Ge Ying
If the story is the flesh and blood of the film, then the music is the soul of the film.
And the various fetters between the music player and the instrument are often the theme of film art faithful to performance.
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Talk about music as professional
Today we are going to look at how good directors handle the relationship between characters and instruments through two classic music films, The Pianist at Sea and The Red Violin.
Watch these two together, the more you watch, the more boring
Birth of a child
Qin as a parent
sea pianist
At the beginning of Pianist at Sea, Danny the boatman picks up a baby in first class.
The baby sleeps on the piano. This way of setting the scene is to emphasize that the piano is the mother, a very noble and elegant bloodline.
Danny later adopted the baby and became his father.
Danny is the bottom burner on the boat, but has a very masculine sense of power.
There are many steam engines inside the hull that show the hardness and roughness of the industry, which is completely a kind of male rough beauty.
The baby, our hero, 1900.
Growing up in such an environment, it is a metaphor that he has a deep sense of bottom .
But at the same time, his mother is a noble piano.
This is the position that the director assigns to the male protagonist from an ideological standpoint.
He has both the genetic factors of the working people and the most noble artistic genes .
red violin
Let's take another look at The Red Violin.
Wife Anna is ready to give birth.
The masterpiece of the master violin maker is also about to enter the final process.
To the master, this qin is like his soon-to-be-born son .
Anna asked the maid to tell her fortune, but the fate calculated by the maid was actually the fate of the violin.
The unborn violin and Anna are deeply connected.
Anna died in childbirth, and the master was devastated.
He used his wife's blood to make a dye to color the violin.
In the background, the main theme of the film played by the violin is very beautiful and very sad.
At the same time, there is also a kind of tenacious vitality mixed with it .
It was as if the lives of Anna and the child had been injected back into the violin.
The master completed his masterpiece, combining his beloved wife, son and violin all three into one .
People and pianos are indistinguishable
Fate is inseparable
sea pianist
Trumpeter Max climbed aboard the Virginia.
The trumpet is usually a solo instrument, and even an ensemble must be the star of the performance.
Max's boarding as a trumpeter points out that he is a very proud man who is used to being the main character.
But after boarding the ship, Max turned out to be friends with 1900.
This means that the trumpet has to be played in ensemble with the piano, and it is also a supporting role to set off the piano, indicating that he is completely convinced by the musical talent of the 1900s.
The fusion of the two instruments represents the establishment of a friendship between two people .
The combination of piano and trumpet is a unique combination in jazz that emerged in the United States in the 20th century.
The Virginia sailed from the old continent of England to the new continent of America, symbolizing the change of times , and the music from traditional classical to unrestrained and free jazz age.
The piano can also convey love. In 1900, when he was recording a record, he met the girl who made his heart beat.
The originally pleasant and light music suddenly turned into a soulful and soothing piano performance.
The changes in the sound of the piano correspond to 1900's inner fluctuations. There is no expression on his face, but his feelings are expressed in the music.
Later, he also wanted to give the recorded record to the girl, in fact, to express his willingness to follow the girl at the moment.
But he was unable to leave the ship in the end, and naturally the record with the piano music was not delivered to the girl.
red violin
Musician Pope is drawn to the sound of the violin in the woods.
He found a gypsy girl playing the ill-fated red violin.
Pope borrows the piano for a solo, which is the most difficult part of the film to play .
The music is mixed with the gasp of the performer, which is a performance for the audience, and a hearty sex for Pope.
Gypsy girls are conquered by men's playing.
The man kisses his new lover, this red violin.
The two had a chemical reaction in the air .
Pope shows love to his real girlfriend, and he seduces her with the sound of his violin.
The violin sound like weeping and complaining finally moved his girlfriend.
She slowly entangled the man, but the man was still entangled with the violin.
When her girlfriend came back from a long trip, she smelled cheating as soon as she entered the house and heard Pope playing the violin.
When I entered the door, I happened to see Pope and a gypsy girl having sex.
He hangs out with gypsy girls, in fact, he hangs out with violins, and he has the sustenance of his beloved.
His girlfriend wanted to shoot him, but she understood that the real reason for the man's change of heart was not the gypsy girl, but the violin .
So she ended up firing a shot at the violin.
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Times change
sea pianist
The 20th century was the period of the rapid rise of the United States. Europeans rushed to North America by ship, and the Virginia was one of them.
1900 has seen too many passengers, going from one continent to another, in search of a so-called new life.
But only he who was born at sea and never set foot on land did he understand that the new continent will become the old one sooner or later.
It's not really that different from old Europe, it's just an enlarged version of this shore .
He used a musical metaphor to persuade Max, who persuaded him to disembark.
"The city is endless, and I just can't see the end." "For example, the keys are limited, but you are unlimited."
People living on land migrate because of unlimited desires, and the tall buildings in Manhattan look no different from Europe.
The so-called can't see the end of the city, in fact, can not see the end of the city people's desire .
Thousands of streets and countless people are actually our desires, and we all want to possess them.
In fact, as said in 1900, human beings in the 20th century provoked two world wars because of their desires and ambitions, making the 20th century the most painful page in human history.
Limited keys and this limited ship is the limited desire of 1900.
He loves playing the piano because he himself can create infinity.
His desire is limited so that he can play free and flexible music.
And he himself can become an infinite legend only if he stays on this ship and is killed .
red violin
The red violin changed hands five times, and the film was cut into five stories from different eras.
With the passage of time, the relationship between people and music and art is also changing.
The fact that violins passed through the hands of master luthiers and made their way to monasteries shows that music in the Middle Ages often served religious purposes .
The little prodigy was taken back to Vienna by connoisseurs.
In order to make a living, connoisseurs would dedicate him to the nobles to play, which also reflects that the musicians of that era were supported by the royal family and nobles, and had no independent personality .
Those who can appreciate the art of music are either clergymen or princes and nobles, and the audience is very limited .
Later, the violin fell into the hands of young musicians, and it has been more than a hundred years since it was last published.
He invited the Gypsy tribe to the concert.
As a wandering nation, gypsies and dignitaries sat together to enjoy the music played by the red violin, indicating that at that time the general public also had the opportunity to contact elegant art.
Then the red violin came to the East, which was the era of the Cultural Revolution in China.
Western music was seen as a bourgeois pleasure.
The woman destroyed the record, but was reluctant to destroy the violin.
In this special era, music and art is a forbidden item that must be hidden .
Finally the red violin came to modern times and it showed up at an auction.
The attitude of modern people towards art is to use money to measure its value .
Men secretly put on fakes and stole the real red violin to help art get rid of this objectified fate.
The man is going to give the violin as a gift to his daughter, which heralds the beginning of a new round of fate for the violin.
The real good piano is not to lock it in the safe, nor to let the rich and powerful, but to let a child who learns music feel the true vitality of art through it.
Great works are always carefully crafted.
It can condense the spirit of humanism, and can also convey the truth across the times.
"The Pianist at Sea" satirizes the disaster and pain caused by the uncontrolled material desires of the western world in the 20th century with the unrestrained life of a piano genius;
"Red Violin" shows the changes in the world's perspective on art over the past 600 years through the fate of a violin.
The two films truly achieve the unity of the human and the piano .
A good story is paired with great music, just like delicious food meets mellow wine, which makes people unforgettable.
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