Imagine the old movies that pay tribute to this film when they are released. A pair of men and women meet to go to the theater to watch a movie together. They put on neat suits or small dresses, maybe brown suits made of linen materials, or dresses with red polka dots, and a carefully matched ribbon is tied on the girl’s head or neck. The boy had bought the tickets early and waited at the entrance of the theater. More young people came to the theater one after another. Someone came to buy tickets. The aunt at the ticket office stamped today's date on the ticket stub and handed the tickets to the ticket window. This movie has been in theaters for a long time, swept the whole country, and later it will be popular all over the world. It will become a movie that must be discussed in the film theory class. After a few decades, the men and women will remember that it was when they met to watch it together. 'S first movie.
Today, decades later, there is such a "City of Philharmonic" that pays tribute to many old movies of the year. Several award-winning and nominated press releases on the Internet can be published in a day. People listen to its OST online and even download it. Pirated resources, if he is too lazy to go to the cinema, he can also choose to watch a "fake" movie in front of the computer. People who watched the screening left their own ratings and viewing experience on the rating website. Some were deeply moved, and some were embarrassing. Everyone's voice can be heard and everyone's voice can be heard. It is already conceivable that maybe two days later, there will be overwhelming self-media articles on the theme of the City of Philharmonic, with titles including but not limited to "Is the City of Philharmonic suitable for Valentine's Day?" "Is the City of Philharmonic really so good-looking?" That’s because you haven’t watched these movies. "The City of Philharmonic tells us that love is the saddest fairy tale". In the future, a large number of news such as "sweeping" or "grainless" will be issued, occupying the headlines of various websites and media; variety shows and background music within a few months may be heard from the OST of the City of Philharmonic ; Later, a new hot spot came out again, it may be a new drama, it may be a new movie, or the movie market in 2017 may continue to be sluggish, and people began to discuss when the next Philharmonic City will appear.
It is easy to become a hot spot now, but it is too difficult to become a classic. In other words, this fast-moving era is destined to no longer have the concept of "classic". Looking back at the works known as classics, they often did something that people hadn't done or thought about before, arousing everyone's attention and long discussions, and later people made more or less works. Inspired by it, influenced by it, built on the basis of this work, or left behind the shadow of this work. To complete this series of effects, you need to give enough time to settle and ferment. But now, every day is innovating, every day may be paid attention to, and people have no time to think about it, the next innovation and focus will appear and become the goal that people are chasing.
There may be no classics in this era. "Artist" is not a classic, nor is "City of Philharmonic". Maybe this era does not need classics.
But this does not prevent people from remembering the classics and the era when those classics were produced. In this film, it is not the tribute passages, but some details that make me feel particularly moving.
One is that the male protagonist and the female protagonist never communicated directly via their mobile phones (only once the female protagonist left a message on the phone for the male protagonist, but they soon met directly).
The second is that the old movie theater where the heroes and heroines met for the first time was closed when they were running along the path of their choices and dreams.
Third, after the heroine became famous, the movie posters in which the heroine passed by her are still in hand-painted style.
If you remove the mobile phone and the tablet used when ordering food in the film, this is a film with a very vague age imprint, you can say it is the 5th and 60th, or it can be said that it is the 21st century. This ambiguity is the director’s effort to pay tribute to the classic past, right?
"City of Philharmonic" will not be a classic, but now that there is no longer a classic, it drew a great old time and made me sang and danced all night in the La La La Dream.
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