The clean Zorro and the rough Tchaikovsky

Erich 2021-12-14 08:01:06

(This article was written in December 2005)

I knew that watching this movie would be in danger of disappointment, but I still went there by a ghost.
The results of it? It can’t be said to be disappointment, because I still have reasons to find: for example, it’s not the original sound, for example, it’s not attentive to watch it, etc. etc.

But there is one thing that I am absolutely disappointed: this film is too clean. The picture is extremely clear, and vision is everything. Everything seems to have been trimmed, and even the dust flying in the sky will have edges and corners. Maybe the director succeeded, he intended to bring us into a world he created-but he completely failed for me, because I can not enter his world-a clean and somewhat false world.

I attribute the reason to his narrative. He needs to tell a story, tell a story that we love to read. Picture and plot are his two magic weapons. That's right, he judges the audience in this way. The audience needs a "beautiful" picture to enjoy, and the audience needs a "torturous" plot to forget themselves. But why, I prefer the rough picture of "Going Home from the Hill", but why, I prefer the two women in the Rohmer movie just standing and talking for a long time, only the wind blowing through the green vineyards.

Anxious to narrate is a major feature of modern times. Look at people who have been fed and grown up by vulgar pop music. If a song starts for more than a minute and the singer hasn't started singing, they will be impatient and ask: What is this? Do you sing or not? What they hope is that a song is like an anxious affair-quickly enters the subject, quickly reaches a climax, and then ends hastily. The narration is completed quickly, nothing else is important, the important thing is to quickly spend this rare pastime-life is complicated enough, let us relax in the narration.

And there are some movies, some art, not eager to narrate, not eager to spray. They either show an elegant calmness, or show a tension between the author and the work. But these things can reach directly into my heart, allowing me to experience my being moved at every moment.

They are lyrical. They may have a bad voice, and their singing is not beautiful (such as BOB DYLAN), but they are lyrical. When Tchaikovsky's "Sorrowful" was staged in Moscow, some critics said it was "vulgar"-I understand what they meant, they said that my master was too rough to be sculpted. However, it was this crude Tchaikovsky who wrote the real Russia and the last romance of the 19th century.

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The Legend of Zorro quotes

  • Frey Felipe: Maybe you shouldn't drink so much on an empty stomach.

    Zorro: Maybe you should wear lipstick if you're gonna act like my mother.

  • Jacob McGivens: [after terrorizing people in a town center] I haven't voted yet.