It is defined as a legend, a violin legend that travels through four centuries and five stories are unconditionally linked together. In different eras, it has different circumstances and different treatment.
From the very beginning, it was created by a famous craftsman, it has been extraordinary, it is the masterpiece of Nicolo Bussotti's life, he decided to give it to his upcoming children, and determined to train him to become a famous musician, not just a luthier. But things backfired, and his wife left him with the children he had never met because of the dystocia. Depressed, he painted the surface of the violin bright red. This is the first story.
The violin was transferred to an orphanage where children were taught music, and was handed over to a violin prodigy named Kaspar Weiss. Of course, the child prodigy will never have a future in an orphanage. The kind dean found a Vienna musician, Antoinette Pussin, and on his recommendation, he came to the capital of music with a carriage. At that time, music was popular and it could be described as a golden age, and with the emergence of prodigies like Mozart, nobles began to dig talents everywhere. Kaspar's talent was valued twelve points by Antoinette Pussin, who made an appointment with the nobles to prepare for the audition within three weeks. Antoinette taught little Kaspar playing skills attentively, and he also studied attentively. This child made Antoinette very satisfied, but he heard that little Kaspar had to stay with Qin even when he slept. He saw the preciousness of Qin, so he tried to have the servant take it away. Little Kaspar suddenly became seriously ill and had nowhere to go to seek medical treatment. Thinking of the red violin, I immediately gave it to him with mixed feelings. In the audition that followed, in the face of doubts from the nobles, Kaspar Weiss fell down just before he played the violin, and never got up again. The violin was his lifelong love in the city.
Before the third story happened, the red violin had been stolen, played by various people, and had been to many places. The violin came with a gypsy troupe, and Frederick Pope, the famous composer and violinist, got it, and became obsessed with it, raving about it every day. The novelist Victoria Byrd, who had fallen in love with him before, regarded the violin as a rival in love, shot the violin in the neck in a fit of rage, and left angrily. Frederick Pope committed suicide over the loss of his lover.
Afterwards, the violin came to Shanghai with Frederick Pope's Chinese valet, and he pawned the damaged violin at a low price because of his livelihood. Soon after, Qin was bought by a mother and given to her daughter. The little girl named Xiang Bei kept Qin by her side. The "Cultural Revolution" that soon swept across the country put her in a dilemma as a Red Guard. When criticizing Zhou Yuan, a Western music teacher, Xiang Bei wisely rescued him and gave him the qin in private. Zhou Yuan treasured Qin for a lifetime, and finally died in a loft accompanied by Qin.
This red violin has re-entered people's field of vision, largely because the Chinese government decided to hand over this vicissitudes of life violin for auction. Charles Morritz, a New York appraisal expert who authenticated for the auction house, took over the piano. During continuous research, he found that the composition of the paint on the surface of the piano was unknown. He took samples and sent them to the University of Montreal for identification. The paint was mainly composed of human blood, which was identified by investigation and DNA as the blood of Nicolo Bussotti's wife who died in childbirth. Morritz, who was informed of this news, had a bold idea. When the auction was going on, he would dispose of the high-quality imitations and real ones he had found before. The bond between art and life is passed from father to child, just as the master had hoped when he first made this world-famous violin...
The film itself is based on a huge amount of material and spans a long time, but the narrative process is slow and unobtrusive, giving people no sense of compactness, which is the best point. In addition, it is also worth mentioning that the plot of the film is interspersed. For example, the scene where the fortune-teller performed fortune-telling for Nicolo Bussotti's prenatal wife appeared in the film five times. The fate talked about was Nicolo Bussotti's wife herself, but it became a prophecy for the red violin. There is also the red violin which is auction item No. 72, but the auction process of auction item No. 71 has been repeated many times from different angles, especially when Charles Morritz replaced the real one from the backstage, which made the whole film more twists and turns and intriguing. .
August 11, 2010
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