Both films have their strengths and weaknesses. In terms of narrative techniques, "Steel" is more dazzling, and in terms of appeal, "He" is even better.
1. The idea is similar to the one in
"Steel", which is to steal the piano, make the piano, terminate, continue, and complete, which has become a main line. It focuses on how to make a piano, and fully interprets the process of "making a piano if there is difficulty, but also if there is no difficulty in creating difficulty", which adds a heavy touch of tragic and solemnity to the making of the piano. The conflict between reality and ideal is concentrated in the tug-of-war between Madoka's parents for Madoka. The piano is the law code. Xiaoyuan's parents represent two different ways of life. After Xiaoyuan's father was laid off, she reluctantly managed to obtain a household registration, and Xiaoyuan's mother remarried to a counterfeit medicine seller. Although Xiaoyuan's father really built a steel piano with the spirit of Yugong Yishan, Xiaoyuan sat in front of the piano and said suspiciously, "Dad, can this piano be played?" Xiaoyuan's father lost to Xiaoyuan's mother in the end. , did not win the war. In the end, idealism once again failed in the face of reality.
"Harmony" focuses on how to learn the piano. Xiaochun's love for music went through three stages: it originated from the longing for his mother, and his father said that it was a relic left to him by his mother. So back Qin and his father came to Beijing to apprentice. The second stage is the philosophy taught to him by Mr. Jiang. He can't play the piano for his mother, but he feels that life is very beautiful after having a concert. Xiaochun really fell in love with music at this stage. In the third stage, Mr. Yu used Xiaochun's life experience to encourage him to learn how to be grateful. Music is not to show off his skills, but to incorporate feelings. As Xiaochun played a piece of old firewood for his father at the train station, the plot reached a climax. Xiaochun stood on a stage wider than the music competition, completed the performance with gratitude, and truly fell in love with and understood the music. weight in your heart.
The two teachers represent different ways of life. Teacher Jiang is an idealist, and his musical ideals are squeezed into a dilapidated hut by the real space. The realist Mr. Yu is good at attacking the heart and is like a duck to water in this society. Lin Yu and Xiaochun also made their own choices in the end. One played tricks and played psychological tactics before the game to get Xiaochun to withdraw, and the other gave up the game and chose to play a song for his father to repay his father, just like Teacher Jiang. people.
2. The triangular character hierarchy The
interesting thing is that the characters in the two films are also very similar, and both have a triangular structure: the father-child-a female character similar to the mother. This kind of role arrangement may be based on the same idea: the absence of the mother's role makes the child have a stronger attachment to music and a more sensitive mind, and at the same time strengthens the drama in the plot, highlighting the father A decisive role in a child's musical path.
The role played by Qin Hailu in "Steel" is simply brilliant. From image building to performance, they are very life-like and three-dimensional. The character Lily in "And" really didn't understand what she was doing when I watched it, but now I understand, but this kind of character seems too outdated now. At the same time some thin and face painting. Now, if I want to find a sugar daddy and a little girl who is pure and mentally handicapped, I'm afraid it will be much more difficult. So it seems even more detached from reality today. These two characters also have lovely similarities, both are little women who don't know how to care about details, and are fascinated and confused because of love. The little woman in "Steel" continues to love, and the little woman in "And" walks out of the deceived love and starts a real life again. Whether they continue or get out of love, their confusion is a passive resistance to real life - like Madoka's mother in "Steel", marrying a fake drug seller, like "And" It is a realistic choice for Zhong Xiaochun's biological mother to throw her child at the station. This choice is understandable, and even in reality, there are so many that we are too lazy to look at it again, but for love or for ideals, we are fascinated by The goofy little woman is more respectable and lovely. It's a long way off, but Qin and Lily really remind me of the mad and reckless Fangguan's children's shoes in Yihong Courtyard.
The father figures of "Steel" and "Harmony" are very similar. They are all people who refuse to bow their heads in the face of reality and hand over their ideals for replacement. Both characters are well-crafted. Very manly.
