There is a kind of beauty in the world, called a glimpse.
Why only a glimpse?
Because time is not waiting for anyone.
Today must be a beautiful weekend night, because Sir wants to mention someone.
She gave you a glimpse of it a long time ago.
Then you said, good immortal.
She was 24 years old at the time.
△ The elf princess in The Lord of the Rings
Liv Taylor.
At that time, many people felt that her appearance in "The Lord of the Rings" was called "immortal";
In this way, her 19-year-old famous work should be called "Shangxian".
Be mentally prepared, after reading this, you are likely to dream of her tonight -
"Stealing Incense"
Stealing Beauty
Directed by Italian director Bernardo Bertolucci.
It's not so much about "color" as it is about "beauty."
19-year-old Taylor, like the title of the film, the flower picker wants to steal her beauty.
Bertolucci is very good at shooting, and each close-up can accurately grasp the fairy characteristics of this girl.
Her breasts were slightly undulating as she read, and the candlelight shone on her long legs;
When writing the poem, he suddenly raised his eyes, and the moment he looked at her, it was as if he was like a perceived voyeur, and he could not look away;
Of course, there are also the times when girls are most energetic.
Without any erotic meaning, it is a particularly green and simple beauty.
The girl played by Taylor is named Lucy.
A girl living in the United States went to Tuscany, a remote farm in the central Italian region.
The opening two shots of "Stealing Incense" break the theme of the story.
Swallow's nest on the eaves, affection.
Spring Palace painting on the wall, love.
Lucy came to the farm first to find her biological father.
Her mother, an American poetess, left a diary before her death.
It reveals that my mother once had (perhaps more) a past affair at the farm.
She met a man in an olive grove on the farm, and then there was Lucy.
Secondly, in addition to finding her father, Lucy also wants to find her sweetheart.
Why do you say find back?
Because four years ago, 15-year-old Lucy came here and gave her first kiss to a little handsome guy.
After returning to the United States, he also wrote her love letters, which completely captured her heart.
You can see from the way she meets the handsome man again, and Lucy must be looking forward to developing a relationship with the handsome man beyond letters.
The confusion of family affection and the temptation of love are slowly fermenting.
Will this adolescent girl be like her mother, completing the coming-of-age ceremony at this small farm and moving towards the maturity she expects?
Speaking of off-screen, Liv Taylor came to act, and the chance of smashing was almost zero.
Not because she was beautiful, but because this was her own story.
It's a reality that's pretty bizarre as the movie—
In reality, Taylor was raised by American musician Todd Landgren.
It wasn't until she was 8 years old that she followed her mother to a show by the American rock band Aerosmith (also known as the Air Blacksmith) that she vaguely realized that something was wrong.
I found myself looking exactly like the band's lead singer, Steven Taylor, who had a daughter (born to his second wife, a year younger than Taylor), and I saw her standing on the sidelines of the stage listening to the concert, just like seeing a replica of herself. Turning my head to see my mother, her tears swirling, I probably guessed...
△ A photo of a father and daughter
It is this experience similar to the protagonist of the film that makes director Bertolucci take a look at Taylor, and even give the role shaping directly to the actor and let her play.
It also allowed Taylor to debut from a vase to the C position and become a world-renowned fairy actress.
That was the first time I found myself and the characters in common. Because I understand her and really like her very much, it's too easy for me to be her.
At the end of the film, the scene where the heroine finds her biological father, Taylor is completely the same as the original -
It reminds me of when I met my biological father and wanted to look at him from the pores on his scalp to the nail caps of his feet.
There was another reason for choosing Taylor, her purity.
"Stealing Incense" was filmed in 1996, when Bertolucci had already photographed the world (China's "The Last Emperor", North Africa's "The Sheltered Sky", and went to India), and by the age of 55, he suddenly wanted to shoot back in his hometown.
After hollowing himself out, Bertolucci chose to look back at his beloved hometown again with a young eye.
I want to start over, as a virgin, back to Italy.
With this creative mentality, he conceived of a more immortal Italy-
Unlike the previous thick and heavy, the story of "Stealing Incense" is light and bright.
In contrast to the relaxed rhythm, the picture in the film is much deeper than the real scene.
The film was mainly filmed in Tuscany, the birthplace of the Italian Renaissance, where the "Oscars" were abundant, and "The English Patient", "Gladiator" and "Beautiful Life" were filmed here, and the capital Florence was the hometown of Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and Dante.
Specifically filmed, between Florence and its "historical nemesis" Siena (the former flourished most during the Renaissance, the latter proud of Gothic art) -
Chianti.
The topography here has hardly changed since ancient times.
field. castle. Farm.
Red soil, green forest.
In many places, the buildings built by the medieval lords are still preserved.
Originally an old town, "Stealing Incense" made it even older.
The farmstead to which the heroine went was a resort hotel called Potere Felce.
The place to eat and play in the film is the shed in front of the hotel.
