The movie I am sharing with you today is very unique. It was originally a hot musical on Broadway. Since 2015, tickets for performances on Broadway have been raised to $1,000 and it is hard to find a ticket. Not to mention numerous awards, it is said that the head of Hamilton, who has kept the $10 currency, is not replaced.
The title itself already states that this is a biopic, and despite the stage constraints of the musical, the film still manages to express the character's upbringing, personality, thoughts and destiny. The film recorded from the stage play adds the perspective of the lens, and uses the scene and depth of field of the lens to add more expressive techniques.
After watching this movie, the understanding and thinking about the fate of the characters are lingering and restless. Makes you want to say something to him. The film succeeds in shaping the legend of Hamilton through a complex mix of male love and jealousy, female control and awakening, the light and dark of humanity... ▼
The high-definition recording of the film was originally scheduled to be available to audiences at the end of next year. Under the pressure of the epidemic, the distribution rights were sold to Disney for $75 million. Viewers were able to see it online in advance for a very low price, and writer and star Miranda (who played Hamilton) joked that it was a gift to a traumatized world.
Although the music atmosphere of the high-definition official shooting is far less shocking than the live version, it retains some fragments that are not easy to reproduce. For example, Jonathan Groff, who played King George III of England, spit and drooled when he sang because he was too involved in the play. George III became mentally insane due to the loss of his beloved daughter in his later years. This saliva-splashing detail shows a state in which the character's spiritual world is out of control. ▼
The film time is 2 hours and 40 minutes, which greatly exceeds the narrative time of ordinary films. If not in the form of a musical, the content of the film would need at least twice as long to express clearly. Especially the large amount of RAP makes the lines come out at 3 times the normal speed.
When Anjelica faced her emotions rationally, she used a quick RAP to express her 3-minute encounter and acquaintance with Hamilton. ▼
In "GUNS AND SHIPS," Lafayette's RAP speed, played by David Diggs, refreshes musical theater history with a fast-paced performance of a war-torn situation. ▼
This is a movie that can catch a lot of people. It gives an answer more than 300 years ago to the confusion, weakness and overwhelm of people today: "If you don't have a stand at all, how can you say that you are working hard?"▼
"Even if it's only once in your life, proudly declare your position!"▼
The humorous expression and the contrasting characters in the play add a touch of lightness to the heaviness of historical figures. Back to the somewhat proud character of George III.
In the scene of the British defeat, he began to express his dissatisfaction bitterly. When he said the word "blue", the lights on the field had not turned into "blue", but he stomped his feet and the lights changed. into blue. The audience roared with laughter. ▼
In the shaping of the characters in the play, the factors of time and role are added, and the characters and behaviors of the characters are authentic and credible.
After Burr became a father, he began to sing: "For you, make the world a better place." The audience saw the part of Burr's humanity. Burr started off by claiming, "Who I am depends on who you are." He didn't define himself in his own way, he was constantly rocking, not knowing what he wanted. After he killed Hamilton, he spent the rest of his life in exile.
The film juxtaposes the two of them in a single frame that seems to herald their fates closely linked. ▼
The director is very skilled in designing a sense of space in the limited stage and finding more narrative space in the space.
When reminiscing about Hamilton's childhood, tell the story in the third person from the position closest to the camera. The storyteller, the content performer, the protagonist of the story, and the crowd divide the stage into four parts from near to far. The audience can feel that this is a story from a long time ago. ▼
When Hamilton wrote a letter to his sister who was far away on the other side of the ocean without telling his wife, the sister was in the sky above, showing the person Hamilton had in mind. His wife and son are in his line of sight, showing his real life. ▼
In addition to the method of dividing the space by position, the director also used lighting to divide the space. When Eliza received a letter from John Lawrence's death, she used cold and warm light to show the two worlds separated by yin and yang. ▼
In terms of time design, it also has a rich sense of hierarchy. The best part is Anjelica's flashback at the wedding.
The rotating stage, the flying skirt, the reunion of light and shadow, plus the sound effect of time travel, give people a real feeling of going back in time. ▼
Different lighting effects create distinctive characters and enrich the stage shape.
In the performance of Washington, the red V-shaped light is used to express victory and hope. ▼
In the performance of Burr, the blue bat light was used to highlight the darkness and insidiousness of his heart. ▼
At the beginning of the film, the character and fate of the characters are explained, and as a biopic, there is no suspense in itself. In order to attract the audience, it is necessary to dig the inner world of the character from the inside of the story, so that he has flesh and blood, that is to say, he must be real. Color is an important tool for expressing reality.
The bleak whitish blue represented the hopeless War of Independence, and when the tide of war reversed, it was replaced by the color of dawn. ▼
As the villain, Burr has been like a shadow over the audience's psychology from the very beginning. He was a prodigy who graduated from Princeton College in two years, but never did it. He waited and watched, time and chance did not favor him, he watched Hamilton go from nothing to mastering the fate of the nation, and he began to attack, denigrate, destroy.
He said, "Hamilton died, but left me with the debt. The world could have accommodated the two of us." Hamilton no longer existed, and he realized that he was an independent person who could have existed independently.
But because he killed Hamilton, Hamilton became an immortal hero of the country and the nation, but in the second half of his life he was to be exiled everywhere as a "sinner of history". He was defined by another name all his life, and he never did himself .
In the whole film, this section of music and rhythm is the slowest, because it suddenly quiets down and slows down, giving the audience room to rest. The feeling of emptiness, a single piano sound pounding one after another. It's like a busy autumn, and finally harvested a jar of wine, and slowly tasted the understanding and taste of life. ▼
The reason why a work can fascinate so many audiences is that it is not enough to be skilled, but that the emotions of the characters can flow into the hearts of the audiences, making the audiences have a sense of identity. The most successful thing about the film is that it really shows Hamilton as a human being.
We seem to understand his inability to resist physical temptations under pressure and his compromises in the face of threats. We deeply regret his stupidity and are as tolerant as our family members. ▼
The recording added some scenes that were not seen on set, such as the aerial shot from the top. ▼
Symmetrical beauty, power beauty, and various dance movement designs in the stage play, there is almost no montage cut, and the integrity of time and space is preserved. ▼
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