To take away the love of beauty from our hearts is to take away all the charm of life. - French motto
The French have always been synonymous with romance, and "Monsters in Paris", a film nominated for best animated film at the 37th César Awards, once again taught the audience what is called unconventional French romance.
The story of the film tells a laboratory accident to create a "monster", the vision of Paris is wonderful, the monster that appears unexpectedly, the girl with a beautiful song, according to the Hollywood routine, there must be a romantic love and a tragic ending that can not be tolerated in the world, and the French romance is love or love, singing or singing, the monster and the girl can finally perform on the same stage, giving the audience a happy finale. The film brings the Romance and Pursuit of Beauty of the French to the extreme. This article begins with a film that explores the manifestations of French Romanticism.
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sunflower
In the professor's laboratory, Emile and Rolle stumble upon a giant sunflower. At the end of the film, when fighting with the already crazy police chief, the huge sunflower saves the lives of Lucille and Rolle, and finally the brain is more open to solve the flood problem in Paris with the water absorption of the sunflower.
Sunflower scientific name: Helianthus annuus L. Sunflower's flower language has three meanings: silent love, admiration and loyalty. These meanings, in the film, are the love of these two young people, Lucille and Rohr have known each other since kindergarten, but neither of them has confessed, but awkwardly got along for more than twenty years, until this Franco incident really came together, it is the green plum bamboo horse and the joyful enemy. The Emir who screened the film and the conductor Jasmine also had a good feeling for each other and did not break it.
Sunflowers represent a subtle romantic feeling in the film, and the French expression of love, although as fierce and direct as the American film, is full of deep affection.
France's national flower is the vetiver iris, but the French also love sunflowers, sunflowers in addition to being excellent oil crops, brilliant vitality is also loved by the French. In provence, in addition to the famous lavender there are also large quantities of sunflowers. In the film, Rohr said that his small truck Caroline was full of sunflower oil, using vegetable oil for car power, and the Imagination of the French was indeed beyond ordinary.
The French have a sunflower complex, calling sunflowers the rotating sun, the famous French painter Vincent. Van Gogh loved sunflowers, and van Gogh made a total of 11 "Sunflowers" in his lifetime, 10 of which were scattered after his death, and only one is currently on display at the Van Gogh Museum. Van Gogh had a painting called Fifteen Sunflowers.
Van Gogh's biography Stranger on the Earth, by Albert Lubin, interprets this picture by saying that the sunflower is a famous peasant's flower; according to this, this flower is equivalent to a peasant's portrait and a self-portrait. Its cheerful brilliance is also imitated by the sun, and Vincent cherishes the sun and has been enshrined as God and mother. Moreover, its shape, like breasts, may be particularly touching for this frustrated man who longs for maternal love, but this is not confirmed, and he himself (in his letter to Theo) said that the sunflower is a symbol of gratitude.
The Frenchman's subtlety, elegance and quest for the meaning of life and self-actualization coincide in the sense of a sunflower.
Seine
Most of the songs of romantic films are related to love, and in this film, Lucille sang "La Seine" in the film, Chinese translated as "Seine", but the protagonist of the song is the Seine. The song is gentle and feminine, like a walk by the Seine under the night sky. The more brisk and playful work with Francol became a dance song. Sang the beauty of the Seine. The song expresses the true feelings of Parisians about the Seine, and the lyrics are like a confession to a beloved.
At the beginning of the film, the Seine River rises, causing flooding in Paris. This film, cloaked in love, is more of a tribute and exclamation to the Seine and its place. The time of the Seine's rise has really existed in history. January 1910. Four years before the start of the First World War, a sudden flood plunged Paris into panic and suffered heavy losses. On 20 January, the seine level was 3.8 metres. Six days later, the water level soared to 7.39 meters. The statue of the light infantry under the Alma Bridge has been flooded to the neck, becoming a unique sight that Parisians at the time competed to visit. This is in line with the background of the film.
