Let's talk about acting first. Whether Malone in the first part or AL afterwards, they perfectly interpret the godfather's calm, wise, decisive and majestic. But in comparison, Ma Long’s feeling is stronger, a little bit ridiculous, while Al is a little melancholy and more gentleman, which is one of the reasons why I like him, especially in the third part. In the end, the crying and silent hysteria after Mary was shot, it also expresses the sorrow that has been suppressed for a long time, and it all broke out at this moment. How much experience does a person have to embody this emotion to such a degree.
Let’s talk about the background. The Italian Godfather’s background set by the Godfather attracted me from the very beginning. The coronation of the Godfather, the beauty of Sicily, various ceremonies, operas, and costumes are all so elegant (I don’t know exactly this feeling). Moreover, this is the American dream of an Italian. The conflicts of culture, values, and reality in it have put a layer of mystery on the characters in this background, and it has become more and more attractive to the audience to understand and feel. .
What the godfather told me:
1 Responsibility is
about responsibility. There are responsibilities to relatives, responsibilities to family, responsibilities to lovers, responsibilities to friends, and responsibilities to oneself. When the responsibility is sublimated to a certain degree, it is more like It is a mission. Just as Mike finally embarked on his father’s old road—even though everyone, including himself, firmly believed that it was impossible at the beginning—most of the reasons were due to his father’s responsibility and family responsibility. , In order to save his family, for this responsibility, he did something that no one can imagine, and since then stepped into the road that Santino should take, and spent his entire life from then on. Maintaining one's own family is not just a responsibility, but a mission.
2 Principles
Life is the result of choices all the time. Between yes and no, everyone's life begins to diverge, and even people of the same background may end up in different destinations. In many cases, we make choices based on the accumulation and judgment of existing experience. This is a long process. In this process, we will unconsciously or consciously extract some vague boundaries for ourselves. Measure the current situation, such a boundary is the principle. In the face of various interests and temptations, it is always easy for people to abandon their original intentions and their bottom line of principles because they cannot resist, but in the end they realize that it is too late. Although many things are sometimes beyond our control, when things develop beyond the bottom line that can be tolerated, the godfather tells us to dare to say no, even if this will inevitably become the fuse leading to family disputes, it is a problem. The difference between a person with a soul and a person who has lost his soul.
3 Reason
"Never let others know what you are thinking", this sentence should be regarded as the ancestral training of the Corleone family. It tells us that even if it is the instinctive desire of human beings to directly get what we want, we must think first. The price behind this is to make everything as clear as possible before making a choice and expressing your own judgment. History tells us that all things are not as simple as they seem on the surface. There are always some traps that you don't know about. Waiting for you to fall in accidentally and then let others slaughter them. The so-called inadvertent tricks will lose everything. I have always believed that human nature is ugly. We spend our entire lives to conceal this ugliness: arrogance, jealousy, rage, laziness, greed, gluttony and lust. There is an old saying that thinks twice before acting. If a person is not rational enough, he will have it. May be dominated by the ugly nature, and every ugly is enough to kill.
4 Braveness
is still the same sentence: Fear stems from the unknown. The weakness of human nature is that we always want everything to be under our own control as much as possible, and when it exceeds the range that we can bear, it is easy to have fear, and fear to make even small choices. While everyone was arguing over the issue of family reconciliation, Mike bravely proposed an assassination proposal. Although this was an unknown attempt for him, for the benefit of the family, he told us what it means to be brave and act decisively. In order to judge, this has also become a turning point in his life, completely changing the trajectory of his life.
It is difficult to change a person, but it is not difficult to influence a person. Be cruel to yourself and let yourself influence others instead of waiting for others to manipulate you.
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