One of the strong points about the topic of the director of the City of Philharmonic is that it can appropriately place a topic on it based on the cliché story structure, which arouses the anxiety of the current audience.
It is not how worth talking about this topic, but it makes you feel that you have the ability and intention to participate in opinions, and your inner desire to speak up is quickly aroused. At this point, people who talk about life or love, whether it is praise or praise, ideals, or dreams, are considered to be caught. Literary and art lovers will be even more tempted to ask themselves, if it were me, how would I choose.
If you want to guess the director's value orientation from the writing of the script, there is something wrong with it. In the future, the civil disputes have evolved into fighting each other to maintain their own three views.
It is not to accuse the director of placing these plot logics in the film as purely catering and non-thinking gimmicks. Of course he has what he wants to say, what he wants to express. But looking at his control over the details and his persistence in the scheduling of the singing and dancing scenes, it is obvious that this person's biggest purpose is to shoot this song and dance film first, and then talk about other things. The story inserted in, obviously seems to be "simplistic" and easy to participate in. On the contrary, it has a little more commerciality than similar song and dance films.
Lateral cf
just pick a big one early look at the text, such as "Singing in the Rain" it! Movies are of course classics. Whether singing and dancing or the spirit of "Keep singing happily even in the rain", they are both very simple and beautiful that can travel through time and space. They also record the key to the film industry's transition from silent to sound. time. But how strong is the intention of the main storyline for today's people to explore? The core story, or the biggest contradiction, comes from Debbie Reynolds who has a good singing voice, but has no chance to become a star through her own strength for the time being. She has to voice the actress who is already famous but has a very bad voice (bad character). Only at the end, through a comedy or dramatic scene, the real future superstar will be pushed to the front of the stage, and the plot will be reversed and reunion. Many years later, "The Queen of the Next Stop" completely reproduced this segment (not to talk about Lin Miaoke).
Of course we are happy for the heroine, lamenting that gold always shines, as if it is nothing more, which one can be raised? Talking down, I can’t talk anymore.
After all, the audience's heart would have calculated that it is only a matter of time before Jin Kelly loves her, respects her, and fully understands her strength. The heroine is good or bad, and the heroine is so beautiful. We wish the hero and heroine a career or love for each other. And Donald O'Connor, a good friend of the male protagonist, just sang and played the piano so happily. The choice in the story is to create a scene of ups and downs, and does not involve value judgments.
But you can also play the critical card. On the road of dreams, put something like "Chicago", um, human nature is ugly, the media is unscrupulous... and then? Down with all evil capitalism! Sister and sister stand up!
In short, the City of Philharmonic is different. The script has brought up some things that seem to be opposed, but in fact may not be completely opposed in life. His ambiguous use of concepts will allow other people to reflect their views on the world from other angles. At the same time, in terms of details, the amount of information in literary drama is actually not low.
Some seemingly casual foreshadowing correspondences leave room for chewing and re-assuming.
The perfect ending
was touched by many people, the last colorful parallel world song and dance drama. Let's make sure first, whose brain hole is this?
Obviously from the heroine, right?
Because she is the cut-in perspective, the scene of playing the piano is first returned from her to the restaurant back then.
More obviously in the second half, the imaginary part almost completely replicates the life details of the heroine's abundance in reality. The decoration of the house is exactly the same. Of course, the hero can't think of this. The screen is also filled with emotion due to such a complete correspondence. But please note that this is really just the idea of the heroine based on her own "interests." There was a moment in the brain hole. The male and female protagonists are dating in the bar. The legend of John comes to find the male protagonist. As soon as he opens his mouth, the male lead waved his hand and the buddy left. Since then, the band line has been completely cut off.
What happened next? The male lead accompanies the female lead to Paris, of course, he can still play the piano happily, and the female lead becomes a big star, all these things remain the same. It's just the male protagonist's bar, the jazz bar he loves or that he desperately hopes to be able to run it himself? It became a scene where they dated after marriage. They walked in the street hand in hand, walked in accidentally, watching other people playing the piano, the male protagonist thoughtfully...
Is this really the perfect ending?
