Some music masters who score for movies like to embed classical music in their compositions. Some of these classical music works have become the key characters in the film, for example, Mahler's "Piano Quartet in A Minor" quoted in "Shutter Island"; Bo's "Violin Concerto"; and others, which became the finishing touch of the film, such as Mozart's "Clarinet Concerto in A major" quoted in "Out of Africa".
But very few films use the work of a classical composer as the film's indispensable theme music. Although "The Barber of Siberia" has its own theme music, it relies on Mozart's works to promote the development of the plot. Piano Concerto No. 23, which almost became the theme music of the film.
Crazy American mechanical engineers are obsessed with inventing the logging machine, but in Russia, without the support of General Radlov, the head of the military academy, it is simply impossible. The engineer hired courtesan Jane Callahan to play his daughter, who had traveled thousands of miles from the United States to Moscow. The two planned to work together to deceive General Radlov's trust, so as to obtain the general's power and financial support, and let the engineer work together. A logging machine called "The Barber of Siberia" can drive into the vast, wooded Siberia.
The above plot is the dark line of "The Barber of Siberia". Since it is a dark line, it cannot be as obvious as I have described. The dark line is gradually clear with the ups and downs of the bright line.
So, what story does The Barber of Siberia put in the spotlight? a love story.
At the beginning of the film, is the stunned young man from the US Military Academy who insisted on fighting with the instructor for Mozart's sake, is the hero of this love story? If so, it is worth looking forward to. Knowing that Mozart was a great musician who had long since passed away, the stunned classmates were willing to follow the instructor's reversal of black and white and yell "Mozart is shit" in order to take off their gas masks. There is only Leng Touqing, who would rather have to wear a gas mask when going out for exercise, running, and sleeping than to talk nonsense like his classmates. Such a one-strand man, when he is persistent in love, is not also soul-stirring like "it is difficult to say goodbye when we meet each other"?
However, Leng Touqing is not the protagonist of the love story. He is the crystallization of a love story, and the love story of his parents, Andre Tolstoy and Jane Callahan, begins in the famous aria "Don't Be a Lover" in Mozart's opera "The Marriage of Figaro".
In the luxury box, Jane Callahan sips wine and smells flowers as she waits for the galloping train to arrive in Moscow, where she can join the mechanical engineers to implement their seemingly perfect plan. Andre Tolstoy and a group of military academy students rushed into Jane's box. If Jane Callahan was really a noble lady, she might have kicked Andre and the others out of the box, but she was a courtesan, and she had the good character that American girls usually have: lively, cheerful, and emotionally intelligent. Tolstoy and the others shook their feather fans and sang the famous aria "Love is a Free Bird" from the opera "Carmen". The wild Jane scared away Andre's classmates, only Andre, not only stayed, but also sat on Jane's high-end feather fan and sang a song "No More" To Be a Lover" Lai Ying and "Love is a Free Bird".
Love began to sprout in Mozart's music, but at the time, Jane didn't know it, and Andre Tolstoy didn't realize it either.
A mechanical engineer can invent a lumberjack, and his ability to know people is also very powerful. In the cold Moscow, Jane really bloomed like a sun flower in the Russian man's world. Only by winning Radlov's heart can he get his money. To win General Radlov is easy for a courtesan. Seeing that the long-running plan with the mechanical engineer will be performed by the military academy students after the performance of "Fega" Luo's Wedding" was fulfilled one by one, and an accident happened.
A courtesan can control a man, but not the love that comes quietly. Jane did not expect that the goose feather fan that Andre had broken down one by one and was repaired by him would become the leavening agent for the two people's feelings. became love. The love that grows in this way is the most difficult to end. You see, Jane clearly told Andre that she had been lying, that she was not the daughter of a mechanical engineer, but a courtesan. Jane thought that after knowing her true identity, Andre, who had a good family background, would give up his feelings for her. Jane, who thought she had seen through Andrei, never thought that Andrei kept chasing after the door. At that moment, Jane came back to her senses and played Mozart's No. 23 in A major on the piano in a panic. The piano part of the second movement of the Concerto. When Andre left and the tide of her emotions had receded, Jane still felt that it was Andre's impulse, so she sat in the auditorium of the military academy and watched the students of the military academy perform Mozart's opera "Figaro". "The Wedding", Jane didn't even think about avoiding Andrei on the stage and smiled at General Radloff beside him. Of course, she would never have imagined that Andre would go crazy and stab the general with a prop.
The love that started in "The Marriage of Figaro" turned into a bubble in "The Marriage of Figaro". The price that Andre paid was that he became a criminal after being falsely accused by the general and was sent to Siberia.
Suddenly realizing that Andre's love is as splendid and precious as gold, Jane is going to follow Andre with the child she conceived after a one-night stand with Andre. How is it possible? Even if Andrei had escaped prison 10 years later, married his maid, had children and settled in Siberia, he would not meet Jane who tried his best to come to Siberia.
Did the love that started in "Don't Be a Lover Again" really turned to ashes in "The Marriage of Figaro"? Do not! Their love is eternal in Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major.
Yes, that Lengtouqing in the US military academy is the crystallization of the love between Jane and Andre. Another 10 years later, Jane told her son about her love story in a letter. She thought that her love story would help her son get along with others softly, but unexpectedly, such news came: in order to defend Mozart's dignity, her son, Rather wear a gas mask through the day. Jane had no choice but to drive to the military academy to rescue her son. The second movement of Mozart's "Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major" floated out of his son's room, telling Jane that he didn't need his mother's help, because this Mozart work, like crystal clear beads falling into clean The lake water, so the ripples it produces, give people peace and tenacity. Look, didn't that stubborn instructor have to compromise with little Andre?
Jane knew that after understanding Mozart's son, she no longer needed her comfort. She left the military academy, and the smile on her face clearly reminded her of when Andre sang "Don't Be a Lover Again" to herself in the luxury box of the train.
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