Although he did not like opera, Puccini's works were still very willing to hear about it. In the schedule of this year's Shanghai Film Festival, "Puccini Biography" is prominently listed. Thinking of being able to listen to puccini operas such as "A Clear Day", "For Art for Love" and "Tonight's Starry" in the great acoustics of the Great Screen Cinema Hall, I did not hesitate to grab the ticket for this movie, although it was a bit expensive.
In the movie poster, the master's left arm and right arm are women
The last note of the opera Turandot gradually dissipated in the opera, and the Italian conductor Toscanini lowered his baton. He slowly turns to the full audience and announces: "Puccini is dead", and then the camera turns to puccini's wife, Olan Vera, and after a moment's pause, the movie is dark, and the subtitles rise on the screen, and "Puccini" ends. I sat in the unlit screening hall and thought about the film that had just ended, and it took a while to realize: Why did the film waste its time on the works of Puccini that we were already familiar with? After being hammered by the actors on the opera stage, it has become a classic "Sunny Day", "For Art for Love", "Tonight is Starry", and there is no need for a movie to prove it again. What the movie "Puccini" has to do is to tell us, even if he is a genius, what Puccini wants to become another giant in the opera composition world after Verdi and Rossini.
The nearly 3.5-hour film must also make a choice to tell the life of the legendary master Puccini. In this film, the angle chosen is how the women around Puccini help the most precious men in their minds. This angle, although it can make Puccini on the screen more star-studded, is it inevitable that people will be criticized: can it be that if you can become a master, it is all women who are perfecting Puccini?
Puccini is playing the piano
How can it not be true?
Puccini's mother, because of the early death of her husband, had to bear the burden of raising many children, but this mother never ignored the talent of her eldest son because of the pressure of life. She diligently encouraged and supported Puccini to study music in Milan; when Puccini could not find a way to create for a while, the mother's guidance from life experience was almost the golden rule given to all creators: write the song in your heart, write the song that belongs only to you. Puccini, who had already achieved fame at the beginning of the film, was struggling to complete Turandot, that is, "Puccini" was collaged in the language unique to the film to collage Puccini's path from poor student to great composer. Even so, when the film flashes back to the scene where the poor student Puccini can't see the future, we dare to conclude off-screen that without the encouragement and support of his mother, Puccini, who feels that Milan is not easy, may go home on the grounds that he misses the beans in his hometown lucca.
Psychology believes that children who grow up under the care of their mothers will grow up to be better. Puccini's relationship with his mother is undoubtedly ironclad evidence of this statement. However, this relationship with the mother, which transcends the barriers of relatives, also makes the mother follow up as a woman, becoming Puccini's psychological dependence - once it enters the bottleneck period of creation, Puccini always naturally seeks the help of women to get a breakthrough.
"Manny Lesco" is Puccini's famous work, needless to say, without the help of his mother, there may not be an opera composer Puccini in the world.
When Puccini met Oranvera and fell in love at first sight, Olanvira was already someone else's wife...
"For Art for Love" is the backbone of "Tosca", and the film tells us that without the empathy of his wife, Olan Vera, "Tosca" could always stand majestically on the opera stage?
If the girl she met in London had not dragged Puccini to the theater to watch the stage play "Madame Butterfly", there would have been no opera "Madame Butterfly", and the song "Sunny Day" that rose and fell on the world opera stage would still be unknown.
As for the stimulation of the female journalist Lisa and the reunion of Doria who has been dead for 20 years through the yin and yang worlds, puccini has helped puccini complete the important song "Tonight is starry" in "Turandot", in addition to further confirming the film's view that women are the habitat of puccini spirit and flesh, it also allows us to further understand the calm and generous Olan vera.
Oran vera is a gift from heaven to Puccini, and their encounter is a clever arrangement of God: Puccini picked up a beautiful photo from the ground, looked at it a few times, and the owner of the photo was found, she was Olan Vera. At that time, Ollan vera was married to someone else. Is it for the crazy love of the young Puccini? No, I think it was Oran vera who saw through the talent puccini possessed. Admiring the man's talent, Oran vera actually gave up a rich and stable life and held her daughter to live a precarious life with Puccini. Soon after becoming Mrs. Puccini, Olan vera began to sell the goods and lead the family to a difficult life. Of course, such days were very short-lived, and publishers as discerning as Oranvera soon helped the Puccini family out of their predicament, and Oranvira also transformed into Puccini's awakening agent and firefighter. Imagine if puccini's cooperation with publishers had not been mediated by Olan Vera, would it have been long?' In particular, after the same genius conductor Toscanini had inexplicably scribbled on Puccini's work, if there was no Oran vera, could Puccini listen to the effect of Toscanini's modified instrumentation? Then, the cooperation between the two on the opera stage will probably cease to exist.
Marrying Puccini, she never thought that one day her husband would become rich because of her composition, and Oran vera only wanted to see her own value in Puccini's creative career, so she cared so much about Puccini's attitude towards Doria.
Behind you stands love, no matter how hard it is, it is worth it
With the money, Puccini began to rise up, and the result of the crazy drag racing was that he broke his leg. When doria, the daughter of the washerwoman, came to the house to take care of her husband, Olan vera did not realize that she was getting old and that Doria would grow up. When she saw through the window that her husband's conversation with Doria had exceeded the boundaries between the master and the maid, she endured and endured, and when Doria and Puccini were once again very happy, Oran vera's feelings finally broke. She drove Doria away overnight, and the crazy jealousy that burned up made Oran vera unable to see the pouring rain in the night, and Doria, who left in a hurry in the heavy rain, committed suicide. Doria's death must have left Olan Vera with great remorse, right? In the final stages of his life, until he was diagnosed with throat cancer, Puccini stayed in a Vienna hotel to tear up Turandot, which was always unfinished. After feeling that her husband needed her, Ollanvira rushed from home to Vienna, and on the stairs of the hotel lobby she rubbed shoulders with the female reporter Lisa, the woman's sensitivity made Olanvira feel that there was a story between the woman and her husband, but Olanvira actually laughed it off.
Presumably, all the viewers of Puccini will come to the conclusion that it was Doria's death that made Oran Vera magnanimous. I prefer to believe that after the Doria incident, Ollanvera became more steadfast in her original intention of marrying Puccini, which was to help her husband maximize his talents.
Take a group photo with the famous Italian conductor Toscanini. The latter resolutely refused to cooperate with the Nazis during World War II
After Toscanini lowered his baton to announce Puccini's death, the film footage stayed on Ollan vera's face, her tears coming out of her eyes, just for the death of her husband? Not quite. The wife of a celebrity, in order to make her husband perfect, always silently swallows those untrue words, just so that she can become a habitat for her husband's spirit and flesh, as Qiao Qiao Sang sang in the famous aria "Sunny Day":
I swear to you,
All of this will make dreams come true,
Fear that you will keep it for yourself,
I will uphold firm faith and look forward to it.
Puccini's last photograph of his life, the film recreates this scene