The place where the heroine goes swimming with her big legs is also here.
In the second half of the film, the heroine and the people in the farm go to participate in the villa of the body, which is the residence and winery of a large family since 1527, called Villa Geggiano.
The film also shoots the Castle of Brolio from two different angles, and the camera flows between the dusty and quiet, as if we can see through the fog and see its 800-year history.
These old places, because of Lucy's arrival, also glowed with their own atmosphere.
When she first arrived at the farm, everyone was groggy, either sleeping or in a daze.
After seeing her, everyone's eyes lit up.
Men obviously want her, and women are secretly jealous of her.
After spending a long time together, Lucy found that there were two kinds of people in the farm.
The first is frivolous, but every day is a pleasure.
They indulge in indulgence, let themselves fly in the country fields, eat food every day, and exercise night and night.
As long as they get together, they talk about finding someone for Lucy or sharing interesting things about their own years.
But the stimulation is always short-lived, and the freshness is always faded.
The party that lets go is likely to suddenly fly with someone else one day...
At the beginning, the little young man who fascinated Lucy belonged to this category.
He thought Lucy was fairy, but only saw the fairy of her shell.
When they came to the olive grove, he threw Lucy down in the grass without saying a word, and said to himself:
I long for you, I want you.
This may have been Lucy's mother's experience, but she found that it was not what she wanted.
It's not beautiful at all, it's even dirty.
So she broke free of the boy and ran back to the room, wiping away the saliva and mud from her body.
And the boys?
Like no one else, he turned his head and went to flirt with someone else.
Lucy wanted more than that.
When people say to introduce her to the object, she says, "I feel like an advertisement to be classified";
When everyone gossiped about all kinds of shameful things, only she said one sentence:
"What about love? You didn't fall in love. ”
So in fact, Lucy is the second kind of person.
Such people have the same lust, but not only lust.
For example, there is a playwright in the movie who has a short life and can only rely on drugs to maintain his life.
He was one of the few people on the farm, not coveting Lucy's flesh, but someone who thought she was beautiful from the inside out:
You look at her, a little curious, and a little scared, but it has aroused my infinite memories.
At the meal for Lucy's blind date, only he interrupted the others with a sentence of "Trouble hand me sugar" and took the opportunity to warn them with his eyes, "Don't say it again."
When he saw Lucy being laughed at by a greasy uncle, he said it 15 times in a row – No!
Lucy said, I think he is fine, but he said, then I am disillusioned.
He was willing to listen to Lucy and would give her advice.
Because he knew Lucy was looking for something, just like he had been.
Later, Lucy met another boy.
He was friends with the impatient "I want you boy" in front of him.
The boy didn't say much, always standing in the corner, silently looking at Lucy.
At that gathering to share sex, he sided with Lucy:
"I don't know what's more absurd, whether it's the talk or the lies of politicians."
Why?
Because Lucy in his eyes is more complete than in the eyes of others.
This is a Lucy who has been stung by a bee and will cry out in pain.
△ He helped Lucy to apply the medicine, and seeing that Lucy also had a wound on her chest, he looked away embarrassedly and said, "Come on your own."
This is another Lucy who broke her leg because she had something in her heart, and she didn't shout in any pain, got up and left.
This is a Lucy who thinks of her mother and will cry quietly in the night.
This is another Lucy who will give a kiss to the dying.
Yes, there's also a love letter to Lucy, who talks to him.
At that time, he only met her once, and the love letter was written by him, not the previous "I want you boy".
Because of shyness, he deliberately did not admit it.
The case was solved.
Lucy's heart was finally put down.
At this moment, the sun was setting, and the two young people were at the end of the world.
After a while, he actually burst into tears.
Why? Because he's too baby this girl.
The end of the movie.
In the farm, indulgent lusters, dragging hollow shells, sat around the table.
They still wait for the food to arrive as they do every day, and live a life of food color.
...... Only to find that the refrigerator was empty.
And Lucy and the boy, hungry, completed the coming-of-age, shameful thing on the hillside.
more than.
It should be said that it is a thing that makes each other more complete.
It can be seen that the director is not noble enough not to eat fireworks.
On the contrary, he wanted to say that food, sex, and spiritual pursuit are all sexual.
In the growth of people, ideals and lust are indispensable.
So in "Stealing Incense", what beauty do people really want to "steal"?
Taylor's flesh is more like a holistic metaphor for beauty—what can't be sought is beauty.
The flesh is beauty, the mind is beauty.
Youth is beauty, vitality is beauty.
For the old-fashioned, lust is beauty; for the empty, the ideal is beauty.
For Bertolucci, the original intention, like the virgin body, was also his dream...
The beauty of memories of your hometown.
(Foreign media reported that the director hopes to awaken the idealism and passion of people through Lucy's innocence.) ）
So......
Fast forward what a pity, this is to watch an erotic film, our correct posture.