watched Cabaret yesterday, another Bob Fosse musical classic.
Different from the traditional musicals that create a happy scene of superficial prosperity, and the traditional musicals criticized by Wang Xiaobo for "lifting your legs and dancing like a dog urinating", Cabaret fixed the singing and dancing scenes in the scene of the karaoke hall, and in the process of narration, he The songs and dances are edited in parallel, and there is a kind of symbolic montage. The gorgeous songs and dances are no longer just embellishments in this film, but become more meaningful than ever. It is a sublimated ideographic part that strengthens several of the stories. key points, without destroying the integrity of the narrative. What's more, this kind of expression can only be achieved by film.
This technique is very common in musical films of the post-golden era, especially in recent years. "Chicago", "Beyond the sea" and so on, all use this method. But in the seventies, it was certainly groundbreaking.
At its core, it's a love story of a cute, poor girl who looks heartless and is actually escaping any burdens and responsibilities life throws at her. In fact, there are only a few types of stories that go on and on. Using the theory of mythic archetypes, the possibility of our storytelling has been fully discovered in ancient Greece. So the story itself is not important, the way the story is told is the most important. Berlin in the 1930s is used as the background, which deepens the apocalyptic sense of the story. The heroine's identity as a nightclub singer connects the singing and dancing scenes with the regular narrative parts~ The tone of the movie is bright and bright, and there is despair. Of course, the most shining thing is singing and dancing~
Falling in love can be very easy, but reality always It will prove how foolish it is to fall in love with someone so easily. Love will eventually fail, whether it is a brief rupture, or it will eventually disappear under the polishing of time. So in the end, the choice of the heroine is the best, remove the burden of reality on this love, seal it up, and when we part, just like when we first met, smile and shake hands...
Last but not least, the film's female lead, Lisa Minnelli, is the daughter of "The Wizard of Oz" heroine Judy Garland. It's amazing to think about movies, frozen in time and sealed on film. You said that if you watch these two films together, which one do you think is the mother and which is the daughter...
The opening of the film is a Grand Opening, a song called Willkommen (welcome in German), I like the forceful smile of this song Son~
There is a song at the back called Two Ladies. I think this part is the best place to illustrate the symbolic and ideological role of the song and dance I mentioned earlier. In this song, there is a mystery hidden in the plot. After that, the burden is shaken. When I think about this song again, I will admire the ingenious design of the creator~ The
background music is a song with the same name as the film, Lisa Minna Lee sang, this is an old song. It turned out that Louis Armstrong also sang it, but listening to it in a movie is definitely different~
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