#电影图兰朵 The origin of the spell #
The movie "Turandot: The Origin of the Spell" is adapted from the classic Italian opera "Turandot", as a film work that integrates Chinese and Western, this film can be said to be quite difficult to create.
The first thing that needs to be solved in the creation of this film work is how to integrate this well-known opera story in the West with traditional Chinese culture to create a film that can be recognized by foreign audiences and accepted by Chinese people.
Fortunately, thanks to the unremitting efforts of the film's director and creative team, the film finally achieved a high degree of integration of Chinese and Western cultures, presenting a legendary story that is more moving than the original for the audience in front of the big screen!
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The film tells the story of the princess of the Great Khanate, played by Guan Xiaotong, who accidentally wore an ancestral tricolor bracelet with a mysterious magic spell at her birthday celebration, and was possessed by a magic spell, and the entire empire fell into an infinite haze.
The resolute Khan saw his beloved daughter in pain but could not extricate himself, looking for the world's capable people to come to break the situation, but in the end no one could unravel the mysterious tricolor bracelet.
In the end, the helpless Khan had to pin his hopes on the fact that one day someone would be able to solve the three riddles of the tricolor, because according to the high priest, as long as someone could successfully solve the three riddles of the tricolor, the curse could be eliminated.
Unfortunately, there is a time limit on this method - if the princess turns eighteen and no one can undo the spell for her, the princess will be plunged into the abyss of eternal doom...
Although the princess grows up is beautiful and moving, she is also cold, but this cold heart is once again full of sunshine and hope because of a sentient teenager.
The young "blue eyes" saved the princess in distress by chance, and the feelings of the two became deeper and deeper in the day and night. But because of this, the princess who could not bear to be injured by blue eyes because of her own spell attack finally chose to use the separation as the destination of this emotion.
But the kind blue eyes did not give up on the princess, but chose to step forward on the day of the answer, trying to save the princess's life by solving three riddles.
However, in the process of solving the puzzle, Blue Eye accidentally recalls that he is not actually "Blue Eye", but Carraf, the son of King Malvia, who was destroyed by the Great Khanate, and Turandot in front of him is the daughter of an enemy with whom he has a vendetta against his father and the destruction of the country... Thinking of all this, Karaf refused to answer the third puzzle after solving the first two puzzles, and even wanted to leave the khanate forever.
But in the end, the sincere emotion broke through the narrowness of hatred, and seeing Turandot, who could not extricate himself in pain, Carav finally resolutely solved the third riddle for Turandot...
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Although the film has made a certain degree of adaptation of the storyline and main characters compared to the original, it is worth affirming that the film still retains the ideological connotation of the original story, and even retains the three riddles with rich meaning, which makes the audience familiar with the opera of "Turandot" also find resonance in this film.
The character of Karaf is full of tragedy from the beginning of the story, his country was destroyed by the khanate, and his parents died because of it, but he fell in love with the princess of the khanate by mistake, which paved the way for this movie to be doomed to be a cheesy fairy tale love story. Is it the teasing of surrendering to fate? Or do you bravely fight for everything you hold dear?
Calaf eventually chose the latter, although many viewers will say that even so, Calaf still did not get the happy ending he wanted, but what? At least Calaf has fought against an unjust fate with all his might, and the power of love has made him change himself, and he finally chooses to go to the unknown far away to rebuild his kingdom with a deep love for the princess and the secret recipe for making gunpowder at the end of the film.
If Calaf hadn't met, met, and experienced everything with the princess, his upbringing would have ended in a very different way. From this point of view, how can such a film ending, which is missing in the eyes of many people, not be happy and satisfactory?
The film's most daring and successful adaptation is undoubtedly the use of three riddles, "Born in darkness, died at dawn", "The woman is beautiful because of it, the man is devoted to it, the woman dies with the man, it forms cold ice", and the last riddle, Turandot.
Director Zheng Xiaolong successfully made these three riddles correspond to the storyline one by one, and achieved thought-provoking.
The three short and profound words of hope, blood and love have been the pursuit of countless people from ancient times to the present, but is it really worth everything people pay for? I believe that different people will have different answers to this question, just as at the end of the story, the male protagonist Caraf also made his own choice.
Fireworks can be said to have played a key role in this movie many times, and at the end of the story, the male protagonist Calaf also returns to his homeland with the secret recipe of fireworks.
Obviously, what the director symbolizes through fireworks is peace and hope, and peace and hope are always better than war and killing full of death. In connection with reality, in today's world, even if there may be more or less various differences between different countries, seeking common ground while reserving differences and finding win-win cooperation is still the theme of today's era.
Finally, I have to mention the director of "Turandot" - Zheng Xiaolong.
Although many fans may feel a little unfamiliar with this name, when it comes to his works, I believe that the vast majority of viewers know, including "Longing", "Golden Marriage", "The Biography of Zhen Huan", "Red Sorghum" and the final hit "Meritorious Service".
As a famous director who has long entered his old age and has made countless classic TV drama works, the last time Zheng Xiaolong directed a film was the "Gua Sha" more than 20 years ago.
Zheng Xiaolong, who has directed film works again after more than two decades, has assembled a luxurious cast in order to make "Turandot: The Origin of the Spell" a film and television work that can be compared with the original, including domestic actors such as Jiang Wen and Hu Jun, as well as international actors such as "the immortal goddess Sophie Marceau, Vincent Perez, and Dylan Sprose."
In short, this film work has been a cultural integration film with a global positioning from the beginning, and I believe that the film's good performance can make it a bridge and witness to cultural exchanges between the East and the West.