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The final season of "Game of Thrones" was broadcast as scheduled, and the first episode made fans climax: the long-lost reunion, the revelation of the life, the approaching of the great war... Not only because this is the last season, it has become the most anticipated American drama, but more importantly, the audience who lives by sucking "magic heroin" simply cannot bear the torture of running out of stock. And the good news is that the filming of N "Game of Thrones" spin-offs has been put on the agenda.
Although the series of movies such as "The Lord of the Rings", "Harry Potter" and "Pirates of the Caribbean" have been in the top three of the major magic lists for many years, in recent years, "Warcraft", "Fantastic Beasts" and other movies have also been full of word-of-mouth box office. According to statistics, movies labeled "Fantasy" account for 20% of the IMDB Top 250 list! Yes, magic movies offer an extreme adventure of imagination, in which magic is the projection of one's own desires, which has become an "addiction" that the audience cannot quit. Even if there is no scientific basis for all kinds of supernatural phenomena in the movie, the audience will be adrenaline soaring and dead hearted. Without him, it is because of the audience's desires that magic movies will be satisfied.
The weekly update of "Game of Thrones" still requires a little patience, fortunately this weekend we have taken stock of some magic movies for everyone to have a little hi during the one-month "out-of-stock period". Instead of selecting familiar blockbusters, it recommends representative works from some countries, including subjects with magical realism, some of which are niche and some of which are very harsh. Our purpose is pure: for those who love magic to enjoy the "double heaven of ice and fire" between Game of Thrones and them!
1. Alice in Wonderland (UK)
Although this movie belongs to Hollywood, but because the original novel is too classic, the author is the British Lewis Carroll, so it is counted as British, and because the content is familiar, here will not be repeated, mainly about the interesting things behind it. The original novel was written in 1865 and became a global hit as soon as it was published, second only to the Bible and Shakespeare's works. At that time, Queen Victoria, after reading the novel, asked Carol to buy and see it in the future, and in the end, the queen only read "Alice", because Carroll's other works were "Outline of Plane Algebra Geometry" and "Plane Trigonometry Molecular Formula", because Carroll was a mathematician. There is a literary genre in Britain called "absurd literature", which is dedicated to strange and inexplicable things, which look nonsensical, but in fact imply many organs. And "Alice in Wonderland" is the number one classic in absurd literature! In the fairy tales, the author hides a lot of logical training content, and also satirizes the educational, social and political environment of the Victorian period through Alice's eyes, making children's literature also elegant.
2. Angel A (France)
This is the tenth film that Luc Besson claims to have "made only ten films in his lifetime", but we all know that this is not his last. The story tells that André is a small gangster who joins the Paris underworld, and because he owes a huge debt to the gang boss and cannot be repaid, he wants to be relieved by jumping into the river to commit suicide, but he does not want to save the angel Angela. In order to repay the favor, Angela helps Andre solve various problems and allows him to rediscover himself. The film does not appear in Luc Besson's usual action scenes such as gunfights, car chases and explosions, but is just a simple magical romance. In the lens, the beauty of Paris is in full view (once again mourning Notre Dame), and even in the black and white images, these light and dark scenes still show a glittering brilliance
There are many good magic movies in France, such as "Angel Amelie", "Wolf Covenant", "Black Shop Rhapsody", etc., but it is because this film is especially suitable for frustrated men to watch! Every man who falls to the bottom needs an angel to save, not necessarily a beautiful and sexy angel, but must understand him, and this angel is actually a man's own heart.
3. Under the Berlin Sky (Germany)
The 1987 film directed by Wimwendes tells the story of two angels who listen to the voices of human beings who travel through the city of Berlin in coats and robes, but one of the angels decides to become mortal because he falls in love with a human woman. This is a film of image tranquility, it observes the distress and sorrow of the human world from the perspective of angels, and the inner monologues of various characters in the story convey a kind of anxiety about real life and confusion about the future, and the overall melancholy atmosphere of the film is also very much in line with the Cold War background in which the film was filmed. In the first half, the director shoots on coarse-grained film, giving the audience the impression that history itself is covered with scars. The story of the film itself is very plain, and the plot is simple. The film begins to think about infinite historical time and space in a finite time and space, and the carrier is a story of angels descending from the mortal. The story itself does not have a twisty plot and a moving climax, or even a clear ending, but only an understatement that triggers an examination of history and people. So rather than telling a story, the film is a philosophical poem.
