The King and the Birds mainly use fairy tales to tell the story of the shepherdess and the chimney boy fighting against the king's power and insisting on love. The main theme of the story is beautiful and romantic. So the opening of the film is when the subtitles are given. The music used is the opening of 01 - Générique. This piece is played with a beautiful piano. We can feel their love from the music that flows slowly. The opening music sets the tone of the whole film. It is the love theme song of the shepherdess and the chimney boy, and it can also be regarded as the theme song of the whole film. In the film 00:12:51-, when the shepherdess and the chimney boy first appeared to tell each other about their love, this piece of music appeared again. A piece of music is played by a violin, which can better enhance the tranquil atmosphere of the night than the piano at the beginning. The satin tone of the violin seems to be like the whispers of two lovers. When the plot moves forward, the king comes out to stop the two lovers. Chimney The young man did not succumb to the violence of the powerful and fled with the shepherdess. The director cleverly used the accent sound effect of the young man from the chimney throwing tomatoes at the king, just like the full stop of a paragraph. Although the melody of the following music has not changed, but The intensity of the playing was intensified, and the instrument was replaced by a piano. The powerful notes of the keys also heightened the tension of their escape. Finally, in the ruins at the end, the theme song reappeared, and the director used a lot of A variety of musical instruments create a grand ending like a symphony, and many variations are added to the main melody. Finally, the robot smashes the cage of the bird. At this time, this piece has broken through and only expressed the struggle between the shepherdess and the chimney boy. the love story, while the imagery represents a larger theme of struggle.
I think the soundtrack of the whole film is very regular and clear. Almost every main character has its own theme song, such as the love theme song of the Shepherdess and the Chimney Boy. The theme music belongs to him. The theme music of the blind man belongs to the first appearance of the active music and reaches the audience's ears. I think the role of the blind man represents an image of the pursuit of hope and the pursuit of light, La complainte de l' Aveugle the blind lamented that this song appeared many times in the film. Whether the blind man was taken away by the robot, (00:52:24---------00:52:31). Or the blind man The lions are playing the accordion, and the lions are immersed in the music (00:59:50-------------01:00:29). In the plot, although they are in adversity, the blind people continue to pursue Light and hope have even infected the violent teachers. The music played by the blind man in these passages is soothing and beautiful, and it is active music. When the plot advances (01:04:46------ --------01:06:22) The
blind people and the lions rebelled violently. The melody of the background music is still the melody played by the blind man on the accordion, but the rhythm has accelerated a lot, and unknowingly changed to no The source music sets off the overall atmosphere of the film. My personal feeling here is that the image of the blind man's pursuit of light finally infected everyone, and the beasts in the cage rose up to resist and pursue freedom. Because the theme is the same, the director still uses the blind man's sigh in music processing, but speeds up the rhythm to create a more joyful atmosphere.
Of course, in addition to the recurring imagery and condensed themes of music in the film, there are also a lot of soundtracks in the film to enhance the atmosphere, such as (00:52:37--------- --00:55:45) 11 - Les deux ateliers du roi the two workshop kings, the birdie and the chimney boy were caught to do coolies for the king. The soundtrack adopts a relatively fast rhythm, and there are always sharp and uncomfortable glissandos interspersed in the co-rotation, which creates a tense and uncomfortable feeling in the auditory sense, which is a good aid to the coolie image. Music for such purposes is 00:39:23-----00:40:57 14 - L'escalier aux cent mille marches, a 100,000-step ladder used by the shepherdess and the chimney boy to escape. No further analysis will be carried out here.
All in all, the overall soundtrack style of the king and the bird is very unified. When the subtitles float at the end of the film, it returns to the 01 – Générique played by the piano at the beginning of the film, which makes people feel that the beginning and the end echo, and they are completely immersed in the shepherdess and the chimney boy. A romantic love fairy tale.
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