Of course, it is definitely not to criticize, how selfish the heroine is in her heart. In the imaginary perfection of oneself, happiness of course also depends on the success defined by oneself. But we should say that there may be another insight: the male lead saved some money because of the band, and then successfully opened a small bar, which really allows more people who like jazz to gather. The heroine insists on acting in one-man roles. Of course, this is a niche market, so they are not so rich and not so famous, and their houses will not be so big. They are still married, having children, and they go to the bar run by their husband at night, and the husband sings and sings with each other... There are many different kinds of happy families, and it doesn't seem to be a bad thing.
Isn't it a pity that it is still inexplicable.
Of course, we can also fix a better ending: the heroine stays in Hollywood, and she will definitely have the same chance to become popular. There are fewer opportunities to meet, but whenever you come back, you must go to the bar to cheer up your husband. Husband said to watch you spread a scandal with Spider-Man, and my wife said, oh, this is the case during the publicity period. As a star genus, understand it.
Well, or the male lead can still follow Paris. But after his wife became famous, he could also sell the bar because he became rich. The wife is still very busy, but whenever she comes back, she must go to the bar to cheer her up...
Look, it seems that the story is so boring. Because the characters here have become another state, the audience’s thoughts will probably also focus on whether they are worthy of this kind of life. If you really want to evaluate it, you must put it in another story.
So be clear about this little point: the script is not as shallow as it seems at a glance. The evidence is that this perfect ending is not perfect.
The
core of concept migration is actually to explore what such a sad reality means to them. In other words, what are the suggestions for the audience in the audience?
Is it true that the predecessor is infinitely good, is the mountain high forever?
I joked that this film should not be watched with the incumbent, but it is actually a piece of online communication. Seriously thinking this way, I am afraid that everyone is looked down upon.
Everyone should remember that in the scene of their big quarrel, the hostess expressed dissatisfaction with her boyfriend who started to be content with the band tour, feeling that he was deviating from her dream. But in the happy ending of the brain hole, doesn't the hero still mean giving up the dream? You don't care about it now?
Therefore, some people immediately stigmatize the heroine, believing that she is hypocritical and hypocritical. This matter will be discussed later. I disagree anyway.
Of course, we are not insisting on competing with the characters. The story depicts life and growth. Naturally, we can also make the original world bigger as we progress. A character can learn to compromise, learn to tolerate his own imperfections, and at any time, he can say, "I set my goal before to be able to get me to the ladder of reaching the current goal", that's no problem. Even some movies are using this as a theme.
The reason why we often argue is that the definitions of some words or concepts are different, so we quickly stand in two teams. What does "success" mean in this film, and what does "dream" mean? Does "dream" include the universal value of "spending the rest of your life with your loved one", including whether these concepts have changed in the story.
It is unlikely that there will be a real consensus until these words that sound the same sound have not reached the unification they are referring to. However, the unification process is also very interesting.
People in the play are often caught in their destiny, and they don't seem to be able to see farther and more clearly than the audience.
Their stories are therefore valuable.
So I have been discussing with my friends that this is actually not a love movie. It is not responsible for portraying how beautiful love is, but the hero and the heroine have a love story. It's not an inspirational movie, and their actual method of success is not reflected in the movie.
It more expresses people's choices for different beauty when moving forward, and the warmth of mutual appreciation and mutual encouragement inscribed in the state of self-lost and hesitation.
Some viewers will judge from the perspective of character setting, and look at the respective states of these two people, even if there is no such big love scene, there should be a chance of success. Therefore, they are not regarded as "giving up love" to fulfill their dreams dangerously, so the grief is not heavy enough to move people. This has completely separated from movie watching and entered the category of fortune-telling.
Another achievement
in the film, in addition to instant joy, they met the value is also reflected in what place? It depends on the large number of bridge segments paved with causal chains in the plot.
Slightly sorting out the plot, you can clearly see that they have become the key driving point for the other party to reach the road that they originally attempted to reach.
The most clear passage is that the heroine was discouraged after the first performance and did not receive an audition call, including the fact that she did not want to go even if she knew the information. If you follow her to do this, you will definitely lose the opportunity to go to Paris. On the timeline, going to auditions is a very important archive point, and this is definitely driven by the male protagonist. Of course, it also pushed the two of them further in space, and they both knew this.
