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As a fan, you've definitely seen his best-known films: The Pianist at Sea, The Beautiful Legend of Sicily and Cinema Paradiso, and he's the director Giuseppe Tornadore. He said, I go to the cinema almost every day, I love movies, I love all kinds of movies.
You must have also been touched by the stories and pictures full of warmth in his films, "Reading sentences of the movie and sleeping again" was licensed by "Adventure Movie", and today we will reminisce about Tornadore's films together.
Giuseppe Tornadore
Italian director Giuseppe Tornadore is a relatively low-key presence, we don't know much about him, but as a film fan, you will definitely see his films, almost all fans and film lovers have been touched by his warm stories and pictures.
Cinema Paradiso – A love letter to the film
Stills from Cinema Paradiso
At the 62nd Academy Awards in 1990, Jack Lemon and Russian actress Natalya Negoda presented the award for best foreign language film live in Moscow, and when Natalya excitedly shouted "Italy's Cinema Paradiso", perhaps most people did not have time to realize that Tornadore would become the most famous representative of the new generation of Italian cinema in the future.
The 62nd Academy Award for Cinema Paradiso was awarded
"When I was very young, I went to the cinema almost every day, and I loved to watch all the movies shown in the town cinema. I love all kinds of movies, not only those important movies, simple movies, simple stories that attract me incomparably. I believe that all movies have a right to exist. ”
—Giuseppe Tornadore
In "Cinema Paradiso", there are always many little boys who sneak to the cinema and are extremely curious about movies and movie projectors. This is the first time that Giuseppe Tornadore has made a film set in his hometown of Sicily, which many people consider to be a director's autobiographical film, a director's tribute to childhood, his hometown of Sicily and cinema.
However, Giuseppe Tornatore said that the story of Cinema Paradiso is fictional, and the autobiographical significance of it is that he is as full of infinite curiosity and love for the film as the protagonist Dodo.
Director Giuseppe Tornadore was born in a small town in Sicily, Italy, in an obscure town in the sixties, and it was almost impossible to make a film, even a documentary. But at that time, many people had a small camera to take pictures. For Giuseppe Tornadore, this was the closest thing he could achieve to making a film, so he became a freelance photographer.
Tonadore Script Writer (in Sicily)
Tornadore recalls his experience as a cinematographer before making the film, the language of the shots he learned from it, how to capture the real life scenes and movements of the characters, and the composition, which brought a non-negligible influence to the classic films of epochal significance that he shot as a director, including "The Pianist of the Sea" and "The Beautiful Legend of Sicily".
The New Paradise Scout – a movie within a movie
Stills from The New Paradise Scout
Many film masters have expressed their love and thoughts about the film itself in their own works, whether it is Woody Allen's "The Purple Rose of Cairo", Fellini's "Eight and a Half Films", Robert Altman's "Super Player", the Coen Brothers' "Barton Fink", or Tornadore's famous "Cinema Paradiso".
1995's "New Paradise Scout" focused the story on the film itself that director Tornatore loved, telling a very unique story. The male protagonist, Joe, drives a pickup truck carrying expired film and goes around cheating as a scout.
The 3-minute long shot at the beginning of the movie's 11 minutes resembles a smooth, elegant waltz. Although the tragic and joyous colors of the film are somewhat weak, we still find ourselves deeply attracted to the nostalgic romantic scene of the Sicilian town.
Land and house architecture blend together, hot and empty squares ... Sicily is Tornatore's muse, the director is obsessed with and loves it, and it can tick off the most flavorful side of the director.
The Pianist at Sea – Rhapsody of the Lonely
I was born on this ship, and it was the whole world that passed by me.
——1900
Stills from The Pianist at Sea
The sea, an eternal symbol – symbolizes romance, freedom and a wandering heart. Tim Rose's delicate and moving performances, Morricone's sometimes exciting and sometimes quiet and romantic soundtrack and Tornatore's poetic presentation push the film into view with an extremely strong posture.
