Many years later, in the face of the huge projection screen in the cinema, I first saw this 1996 film starring Madonna and directed by Alan Parker.
This film has a variety of styles, combining musicals, musicals, biopics, and film noirs, which is refreshing. The innovation in form is also an important achievement of the film. It is different from traditional drama films. In telling the story, it uses the experience of real historical characters as the background, not only using traditional video language, but also using music and dance movements to shape the characters and promote the plot.
At the same time, the director made Anthony Banderas as a supporting role to appear in every experience in the life of the heroine Mrs. Veron through different identities. It amounts to adding an interpretation, an objective perspective, to her life story. It is innovative in the design of the film structure.
The protagonist of the film, Mrs. Veron, is a former first lady of Argentina. She has experienced ups and downs. Her favorite sentence is "I am ready to burn my life for the poor". At her funeral, 700,000 Argentines traveled to the capital to pay their respects. That nice song "Don't Cry For Me, Argentina" was written for her.
Madame Veron is the illegitimate daughter of a middle-class family. She has been neglected and humiliated since childhood, but she is determined and ambitious. She finally achieved success through the combination with the military oligarch Veron, and eventually became the first lady of Argentina. During the more than 30 years of her life, there was even a low point where she had to sell her body in order to survive. However, the way the film is shot makes these shots full of compassion and tolerance, and even in the downturn, there is always open-mindedness and optimism. However, I think that what makes Mrs. Veron stand out from the Fengyue Cave is always the color and aura of her that will spare no effort and burn her life to pursue her dreams.
Interestingly, the film repeatedly shows Mrs. Veron waving on the train and a group of riders galloping backwards. My understanding is that this irony implies that the heroine leads the people into the abyss while chasing her ambitions and dreams. As the Argentine writer Herbos said when he resigned the day after Veron came to power: "40 million fools chose a fool who stripped them of everything." The country advances and the people retreat.
The story of Mrs. Veron instantly triggered the association in my mind is the prototype of "Cleopatra" Kriapatella. They are so similar, they are examples of women controlling the world through men. Cleopatra had Caesar and Antony successively, just as Mrs. Veron controlled President Veron. Even the way they act is similar. Cleopatra asked her servants to wrap herself in a blanket to meet Caesar, and she played the goddess Isis on a huge and luxurious painting boat by sailing the Mediterranean Sea to seduce Anthony, just as Mrs. Bellon used fancy dress, radio offensive, rainbow diplomacy, love fund ambassador and other tricks To conquer the president, conquer the people, conquer the whole of Argentina.
She succeeded, just like her predecessor, Kriya Patella, and like those politicians with performance styles, from Ronald Reagan to JFK, from Berlusconi to Trump, the number one influencer of the universe, using Always those tricks. "Under the sun, there is nothing new." It's just that politicians with great personal charisma and performance tendencies are often disasters for the people. King You of Zhou smiled for Bomei people. "The beacon fire drama princes" is undoubtedly an extremely elegant and innovative move in the world of movies, but in the real world it is a failure of the country's subjugation. "The Duke of Zhou was afraid of the rumors, when Wang Mang was a humble corporal" Wang Mang was a super actor in the late Western Han Dynasty, and finally attracted peasant uprisings everywhere. Charismatic and the perfect lover, Antony was a political nightmare, while Augustus, the founding emperor of the Roman Empire who had triumphed over him, was so boring in his personal life that no one would think of him. Even Shakespeare wrote the play Antony and Kriyapatria to tell this wonderful story.
Behind the scenes, it is said that Madonna wrote a four-page handwritten letter to director Alan Parker in order to get the chance to play the leading role. Not only did she study vocal music for three months, but she also sang the songs in the movie in the recording studio. It took four months to record the song. Madonna's efforts even moved the Argentine president at the time, who agreed to lend the balcony of the presidential palace to the crew for filming. It can be said that Madonna's experience and spiritual world are similar to Mrs. Veron in a considerable part, so she has achieved great success in shaping the character.
Finally, I think it's appropriate to use Marilyn Monroe's words for Mrs. Veron and Madonna at the end.
"I'm selfish , impatient and insecure . I make mistakes, and I'm often out of control . But if you can't handle my worst, then you don't deserve my best...I never Fooling people, I'm just letting them fool themselves! They don't care about who I am, on the contrary, they're just in love with a Marilyn Monroe they fantasize about."
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