Therefore, the script can no longer write details, only after the screen has been black for five years. All the plot descriptions of their long-distance relationship trying to restore the relationship, or the frustration, will destroy the loss and sadness of the ending, and can only show the ending quickly.
Of course, the driving force does not stop there. The reason why someone asked the female lead for an interview was because she played a one-man show, and the casting director happened to be one of the few audiences. Why is she acting? It's because the actor has indeed been encouraging her. When wandering around the set, I mentioned that she could do this for the first time. After the first audition in the bedroom, he said "go to the audience", and he still said that before the big quarrel.
Zizek pointed out in that article that the main thing that the heroine loves the male lead is not other aspects of him, but that he is the person who pursues his dreams.
So when the male lead went to the band to make money, she thought he had betrayed their agreement to pursue their dreams together. This tacit agreement is so powerful in the movie world that even love itself must stay behind. They are not together, but if they are still fellow travelers in pursuit of their goals, this relationship will still be considered worthy of memory and respect by each.
[Here, there is no choice between their love and her career: in a paradoxical but profoundly true sense, if she wants to stay with him in Los Angeles and give up her acting prospects, Then she betrayed their love, because their love grew out of their shared and devotion to the career. 】
Personally agree with this. At the same time, he also noticed clearly that only on the line of one-man shows, the characteristics of the male lead are not the appreciation of the female lead's acting skills. He has never seen her acting before. He encourages her so enthusiastically because he thinks that people should be like this, do whatever they want! Don't look forward and backward.
Translation, it means that the male lead is in the second.
So he would be so careful about that stool, he would be so aggrieved about the type of bar business, but he was living in an environment where others were blind to it. Her sister joked about Miles Davis casually, and the boss couldn't bear him playing free jazz. But the girl in front of me could hear him well. Although she would say bluntly that she hated jazz, she didn't resist being popularized by him, and even went to the jazz bar to take lessons with him. The common sense that the male protagonist clings to, which may be outdated and useless, is instantly available. Of course, this is a gift from heaven.
She hadn't even watched "Rebellion Without a Cause", she couldn't catch the stalk, it was great!
The heroine is obviously not so confident, and not firm enough because of her lack of self-confidence. And the male protagonist has already taken this step. He is secretive about his evaluation of the film. He just believes that the Jazz is great enough, and his remaining job is to show this. Then he subconsciously used his own brilliance to shine on others, forcing them to move forward.
he made it.
Let’s think back to the screenwriter classmate at the previous reception. Although Jie’s story is set as an important accomplice to show "social occasions are terrible", there is suspicion of boasting in the constant chatter, and his height is a bit touching. Tell me about what I have written recently and any stories I find interesting. Is there any big difference in essence from the male protagonist? Of course there is no high commander.
So this is the world the movie gives you. There are the main and the second, and there are details and slights.
Psychological accumulation
returns to the big quarrel. Before the male protagonist said the most hurtful sentence, he was surprised by his expression for a while. It is not that he is unaware that the current performance of the band is deviating from his ideals, but he did not expect that the heroine would point this out so aggressively and force him into a shameless side.
The reason why he took such a step is that in the plot, the tension revealed by the heroine calling his mother pushed his self-blame. He found that he had been too willful before, so he chose to be a boyfriend with a sense of life and strive to make money. The film didn't clearly say whether he used the band's income to support the heroine's life, but apparently since she started to concentrate on preparing for one-man dramas, she didn't go to auditions everywhere to play the role. Of course, the price paid for this is that they have also reduced the time spent with each other.
In the play, we understand that it is time for conflict. But the heroine is not the kind of "I want my husband to accompany me more" after all. If the foreshadowing is not enough, it will suddenly hurt the character due to the outbreak. It makes people think whether the female protagonist is a bit cheap. Or is it too idealistic? After all, others can say that the male protagonist is not pursuing, but he is even delaying his plan to help you fulfill your dream.
There were only two negative foreshadowings before. The two had almost no time to communicate, and when the heroine of the concert was squeezed away by people, she gradually realized that the music was not right.
