"Leonardo and Rimbaud, 100 years later, echoing each other through a film"
Leo has been famous for a long time since I was born, and when I actually started seeing him, it was already his last work "The Revenant"
In the three-hour film, the bearded middle-aged man stands tall in the ice and snow, struggling to climb a mountain, warming himself with bloody bear skins, and swallowing chunks of liver to survive.
His brows were lined with long tension, and his eyes were alert and alert.
The long-range lens, the vast and lonely ice field, the blue is blowing, I can feel the cold sitting in the movie theater.
Only later did I know that this person was Leonardo, who used to be the dream of countless girls.
One of his favorite films has a sense of age, because the subject matter is limited, and the scale gradually disappears from people's vision. But his juvenile heart is vividly reflected in "Total Eclipse of the Heart".
"Total Eclipse of the Heart" tells the story of the French poet Rimbaud who left his hometown at the age of 16 and went to Paris to join the already well-known poet Verlaine.
I know that my true love for Leo started when he was 21 when he played the 16-year-old French poet Rimbaud.
Two teenagers separated by hundreds of years are united in this film.
When I saw Leo wearing a three-piece suit from the French 19th World, his eyes were full of playfulness, and he walked lightly in the busy traffic, I almost believed that he was the one a hundred years ago, the genius who created surreal poetry Rimbaud.
His clothes were almost exhausted gray, but his eyes were shining.
The heat wanted to ignite the earth, and he did it later. In the three years from the age of 16 to 19, he used his talent to ignite the earth of poetry.
When Verlaine took him to a traditional poetry meeting, he regarded the communication that others valued as a game, and he laughed arrogantly when others read poetry.
He said that he never read his own poems, and only poets who were inferior would show themselves everywhere.
With youthful heart and disdain.
Rimbaud is a short-lived person, because the life of a genius is too intense for the thin earth to bear.
I have never understood why, as pure as he is, he would fall in love with the old and cowardly Verlaine.
But it goes without saying that we all love Leo's Rimbaud.
As soon as he looked up, the whole world was heartbroken for him.
Later, I found out that lovers actually share commonalities and complement each other. Rimbaud is a genius. He wanders on the wild grassland all day long. He likes the sun and the sea complement each other, and he loves poetic illusions.
Verlaine is closer to human nature. He is a person who often cannot find inspiration. He is in love with Rimbaud and attached to his wife at the same time. His indecision and deep concern are like everyone's.
The 16-year-old Rimbaud and the 21-year-old Leo overlapped. They were inseparable and achieved each other.
Talented people always achieve each other, and to a certain extent Leo's second half of his life continued Rimbaud's unfinished "all the way forward."
From 16 to 19 years old, it was the thickest and thinnest three years in Rimbaud's life. He had nothing to do except wander and write poetry.
It was also in these three years that the poems he wrote became outliers because he created the surrealist school.
At the age of 19, he suddenly closed the pen.
"I don't seem to belong to this era," he said.
At the age of 37, he died of illness in a foreign land, and his life span was half that of ordinary people.
The first half of Leo's life was also thin and heavy.
1995 was the peak period of his appearance. His blue eyes and narrow and small face gave him an almost primitive beauty. His appearance did not have the sharp-cut aggressiveness of European and American handsome men, and his beauty was without danger. , but very lethal.
In my eyes, one of the best examples of American handsome men is Captain America Chris Evans, and the other is Leo.
The former represents a more standard American handsome guy.
Also blond and blue-eyed, Chris already had a strong mature temperament when he was young.
Foreigners are generally precocious and have long faces.
Most of this face shape is determined by the nose, which is the most important of the facial features. According to the ratio of three courts and five eyes, Chris has a shorter forehead. The nose is slightly longer than the forehead, and the tip of the nose is wider than the distance between the eyes.
This gives him a very neat sense of elite, and it is not inconsistent to play a rich boy in "Knives Out of the Sheath".
In terms of Leo's face as a whole, it is more in line with the standard three courts and five eyes.
In "Titanic" he pretended to be an adult, but the fullness of his forehead made him look full of youthful roundness.
