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What do we talk about when we talk about "war and peace"...
Shannon 2022-04-08 09:01:13
The first time I came into contact with "War and Peace" on the screen was in the distant middle school age. Without the Internet, there were only a few TV sets. At that time, it was still a six-day work system. I vaguely remember that every Saturday night there is a column called "World Film and Television Appreciation". It was this column that I saw masterpieces by Tolstoy, Hugo, Shakespeare, and Austin, and it also started my life of loving movies. Since this column only has more than 1 hour of broadcast time, I waited for nearly a month before I finished the 6 hours of "War and Peace" (broadcast for four full weeks). At that time, I didn't know anything about movies, I didn't know acting, I didn't know what role the director was, but I was fascinated by the Russian version of "War and Peace" in 1956. I still clearly remember that Na with a beautiful neck like a swan. Tasha and the bleak and tragic picture of war. Therefore, when "War and Peace" reappears on the screen more than 20 years later, the first thing I have to do is to put down the original version of Toon, put down the old version of Zhuyu, and only talk about this well-made British drama. This version of the BBC, intentionally or unintentionally, weakens Toweng's most powerful brushstrokes, making the history and complexity of human nature a blurred background, but it also makes the story more readable and pleasing on the screen, which is similar to our 84 version. The "Dream of Red Mansions" has "similarity in purpose". Perhaps, in front of the desolate and tragic fighting nation, the usual British extravagance has become as down-to-earth as an idyllic pastoral. "The war version of Jane Austen" should be the best footnote of this edition. There are struggles and pains, but in the end, they are like ripples in a teacup, and they all come down to that beautiful moment of afternoon tea in the English countryside. Only the soundtrack that many people say is ugly is full of Russian style in my ears, heavy, majestic, blurred, and desolate.
Extended Reading
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[first lines]
Anna Pavlovna Scherer: But mon cher ami, how can you be so calm? This... this monster, Bonaparte - he's crossed into Austria now and... who's to say that Russia won't be next.
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[last lines]
Pierre Bezukhov: [voice-over] They say sufferings are misfortunes. But if I was asked, would I stay as I was before I was taken prisoner, or go through it all again? I would say for God's sake, let me be a prisoner again.
Pierre Bezukhov: Come, let's sit and eat and give thanks for our good fortune.
Pierre Bezukhov: [voice-over continued] When our lives are knocked off course, we imagine everything in them is lost. But it is only the start of something new and good. As long as there is life, there is happiness. There is a great deal... a great deal still to come.