The fatal "La Traviata", Greta Carbo forever

Kurt 2022-01-21 08:02:17

"The whole story is actually very simple to put it bluntly (old-fashioned)", I have always been very careful to prevent such words from appearing in my film reviews. Because I have always believed that the themes of the stories told by all literary works throughout the ages are nothing more than just these few (love, family, destiny, belief), but the story teller and the way of telling the story are different.
The reason why I wrote these few nonsense at the beginning is really because of this excellent love tragedy movie. (Specially refers to movies, I have not read the original novels). It reminds me of the numerous TV series and movies in a certain East Asian country. They tell stories similar to the former, (but most of them) are sentimental and artificial to the point of unbearable. The same theme, interpreted in different ways and by different people, sometimes shows such a huge difference.
Let's go back to this movie. Actually, this movie is a very dramatic movie. It seems that only those lines that appear in Shakespeare's plays are actors who show off the stage style with every gesture and every move. .
It is also a movie with deep Hollywood characteristics, luxurious setting, grand scene. Typical romantic plot.
Carbo is the soul of this movie, which of course is beyond doubt. But "studying" the three male characters in the film is actually quite interesting. The young man, the actor, we can call him the kind of "innocent boy", but he is the kind of silly "innocent boy". Because of his stupidity, he finally let down the "La Traviata" to her. Love. If the "La Camellia" woman is "the flesh and blood made of water", then Amang is "turned from a stone."
Baron Wawel, I think he is considered by most viewers to be the only "bad guy" in this movie, but when you think about it, his fate is actually quite "tragic", yes, he did give it "La Traviata" slapped, but think about it carefully, he gave this woman all the love (of course, for him, it was a lot of money to use), unexpectedly this woman ran away with a "little white face". He almost died in a duel with "Little White Face". He is really aggrieved. Of course, beating is wrong. {Laugh}), or to be more precise, he loves her, but he loves her in the wrong way.
Gaston, silently loves "Hong Yan", but "Hong Yan" does not know that "Hong Yan" almost didn't know him before he was sick in bed. , I don’t seem to have seen him {laugh}). A typical "good honest man", a lovely and pitiful good man.
Finally, let’s talk about Carbo. Carbo is beautiful, her beauty is thrilling, her beauty is superb, but I always think that excessive talk about the beauty of an actress is really an insult to her status as an "actor", Carbo Her superb acting skills are reflected in every seemingly inattentive action and every subtle expression change in the movie, which makes people have to admire her again and again, Carbo, the great acting goddess!

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Camille quotes

  • Armand: Don't you believe in love, Marguerite?

    Marguerite: I don't think I know what it is.

    Armand: Oh, thank you.

    Marguerite: For what?

    Armand: For never having been in love.

  • Marguerite: When one may not have long to live, why shouldn't one have fancies?