The Forever Camellia

Afton 2022-01-21 08:02:17

Original 2007-07-26 16:04:47

The La Traviata forever. When I first saw her appear, she was sitting in a carriage holding a bouquet of white and fragrant camellia, looking deeply intoxicated and innocent. At first glance, I think she should be younger and more beautiful, and the plump place should be plump...I also think that Fei Wenli might be more beautiful in appearance, and her eyes might be more moving...
However, after watching the whole movie, I was busy taking a closer look at her charming and casual style from the beginning. Yes, she is beautiful enough, but it is indeed not beautiful enough, not young enough, but you just can’t forget her free, relaxed and confident "diplomat smile" and the unique playful life style of a woman in the dust. The dexterity and ease. She can be lively and happily serious. With a smile, he gave away the security of material life, and left the poverty and beautiful love with tears.
Like Mara in "Broken Blue Bridge", she was sublimated by giving up and reached the most beautiful realm that a lover could achieve.

Here I also want to remind one thing: Shouldn’t you forget the poor baron because of your deep sympathy for the one you love? Who has pity for his dedication and his sincerity? He is also an infatuated person who once gave true love to La Traviata...A person who pays for love is always great. He may not be rewarded and cherished, but at least he is qualified to be respected and thanked.

Just like everyone has always sympathized and pityed Anna Karenina, but forgot to pay attention to the two men's hearts that were broken by her. Her lover was very firm, persistent and courageous in love, and lost her future, reputation and status for her. To support and comfort herself and her gloomy life with wonderful "love"~~ Although she can't do exactly what she wants, she has done her best after all. What did she give back? Revenge with his bloody and naked death, which caused him lifelong pain... and her husband’s tolerance used to touch me so deeply, I was even moved by her husband who disgusted her psychologically and physically. It feels like he once stood shiningly in front of her and her lover. But who has sympathized with him and understood him?

And Robert Taylor's Armand, he has a face like jade, unparalleled beauty, deep affection like the sea, pure and gentle, and he is infatuated, in exchange for the truth. How immobile? !

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  • Maybelle 2022-04-24 07:01:23

    7/10. The image of camellia is sublimated in the movie. The beauty of the flower symbolizes the longing for beauty, and it also implies that the fragrance of Margaret fades into withering. George Cook maximizes the movie's beauty in the exquisite grasp of the picture and the best rendering of the happy scene. Spatial expression: solid color background and full and transparent lighting, skilled use of golden ratio and geometric center composition, and at the same time incorporating gorgeous or lively performances, such as the continuous burst of laughter at the birthday dinner, the big grouse and the carnival dance , Marguerite danced and coughed up blood, creating the connotation that comedy is tragedy. Armand and Marguerite arranged weddings for their friends on the farm, caught bees, etc. Marguerite waited for Armand to announce the breakup. The messy footsteps on the secular stage, Margaret sold jewelry to say goodbye to the luxurious life, this life course coincides with the mood of the Great Depression in the United States, which experienced prosperity and decline at the time of filming; the lack is to increase the dramatic conflict and highlight Margery. The special kind-hearted charm turns another courtesan who has a good relationship with Margaret in the novel into a hypocritical and vulgar sense of emotional competition, which exists only to involve the Baron.

  • Precious 2022-01-21 08:02:17

    Robert Taylor was a little tenderer than Garbo at the time, and he was a little bit sibling. Garbo handles the joy of the La Traviata when she is in love, and the helplessness and despair when she loses love. Garbo is so charming, that face really transcends gender. Lionel played the role of the father, very real, but also his helplessness. He begged La Traviata to give up that episode. The two actors can be regarded as a biaoxi, very exciting.

Camille quotes

  • [Marguerite & Armand flirt by way of long glances]

    Marguerite: His eyes have made love to me all evening.

  • Olympe: If you don't stop being so easy-going with your money, you'll land in the gutter before you're through or back on that farm where you came from, milking cows and cleaning out hen houses.

    Marguerite: Cows and chickens make better friends than I've ever met in Paris.