such an ingenious film that there is no accident. Wes Anderson, who is tireless in detail, once laughed at himself in advertisements and personally selected every prop, and naturally also chose the music. Keep improving. "Moonrise Kingdom" starts with Britton’s symphony and ends with Britton’s symphony. Several times in the middle, Britton’s "Noah Flood" opera is sung. A record player runs through the whole play, always reminding us. The important position of music in the play.
The "Youth Symphony Guide" listened to by the heroine and two younger brothers at the beginning of the film was Britton’s work in 1946. It was originally written to popularize classical music among young people. Yev's "Peter and the Wolf" has the same name and has become the three most commonly used works in children's classical music education. We heard the calm and serious voice of a teenager: "In order for the teenagers to better understand how the symphony orchestra is composed, Britton wrote such a work that separates the four parts of the symphony orchestra and plays the same melody. The different variations of the story will be shown in turn..."
A woodwind group
"First of all, woodwind instruments: flute, clarinet, oboe, etc...."
The first theme of the story is love: the hero and the heroine eloped. They are heterogeneous among the same companions. After a year of correspondence between the little man with glasses Sam and the serious Suzy with eyeshadow, they love each other deeply and decide to run out of the house to build their own little world. Sam used the wild survival skills he learned in the Scout to overcome dangers time after time, unexpectedly, and Suzy broke through numerous difficulties, and even had to confront his friends and instructors, not to mention Suzy's parents and the sheriff of the town. The sound of woodwind instruments is clear and beautiful, and the flute is the best instrument to imitate birds. With the reverberation of Britton’s woodwind variation, a young couple rushes to the wild, constantly imitating adults, whether it is desolate or comedic. The song is still a scene of family life between the two people from time to time.
Two brass sets
"Then there are brass instruments: trumpet, trombone, French horn, etc..."
The second theme of the story is friendship: the instructor of the scout camp orders all the scouts to go and find them. The frantic search at the beginning caused both losses, and then under the overwhelming advantage of the adults, Sam and Suzy had to be captured and returned home. A group of scouts were in the tree house, speaking around the table like a godfather, and everyone took turns to post-mortem until someone said, "That's not good!" We are friends, even if we don't like him, we should stand by him! So everyone formed a team to escort Sam and Suzy from this moment on. The sound of the brass instrument is soft and powerful. The trumpet is the horn of charge, and the horn is the gentle voice. The passionate young man cuts his sword for his friends, just like the second variation of brass instruments in Britton's works.
The three-string group
"then the string group: violin, viola, cello, bass, and of course the harp..."
The third theme of the story is responsibility: the small island sheriff who lives alone, welcomes and sends children The military instructor, at first went looking for the two children, but found that Sam's destination could only be the orphanage of the social welfare agency. If such a troublesome child could be sent home, they might have been thrown out of the Scout long ago. But he didn't have a home, and the tragic scene of the orphanage (a newspaper clipping immediately) made the sheriff and instructor immediately decide not to let the social service take Sam away. Sam finally had a chance to play the role of a "child" in a family situation, right in the sheriff's home. Although the children are eager to grow up, this responsibility that keeps him is what he should learn. Stringed instruments are soft and beautiful, with complex lyricism. The sound of the violin is considered to be the closest to the human voice, and its lyrical expressiveness is extremely rich. It is called after the instrument. Responsibility is not a simple thing, it may be like a variation of a string ensemble, deep and tactful, rich and complex.
Four percussion group
"Finally is percussion instruments: various drums, cymbals, and everything you play..."
The fourth theme of the story is failure: the escape of the two was actually unsuccessful-where can the two 13-year-old children go? Although in the frustration time and again it was proved that the two were better than Jin Jian, despite the help of a group of Scout brothers, but the sky did not help me, a heavy rain made it impossible to go out. Wes Anderson was really willing to start here, all kinds of shocking shots hit one after another, the flood swept across the island, and thunder and lightning flooded the world. The two children were born with a calf and were not afraid of tigers, which made the audience very scared. In symphonies, thunder is always played by timpani, and the series of notes on the snare drum is like a rainstorm hitting the eaves. Percussion here is like a real blow. The youth’s dreams are endless, and there is also a short-term paradise, anxious to enter the adult world, seems to want to enjoy the benefits of two life stages at the same time, when failure strikes, the original dream will not come true, but what is left is The most tender memories and a painting of only you and me at the end of the world.
At the end, the four groups of instruments work together again to play the main melody together. Britton split the symphony orchestra and wrote four sets of variations on the same theme to make it easier for young people to understand symphony; Anderson split a growth story and wrote four themes with the same story, allowing us to relive the growth You may remember that you have learned to grow up in the symphony of various themes.
The opera performed by the children in the church in the film is Britton's 1957 opera "Noah's Flood" (Noye's Fludde [Noah's Flood ancient writing]). Britton requested that the opera be performed in churches or other large venues, but not in concert halls and theaters, and should be performed by amateurs. God asked Noah to build an ark, and Noah's wife never believed him or helped him. After Noah led the children and animals on the boat, he asked the children to drag his wife aboard. Later, after the rainstorm of musical performance ended, Noah released a raven (the heroine in the film's role in this "play in play"), and said: "If the raven does not come back, it means there is land. "The raven danced out and never returned. Noah released another pigeon, and the pigeon returned to the olive branch. All the animals and men filed out and sang "Hallelujah" together.
In the last heavy rain in the film, the small church became an ark, and the entire town was hiding in it. Maybe Anderson wants to tell us that after this elopement adventure, the heart of the hero and heroine has grown and will never return.
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