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Introduction
The most uncomfortable kind of movie is to tell the audience at the beginning or end of the movie: This movie is based on a true story .
1 Character introduction
Judy, whose full name is Judy Garland, was a legendary woman who made waves in the film and television industry in the 20th century.
In the film, two timelines are used to show Judy's experience and current situation when she was young.
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Judy Garland's early success came from her outstanding talent. She was born to be an actress and has a beautiful voice. The young Garland caught the attention of agency boss Louis Mayer, who vowed to develop Garland into a movie star.
↑ The boss selected Judy
The film company put her in a number of films aimed at young people, and she began to gain widespread popularity. The heavy performance assignments put a lot of pressure on Garland and took a toll on her.
↑Judy performed 18 hours straight and was forced to continue
At the age of 18 she went to see a psychiatrist regularly. To prevent weight gain, MGM put her on appetite suppressants. She developed a strong dependence on the drug, and in order to fall asleep and wake up, she took it frequently. Garland's career is a success, but her mind and body are rapidly deteriorating.
She continued to work non-stop, making movies, singing on the radio, and appearing on various occasions. A string of unhappy marriages and drug dependence began to affect her acting career.
↑I have been taking sleeping pills since I was a child
She got into a lot of trouble by being late (and in the film, being late causes trouble) while filming the grand musical "Any, Raise Your Gun." She is often angry or sullen. In 1950, MGM had to fire her and remake the film. Garland, who was hit, tried to commit suicide by cutting her wrists. In the following years, she did not take on any films. In 1954, Garland successfully returned to the stage with the film "A Star Is Born", which was well received.
But Garland's comeback was short-lived. She faced legal troubles, nervous breakdowns, attempted suicide and an unhappy marriage.
Garland seemed to have a throat problem and she started to gain weight. Her reputation was seen as unreliable, and the producers felt that hiring her would be a big financial risk. And she was constantly suffering from laryngitis. In 1965, while performing in a London restaurant, she announced that she had a fifth husband, Mickey Deems. The performance in the restaurant was considered the worst performance of her life. One night, she was questioned by an audience member, and the show stopped for more than an hour. When more and more troubles befell her, she withdraws from the stage.
Less than a year after the restaurant show, her husband found her dead in their London flat on June 22, 1969.
A coroner blamed her death on an accidental overdose of sleeping pills . Although she died in 1969, her tragedy actually started 25 years ago. At the time, Louis Mayer put her on medication, believing that they would let the young Garland put all her troubles aside. Years of taking medicine for the sake of art ended up costing her life.
2 Plot summary
The opening scene is when Judy is selected by the MGM owner, when Judy is young, beautiful, full of life and energy
Under the description of the big boss, Judy seems to have the life that everyone in the world dreams of, and a musical future that no other beautiful woman can match.
However, the next film review jumped to when Judy was in her 40s
The old, tired state of old age seems to overflow from the screen vividly. The first time I saw this picture, I couldn't believe she was Judy decades later. She took her two children to perform in various places, but lived a life of no fixed place and wandering everywhere.
After being checked out due to arrears in rent, she had to find the place where her ex-husband lived and asked for a one-night stay; but what Judy did not expect was that her ex-husband wanted to seek custody of her two children.
In desperation, in order to earn money to buy a house and take back her two children, she went to England, a place she was very popular with, to go to shows and earn money.
The friends who have seen it all have this feeling: Judy always has a feeling of being arrogant and unreasonable when facing her team and her agent.
But in fact, in my opinion, this is her performance against the top management and management. It is her will to fight that drives her to resist orders and follow her heart.
Judy, who came to London for the first time to perform on stage, was very nervous, but it was also very smooth
But in the process of interacting with her agent, she also recalled the unpleasant experience with her agent when she was young
In the face of her birthday cake two months in advance, she was also arranged as a naked commercial promotion, and because of weight control, she could not even eat a bite of her own birthday cake
Even the boss who was very optimistic about himself and took care of himself showed his true colors
After the next performance, she met her two true fans. It can be seen that these two men are gay. Everyone should know that in Europe and the United States in the middle of the 20th century, homosexuality symbolized evil, but Zhu Di has no prejudice against these two.
