Genius Montage-Black Rock Review of "Arizona Dream"

Ulises 2022-01-05 08:02:11

This is a film that has become a genius with excellent imagination! Why should be crowned with genius? Regardless of the superb acting skills of Johnny Depp and Lili Taylor, the answer is: the film is used freely, well-rounded, and integrated, montage.

The film was filmed in 1993. What is this concept? During the same period in China, Chen Kaige made an international prominence with "Farewell My Concubine", which was completed at the beginning of the year, and Li Angang completed his second film in his career, "The Wedding Banquet." This was 17 years ago, and today in 2010, we are still holding Farewell My Concubine and the wedding banquet, and we are talking about "this is a progressive montage sentence" and "the montage is divided into expressions like grandma telling a story." Montage and narrative montage are two kinds of"...a thick smell of dust.

As recently as 1993, Kusturica inherited the Eastern European film montage tradition of nearly a century, and quietly taught us a lesson with his works.

Metaphorical Montage:
This is the main montage giant that makes up the film. Among them, flounder, moon, Cadillac, airplane, and balloon all have their own meanings, and even the title is a huge metaphor. Remember Carlifornia Dreamin in 1968? This song appeared in the epic masterpiece "Forrest Gump" which was also filmed in 1993 (really a magic number). It represents the voice of a generation in the United States. When Phillips of the Mom and Dad band was composing the music, the inspiration came from him forcing his wife to start a band, and his wife wanted to go back to New York. Seeing this, what do you think of Johnny Depp in the film?
It turns out that dreams are subconscious, and dreams are the biggest metaphor for reality. As for why it has to be called Arizona Dream instead of NY Dream or anything else, this is probably Kusturica’s own European understanding of American culture and American young people. After all, this is how it came to the United States. The first work after the local.

Sound and picture montage:
Lili Taylor plays the widow's daughter in it. Her accordion sounds great, isn't it? Why don't you like to use the piano like the Japanese this time? This is because for Westerners, this is the sound of a circus and amusement park. Judging from the inner dialogue of the actor, the inner dialogue of his uncle, and the inner dialogue of the widow's mother and daughter, the issues to be discussed in this film do not seem to be easy. Lost in the future, disgusted with the status quo, the meaninglessness of successful experience...Why should humor be introduced into these questions? Joke + satire, this is the reason why black humor is established in this film.
Let's take a look at the passage where the hero and the widow experimented with the plane and failed repeatedly. The background music is exactly the accordion. Whenever the plane fails once, the accordion music ends once, then disappears into the black field, and then starts again. Is this passage only about the love and ideals of the hero and the widow who built airplanes? No, so it seems, there is still a bystander.

In addition, Kusturica's tribute to Hitchcock and his "Northwest by Northwest" is obvious, and there is not only a character who loves movies. Classic scenes such as the escape of the cornfield and the shooting of empty bullets in "North by Northwest" have been reproduced.

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Extended Reading

Arizona Dream quotes

  • Axel Blackmar: [last English lines] After the storm, I couldn't say life was beautiful. But all I kept hoping for was the Eskimo boy of my dream to run out of one of these doors and hug me. And even though I no longer felt like a fish and realized I knew nothing, I was happy to be alive.

  • Axel Blackmar: But what's the point of breathing if somebody already tells you the difference between an apple and a bicycle? If I bite a bicycle and ride an apple, then I'll know the difference.