1905 Film Network Special Article This week's movie channel "Good Film Has An Appointment" column, let's walk into "Paris, Texas" and feel the charm of the 37th Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or winner!
The origin of road movies
The endless white Gobi, the people who are walking with blank eyes... When you walk into the road movie "Paris, Texas", the first scene that comes into your eyes is this picture.
The opening scene of the movie "Paris, Texas"
Regarding road movies, its appearance can be traced back to The American film after World War II, and within a few years after the end of World War II, the automobile industry began to develop rapidly in the United States, and the automobile became a symbol of prosperity and youth culture at that time and made it appear on the big screen. But the development of road cinema into a genre took place after the 1960s. Known as the "benchmark of road movies", "The Runaway Rider" was born in this period.
A clip from the Runaway Rider movie
The small-budget film directed by the famous Hollywood film star Dennis Hopper spent less than $400,000 at the time, creating the final $25 million box office myth, and after its release, it was nominated for the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor and Best Original Screenplay, and is an indispensable absolute classic in the history of road movies.
With the crazy popularity of "Runaway Rider" in the United States, road movies have gradually entered people's vision. For example, the 1974 film "Rampage" directed by Steven Spielberg, which was based on true events.
Movie poster for Rampage Escape
In these road movies, the highway is always full of metaphors and symbols. The protagonists of the film always embark on a journey alone or together in a car to find the ideal place in their hearts, and walking and searching are the eternal themes of this theme movie.
Stills from the Paris, Texas movie
Released in 1984, "Paris, Texas" filled the gap in European road movies at that time, winning the Palme d'Or at the 37th Cannes Film Festival. Dozens of media outlets, including the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, unanimously praised it as "the most moving film in the last decade."
Wim Wenders speaking from the camera
The director of the film "Paris, Texas" is the German film director Wim Wenders, who was hailed as one of the representatives of the "New German Film Movement" in the 1970s, and he is also known as the "Four Masters of New German Cinema" with Schlöndorf, Herzog and Fassbinder.
"Four Masters of the New German Cinema": Wim Wenders, Schlöndorff, Hertzog, Fassbinder (from left to right)
Born in Düsseldorf, Germany, just three months after the end of World War II, Wenders was deeply influenced by American culture when he was a teenager when a large number of American films were introduced to Germany. In 1974, inspired by some American road movies at the time, and also because of his love of Westerns in his youth, Wenders began to shoot his own European road movies, and thus laid the direction of Wenders' future creation.
Director Wim Wenders at work
At the time, he made the "Alice in the City", "The Wrong Way" and "The King of the Highway", known as the "Highway Trilogy", which was unanimously praised by film critics and made him famous. Since then, wandering and alienation have become the eternal protagonists of Wenders' films, and Wenders has also used these two elements to create a world full of poetry and emptiness on the screen.
Wenders "Highway Trilogy" Movie Poster: Alice in the City, The Wrong Way, King of the Highway (from left to right)
In addition to using films to show the motifs of loneliness and wandering, director Wenders is also accustomed to showing the relationship between photography and loneliness in photos. He once said, "There is an important connection between loneliness and taking pictures." If you are not alone, you will never be able to acquire this way of observing, completely immersed in what you see, no longer need to explain, just observe. ”
He loves to use Polaroid to document work and life, and in his published video books, he has publicly displayed more than 200 treasured Polaroid photographs, including behind-the-scenes footage of the film, portraits of actors and crew, portraits of friends and family, still lifes, street photography and landscapes, and more.
Wim Wenders photography
In 2019, the "Good Film Has An Appointment" column group also conducted an exclusive interview with the well-known director in the film industry, and Wenders also talked about his ideas for the film "Paris, Texas" and his work experience in the United States when he was young. In this week's show, we'll reveal wim Wenders behind the camera, beyond the public impression.
Stills from Natasha Kinsky's Paris, Texas movie
"The first beauty of European cinema" and "Hollywood's golden supporting role"
The film's heroine, Natasha Kinsky, and director Wim Wenders also became acquainted because of the film. At the age of 14, she was picked up by wenders' director's wife while working and invited her to play a small supporting role in "The Wrong Way", and it was during the filming of this film that Wenders discovered that this little girl was actually the daughter of Klaus Kinsky, an actor he had worked with many times, which surprised him.
Natasha Kinsky, a clip from the Astray movie
In the film, Kinsky played the role of the quiet and idyllic "magic" girl Minyan. And it was this unexpected fate that laid the foundation for the two to continue to cooperate in "Paris, Texas".
Natasha Kinsky made her debut in the film Paris, Texas
In the movie "Paris, Texas", the heroine Natasha Kinsky made a stunning appearance with a red outfit, which was breathtakingly beautiful, and since then it has become popular in the European and American film circles, and has been evaluated by many filmmakers such as director Francis Coppola as "the first beauty in the European film industry". Her first popularity in the film industry was because of her role in the film "Tess" directed by French director Romain Polanski.
Stills from Natasha Kinsky's Tess movie
The film is based on Thomas Hardy's famous book Tess of the D'Urbervilles. In it, Natasha Kinsky vividly portrays the classic literary image of the heroine Tess, whether it is a young girl who does not understand the world, or a woman who works hard in the field, Natasha Kinsky performs it perfectly. After its release, the film also received rave reviews, winning three awards including Best Cinematography at the 53rd Academy Awards and being named the best film of the year by the Los Angeles Times. Kinsky also won the title of "Best Newcomer Actress" at the 31st Golden Globe Awards for his superb acting skills in the film.
Harry Dane Stanton film clip from Paris, Texas
The male protagonist of this film is Harry Dane Stanton, known as the "golden supporting role of Hollywood", and he is featured in well-known movies such as "The Avengers", "Miracle in the Green" and "Alien", but his film career is only "Paris, Texas", a well-known masterpiece. Despite this, he was well known in the film and television industry, and his agent said: "Stanton has earned respect for his well-prepared work attitude and easy-going personality".
Harry Dane Stanton Film Clip from Paris, Texas
In his classic antagonistic scene with Natasha Kinsky, it was commented that "Harry is performing with his whole life, all his own experience, as if he had been waiting for this play all his life, and this play contains everything he has lost in life and everything he wants to defend." ”
A film clip from Paris, Texas
As the title metaphorically suggests, it is a work that combines both American and European film cultures. This week, Junlebao's "Good Film Appointment" will take you into "Paris, Texas", between confusion and search, to have a wandering journey of the soul...
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