In real history, Judy has a large number of gay followers. The media once questioned her: What do you think of having a large number of gay followers?
Judy said, "I sing to people."
Judy has been in a dire, oppressive and depressive business environment since she was a child. She can understand the plight and despair of being oppressed and suffocated by power and high-level officials.
After that, because of the repeated lateness , it eventually caused dissatisfaction from a large number of audiences, forcing her to withdraw from the stage. fell into the lowest period
After that, she was going to go back and see the stage and see Donner's performance, but she couldn't help but want to go on stage and sing another song
She succeeded and regained the respect and love of the audience
Here, the movie ends
3
Audio-visual language
In this film, a lot of turquoise green is added to the use of color. There is a scene that is not obviously used, but this color exists in almost every picture.
Without further ado, see the picture below???
Someone asked, what does turquoise green look like?
Cup to find a jewelry picture for your reference
Then the question comes again, what does this turquoise green represent in the film?
①First of all, turquoise green is a cool color, compared with other yellows, reds, and browns in the film.
Judy's characters in the film are tragic: loss of childhood, loss of child custody, depression, neurasthenia, prolonged insomnia, death at 47...etc
And cool colors can set off her life well
② As the name suggests, turquoise green is the representative color of turquoise, and do you know the meaning of turquoise?
1 lucky
2 noble
3 power
4 Kingship
5 success
6 Fortune
7 beautiful
8 Longevity
9 Status
Although Judy is a tragic figure, the spiritual quality she brings to the audience is extremely noble:
fairness, equality, self-love, self-esteem
I think this is also the director's respect for Judy.
4 In-depth analysis
one,
There is one scene in the whole film that left a deep impression on me
This is the group: Young Judy disobeys her agent's orders, takes off her coat, and plunges into the water, compared to being forced to accept arrangements on the shore
In the water, Judy is incredibly happy and free
The water was originally a place for fish to live, lack of oxygen, and the pressure is greater than that of air, so humans cannot adapt to it.
But Judy was in the pool with a long-lost smile, in stark contrast to when she was on the shore, which means:
①Judy is at odds with the strong business atmosphere of the outside world. Compared with the pressure in the water, the pressure from the outside world makes her collapse even more.
②Judy in the pool swims freely like a fish. This is the life that Judy yearns for, which ironies the pedantic, rigid, tough, oppressive, and harshness of the commercial and even social systems at that time.
two,
Changes in costumes for Judy's London tour in the film
①The first meaning:
The first picture is what Judy wore when she first came to London. The costume was covered with flowers and colorful.
The second picture shows Judy's costume when she returns to the stage. She has changed her style and is wearing a pure black costume.
In my opinion, the first time Judy's costume is more like hiding herself with the help of "bright flowers" , no one can understand her
The last time Judy's costume, it was more like Judy took off her disguise, took off her burden, black, representing her true self
②Second meaning: (only for Figure 1)
Prompt: Are bright flowers a bit like a rainbow?
The colors of the clothing here also represent the pro-gay people represented by Judy
Some of you may not know, in fact Judy Garland is a world famous (and first) gay idol
three,
There are multiple close-ups of Judy taking sleeping pills in the film
In the film, the later Judy has left the original company. It stands to reason that Judy has gotten rid of the control of the original high-level.
But the most oppressive thing for Judy in the film is the original sense of being controlled.
In order to better reflect this, sleeping pills are a substitute for "high-level depression" . Judy is taking sleeping pills all the time, which means that Judy is under that terrible pressure all the time.
Epilogue
judy sad and respectable
Suppressing a lifetime, but dedicating a lifetime
People are often just like the audience in the film, they can only see the bright appearance of the stars and their huge income.
But I don't know, maybe a popular star is suffering and can't break free.
Likewise, not only stars
Aren't we all like this in real life?
People only see what they want to see
People can only see Judy's beautiful voice, gorgeous appearance, and the stain of being late. Who knows the pressure Judy is under? Who can know the yearning for freedom in Judy's heart? Who knows the price Judy paid behind the scenes?
What this film criticizes is not just the so-called commercial system, but also what it says to the public.
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