Since then, the statue of light infantry has become a yardstick for measuring the water level of the Seine and is deeply imprinted in the memory of Parisians. The volume of the Seine rises eightfold, the waters engulf it mercilessly, the streets turn into rivers, and the trips are carried by boats. In neighborhoods where floods are less severe, people erect planks on the ground for passage.
In reality, the floods in Paris caused by the Seine caused a lot of damage, but in the film it does not seem to be serious, and the use of giant sunflowers to solve the problem of rising water fully demonstrates the laziness and self-entertainment spirit of the French, and there is a feeling that the sky is falling.
The French who live in Paris will be proud of Paris. They often say, "France is big, but without Paris, there would be no France." And the people of Paris put this sentence on the Seine. The phrase becomes "Paris is beautiful, but without the Seine, there would be no Paris." "The Seine, as an important waterway for water transport, because of its special geographical location, Paris has been an important port city for a long time, and the prosperity of trade has made Paris prosperous, so there is a previous sentence.
The famous poet Hemingway famously said about Paris. He said: "If you're lucky enough to come to Paris when you're young. Then Paris will always follow you. Because Paris is a flowing feast. ”
And the French love for Paris and the Seine, in the film through franco's perspective and the big vista to tell us the picture, when Francol jumped in the night sky of Paris, the paris night view is unobstructed, under the quiet moonlight, standing on the left bank of the Seine, the Eiffel Tower, the quietly flowing Seine River, and the lights of Paris, all reveal the beauty of this mobile feast.
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The film is not highly completed in terms of logic and plot, more like a romantic prose poem, weaving an ode to a better life with love and beauty, and this unique French prose poetry-like expression comes from the unique French romanticism. Romanticism originated in Germany, but flourished in France.
There is such a description in the book "The Roots of Romanticism"
Romanticism is primitive and rough, it is youth, it is the natural human perception of the richness of life, but it is also sick and pale, it is fever, it is disease, it is depravity, it is the disease of the century, it is a beautiful heartless woman, it is the dance of death, in fact, it is death itself.
It is the dome of stained glass depicted by Shelley, but also his eternal white light, the colorful richness of life, the abundance of life, the inexhaustible diversity, the turmoil, violence, conflict, chaos; it is also serene, the unity of the capital 'I am', the harmony of the natural order, the music of the heavenly dome, the all-encompassing spirit integrated into eternity.
Romanticism is essentially an attitude of "being yourself," daring to express yourself, and being true to yourself. After the development of France, the integration of French culture is more open, more desperate to pursue their own feelings about beauty, the joys and sorrows of individuals can be fully released, and the liberation of ideas and nature has allowed the French to start their brains, and the pursuit of beauty and magnificence has been brought to the extreme.
Stendhal said that Romanticism is modern and interesting, meaning that Romanticism is about understanding the forces that drive one's life, not about the things that are hidden from obsolescence.
Friedhiri, the greatest pioneer of Romanticism in history. Schlegel believed that man has an insatiable desire that is not terrible, always wants to travel to infinity, has a fanatical desire, always wants to get rid of the narrow shackles of the individual.
In this film, French romanticism is more manifested as a hazy and beautiful love, there is no dog blood, only mutual affection, the accidental Frankol is not a representative of evil, nor does it have to go through a tortuous fate struggle, and finally free, with the image of a singer of the voice of nature, everything is beautiful and harmonious. The film fully expresses the beauty of love, the beauty of life, the equality and harmony of life, even if it encounters difficulties, it can turn the crisis into safety, and the Laziness, optimism, and romance of the French are played to the fullest in the film.
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The Pursuit of Love and Beauty in the bones of the French is more or less unique in the world, and finally to borrow the words of Jacques de Bourbon to represent the spiritual aspirations of the French:
The real France is invisible, and her power has nothing to do with military, industrial, or financial. She is wise and moral. This invisible France, the only real France, she defended the right of the spirit and put freedom of thought first, which was an absolute respect for common values.
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