Tornadore's films are never devoid of delicacy and beauty, if many times the emotions he presents are not pushed to a depth that resonates. In this film, he did both.
For Tornadore, it is no longer the familiar Sicily, such a brand new, "ungrounded" story, but the director uses the lens language he is good at to express to the extreme.
The Beautiful Legend of Sicily – that's how we all grew up
Stills from The Beautiful Legend of Sicily
There has never been a shortage of beautiful women in film history, and many films have also shown women's bodies and personalities. Scarlett in Gone with the Wind, MonicaVitti in The Red Desert, Brigitte Bardot in Contempt. Yet in the turn of the millennium, the birth of The Beautiful Tale of Sicily once again challenged our limited imagination of beauty. The beauty of Marlena is nostalgic, thrilling, physical, real and not exaggerated.
Tornatore takes us back to the small town of Sicily, but this time it is a completely different story and tone. If "Cinema Paradiso" shows the curiosity and longing for life in childhood, the growth of a boy, it is warm and beautiful.
For "The Beautiful Legend of Sicily", the tone of the film at the beginning is hot, golden air and naughty boys, the atmosphere is simple and comedic. But following the development of the boy Reinaldo's fascination with Marlena, the whole story gradually turns into a very dramatic mood, until finally helpless tragic.
Five years before the film officially began, Tornadore found the perfect candidate for Marlena in his heart, Monica Bellucci, and told her the story. At the time, Tornadore wasn't sure if the film would be enough to be made, but Monica was deeply attracted to Marina, which gave Tornadore a lot of confidence and encouragement.
Monica Bellucci is interviewed
When I tried to understand the character of Marlena, Tornadore helped me a lot, explaining to me the women of that era, and in the end we succeeded.
—Monica Bellucci
In the end, everyone, man and woman, remembers Marlena's character Monica Bellucci because of this movie.
Baalia – Back to the Boy Perspective
Stills from Baalia
In this epic memoir, Tornadore takes us once again to Sicily, this time not just a random town, but the director-born Bagheria. Many directors have a homeland complex, and Tornatore's must be the most rustic and childlike.
This ambitious work, the story spans decades, but somewhat scattered, the accumulation of emotions and stories are not as profound as "Cinema Paradiso" and "The Beautiful Legend of Sicily". But the heat of the golden earth and air in the film is still successfully displayed through Tornatore's ample lens expression and control of tone, and the sense of substitution and immersion is not inferior.
The boy's perspective, in the land of Sicily, from "Cinema Paradiso" to "The Beautiful Legend of Sicily" to "Baalia", this unwritten "Trotsky" narrative style still maintains a unique temperature and freshness to this day.
Astronomy of Love – The Art of Kissing
In this 2016 Tornatore's new work, shortly after the beginning of the film, there is such a picture - the two kiss goodbye through the window.
Stills from Astronomy of Love
This scene can't help but remind people of the scene in "Barilla" in which the male and female protagonists show their admiration for each other.
The most moving moment in "Love Astronomy" is the scene where director Tornatore has the deepest traces. It shows Tornadore's delicate control of emotions in details.
Signature lens language – the prying eye
In addition to his favorite themes and nostalgic feelings, Tornadore's films also have a unique style in the language of the lens. One of the most iconic are those snooping eyes that appear in almost all of his films.
It is used to convey different information and emotions in different films, but it can form such a personalized expression, which greatly brings a sense of familiarity and belonging to the audience.
Collaboration with the soundtrack master Enio Morricone
Enio Morricone was interviewed
At the 88th Academy Awards, Enio Morricone finally won the Award for Best Score for Quentin's "Eight Wicked Men." But his collaboration with Tornadore dates back to Cinema Paradiso, which Morricone scored, and the two became best friends. Since then, the soundtracks for all of Tornadore's films have been composed by Morricone, even some that were not released.
Tonadore working photo
A line of life
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