The screening scene of "Beloved Vincent"
Is it a poignant tribute, an epic joke, or a unique romantic rendition?
The hand-drawn animated feature film Loving Vincent, which began airing in the United States on October 10, allows the public to interpret the many possibilities of Van Gogh's death through the exploration of the last days of Van Gogh's life. The film uses the theory that Steven Niffy and Gregory White Smith first appeared in the 2011 book Van Gogh Biography: Van Gogh did not commit suicide, but was shot by a local 16-year-old boy named René Secrétan. In the film, a bully boy carrying a pistol and wearing a cowboy costume surrounds the field and tortures Van Gogh. At the time of his death, Van Gogh claimed that suicide was a martyrdom sacrifice. Maybe it's because of a desperation for a tired life, a reluctance to cause trouble for the neighborhood, or just to avoid ridiculous shame.
In art history, Van Gogh's death is described as follows: On July 27, 1890, Van Gogh raised an "unknown" Lefaucheux pocket revolver on the banks of the Oise River in France and fired a shot at himself in the chest. About 30 hours later, on July 29, 1890, the 37-year-old painter died of his wounds.
In the film Van Gogh walks towards the wheat field
However, the real significance of the film is that each painting resembles Van Gogh's canvas, and all the scenes are hand-painted — the pulsation and throbbing of the landscape, the swirling and flickering of the starry sky, the brush depicting the sky, the portrait, the wheat field, the autumn leaves, and specific images from Van Gogh's works are also referenced in the film.
The film's directors, Hugh Welchman and Dorota Kobiela, provide live footage of the scripted characters for the show's people, who then digitally overscult the relationship to the object. This fantasy approach is like the rotating image technique used by Richard Linklater, director of the "Love in Trilogy", since 2001, or the graphic language of Israeli director Ari Folman's 2008 film "Waltz with Bashir".
The difference is that "Beloved Vincent" uses real seepage paint to express complex, fine effects, but when viewers watch the film, they feel that similar effects may be easier achieved through the digital production of laptops, while the director is like an old-school taxi driver, who still completes the film in the original hand-drawn way of "old horse knowledge" when electronic navigation is prevalent.
Characters in the film
The result was a strange but fantastic movie. In the film, Van Gogh's friend Joseph Roulin, a postman in Arles, is played by Chris O'Dowd, and his son Armand Roulin is from Douglas Booth, and their characters are all based on Van Gogh's portraits. When Van Gogh was depressed by illness and pain, the Ruland father and son gave him great help, and the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam still retains a letter written by Joseph Ruland to Van Gogh's brother Theo in early 1889, informing him that Van Gogh was discharged from the hospital and that everything was fine. And many of the dialogues of the characters in the film also come from the letters of the time. The male protagonist Van Gogh, played by Robert Gulaczyk, became an iconic film image in the minds of audiences based on his self-portraits in the looking pencil images of the retrospective pencils.
Van Gogh played by Robert Gulachik
Watching this film is like admiring Van Gogh's canvas, the whole world becomes van Gogh's pen, everything looks depressed, self-appreciative, and the audience seems to wander in the world after Van Gogh's death, looking at everything that belongs to Van Gogh. Or rather, the audience is trapped in van Gogh's land, but the film is more of a Van Gogh style and doesn't really tell the story of his life and work.
Cursed, distorted, misunderstood Van Gogh has recently become a research direction, and Beloved Vincent is like a van Gogh imitation of himself — 11,540 professional painters, 62,450 oil paintings as a framework for the film, and 94 van Gogh works "integrated" into animated images.
But the whole film seems to be an interpretation and interpretation of the mystery of Van Gogh's death in the 2011 book Van Gogh Biography, however, Van Gogh's real attraction is his artistic struggle and exploration, rather than the exploration of the truth of his death. Perhaps the whole film constructed from Van Gogh's artistic creation seems ingenious, but in fact it is just a copy of technology, and van Gogh, who is considered a symbol, looks down and smiles, or is a tasteless insult to his work.
Bontaka Painting Room
First of all, Van Gogh's paintings are not the "Van Gogh style" created by the film. In his work, he knows nature and all things, and his art evolves again. The film, on the other hand, reduces Van Gogh's work into a neat animation sequence, while the artist is "reborn" in front of the "empty" canvas. Moreover, each of Van Gogh's works is a unique basis for his pursuit of the soul, but the struggle of these arts has formed an animation of mass entertainment, losing the real power of Van Gogh's art to touch people.
The transformation of Dr. Gachet's actors and works
In the current era of simplification, film portrays Van Gogh's art as a Disneyland scene, and although the directors "bring Van Gogh's paintings to life", this reveals a shallowness, and the public should see more problems in Van Gogh's art to solve, rather than simply "moving" them.
Not only Van Gogh, almost all artists today are easier to understand and more popular than in the past, but in addition to queuing up to see works and buy derivatives, the public needs to see the real people behind the "myth", and more importantly, his real paintings and long-term hardships. Mass culture, on the other hand, produced a more obscure version of Van Gogh that catered to public laziness.