After watching "Hong Lingyan", I was surprised that a movie of this level could be made in 1948, and I couldn't help but think of "Black Swan".
It's not fair to divide these two films, although I do have a good point in my heart, I'll just share my thoughts here.
"Black Swan" uses ballet as the background theme, but mostly half-length ballet shots are used from beginning to end. It is understandable that non-professional dancers need to use this to hide their ugliness, but after all, the name of the movie is Black Swan, and the most important scene in the whole play is not a black swan. Dance is none other than dance. Of course, the director also understands that, so a lot of special effects were added to that section.
The sad place is here. Using traditional art as a story carrier, it does not have enough imagination and artistic skills to present the beauty of this art.
Watching the heroine tortured herself for a long time and finally turned into a black swan, I looked forward to feeling the magic of the legendary 32 whips and turns. As a result, when the black swan played, it was all kinds of half-length ballet, plus a close-up of the red-eye special effect, the whole body shot of 32 whips turned After turning around a few times to explain, the back is full of half-length shots with feather special effects.
We used to be ignorant. In this era, we are used to watching special effects, and we don't feel uncomfortable, but there is no harm. After watching "Hong Lingyan", we can no longer bear this kind of cheap behavior relying on special effects.
A serious film should use imaginative choreography and dance techniques to convey emotion and beauty to move us, rather than relying on special effects. In "Hong Lingyan", the heroine danced to the point of death but couldn't control her dancing feet. It was the music, choreography, and the actors' acting and dancing that shocked me. The 1948 movie can do it, but the 2010 movie relies on special effects. It is no wonder that many people think that the current movie is not as good as the previous one.
Some people say that actors do not have the ability to dance like that, so they need half-body cover up and special effects.
But why insist on looking for actors?
The acting skills of non-actors may not be as good as professional actors, but for a specific role, non-actors are not necessarily poorer. Bjork is a singer, and the first film in his life, Dancer in the dark, took the Cannes actress. In many cases, the resonance between people and characters is far more important than the maturity of acting. I can't believe that among the many professional dancers, there is no one better suited to play Nina than Natalie Portman.
Back to "Hong Lingyan", in the play Lermontov believes that love and career cannot be balanced, and that people who are immersed in empty love cannot show a perfect dance. The novel Picture of Dorian Gray also has a similar plot. Actress Sibyl can perfectly interpret the love of various famous heroines, so she moved Gray, but when she fell in love with Gray, she instantly ruined her acting talent. She said that in the past, she The lines that she can empathize with become absurd compared to her real love. The heroine of "Hong Lingyan" didn't ruin her talent because of this, but Lermontov's paranoia couldn't stand the slightest distraction, or maybe all this was just an excuse for his spiritual possessiveness towards the heroine.
The handling of the ending of "Hong Lingyan" is a bit bloody, but the flaws do not hide the beauty. The translation of the source film I watched was terrible, but fortunately it was in English, otherwise I wouldn't be able to understand it.
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