I've been watching old movies lately, old black-and-white movies from the early years of the last century.
Yesterday I watched 1936's La Traviata, starring the famous Greta Garbo. The name shines as brightly in the history of cinema as her own beauty. In fact, the word movie star began with Greta Garbo.
Before her, people only knew the profession of actor, and after she appeared, the actor was called a "star".
360-degree face without dead angles
However, until nearly a hundred years later, she is the only one who really deserves this term. Stars, dazzling and distant, beautiful and mysterious, make people admire to death but inaccessible. The same goes for Garbo.
She was known for her beauty, and it is rumored that Hitler had seen La Traviata 6 times, and the original director of this film had Jewish ancestry, but for the sake of beauty, Hitler was particularly tolerant of the film released in Germany, publicly confessing: "Greta Garbo is the only woman who can approach me without a body search, and her face is the limit of human evolution." ”
She is known for her acting skills, has been nominated for the Oscar for Best Actress five times and has been named the fifth greatest actress in a hundred years.
She is mysterious and is the brightest but most distant starlight in that black and white era, which people will never forget. She never married, and at the same time hid far away from the spotlight. She hid after filming, did not have interviews, and often shut out the various celebrities who visited her. It is said that the famous actress Ingrid Bergman had hoped to meet her, and waited for her for a long time on the set and outside the apartment. In the end, it was a sentence from someone else: "Tell her that I am not there." ”
She was so alienated from the crowds and bustling that she even died early and lived a life of solitude and seclusion that the Oscars awarded her for her lifetime achievement were not awarded to her.
When I first watched "La Traviata", I didn't think garbo was so beautiful, just like when I first watched "Gone with the Wind" I failed to perceive Vivien Leigh's soul-stirring beauty. Her European-style double eyelids are so deep, she gently lifts her chin, it is as cold as an iceberg, in today's aesthetics, she is not half a harmless heroine, and even a bit like the arrogant and ruthless in the TV series, and at the same time the eyes are made into a European-style big-eyed rich mother-in-law.
After watching the movie "La Traviata", Garbo is the only La Traviata, and no one can surpass it. In low-resolution old black-and-white films, her acting skills can travel through time and space, making me tremble in front of the screen, rejoicing with her joy, and breaking her heart with her heartbreak.
La Traviata is a tragic love story based on Dumas's original novel. The heroine Margaret is a famous prostitute in Paris, because she always carries a bouquet of camellias, known as "La Traviata". By chance, Traviata met the young writer Armand and fell in love. Armand's father learned of their relationship and coerced Traviata to break up with his son's future. The Traviata who rolls in the wind and moon field has never had a man who really treats her, she wants to be with Armand, and since she loves deeply, the last thing she wants is because of her relationship, the lover loses his future and loses his family. So she left Armand and returned to the Wind moon field, mixed with the nobles and rich, and she used this cruel way to protect her lover. However, this self-sacrificing fulfillment of her only paid for the humiliation and torture of her lover for the rest of her life, until she died of a serious illness.
The ending of the Traviata in the novel is extremely tragic, and at the end of her life, she constantly shouts Armand's name, "silent tears flow from her eyes". She never saw her beloved again. Armand learned the truth through the diary she left behind.
In the movie, there is a hint of warmth, and Armand sees the last side of the Traviata and solves the misunderstanding before the Traviata dies.
Still, Garbo's dying line in La Traviata is heartbreaking: "My heart, not used to happiness." Perhaps, it is better to live in your heart, in your heart, the world will not see me. ”
Garbo was 31 years old when she played "La Traviata", and she disappeared 5 years later. Some people say that she can't win the Oscar because her beauty masks her acting skills, but her acting skills really hang the actresses of the same era, which is a dimensional reduction blow to many so-called movie stars today.
She played "La Traviata" and became the only Margaret. She played "Anna Karenina" and was the only "Anna".
Unique and beautiful
If garbo has any "stains", it should be that she always asks for extra remuneration. After she became famous, she made "Queen of Sweden", and has always asked for additional remuneration, and each time it is more demanding than once. She grew up in a slum and came out to work at the age of 13, suffering from all kinds of cold eyes and torture. Not having money would keep her safe.
At the same time, she cherished her feathers to the extreme, did not accept interviews, did not associate with celebrities, and wrapped herself tightly, afraid that those high-profile things and wrongs would make her collapse.
With the passage of time, the stars of the Hollywood era have passed away one by one, but the images have engraved their wonderful performances, so that people who have never had the opportunity to appear with her contemporaries can also look up to such a bright starlight.