—— The musical "Moulin Rouge"
is a wonderful movie viewing experience in the film and television works. The West understood it as a moving picture, but China initially understood it as a "shadow play". Because in audio-visual, visual performance occupies the vast majority of the proportion. The elements in the picture reflect the magic of the performance and convey the essence of the story through the combination of art. It is precisely because of this that excessive use of lines is a big taboo. Just like today's rough TV shows can be listened to like a radio. A large number of lines are used to express the original deep, but the simple words. As Confucius said 2,500 years ago, clever words make the color brighter. But after choosing Fan Sister's musical appreciation, we will be surprised to find out. Emotions that can't be "said" can be sung, jumped out, and released with focused body movements and soulful singing.
Excerpted from "Cultural Brigade" (Sumen Mountain is in Hui County, Henan Province, where a famous hermit Sun Deng lived in seclusion at that time. After Ruan Ji went up the mountain, he squatted in front of Sun Deng and asked him a series of important historical and philosophical questions. , but Sun Deng didn't seem to hear anything, didn't say a word, didn't even roll his eyes. Ruan Ji looked at Sun Deng, who looked like a clay sculpture and wood sculpture, and suddenly realized how meaningless his major problem was. Perhaps this master communicated with another vocabulary system? As if being swayed by a magical force, he whistled slowly. After the whistling, when he looked at Sun Deng again, Sun Deng commented on him with a smile, saying "Do it again." When Ruan Ji heard this, he quickly stood up and screamed towards the mountains and the sky for a long time. After he turned around, Sun Deng calmed down again. He knew that he had completed an exchange with this master. This trip did not come in vain. Ruan Ji went down the mountain, but just as he reached the middle of the mountain, a miracle happened. Like the opening of Tianle, the plucking of the Buddhist qin, and the singing of a hundred phoenixes, an unimaginable music suddenly filled the air. Between the mountains, forests and valleys, Ruan Ji was shocked for a moment and immediately realized that this was the whistle of Master Sun Deng, answering all his historical and philosophical questions. Ruan Ji raised his head and listened until the whistling ended. Then he hurried home and wrote down A "Mr. Adult Biography" was published.)
Back to the original book, just like life and death in this world, each of us has the same experience, from birth to death, everyone has a similar process, from ignorance to growth. The same is true of love stories. They are sad or happy, life or death, they all experience the most romantic and sacred feeling in the world - giving love and reciprocating love. At the same time, he also suffers great pain in the world - about trust and betrayal, choice and compromise. But no matter how the plot is repeated, what really touches our hearts is the values revealed in the story. Those views on life, on the value of existence, on the balance and choice between material and spiritual needs. Judgment of trust and misunderstanding of lovers, and even introduced freedom, beauty, truth and love in the Bohemian Revolution. Class, betrayal, money, and death correspond to the harsh reality intertwined with it. Heavy repression and opposition have detonated a moth-to-fire love in the spiritual outlook of an era and the repressed life of the artists at the bottom. Shown in the dramatic conflict, the audience has to feel the life and helplessness, love and death themes in the world according to the songs and dances in the play.
The Moulin Rouge in Paris in 1900 was a dance hall, a brothel, and a place for the powerful to play with the lower-class beauties. People here define themselves as courtesans who sell love. A person's worth is measured in diamonds. And the protagonist Satine is the brightest one, and lives a pure life - for acting, for being famous, for more value and more diamonds. Desire is the most real here, and there is no need to hide it, because compared with the pressure and helplessness of survival, it is a value that can be seen and touched. Indulgence is innocent here, eroticism is justified here. A large number of close-up can-can dance shots are combined with the comically exaggerated face close-up of the dance floor owner and exaggerated sound effects to form a pair of absurd and rhythmic Sex and the City. In the opening clip, the rhythm of the dance and the switching back and forth between the close-up shots and the panoramic shots not only reflect the scheduling of the stage play, the artistic exaggeration of the drama, and the vivid form of the musical, and face the desires of everyone in the play. Set the initial living environment, and the matching pressure and desire for survival. High society vented their desires here, possessed carnival and enjoyment. But the dancers are worried that the beauty will be easy to get old and live on the streets, looking forward to getting ahead and jumping out of this circle of dependence and boredom. . The poets, writers, actors, and bosses who wander in it are carrying out their own tasks in life, and they have never stopped for a moment.
