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Nashville (1975)
Starting today look AFI100 in the list in 2007 Movie. I have never heard of this film before watching it, and it seems to be very small.
The movie story is very trivial and complex. The story mainly tells that before the general election, in order to raise funds and publicize the candidates, two politicians and speculators running for political purposes lobbied various singers in Nashville to hold a performance for the candidates. Through the running of two people, many characters are involved: country music big names, waiters who dream of becoming stars, silly singers who change a woman a day, silly reporters, conflicting couples, drivers who drive special cars, silly girls who are idiots, The lonely old man with his dead wife, the ordinary soldier who listened to his mother, the cynical and confused youth, and so on. Before the performance, these characters had different stories and lived their own lives. When everything was ready and the performance started, the most famous country singer was shot on stage by young people off the stage. The movie ended with the singing of a woman who dreamed of becoming a singer.
This is a very "difficult" movie to watch because the movie is not only long, but also has a lot of dialogue. The most important thing is that the film itself does not have a main story line, but this is also the feature of the film. This huge script structure, multi-line development plot and dazzling narrative style of this film are also the unique style of director Robert Altman. There are twenty-four main characters in the film, and they are more or less related. It is the stories of these characters and other people that make up the whole film. In addition, each story also affects other stories, making the plot of the movie more complicated. In general, the film describes the life of people inside and outside the country musician circle in the 1970s through such an alternative narrative form.
Although such an alternative shooting method of this film shows the ability of the director and makes the film very distinctive, it has suffered for the audience watching the film. When watching this film, you must always pay attention to the subtitles, pay attention to the characters in the screen, but also contact the relationship between the objects and the characters, and think about the content of the story itself, and so on. In short, watching a Robert Altman movie is much more time-consuming and laborious than watching other directors' movies, at least it consumes a lot of energy in thinking about the plot.
After watching this film, Robert Altman's unique narrative method has two major shortcomings that I cannot accept. The first is the fragmentation of the film narrative, especially in the dialogue scenes of large paragraphs. For example, in two normal dialogue scenes, the general film will directly describe the dialogue from beginning to end, but this film has to intersect and overlap the two scenes, and almost two or three sentences will switch the screen once. Is there any mistake! In this way, the complete dialogue is divided, and you need to rely on memory splicing when you watch it. Isn't this unnecessary? Man-made barriers to understanding, this is the level of Robert Altman? Second, the dialogue in the film's dialogue is mostly meaningless. When watching a movie, I usually review the dialogue carefully, but after watching all of the movie, I found that the dialogue between the characters has no meaning. It is just a small chat, which makes me feel fooled. The performances in Robert Altman's film are improvisations by actors, which is understandable, but the film has been played a little bit-nearly half of the dialogue has nothing to do with the plot of the film. Robert Altman and the actors fooled the audience together. This film is the culmination of Robert Altman's movies, or "Army Field Hospital" and "Gosford Manor" are much more reliable.
Although the two shortcomings of the film are unacceptable, the filming method of the group scenes well expresses the theme that the film wants to express, that is, the crazy 70s. Each character in the film represents a special group of people, politicians, singers, businessmen, stars, soldiers, etc., and each short story reflects a typical social contradiction, such as husband and wife disagreement, playboy man, affair, ideal and reality , War damage, etc. Although the film involves a lot, everything in the film has a commonality-madness, which is also a typical feature of that era. People can abandon everything for dreams, everything for political purposes, everything for making money, everything for satisfying their desires, etc., so that at the end of the film, ordinary people are crazy enough to kill a group of country singers. Through these, we can see that the people of that era were so crazy and persistent! In that era, anything can happen, as long as you dare to think and do. What a crazy age! In addition, the film reflects many social phenomena, through which you can get a deep understanding of the 1970s, which is also the practical significance of this film.
Since it is a movie based on country music, there are naturally good songs in the film. It’s just that the songs in the first half of the movie don’t catch your ears, and the later songs are getting better, especially when the female singer was shot, the songs sung by the women who replaced them were emotional, uplifting and full of enthusiasm. They are the best in the movie. A song. When I watched the movie, I didn't know that these songs were created by the actors themselves. After checking the information, I realized that all the songs were created by the actors themselves and sang them live. I saw them with admiration. Several of them have the potential to become singers, especially the playboy-like blond male singer Keith Carradine and her female partner Cristina Raines, and the passerby woman Barbara Harris who sang the last song at the end of the film. They have very good voices and Full of rhythm. The soundtrack of this film is well worth listening to.
There are many actors in this film, but because of the age, many people can't find the information and can only write briefly. Henry Gibson played the main character in the film. He found that he was familiar when he appeared on the stage. After checking the information, he remembered that he was the actor who played the old gay judge in "Boston Law." Unexpectedly, he also sang songs. Geraldine Chaplin plays a female journalist. Her impression in "Doctor Zhivag" is still vivid. She impressed me. Another thing is that her appearance is very strange and unforgettable. The playboy-style male singer mentioned earlier was played by Keith Carradine. His song "I'm Easy" in this film won the best Oscar song of the year. The guy is still very good. As for the others, there are too few materials and too many people, so I won't write them.
In addition, the long list of names in the narration before the beginning of the movie made me think I saw an advertisement, and the film was also marked with the ABC logo, which really made me feel like watching a TV series.
In general, a movie about the life of country musicians in the 70s. The song is nice, the plot is too complicated and looks tired, but the end of the film is shocking. It's not a classic, much worse than "Gosford Manor", but it's still a good film.
Cristina Raines
Cristina Raines
Barbara Harris
Barbara Harris
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Nashville.Nashville.1975.D9.MiniSD-TLF
2011-10-23
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