I should have disliked such super flashy musicals, but the inclusiveness of the film text convinced me.
First and foremost, of course, a successful return to the big genre of "shows", the narrative of the tragic and gorgeous love story between a poor writer and an up-and-coming showgirl (although there is a literary stage film The nested relationship story is still poor and weak) and the core we can call it dog blood, bad vulgarity, or, we can call it classical. When the genre of musicals was on the decline, this film suddenly returned to the original, a most simple story. And the flashy song and dance scene of this film is also a revival of the song and dance. Perhaps the song and dance film was like this at the beginning: "Busby Berkeley-style Warner Music and Dance" luxurious scene arrangement, in a Cancan dance, the boldness of the picture and color Expression is already the embodiment of a Camp aesthetic. Of course, as well as its tribute to "Blue Angel" and "Gentlemen Prefer Beauty", we can't help but dream back to the most glorious era of musicals.
However, it is naturally difficult for people who have been tortured and tired by Hollywood musicals to buy into this story. Therefore, this article not only made a breakthrough in art, but also made a bold attempt at the text level.
While returning to the original narrative template of musicals, this film has made a bold crossover in genre, combining the most popular popular culture at the moment: MV, MTV, TV animation, Bollywood Indian culture, etc. collage. First of all, it is natural to combine nirvana and cancan dance. Of course, there is also a combination of "Gentlemen Prefer Beauty" and Madonna. In the process of singing "Diamonds are a girl's best friend", Monroe suddenly turned into Madonna's MV. Not to mention that the latter two men sang "Like a Virgin", the combination between tradition and popular culture also has the budding of feminist ideas. Of course, there is also the use of the Indian cultural sitar, and even the interpretation of Elton John's "your song". The sentimental feelings of men and women can be re-presented in pop culture and postmodern aesthetics. The film's pursuit of formal innovation wins. It is a postmodern adaptation of an old love story, so this film is not old wine in a new bottle, the story is the bottle, and the form is the wine.
The whole film's "homage" to traditional elements is more likely to be called "palimpsest", which refers to the rewriting of texts that have previously been completely or partially erased, while the postmodern aesthetic semantics The repainting is a manifestation of intertextuality. The old and the new complement each other at this moment. The old has not disappeared, but the new has appeared. Every audio-visual language: fast editing of shots, smooth fictional scene advancement (special effects), camp aesthetics, traditional stage opera-style top lighting and backlighting, complex and diverse soundtracks (funny sound effects, multiple types of music) intersect each other In this way, various cultural texts interweave into a complex intertextual system between vertical historical depths and horizontal formal contrasts, eventually forming a “decorative, scrutinized, dense, and interpretable from beginning to end”. text".
The textual expression of the whole film reflects the complex cultural depth through pictures and sounds. It is a presentation of various cultures from ancient times to dazzling in the process of today's society and historical development, just like a blackboard. From yesterday's uncleaned math English notes to today's Chinese, physical and math class writing, it is a series of type traces of different popular cultures, and a series of various and distinctive type texts from a series of different historical periods. miraculous coexistence. What is even more surprising is that the film did not fall into the "anything goes" style of nihilism and cynicism. ”, about various cultures in a layer-by-layer engraving, a scene evokes a large number of genre memories, in this film may seem chaotic and out of place, the mixing of classic film music and modern culture is to some extent a reference to the past. An expression of the coexistence of the future and the present in such a postmodern context, its textual complexity has reached an unprecedented level, but it has reached a consensus through the most "dog-blooded" story and narrative template in the most classical genre.
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