"Under the Gas Lamp" revolves around the heroine Paula played by Ingrid Bergman. It describes a young Anton disguising himself as a chic and considerate in order to obtain the diamonds and large fortunes left by the beautiful woman Paula's aunt. The husband, at the same time, tried to scare her and convince her that she was crazy. The plot of the film is tense and suspense is repeated, making people breathless with tension. The performances of actors such as Ingrid Bergman and Charles Baoyu were very impressive. The stunning scenery of the artist brings people to the Victorian era and is immersive. Ingrid Bergman exquisitely expressed a victim who was gradually murdered under the illusion of love. Therefore, "Under the Gas Lamp" won 7 Oscar nominations of that year in one fell swoop, and finally Ingrid Bergman received an Oscar queen "Little Golden Man" for the first time. The film also won an Oscar for "Best Black and White Film Artist Setting", and the film even let the idiom "light a gas lamp" continue to be used in English, which means to make people crazy. This film gradually shows how the weak and good women are coaxed by the tough villains, coercing and passively believing that they have a mental illness. The film narrative is like a lasso tightening step by step. This process is very dramatic. Tension makes people want to look down, and want to know how the plot evolves further.
Ingrid Bergman's acting skills made "Under the Gas Lamp" shine. The gorgeous clothes, the beautiful environment, and the social place with fragrant clothes and shadows all bring out the loneliness and pain in the beautiful woman's heart; from the beginning, she yearns for the romantic innocent bride, slowly self-doubts the struggling lonely young woman, and finally feels the spirit. The patient who tortured but no one tells her, her step-by-step interpretation is just right. Today, it seems that there is still no half of "overs" and no half of "misses". In addition, the powerful rendering of the scene in the movie enhances the viewing effect: the night fog is diffuse, the dim street lamp, the flickering gas lamp, the strange noise on the ceiling in the middle of the night, and the night owl husband who leaves early and returns late. In the era when the film was released, the gas lamp, which controlled the air output by a switch to control the brightness, was a necessity for lighting. With the gradual dimness of the gas lamp, a strange noise came from the unmanned ceiling, and the lonely young woman was lying on the bed with random thoughts. Under the gas lamp, there was so much sin and pain.
"Under the Gas Lamp" is undoubtedly a model of spiritual violence. Consciously or unconsciously, we may all be the people "under the gas lamp", living sensitively and cautiously, giving up confrontation, giving up ourselves, how to protect our hearts? How to reject strong suggestions from others? How to reject spiritual violence?
Anton is a believer in capital and a pious ascetic. Jewelry, as the endorsement of capital, kept raising the whip and beating him like a slave owner's housekeeper, letting him fight for himself. And he seemed to be enjoying this grotesquely twisted slavery. "Jewelry is alive." This is his heartfelt emotion. It is not so much that jewelry is what he is after, as it is that he is a little servant who is called to drink by jewelry and does everything. Capital wielded an invisible whip, completely controlling his soul, like a high god, setting out the cruelest commandments to require the apostles to obey and follow in their entire lives. Pursuing jewelry is Anton’s belief. This absurd and deformed belief, like the religions we know in our lives, makes people very pure. "Under the Gas Lamp" obviously inherited the spirit of Dickens. There is still a piece of pure land in people's hearts, as well as innocence and kindness, as well as kindness and reason. Artists have the responsibility to write them so that they can overwhelm everything and form a beautiful "home of wishes", and at the same time make a call to the chaos of the world. Film artists also prepared a blockbuster for the capital-ravaged world, challenged everything unreasonable and won victory.
Of course, the method used in the film is not to transform the sinful Anton himself and to be transformed into what we expect by a certain shining power, but to create another pure "little boy", who is more powerful than the energy spawned by capital. , And is a man capable of defeating Anton. This man is the young detective Berlin. An encounter, gently beckoning, a wonderful and hazy dream enters a somewhat gloomy world. He was infected with the breath of Jesus Christ and came to this world for that sacred and redeeming mission. When Paula’s soul was about to become a victim, when the girl’s life was in danger, he stood up resolutely and courageously to save, save people’s innocent sacrifices to capital, and save the goodness and justice of nature. justice. What he faced was not only Paula's mind destroyed by countless evil hints, but also a heart about to despair of love. His love is a childhood dream, the purest and most sincere pursuit. A glove is like a seed, buried in the fertile soil of the soul, and will eventually grow towering branches, touching the heaven, and sheltering the goddess he loves. He felt that the person from his childhood was resurrected, and that the star who loved him appeared again, with the unseen grievances and the current crisis.
Amid the strong opposition, he started his own long march, which is as full of difficulties and obstacles as Anton’s search for jewels, and always requires people’s perseverance, patience and energy. The two men, Anton and Berlin, respectively symbolize the belief in capital and the belief in love, while Paula metaphors each of us, everyone who is corrupted by capital, and each one embraces the world with a sincere heart, but People who have been cheated, hurt, and abandoned by the cold world. And the final reveal, victory and reunion are not just as simple as solving a case, it is a triumph of love of the heart. The film is a journey through heaven. We are far away from heaven, separated by the wild and vast capital desert; we are very close to heaven, it is in a quiet and comfortable corner of our heart. It conveys the inexhaustible springs there, transforming the desert into a palace of love. This transformation is love and hatred. We have to hate first because we are searching for the world of love. We hate and eliminate the crimes that kill love because of insatiable greed. Just as Anton will be taken away by the police in the end, the capital will also be thrown into hell.
