When the old and cumbersome clock strikes at midnight / When the living creature is the last to sleep / The ghost in the cemetery wears armor / As dark and terrifying as the night / In this dark world中/ That hideous smile is accompanied by melancholy melancholy/ In the end, everything returns to the serenity of death~
When I carefully prepared this article, I expected to write about Shakespeare and Kafka, but in the end I actually started writing At the same time, I returned to the topic decided at the beginning, a miscellaneous essay on the movie "The Nightmare Before Christmas", so I had to start from the topics "Shakespeare and the Waltz" and "Hamm under Kafka" Wright] suddenly jumped to [Monologue under the Ghost] without warning.
This movie can be regarded as an animated musical. The background of the story is set in the well-known Halloween. Undoubtedly, the tone of this film is also fixed in the world of light and shadow of gray and white. When I first came into contact with this film, the first reaction in my brain was to think of the three characters of Shakespeare, Jane Austen and Kafka. Although they have nothing in common individually, through the further development of the film, I feel that these three characters have nothing in common. The characters suddenly appeared in my mind, intricately intertwined.
The film starts with a black set, and then a Halloween pumpkin head is depicted from far and near, a few dead leaves fall, the cold wind blows open the gloomy wooden door, and a gray cemetery suddenly jumps in front of you. The music sounded, the ghosts crawled out of the tomb, sang mockingly, the demons danced wildly, the whole world went crazy for a while, all your beliefs became blurred in an instant, and all the clear boundaries disappeared in the dark singing...
The protagonist of this film, Skeleton Jack, is the king of Halloween, a poet laureate who has been given the highest honor by ghosts, and a born demon artist. loneliness. He is tired of screaming year after year, tired of being wrapped in applause and cheers from the crowd... It is not uncommon for artists like him to be outside the crowd, and Edward Scissorhands in the same type of film is the same. A character, a character who longs to love and be loved, a character completely out of place in the world, a typical Hamlet inner monologue. Of course, this film is a cartoon created by Disney after all. In the final analysis, it is necessary to let this lonely soul find a place to belong, a girl who loves him deeply, and a soul who can equally share this lonely soul.
After watching this film, there will always be some sense of loss unconsciously, perhaps because of the bitterness of some imperfections in the film. In such a drama with Shakespeare's legendary color, I can't find such a hard-working and vigorous love. I can't see it. To the ignited emotional fire of Romeo and Juliet, I can't understand the touching parting of life and death in the Titanic. Instead, it is indeed the tender, delicate and imperceptible emotion written by Jane Austen, a kind of admiration. The love of her is like the rainbow in the sky after a storm, colorful but surprisingly calm~ The transition in the film amplifies the comedy, thus obliterating the scene where the heroine endures silently for love, which is sad, because Today's society needs that kind of passion too much... Of course, when we watch the film, we may pay more attention to the hero's escape, a kind of loneliness unique to emperors, a kind of sadness that only Shakespeare's tragedies can reflect .
Shakespeare's tragedies often occur in the noble class, from the prince-born Hamlet, to the aged King Lear; from the usurper Macbeth to the Venetian warrior Othello, the protagonists in it are all of the noble class. With extremely random inner worlds, they all get lost in their own worlds, and eventually go to self-destruction uncontrollably. The same is true for the protagonist Jack in this film. He went in the opposite direction of his life under extreme chaos, a kind of inner struggle close to madness. In the film, he created his own terrifying Christmas after kidnapping Santa Claus. A knowing smile is more like a terrifying maniacal laughter when combined with music, a Kafkaesque twist of heart, a deformation of the opposite of life. In such dramas, hope and despair coexist, good and evil complement each other, light and dark oppose each other, and humanity and madness complement each other... This series of contrasting but infiltrating human values, in a moving and inspiring way The notes of human reflection play the keynote of Shakespeare's tragedy.
