Two evergreens in the film industry, 77-year-old Henry Fonda and 75-year-old Catherine Hepburn, supported this well-known masterpiece in history. As legendary actors and actresses in the classic Hollywood era, the two old men were exhausted in their twilight years and portrayed a lovely old woman and a stubborn old man on the screen in a plain life story. Swipe across the gentle and soothing piano sound, through the roar of the loon, and the sparkling golden lake, roll up, move horizontally, push forward, fixed position, aerial photography, 3 minutes and 50 seconds, quiet as Opening like a picture, this beautiful audio-visual can not help but reminds people of Lee Ang’s opening design for the zoo in "The Boys' Group". And in the next 100 minutes, I was completely indulged in the exquisite and simple atmosphere of light and shadow. The soundtrack was beautiful and the pictures were so exquisite that I could take screenshots frame by frame. The feelings have been experienced in the previous "The Years of Love" and "The Love of the River", and they have deepened again in "Once Upon a Time in America", "Barry Linden" and "The Lover", and in Bertolucci's "The Last Emperor" and " "Nine Zero", "Stolen Fragrance" and other movies have fallen repeatedly, and there are many old movies that have made me obsessed with the images. Thanks to the Blu-ray technology in the world, we can also find the charm of film that has gradually disappeared on the computer screen.
In addition to the audio-visual enjoyment it brings to people, "Golden Pond" focuses on the elderly and family affection, but also contains the discussion of life and death. The role of the old man played by Henry Fonda in the film showed his stubbornness and temper from the very beginning, always bickering and unconvinced. He refuses to accept the old, always thinking that he can do a lot of things. In front of outsiders, even in front of his wife who gets along day and night, he always looks strong. But the real situation is that behind these toughness, there is an extreme fear of death, thinking that he is still very capable, but he can't even check a strawberry. After getting lost, he is afraid like a child. Catherine Hepburn, as her wife, saw all of this. She was indeed a lovely old woman. She smiled all day long. She endured Henry Fonda’s bad temper, and was heartbroken for his gradually weakened body and fragile spirit. On the other hand, it also helps maintain the rigid father-daughter relationship. Catherine Hepburn has a deep impression in the film, telling the real behind the so-called bad tempers of the elderly: "He is not yelling at you, he is yelling at life, he wants to remind himself that he can still yell "The old man's fear and helplessness towards death are all in them.
Last year’s Korean movie "Strange She" was also a rare warm film focusing on elderly issues. At that time, I watched it twice in a week. There were laughs and tears. The heroine’s performance was superb. It is one of the most worth watching comedy movies in recent years. In contrast, "Golden Pond", which came out more than 30 years ago, is itself a movie dedicated to father by daughter. The screen goddess Jane Fonda, for his elderly father, Henry Fonda, bought the film rights of the play of the same name as a gift, and it was this film that made him fate, which became Henry Fonda’s screen swan song. He also With this film, he won the first Oscar for Best Actor in his acting career for nearly half a century. In the same year, Henry Fonda died. It is with so many in-and-out stories, "Golden Pond" is obviously more than just a movie.
From the perspective of the film now, some people may think that apart from acting and photography, the whole story is a normal Hollywood movie without breakthrough, but I just love this kind of life-oriented film, plus Catherine Hepburn and Henry The pronunciation of Fonda's classic Hollywood lines gave me a sense of nostalgia and intimacy. I am a very old person, nostalgic for the past, and I like the sense of ritual that old things bring to people. Most of my favorite movies existed more than 20 years ago, such as Chinese movies in the 1980s and 1990s, which are quiet and solemn; 7. The European and American films of the 1980s were frequently produced by masters; and the classic Hollywood films of the 1940s and 1960s were strictly regular, although model, they were still exemplary.
The reason why I am nostalgic is because I can never go back and never have it again.
Just like our lives in our 20s, we have already had so much sadness and nostalgia. Just one sentence can say "Ten years ago, I was...", and then startled again, wow, ten years...
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