Although it is a remake of Fellini's masterpiece "Eight and a Half", "Nine" does not inherit the "Crisis Awareness" in "Eight and a Half" at all, but the whole film instead of the director's creation. The sense of confusion is very thorough. Except for a few singing and dancing clips similar to piecing together an MV, the whole film is still a bit interesting, and the rest of the film does not arouse the audience's sense of substitution at all. For a spectator like me, watching this movie is for all the beauties in it, and it has nothing to do with the movie itself.
In 1963, when "Eight and a Half" was first released in Italy, it caused a sensation in the film industry. The famous film theorist Christian Metz said the film was a "'movie within a movie'". , the interweaving of life and fantasy scenes in the film made the audience entangled with the protagonist Guido. But as the musical "Nine", Guido suddenly changed from a creator who could not distinguish between fantasy and reality and entered a bottleneck period into a playboy with confused thoughts. The whole movie is not built with a storyline, but with a bunch of music clips that can't make people remember the melody and can only watch the music, which makes people sigh that Hollywood musicals are really declining. "Nine" not only cannot be compared with the musicals of the golden age of Hollywood, even "Moulin Rouge" in 2001 and "Chicago" in 2002, "Nine" is also difficult to compare. If "Moulin Rouge", "Chicago" and other movies have given people the hope of the revival of Hollywood musicals, then "Nine" can't wait to tell people that the revival of Hollywood musicals has a long way to go. .
In fact, there are not a few people who have experience in musicals. Nicole Kidman starred in "Moulin Rouge" in 2001 and was nominated for "Best Picture" at the 74th Academy Awards. After the biographical film "Life of the Rose" by the representative figure Edith Piaf was awarded, there are many singing passages in it. Speaking of which, "Nine" is better than "Moulin Rouge" and "Life of a Rose" in terms of set, make-up, costumes and special effects. In "Moulin Rouge", Nicole Kidman's famous aria "Diamonds are a woman's best friend" at the beginning of the film is still talked about by people to this day, and this tune must be mentioned when "Moulin Rouge" is mentioned; The theme song "Life of the Rose" has long since become a classic in French chansons. As early as when Audrey Hepburn was filming "Dragon and Phoenix", "Life of the Rose" has been circulated in the streets and has become a well-known classic. . On the other hand, in the arias in "Nine", the backing dancers are dazzling, and the luxurious setting is like being in a fairyland, but... every aria in it is completely lacking in the ability to be memorable in those two films, and there is not one Passages can be truly remembered, with just dazzling backdrops and cutscenes, and the charisma and aura that each protagonist can only show in it. Every star in "Nine" is the top in Hollywood, with a strong personal aura, not to mention actresses with strong aura like Sophia Loren, Penelope Cruz, Nicole Kidman , Even Kate Hudson's obvious soy sauce personal charm and aura are not inferior to the actresses. But it is a pity that several different but very powerful auras met together and did not produce sparks or reconcile into a very balanced atmosphere, but were incompatible with each other. The consequence of the collision is: the film is messy and the audience is at a loss.
Today, when everyone is saying that the content of "Deadly Companion" is very stupid, I would suggest that everyone turn around and read "Nine" one more time to fully understand what a real cheater is. The original work of "Deadly Companion", "Escape", was originally a bad film, and it is reasonable that the content of the remake is not satisfactory; and "Nine" is backed by a good embryo such as "Eight and a Half". It was so disgusting that Fellini, who went to heaven, knew what it was like. It is estimated that if he knew that his masterpiece was ruined like this, he would have to scratch the wall of heaven. So, please, please, Hollywood, classics can’t be spoiled, don’t think that you can do such uncultured things if you have money, waste your beautiful knives, and be despised by film critics.
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