of love and not love
Looking at "The Godfather" again, the glittering gold of the "Best Picture" of the two Oscars is too frivolous or a little bleak to show off after 35 years, but on IMDB, at this moment, "The Godfather" with a score of 9.1 is still Proudly at the top of the list, one of the best after a ride - this "one of the must-see movies for men" that was first recommended by hundreds of millions of fans was once rendered too thick with mythological meaning, and even led to several aphasia in the female group, no wonder, " More than 200 men appeared in the "Godfather" trilogy, and more than 50 people played an important role, but there were still very few women, and there were only a handful of women who played an important role in the drama. People position it as a "male movie".
——But in Mario Puzo's original work, the imbalance of gender ratio is not so obvious. The wife of two generations of "Godfather", Sonny and the wife of Hollywood star Johnny, etc. have a lot of exaggeration. Why are there so many cuts for women in the movie?
Although there is such a dialogue: "Do you spend time with your family?" "Of course I do." "Very good! A man who doesn't care about his family is not a man at all!" But "The Godfather" is obviously not a movie A warm film depicting the warmth of a family, and in processing, for the main line, we see one family after another torn apart; even in the end, there is no complete family; "The theme is contrary, and in the original work, although the second generation of "Godfather" Mike's wife Kai also left Mike angrily, and scolded him for the horror of killing people without blinking an eye, but finally returned to him happily, chanting sutras and Buddha every day, Pray for her husband; in the movie, Kay is always brooding, the two divorced, and have been living in two places - in order to intensify the dramatic effect of "binary opposition", director Francis Ford Coppola put Kay's in the original book. Part of the character attributes were transferred to Mike's sister Connie. This poor woman who was deprived of her husband by her brother once rushed to Mike frantically, rebuking him for all kinds of atrocities, but indulged in a luxurious life in the following days and compromised with Mike for money. , step by step fell into the accomplice and executioner in the third part...
Many people say that "The Godfather" is a film that condenses people's life and a world. All kinds of human desires can be matched in the film, but unfortunately, the lack of female roles leads to the absence of love, that is, in the film. There is no real or touching love - I can't see it all:
we have mentioned the difference between Kai's character and the original, and this way of handling reminds me of a sentence Li Ao said: "There are only two kinds of love in the world, one is love. One is vulgar promiscuity, and the other is noble wonder." "Wonderful" - a rhetoric that borders on delirium, but what if it were applied to Mike and Kay in "The Godfather"?
As we all know, Coppola is good at controlling the visual elements to polish the lens (this is almost the best show and housekeeping skills of that generation of Hollywood directors), at the beginning of the film, Kay appeared in a country wedding in a graceful and elegant red dress , in the switching of the camera, the cool color of the office forms a very different contrast with it, so she is also doomed to conflict with this family atmosphere - at that time her identity was Mike's girlfriend, and Mike at that time was like her, single-mindedly divorced Family business, live a warm ordinary life. But as the story unfolds, Mike is involved in the war of powers. When he went to Sicily for refuge, Kai became a teacher. Although Mike married a local village girl, it is worth noting that Kai was neither married nor Make a boyfriend; the death of Mike's ex-wife and the rebuilding of Kay doomed the direction of love: similar to Milan Kundera's "The Unbearable Lightness of Life", the inevitable result is living in deception and being deceived, and here The "deception" of "deception" contains the helplessness of "beautiful lies" to some extent...
The irreconcilable conflict pushes the two to two extremes. For example, "Love in Prague" (based on "The Unbearable Lightness of Life") exaggerates the inseparability of the two, but even at different poles, they still haven't found another way to devote themselves to another relationship (everyone can see that the two Both have the capital to do so), even the two divorced, and the camera was aimed at "The Godfather III" sixteen years later, and the two were still single - who has asked back: How rich a relationship can make a person willing Guarding the solitary pillow? With this kind of indifference, who would have the heart to question the little feelings of getting along with each other day and night? !
——Baby Annie, who has influenced a generation, is good at depicting strange emotional life. She once said: "From entanglement of desire, to indifference, to willingness to undertake, to obtain self-redemption, to live prosperous to barren." A "strange feeling", especially when it manifests between Mike and Kay: an amorous man who endures loneliness for the family business and an amorous woman who seeks inner peace and endures a strong love. We all said that Mike didn't forgive him until he died, so was the laughter and play between the two in Sicily just a joke? Who has asked back: Only the calmness of the relief can make you smile so comfortably, and it is their divorce and separation that are playing the role? Kay, as a theatrical element, examines the subject of the film with a very different attribute, so her hatred is for the audience who represents many mainstream values, against the dark side of society, not against Mike, who has given her life and A man who has been guarding his whole life!
Under the nourishment of many romance novels, there is always only a narrow view of love in the consciousness of our generation, the fragrance of selfish and greedy infatuated love, but no one is willing to spend too much effort to water a wonderful flower of love...
——But being ignored by the mainstream view of the public does not mean that it does not exist: "Four Hundred Years of Fright" has been talked about by people to this day. It was the heroine who cut off the head of her beloved man and pierced his heart to sublimate the film. do you love him? Abandoning her new husband for a stranger who arrives suddenly, not hesitate to travel across the ocean, not afraid to become a blood-sucking zombie, ask: How many people can achieve such a fiery and crazy love? In "Love in Prague", the unfortunate death of the hero and heroine finally ended the entanglement of love and jealousy, but who can say that their love has disappeared? Sofia Coppola's lame acting in "The Godfather III" was ridiculed by the world, but as soon as she inherited her father's career as a director, she shocked the world with "The Virgin Suicide", and then "Lost in Translation" even made people sigh "Tiger father and no dog daughter" not only made Scarlett Johansson, the world star of today, but also took away an Oscar statuette for "Best Screenplay". Whether the way of handling strange feelings has inherited the atmosphere of his father is inconvenient for us to speculate, but what is certain is that "The Godfather" provides us with an excellent model - whether it is the ingenuity of the love pattern or as a number of subsequent characters. The originator of thousands of Hong Kong-made gangster films, or the textbook of depth-of-field lenses required by film academies, its accomplishments have deeply influenced filmmakers all over the world in terms of art: American New Line has released the series "Death Comes". The world-renowned - and "Death is Coming" is entirely from the hands of Chinese director Huang Yiyu, and his re-directed "Death Is Coming 3: The End of the Dead" is listed as one of the most anticipated movies in early 2006. In an interview with the media, Director Huang once said bluntly: his film dream stemmed from the revelation of Francis Ford Coppola...
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