4. Happy Lazzaro (Italy)
Italy has not only Antonioni and Fellini, but also Alicherol Wacher, who thanks her for presenting us with a fable that combines magic and realism. The film tells the story of Lazzaro, an innocent teenager living in a poor and remote area, who travels through time and space after accidentally falling off a cliff. This is the director's third feature film, full of wisdom, ambition, coupled with its allegory that transcends time and space and the dialectical criticism of the current society, making it a slow-hot but gradually better work. Lazzaro fell off the cliff unscathed, ending at the feet of people in modern society, satirizing the good people around us, but sometimes it seems out of place, and truth, goodness and beauty often have no good results. Not much nonsense, this piece does not look at the absolute forced regret.
5. The Ghost of the Hive (Spain)
The film is the film debut of Spanish director Victor Iris and has been voted the best Spanish film of the seventies. The film tells that after the beginning of franco's dictatorship, a small Spanish village, six-year-old Anna after watching the movie "Frankenstein", fell into a hazy fantasy world, she wondered why Frankenstein wanted to kill the little girl, so she began to look for answers in reality. A fantasy world intertwined with everyday life, accompanied by bizarre details such as black cats, speeding trains, jumping over flames, poisonous mushrooms, etc., and life and death seem to be separated by a line between childhood. This is an excellent work depicting the psychology of children, full of poetic shots of fantasy and reality, belonging to the genre of films with horror psychology, and exposing some metaphors about the Spanish Civil War that have always been sensitive in the Spanish film industry, such as many honeycomb-like images in the film. It is a masterpiece that is small and big, and it is intended to be beyond words. Hayao Miyazaki's Totoro and Gyro's Pan's Labyrinth were both influenced by this film.
6. The Viking Temple of Heroes (Denmark)
The Viking Temple of Heroes is actually a mythological story under the realist system, mainly revolving around a long-standing myth in Denmark. The story structure is about a one-eyed warrior with supernatural powers who has been living a life of unfreedom in captivity. On the way to a transfer, the warrior kills the kidnapper who has been guarding him with iron rods and chains, and then searches for the holy place under the guidance of a strange boy. On the way, I met some believers in Christ and discovered an unknown continent after going through an endless sea of fog. As the secrets of the Unknown Continent are exposed, those who believe in Christ together are cursed to death one after another, and finally the one-eyed warrior discovers his true identity. The film is filled with gray and dark tones, and can even be said to be abstract, which is difficult to understand in most people's eyes, mainly because the theme story conveyed by the film is unheard of by many people, so that it is difficult for the mainstream public to penetrate such a magic film that seems to be abstract and simple. But look at the director and the lead actor, and you know that this is a movie worth watching: director Nicholas Winding Rayvern (masterpiece: outlaw driving), starring: Uncle Max Mikerson (masterpiece: all works).
7. Painted Skin (China)
"Fox ghosts and immortals, the wind and moon are boundless". Pu Songling's "Liaozhai" makes many people think that this is the story of hundreds of fox spirits seducing students, as a casual book to read, quan as a pastime. In fact, the fox ghost immortal here is really not simple. Take the classic "Painted Skin" in it, for example, it is the most adapted article in "Liaozhai", because its story is highly complete, there are several layers of reversals, and it can firmly tie the audience. Painted Skin is not a dry horror, but a balanced distribution of horror and romance, reality and fantasy. The fantasy in it is not overhead, it happens in reality, the student covets beauty and loses his life, the fox ghost breaks the rules and wants to be killed, this is the cycle of cause and effect. There are also the most important details, for example, 2 examples: when Pu Songling wrote the ghost painting human skin, he used a series of actions: after the painting was done, he threw the pen away, lifted the skin, trembled like a shaking dress, and draped it on the body; and after the Taoist priest killed the ghost, the human skin was rolled, and the sound was like a scroll scroll, and the reader with a sense of picture was absolutely forced to be bold. Of course, the later adaptation of the film has mixed reviews (this version of Chen Jiashang only remembers Zhang Liangying's theme song), and there is no "Ghost of Qiannu" classic adapted from "Nie Xiaoqian", but it cannot change the status of "Painted Skin" in the original novel. The nearly 500 stories in "Liaozhai" are like a treasure trove, which is worth digging deeper into, and it is expected to make more classic domestic magic movies.