Another very important point is that Leo's nose is relatively short, and the shape of the nose is short and delicate, which makes his face not like a traditional melon seed face, but slightly wider. This also explains why his appearance will be out of shape when he is a little fatter.
Such a nose and face will weaken his aggressiveness as a handsome guy, and make him feel like a teenager.
In general, the traditional handsome guy has a long face, a big and high nose, and the contour is deep, very three-dimensional, and full of masculine compulsion.
When Leo was young, his face was generally round and blunt.
The blunt fingers here are not rigid or inflexible, on the contrary, Leo wins in the high harmony of his overall senses.
His eyes are unusually flexible.
In some of the earlier works, he basically used his eyes to tell stories. The loneliness and drooping in his eyes, the first point of his joy and innocence is the light in his eyes.
Then, just like a landscape ink painting, a little bit of decontamination spread to his other senses.
In "Total Eclipse of the Heart", in the scene where Verlaine leaves him in a boat,
The first place where his sadness condensed was his eyes. After the feeling in his eyes was in place, he opened his mouth and said with a crying voice: "Don't go."
In Belgium, he stayed in a hotel with Verlaine, and when he woke up, he found Verlaine sneaking into his wife's room. In the scene where he was laughing but not laughing, the deep affection that wanted to cry without tears was also the first to show in his eyes, and a little bit turned into doubt , and the ridicule after discovering a lover's betrayal.
In the end, it was shown in the stubborn and indifferent pursed lips.
Every detail of Leo's limbs is telling the play and expressing his emotions, but Leo's eyes have the status of a great master, and they are the beginning of the primary mobilization.
How can such eyes full of stories and sorrows not be charming?
Leo, who is in his early 20s, has no vicissitudes and years on his face, no wrinkles and barrenness around his eyes, but his frowns and smiles are telling you stories.
Many people are beautiful, but they are seen through at a glance,
And in the depths of Leo's character, there are still unknown things hidden.
In 1995, he was the rich boy written by Shakespeare in "Romeo and Juliet" who could die for love .
Who would have thought that a few years later, he and Rose would kiss deeply under the waves again, but this time his heart became the heart of the ocean buried in the depths of the sea, and he could never wake up again.
Leo's work is very poetic in a way, and at the age of 21 he was Rimbaud, the forward-moving poet who traveled all over Central Asia.
At 23, he was an affectionate and short-lived poor painter who died in heavy handcuffs.
At the age of 28, he was a mouse who played with the world in the palm of his hand, and only regarded chasing and being chased as a game.
At the age of 30, he was a perfect pilot with a huge inheritance, a morbid and stubborn genius.
In each play, Leo's roles are almost never repeated. He observes different human natures over and over again. Only by approaching and understanding can he enter the role.
And Rimbaud said: "I want to be everyone."
But most of these dramas show different human nature, and the end points are mostly tragic, just like Rimbaud's life. He pursued running and eternity all his life, and finally developed a malignant tumor on his leg and died in a foreign country.
In his poem he wrote:
"I ran all winter, ignoring the turbulent tide, and I was more deaf than a fascinated child. I saw the peninsulas break free from their cables, like a swarm of triumphant bees. The storm blessed me to wake up on the sea, I danced, more than The stopper is still light."
Rimbaud's heart is full of ethereal spirit, and his thirst for freedom is almost crazy.
And Leo is breaking through his layers of shackles. He even thinks that his fascinating beauty is also a kind of restraint. After he accepts the gift from God, he doesn't take it seriously. Countless alcohol, delicacies, and beauties break through his body. , so that he was stained with the traces of the years, and the face that was once called an old dream by countless girls also began to fill in the folds and dim.
And maybe that's what he wants.
He put aside all his achievements in his youth without hesitation, and turned into the fur hunter who was abandoned in the wasteland for revenge. , his fingers were no longer kissed by the muse, but he became the first European to go deep into Ogadan alone in search of ivory.
He and the hunter played by Leo walked in silent fatigue together.
France in the 19th century was not worthy of Rimbaud, and the 21st century is finally worthy of Leonardo.
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