In fact, the idea of "resurrection through the personal destruction of the protagonist" is incorrect, in Shakespeare's tragedy, all definitions are vague, and Hamlet's death is accompanied by enemies, lovers, lovers, friends And all kinds of ordinary people die together. In Macbeth, King Lear, and Othello, the complex elements of life and the world are also interpreted in a perishing way. Everything is the kind of twisted equation under Kafka - "To be or to be destroyed?" Here forever I can't find the answer~ In the movie [Sweeney Todd], this ghostly way of destruction is magnified. Everything is an extreme view of Shakespeare's tragedy. Through the performance of Todd's heart, this imperial style The inner loneliness and distortion reached a state of hysterical madness. Everything you see is messy and gray, and the feeling suddenly loses its meaning. Everything you reach is destruction... A peaceful world that perishes together~ Hamlet forced Crazy about his lover, Othello killing an ideal character with his own hands, Macbeth and his wife insane each other, King Lear killing his own daughter, and in the movie Todd the Barber, this destruction extends to a wider realm, It seems that everything around is going through the logic of destruction. Todd personally killed his lover, the female boss Lavitt personally destroyed the love he created, and even every character that appeared in it ended the surrounding environment in his own unique way. everything. In these drama films, destruction seems to be a circle, a Noah's Ark created by God, and only through destruction can we start anew. As explained in [The Matrix 3], the destruction of one person leads to the destruction of the world. Destruction is another new starting point for the circle.
Of course, that kind of destruction isn't needed in this Disney film, which is for children, not adults. In the film, Skull Jack just showed such madness and loneliness in his own way, but after the madness and loneliness, he returned to the original starting point. However, in this series of logical confusion, another theme has been brought up - this kind of monologue under madness~
The inner monologue plays a decisive role in the drama. It not only reflects the inner world of the character, but also conveys a note beyond logical thinking to the world. "To be or to be destroyed?" Through a simple inner monologue of Hamlet, Shakespeare clearly expressed his vague definition of the world and his confusion about the late Renaissance in the 16th century. A monologue is like a dissonant note in a musical performance, it uses its own cries to awaken the numb hearts of the world. In the film [Night of the Nightmare Before Christmas], Jack Skeleton tells the reasons for his loneliness and pain through monologue songs, and when he arrives at his hometown of Christmas, he expresses his confusion and joy in monologues, so as to make the audience feel A more intuitive understanding of the true inner world of this character.
Likewise, in Kafka's work, and in Jane Austen's work, monologues predominate, if not in such famous plays and operas. Sometimes even more than conversation. In Kafka's "Metamorphosis", the protagonist is allowed to conduct a self-monologue at the beginning. Through this self-review, the reader can better understand the environment the protagonist is in and the environment he will be in in the future. It expresses this sense of loneliness and strangeness among people, and forms the most important portrayal of life. In Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice", through Elizabeth's inner monologue, you can clearly feel the tension in the whole novel, and also fully appreciate Darcy's arrogance and Elizabeth's prejudice. Through such a proper monologue, Let the readers be in the scene again and again, and breathe with the hero and heroine. In the second part of [Pride and Prejudice], when Elizabeth met Darcy at Pemberley Manor, it was through the effect of monologue that she gave Elizabeth a good opportunity to examine herself, so that readers could understand the turning point in front of her, an exciting time love revealed. Monologue, which Freud regards as the highest state of the human subconscious, expresses the inner expression of human beings through a series of conscious flows. In the film [Edward Scissorhands], the director did not seem to give Edward a monologue effect, so he used Edward's crazy actions again and again to fully express this inner effect, which is a short monologue in time and space.
When I wrote this, the originally chaotic thoughts became even more chaotic. If I carefully review this article, I find that it is not satisfactory. If it is boldly called [the connection between drama and film] or something [** theory], then it can be done. I really want to bear the infamy of the sinners through the ages~ So after thinking about it again and again, it is appropriate to call it [Monologue under the Ghost]. . .
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