However, having a personality does not mean being alone. It is not my own way to dare to challenge authority. On the contrary, Ingrid Bergman's kindness and broad-mindedness are well-known in the showbiz. David Selznick once called to persuade Ingrid Bergman not to participate in "Under the Gas Lamp." David Selznick felt that Ingrid Bergman was a big star he had cultivated. Putting her name on the right side of the poster would damage her prestige. But Ingrid Bergman didn't think so. She felt that she didn't care whether the name was placed on the left or the right. Moreover, the two names were of the same size, and both were above the title. Even if she put her name under the title, she still had to cooperate with Charles Baoyu to make a film. Above, the left side is more expensive). After fighting, David Selznick finally agreed to let Ingrid Bergman participate in "Under the Gas Lamp." But in order to ensure the smooth filming of the film "Under the Gas Lamp", she took the initiative to give up the chance to be the leading actor in the role with her, Charles Baoyu, who was extremely arrogant at the time, and when she took the role of "Under the Gas Lamp" Hearing that his name was ranked second, the angry Charles Bowie refused to perform. Ingrid Bergman learned that he would personally persuade the studio to put Charles Bowie's name ahead of him.
When she won the Oscar for the third time, she publicly praised all the nominated candidates and humbled that it was her friends who won the award. Someone summed up Ingrid Bergman’s artistic career and said: “She never conflicts with the protagonist who performed with her. She always praises the sister actors and is willing to play a supporting role. This may be why she is still walking with her today. And one of the reasons why he was well received by the audience." In "Under the Gas Lamp", Charles Baoyu played the husband as the earliest husband in film history, and his despicable methods have been imitated by later generations. He resorted to all kinds of conspiracies to drive Ingrid Bergman mad, so that she could be sent to a mental hospital for money and death. He concealed Ingrid Bergman’s jewelry and paintings on the wall, but accused Ingrid Bergman of his own work; every day after he went out, he dimmed the gas lamp and made noise in the attic. Ingrid Bergman remembered that her mother had been mentally ill, and she couldn't help but suspect that she had gone mad. In this movie, Ingrid Bergman’s performance is truly superb. With her ever-changing facial expressions, she stirs up the audience’s heartstrings and interprets the weak woman who thinks she is crazy. In the end, this film takes Ingrid. Bergman led to the Oscar podium.
Another highlight in "Under the Gas Lamp" is Joseph Cotton, who plays the young detective Berlin in "Under the Gas Lamp." Like Charles Bowie, Joseph Cotton was the most successful casting in this film. "Citizen Kane" is the most well-known of Joseph Cotton's film works. Joseph Cotton's plays in "Citizen Kane" are actually not many and they are not challenging, but he still doesn't snatch the drama at all. The mission was completed successfully. During the filming of "Under the Gas Lamp", a specious relationship between Joseph Cotton and Ingrid Bergman was achieved. It's just Joseph Cotton's face that always has the silhouette of a talented person, just like he is always good but can't hand over an outstanding report card. Before taking the filming of "Under the Gas Lamp", Ingrid Bergman had already started her prosperous actor career in Hollywood. She has appeared in many famous films such as "Casablanca" and "Battlefield Bell". "Under the Gas Lamp" starring Charles Bowie won her the 17th Oscar, which is also her first Oscar.
After that, she worked with the master of suspense Alfred Hitchcock several times, starring in "Doctor Edward" with Gregory Parker, and starring in "Beauty" with Gary Grant. Ingrid Bergman has the tall figure of a Nordic woman, but this height caused her a lot of trouble. When filming "Under the Gas Lamp", because Charles Baoyu was too short, Charles Baoyu had to stand on a small wooden box when the two people were performing hugging and kissing. When shooting a long-term view, in order to fear that everyone would see that Ingrid Bergman is taller than the leading actor, the director had to let one stand and the other sit, disturbing the audience's sight. It is said that in Hollywood back then, only Jarley Cooper from "The Bells of the Battlefield" could look down upon Ingrid Bergman. Other actors need a little extra "help" to appear taller than Ingrid Bergman on the screen. In the mid-1940s, despite the rift in Ingrid Bergman's marriage to Peter, her career spiraled upward. She ignored David Selznick's warnings and insisted on playing roles of different types and personalities. If she used to play similar roles, then the role she played in "St. Mary's Bell" is absolutely different from before. In fact, according to critical film critics, Ingrid Bergman is not a top actor. She does not have the wonderful acting skills of Vivien Leigh, nor the dazzling charm of Catherine Hepburn. She is not even special. Beautiful, but if you find someone to represent all the actresses to show the eternal charm of the movie, the special temperament of Ingrid Bergman will make you unable to ignore her. More importantly, Ingrid Bergman represented the American aesthetics in the 1940s. She has a plump face, a dignified and elegant manner. She is an image of an out-and-out healthy lady. What's most rare is that despite her tall figure, she has an unusual gentleness in her actions. This pair has been war-torn. The people of China undoubtedly have a special charm. It is this charm that makes Ingrid Bergman flourish in Hollywood, and the film scene during and after World War II is shining and dazzling.
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