8. "The Time Covered Up" (Korea)
The Masterpiece of Korean Magic should be "Walking with God", yes, two consecutive films are on fire, and the fourth sequel is scheduled for 2022. It is superfluous to see and then recommend, or enjoy a romance film that conforms to the style of Korean movies, of course, it is also magical. "Covered Time" tells the story of a group of friends who entered a cave together one day, but only the girl returned safely, and a few days later, the teenager who disappeared into the cave reappeared in front of the girl as an adult. The plot of the movie is the "time stands still" technique used by Korean screenwriters, and the green plum bamboo horse that was originally thought to be a green plum bamboo horse has become a crossing of "I am underage and you are old". The texture of the film is very warm to the eye, and the tones and angles are carefully designed, which is very eye-catching.
9. Rain and Moon (Japan)
The main reason for choosing this old Japanese film is that it can be regarded as a Japanese version of Liaozhai. The Tale of the Rain Moon is a novel written by Ueda Akinari during the Edo period of Japan, which is a collection of Japanese folklore and the daisetsu of Chinese myths and monsters, and consists of nine stories. Kenji Mizoguchi chose two of them: "Snake Sex Fornication" and "Asakusa No Suku". He joins the two stories into one story, trying to achieve a formal inner balance between them, but there are some inconsistencies in the overall style. However, this represents two of his lifelong artistic tendencies – romantic beauty and feminism that depicts the reality of Japanese women. This film is probably the most exquisite work of Kenji Mizoguchi, a film master who is known as the most representative of Japanese national culture, and put many traditional things in Japan in this film. For example, the architecture of Japan's Sengoku period, elaborate ancient mansions, the process of porcelain making, and the art of "Noh drama" that best represents the characteristics of Japanese culture. The film won the Silver Lion Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 1953 Venice Film Festival.
10. "Uncle Bumi Who Can Recall Past Lives" (Thailand)
Thai horror films and creative advertising have always been talked about, but the independent director Apichatpong Weeras Hagu (the name seems so personality) is a different way, he has always been outside the official system of Thai cinema, maintaining his independence, he has shot several films, themes including dreams, nature, sex (including his own homosexual experience), Western cognition of Thailand and Asia, etc., in the form also broke through the traditional narrative and shooting methods, please continue to pay attention to the director's work. The film tells that Uncle Bumi suffers from acute kidney failure, so he returns to the township to wait for death to come. On a cool summer night, Uncle Bumi, his nephew and his sister-in-law were eating and chatting in the courtyard, and Uncle Bumi's long-dead wife appeared, and Uncle Bumi's long-missing son also appeared, turning into a red-eyed chimpanzee, but no one was frightened. A few people separated by yin and yang calmly pulled on the family routine, everything that happened was so natural, and each story was like a dream. The film won the Palme d'Or at the 63rd Cannes Film Festival.
11. "Big Fish" (USA)
There are too many magic movies in Hollywood, in addition to the blockbusters mentioned above, there are classics such as "The Wonders of Benjamin Button", among which the personal favorite is this "Big Fish". The film, directed by Tim Burton, recounts the legendary life of his father in the tone of a son. Edward Bloom was an old man who liked to brag, always liked to show off the experience of travel sales in his youth, and the son did not believe it, thinking that his father was very vain and exaggerated, and the father-son relationship gradually became estranged. It was not until his father died soon after that the son decided to go back to see his father for the last time, and he finally realized his father's passionate and imaginative life. It's a story of love, including the love of being faithful to each other and the affection that ultimately bridges the chasm. The film is full of fantasy colors, but does not use a lot of computer stunts, most of the surreal scenes are completed by cutting the screen, reducing the props and using lighting, angles, and depth of field, which is not only a dazzling fantasy, but also a lyrical family drama. More emotional than Tim Burton's previous works, it is a visually stylized dramatic story. Wall crack recommended, be sure to see!
12. "Travel" (Mexico)
Greek director Anger said, "The first thing God created was travel, followed by doubt and nostalgia." I recommend this film rather than the work of "Three Mexican Masters" because only by watching "Travel" can you understand why "One Hundred Years of Solitude" and magic realism were born and can only be born in South America. If there is a movie that can condense the entire history of South America's madness and suffering into these 100 minutes of light and shadow, it can only be this movie. Martin's father left his hometown of Ushuaia on a trip to embark on a journey throughout Latin America. What he saw and heard on his travels later caused him to be suspicious of Latin America as a whole, and he had a comic strip for Martin to travel throughout Latin America. Martin was so captivated by his father's comic strip that he decided to take a look at the magical continent as well, and of course the purpose of finding his father. From Tierra del Fuego, the southernmost island in Argentina, it crosses the South American continent from south to north, through Peru, Brazil, and up to Mexico. And search is the eternal theme.
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