The music appears three times in the film: the first time at the funeral of General Lamarque, when the Friends of ABC rushed into the procession and waved the red flag to light the crowd; the second time was the lead singer of Gavroche when the hearts were weary when the barricades were erected the following morning. Reinvigorated morale; for the third time, in the huge fantasy world written after the death of Jean Valjean, a grand barricade was built and erected on the sacrificed people at the bottom, and the whole film ended with a great chorus.
"Do You Hear The People Sing" is not from the original film. The Les Misérables novel was first adapted into a French musical in 1980 by Claude - Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil, originally titled À la volonté du peuple, which translates as "under the will of the people". In 1982 Cameron Mackintosh and Herbert Kretzmer adapted the English version of the musical "Les Miserables", which premiered in London in 1985, and "Do You Hear The People Sing" was officially born. .
"Do you hear the people sing?
"Singing a song of angry men!
"It is a music of a people who will not be slaves again!"
As soon as you see these lyrics, it's impossible not to think "Get up! Don't want to be slaves!" People!" Our national anthem "March of the Volunteers" is also a march that is associated with the movie. But different from "Do You Hear The People Sing", "March of the Volunteers" was born as the movie's theme song to accompany the movie, while "Do You Hear The People Sing", as a musical piece, is the text of "Les Miserables". Played it many years later.
It is worth mentioning that I saw on the Internet that the chorus of "Do You Hear The People Sing" rang out in Tiananmen Square in the summer of 1989, and the young souls of ABC Friends on the streets of Paris in 1832 stirred each other. Magnificent response. At that time, "March of the Volunteers" had just experienced the toss of the Cultural Revolution, and it was only restored to its original appearance in 1982.
The key is to talk about movies. The films "Les Miserables" and "Children of the Wind and Cloud" both push their emotions to the highest peak with the theme song at the end, but the cooperation between the picture and the music is coquettish. At the end of "Les Miserables", the music is gradually rising, closely connecting with the whispers of the characters in the real world, and slowly introducing the singing into the vast posture; Let the camera move a lot to create a wide visual space. The film avoids the real and the false, but sets off new hope. I haven't read the original text, but it reminds me of the finishing touch at the end of Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities. At the end of "Children of the Wind and Cloud", the music comes from the real scene, and the close-up war drums are introduced into the prelude. After describing the scenes of several marching scenes, a lot of shots are used to capture the powerful footsteps of the marching team, which is in line with the theme of the film "Pushing a pen and serving the army". , to encourage literary and artistic youth to serve the country and defend the mountains and rivers.
As a film, "Les Miserables" cannot be called a masterpiece, but the charm of its music and text, as a comprehensive art, will have an impact far beyond the meaning of the film itself.
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