The two characters, Koharu and Madoka, are very different - and that's one of the weaknesses of Steel in my opinion. Madoka's play is not fully developed from beginning to end, just as a complete foil, it is simply a prop. She basically had no active communication with her father in the process of making the piano, and she was not moved by sitting in front of the piano, so she was like an outsider during the production of the piano. I feel sorry for this estrangement of the central characters from the plot. Originally, in this link, it can be expanded a little, and it can be very colorful. Of course, "Steel" also deliberately tries to express a thick-line lifestyle. So these details are softened.
The role of Xiaochun is played by Tang Yun, this little boy's performance is simply wonderful! He is now continuing his piano lessons with a famous piano teacher. His performance is moderate, and his innocent ignorance towards the beautiful sister is very similar to "Sunny Days". The child's willful temper and the arrogance and frankness born from the love of music are very real. The last performance at the train station was free, sincere, devoted and natural.
In addition, the expression of "Steel" is broader than that of "Harmony", which is a group portrait of a group of people at the bottom of society. This group of heroes in the rivers and lakes drinks together to call themselves brothers and even make pianos, which reminds me of a painting by Repin, "The Chaporos Write a Letter to King Apollo." These heroes are not building pianos, but fighting for Papa Xiaoyuan. They are not completing projects, they are provoking the values of utilitarianism in the present. They know the absurdity of this matter, but they are also serious and meticulous in their professionalism, and use their actions to deliberately prove their existence value-the factory was disbanded, and they have since been reduced to the bottom of the society, but the craftsmanship is still there, and they are still Be a member of the collective without being abandoned by this society. The place where the piano is practiced is also very ironic. The gate of the dilapidated factory opened, and a group of former masters walked in proudly to complete a great and glorious mission.
3. The soundtrack of
"Steel" made me amused as soon as it played - the Russian Lyube Band, I like it very much. The vicissitudes of life and the hoarse voice just encouraged a group of heroes in all corners of the world. In addition, the soundtracks of many bridges are extremely hilarious. Such as Soviet songs (Daddy Xiaoyuan played "Hawthorn Tree" alone in the dark, the factory door opened, Qin Hailu came to lean on Daddy Xiaoyuan, who turned back and said "I can finally marry you"), old-fashioned love songs, building pianos The soundtrack and camera transitions are wonderful. This gives the film a tragic color. The era of the heroes of Xiao Yuanpa, including the engineer, has passed. The factory has become dilapidated just like their lost youth, and the two big chimneys that symbolize the glory of state-owned enterprises have finally been blown up. The glory days of the old state-owned factory were buried like this, and they were the only group singing elegy around the cemetery. After the funeral is over, life must go on with its head held high.
The soundtrack in "And" is even more unprofessional. I can't tell the names of those songs. In short, I think each song is very appropriate.
The soundtrack in "Steel" is more hilarious, and "Harmony" is better in terms of appeal and integration with the plot. Seeing the ending without tears, I took YOU. I'd say my tears aren't too low. The ending of "Steel" is a little pale. The soundtrack after the little girl sat in front of the piano was too bland - the director deliberately used blandness to express the tragic and solemnity of this matter - in the end idealism was defeated by realism, and Papa Xiao Yuan tried his best to bring it back Lost, exhausted all the efforts in exchange for the final is still a zero. But should this be a little more impactful as the ending of the movie? Could this zero have more weight—even if it was still a zero? !
4. Narrative language
As a film ten years later , the narrative language of "Steel" is even more brilliant, and many funny clips have a comedy effect. The dialogue in "And" is a little stiff. In the past ten years, the language of film has been enriched with the richness of life levels. Obviously, the environment in which Xiaochun was at that time could not be compared with that of Madoka. This can only be said to be caused by social changes in the past ten years.
5. The
shooting angle and colors of the film "Steel" are fuller and richer, especially in the background of the dilapidated factory building. The background of "Harmony" is the old Beijing courtyard, like an ink painting.
If you are tired of writing, just write as much. The tragedy of idealism lies in knowing that it cannot be done.
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