). There are also a few shots in Venice (the protagonist Fred Ballinger visits his wife), London (BBC Symphony Hall) and Rome.
Among them, the largest part of the whole film is placed in the Waldhaus Flims Hotel, which was filmed in May 2014. This Hotel Waldhaus was completed as early as 1877. It has met the Alpine sports and leisure life that emerged at the end of the 19th century. After the theme building was restored in 2008, it was renamed "Waldhaus Flims Mountain Resort & Spa", emphasizing the selling point of mountain spa. It has 150 guest rooms, 16 large and small meeting rooms and 6 restaurants.
Soon after the completion of the crew, the hotel declared bankruptcy in 2015 due to huge losses, causing huge losses to 900 shareholders. (In this way, it also proves that I did not write a hotel article.) Before the capital reorganization and the successful transformation into a resort property, you may not expect to have the opportunity to be covered by the location interview. However, on the official website, the three main properties belonging to the hotel are still open to welcome guests.
Characters in the film:
After the great success of "The Beautiful City", a young Italian director once admitted Sorrentino's talents and complained. The voice is similar to, "He is an Italian Zhang Yimou, who can be recognized by the rich and powerful, use the best crew, the best actors, and enter the secret place that others never want to enter."
"Young and Vigorous" continues Sorrentino. The two elders in Hollywood, Michael Kane and Harvey Kate, played the composer conductor Fred and the outdated director Mick, respectively. Rachel Witz played the abandoned composer’s daughter Lena, and even Hanoi Jane (Jane) Fonda) have all come out, becoming the big-name superstar Brenda Morel who made the two old men jealous in their memories.
It’s just that Hollywood resources are used to the end. Other stars, football stars and even queens that have to appear in the movie must either invite real people who are not big names to the sky, or find someone to play.
Jimmy Tree:
This role is a California actor who retreats to the role of Hitler. The actor is Paul Dano who may be barely remembered in "Little Beauty in the Sunshine" or "The Sopranos". It's just that Sorrentino seems to want him to be Johnny Depp here.
Diego Maradona:
I really frightened me when this role came out. Kusturica only dared to follow the game in a proper way. How could he scream for Sorrentino’s bright fat and Show off skills? It turns out that this is just a special actor, an Argentine named Roly Serrano. Pablo Chapiro once had a black-and-white masterpiece "Half Day Hanging" in 1999. I haven't watched it, but the guy on the cover is the "counterfeit king".
Cao Xiumei: The
Queen’s special envoy doubled visits to the hotel and thrived as a knight. I hope Fred, the famous conductor and composer of the La Fenice in Venice, can enjoy his face and go to London with the BBC Symphony Orchestra to present Prince Philip’s birthday and present the Queen’s favorite "Simple Movement". No matter which soprano was suggested, all she got was a rejection of increasingly strong "personal reasons". This song was made by Fred for his wife and can only be sung by his wife alone. The lovely wife has long become a sick beast trapped in Venice.
In the end, after reaching a certain understanding with himself and his wife, Fred went to London. Standing on the end stage is the famous Korean soprano Soomi Cao. In 1986, Karajan stopped her audition, praised "God-given voice", and immediately asked her to perform Gilda in this year's "Jester". The master conductor soon passed away, and Cao Xiumei's road to fame was postponed to the 1990s.
Netease Cloud Music has this "Simple Song" and the original soundtrack of the entire album, and you can listen to it for free.
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Paloma Faith:
It was the British pop star who snatched Lena's husband and the son of director Mike with his hard time in bed. In the film, Palomar played herself, who was denounced as a shameless bitch by the artist's elders, and she performed a character MV in Lena's fantasy. This bitch, which is despised by classical music masters, won the best female singer at the British Music Awards in February this year.
Mark Kozelek (Mark Kozelek):
4AD famous brand "Red House Painter" lead singer, also plays himself in this film, but it is no longer the surprising sadcore style of the band in the 1990s, but after choosing the folk song road in the new century Deep feeling.
Miss Universe Madalina Diana Ghenea:
She is the naked character beauty who makes the two old people in the pool almost rejuvenated, because like the public, she only remembers the robot Q played by Jimmy, not the embroidered pillows that the wealthy class really wanted to see. But he asked a word of wisdom: "Are you grateful that you have played Q? I am very grateful that I participated in the Miss Universe election."
This beauty is called Madalina Diana Ghenea, a famous underwear model who is proficient in four languages. Beautiful and smart. I once watched another movie "Don Hemingway" she starred in earlier in a theater in her hometown Romania, and became Jude Law and Emilia Clarke (the dragon mother in "Game of Thrones" ) Another embroidered pillow in the father and daughter's house.
The queen and prince who also appeared on the scene, I can't find the actors.
In the film, the song "Simple Movement", which seemed deafening by the composer, was finally sung by Cao Xiumei. The composer was David Lang, the "post-minimalist" composer after Philip Glass.
The protagonist of the composer and conductor seems to have the shadow of Pierre Boulez from the imprints of his life and the style of music, but it is hard to say that he is based on this difficult contemporary classical master. After all, from the angry conversation between his daughter and the composer, we learned that during his life in Venice, Fred often invited Stravinsky to his home for dinner, but he was not as talented as one-tenth of the Russians. Boulez, on the other hand, has a more radical personality and style, for which he will attack Stravinsky, Schoenberg, Bartok and even his teacher Messiaen and other modern and contemporary composers.
In the second half of the film, Fred, who returned to Venice, went to lay flowers in front of the grave of the Stravinskys. It is the cemetery island (Isola di San Michele) on the way from the North Pier to the Glass Island. Other celebrities in the Yinzhai community include ballet promotion master Sergei Diaghilev and Imagist poet leader Ezra Pang Germany. After getting on the island, the guard will give you a map of the house of the shadow, and it is easy to find Stravinsky's "home".
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