Maybe romantic love will stem from an embarrassing misunderstanding, when the writer is mistaken for a duke and seduced by the heroine Satine's business. Under the misunderstanding between the two parties, Satine's desire and the writer's sincerity have a strong dramatic impact and a strong contrast in the provocation of Satine. Just like the intersection of the positive and negative poles, the current hits the hearts of both sides. The colleague who inspired the writer touched Satine's stable life for the first time. But life is romantic and cruel. The first meeting between the two parties may have laid the foundation for this romantic and sad story. Middle-class writers are like passers-by in life, paying sincerity and romance, breaking the girl's heart, and receiving love and beauty. But the girl has to make a choice on the values of life, choose love, and finally give her life. The nobles possessed everything and traded everything, but they could not exchange for a sincere heart. One of the great benefits of musicals can be seen here.
First, while having this exaggerated sense of shape and art, it also produces the alienating effect of the Brecht system, allowing the audience to jump out of the original height of the story while watching the story, and think about the ultimate question expressed by the story-about love. problems with life. What kind of life does the owner of the protagonist live, and what kind of life do you want to have? The gap of difference between the two is what drives their dramatic behavior. Is life sincere and precious, or is love more expensive? Is love true or false, is it true or false? What is the essence of love between two people? desire? enthusiasm? Why is love so painful? Because of doubt? envy? betray? anger? The difference in the values of both parties or everyone determines whether we can be happy or not?
Second, the use of singing and dancing is just like the expression before human beings have learned language, expressing our warm emotions with the same devotion to God. Combining the emotions expressed by the fusion of three art forms of film art, folk art and dance, it can more impress people who "understand". We can see the huge change in Satine's heart from her dancing posture, from cheerful and sexy at the beginning, to changeable and tempting, when she gets love, you can see that her body is soft and light from the heart. Her eyes are no longer erratic like a female leopard hunting for prey, but firm and gentle. In the deep purple dance, what you see is a broken heart and a gloomy mood, but it is so firm and so sad. The last song of life, big eyes with tears, half-turned posture like a lover who is still in a hurry, at the last moment he took out his broken heart and showed his lover the still pure soul. In all previous dances, the body was driven by the body, but this time the emotion in the heart is expressed with the body. This is the special beauty of dance. This moment does not require gorgeous words, a dance, a heartbeat, and it can connect two hearts without explaining anything.
Why there are so many changes, because as the story progresses, Satine's heart is changing.
Third, it is also one of the characteristics of the narrative structure of the film, allowing the play within the play to participate in the narrative. The writer's love with Satine originated from a play, and the writer used their love to frame the play. This play also participates in cross-narratives. Just like the scene in which Satine sacrificed herself to seduce the Count, cross-editing was carried out in different places at the same time in the form of dramatic rehearsal. When the decision of the finale of the play falls in the hands of the earl, the metaphors and metaphors of the play and the life in the play begin to herald the direction of the finale. This is the best part of the movie! ——The finale where the reality and the dramatic setting are separated and unexpectedly diverge adds infinite charm.
If you love, then you have no regrets. The most precious thing in the world is to give love, and the other party also reciprocates love. At this point in the analysis of the story, the inexplicable sadness disappeared unexpectedly. Because this is not just a story of a couple falling in love and dying. But in the rolling red dust, a proud princess, a beautiful diamond found her own value. No more worrying about sleeping on the street and never getting old in obscurity. You don't have to rely on diamonds to prove your existence. Don't sway and get lost between gains and losses. She bravely chose love and found herself. And finally went on firmly until the end of life. She is always pure and beautiful. This increasingly graceful and moving dance proves, this choking life song proves, this tearful eye proves: freedom, beauty, truth, love and being loved are the most romantic and great feelings that will never change in this world.
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