This was not enough, so another foreshadowing was laid out relatively ingeniously in the dialogue. The protagonist hopes that the protagonist will tour with her. He thinks that the two should spend more time together. This is of course a measure to solve the relationship problem, but it also means an offense. The script can indeed be written anywhere, but the independence of the heroine starts to get smaller and smaller with the activities of the heroine. And the male lead’s activities are not for the original real purpose, but to make money (of course it is good to make money).
Are the two people being strayed by something inexplicably? Based on this defensive psychology, the heroine finally began to prick the hero with doubts. So contradictions broke out.
But it turned out that the male protagonist really realized this again. So after the successful audition, the heroine did not even try to say "Shall we go to Paris together?", that was not the interference she hoped to see.
Therefore, there has never been a battle between love and dreams here. Love makes them more comfortable to be people who chase their dreams. From the director's point of view, this is success.
The hostess wrote a blood book with part of her breakdown, "Please just go down in the second grade." So look at the scene five years later, he still lives alone, his sister is married and has children, he cooks for himself, and he goes to the bar to perform at night.
he made it.
In the end, I
would like to mention a drama script written many years ago, which is based on another friend's textual conception and executed in a play. Lishijie talked about a boy and a female classmate who were not familiar with them. They had a simple conversation at the bus stop. Then they staggered occasionally in the span of eight years from high school to work, and then separated again. It seemed that affection occurred, but But it stopped in communication and hesitation, because it was always in two cities.
In the watch world, two people have been reading this story. The person who reads the script does not understand the intention of the person who wrote the script to create the story. The screenwriter had an explanation of the intention, of course he slapped himself in the face later.
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Male: Do you have to have these two people together? Expressing some kind of hope?
Woman: It's hard to say whether you can be together, but you have to write down the emotion of love. Did the two of them feel that way?
Male: Yes, there must be.
Woman: Why does the man still find a girlfriend and get married safely?
Male: Because the key to this story is not love, but not love.
Woman: You confused me again.
Male: The encounter produced a certain feeling, but when this feeling was not enough to support their love, they disappeared into all kinds of beautiful possibilities because of the constraints of reality. Maybe men should take the initiative more, maybe girls shouldn’t speak so sober and direct, then their meeting will not wait until five years later. Or, as I just said, don't meet each other at all, so that this unexpected encounter becomes a fraction of the odds. But no, fate chose such a historical moment precisely and cruelly, so that everything happened just right.
Woman: But this doesn't mean that the encounter produces meaning, and there is no meaning at all. You create the cause but cut off the result.
Male: Isn't the meaning of life the same? We are faced with countless emergencies and accidents every day. Everyone is making plans, but no one knows where a sudden change will occur. Maybe the person who decides our destiny is driving a small car approaching us at a speed of 50 meters per second, maybe the friends we will meet in the future are just passers-by passing by me, maybe I want to be with a friend in my life circle Accompanied for life, but now I don't realize it.
Woman: After all, do you want to show the impermanence of life?
Male: After all, what I want to say is, maybe we are gaining or losing something every minute, no, every second, maybe we won't leave regrets if we catch them, maybe we will leave even greater regrets. But it must be admitted that the things we are already familiar with and accustomed to in life may be new possibilities caused by completely inconspicuous little things.
Woman: So you have to describe such a love that hasn't happened yet. The meaningless encounter is the meaning you want to express.
Male: It's not purely meaningless. Although it doesn't change life, it brings a kind of inexplicable sadness and loss.
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reason why I say slaps is because now The head of the male screenwriter talks honestly about how two people miss it is a kind of beauty. But in reality, the female high school classmate he wrote about exists. He has always remembered her, but he didn't know where she was, and he didn't know how the friendly conversation that year remembered the woman. He created the light and wind in the future, but he was tortured by the thoughts of the moment.
The original title said that people shouldn't think too much about themselves in the movie. At this moment, thinking of the scripts I wrote, it seems that I understand the story better, it seems that it is also a kind of face slap.
Just hit it.
PS
saw that the editor-in-chief of a certain company mentioned an annoying point. After the heroine became famous, she went back to the coffee shop where she used to work. Like the celebrities back then, she insisted on paying for coffee and seemed very proud.
I couldn't help but be astonished for a moment, how dirty I felt to be able to watch the play like this.
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