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This film is not only the posthumous work of Louis Mahler, but also a masterpiece of the original theater director.
In a nearly forgotten theater in New York, the classics with so many big names played together. The result they achieved was almost the expression of what Chekov had sought throughout his life, the complexity of life, but as pure as life itself.
It is indeed pure from the rehearsal to the final performance, to the addition of all details, and even the style of a documentary, but the whole work is integrated into one furnace, which is the collection of Louis Mahler's many years of directing experience. The pure first point is to go back to the original text itself, not the picture.
Ibsen is more inclined to go to the bottom of human nature, they will do all kinds of dirty and clumsy things, especially the four-part series in their later years, all the big guys are sinking.
As for Chekov, it belongs to the exploration of human emotions. All people are touching the weakest part of their emotions, and they have reached a state of almost collapse.
So after watching it for years, I can still remember the main plot of each scene, including the catharsis of everyone's performance. 2
Gregory's directing work is popular in New York. It has two main ideas.
His rehearsal didn't trust the brain, he thought it was useless to analyze. Do not trust your mind. So he doesn't really like to talk to actors. Of course, there are some big guys who come to play with him.
Second, he thinks the dramatic language is very misleading, such as people in Kyoto who are weird, look at you and say thank you. Nanjing people do the same. It's not saying thank you at all, but the response to say thank you was sarcasm. I don't want to use Saussure for analysis here. In short, his actors are all performing their characters in their own way. I even think it's an existential performance that pays special attention to the character's survival state.
Of course, I think another important point is his cooperation with Louis Mahler. The first is, of course, lunch with Andre, and the other is this film. The third step is actually a master architect, but it is working with another Hollywood director, Mr. Demme, who made the Silence of the Lambs.
If you list us together, I think you will gain more.
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