"Happiness is not about doing what you like, but about enjoying doing your own thing"
Preface
All personality and behavior originate from the family when I was a child, I used to think so, now I understand, but it is too late.
Only children, if they want to, even if they want to go to the place where the moon rises, are easily like a joke, and their attitude is more admirable than their inner freedom, often serious and almost absurd, so that you do not want to believe that it is true, such as puppy love.
Adults often say, "Son, you don't understand anything. "It's as if you have to go through a lot of hardships to be qualified to talk about happiness, and in the eyes of adults, children are certainly not worthy to talk about love.
Equating an absolutely idealized life and an innocent feeling of beauty with love, lacking a deep understanding of oneself and society, this childlike love has long disappeared among adults, and people always have to weigh the social impact before holding hands.
However, this way of love, as a universal concept of love in society, was born and existed in ancient Greece, the enlightenment place of human thought.
The fairy-tale sense of absurdity is one of the signature styles of American director Wes Anderson, who packed the decline of European civilization into a hotel in the 2015 Oscar-winning film The Grand Budapest Hotel.
The hotel manager Gustavo's free-spirited way of life symbolizes the glory of Europe in the past, and his absurd style creates an extraordinary charm, just like Don Quixote in the big windmill, maintaining the dignity of European knights in laughter.
The Grand Budapest Hotel is the last fairytale world to fall to Europe, and under Gustavo's management, it maintains the illusion that a long-vanished free Europe still exists.
Fairy tales will inevitably collapse in the face of reality.Gustavo was shot by the Nazis, and the dignity of maintaining freedom brought about a broken end, and it seems that the realism of compromise is more popular in this era.
is also the theme of early love, the movie "Precocious" directed by Er Dongsheng focuses on the ignorance and willfulness of the two eloped teenagers, and uses reality to tear the beautiful love to pieces.
But in Wes Anderson's "The Kingdom of the Rising Moon", two young and broken hearts are glued together with love, full of veined warmth, the story is very simple, L2-year-old Susie and L2-year-old Sam fall in love with each other, love at first sight, letters and elopement.
Before the storm arrives, they travel to the kingdom of the rising moon with innocent dreams, with their parents, friends, classmates, and sheriffs rounding them up.
Susie lives in a toybox-like house on New Panzangs Island, with a father, a mother, and three younger brothers. She wore a thick blue eyeshadow and looked like someone had punched her in the eyes.
If it weren't for the delicate pink miniskirt and white over-the-knee socks, you would suspect that the child had been abused for a long time, and Susie's dress was out of place with the rest of the family, and she would look out the window with binoculars no matter where she was.
The window has always been a bridge connecting women's hearts, when Du Liniang sang "The silk blows to the idle courtyard, swaying spring like a line", she was dressing up in front of the window, and Romeo's first meeting Juliet was also under the window.
Qiong Yao simply named Jiang Yanrong's love story "Outside the Window", the girl, the window and the island, released an extremely strong signal to leave, Sam's appearance, before seeing him, heard his voice first.
As a member of the Khaki Scouts, Sam escapes from the heavily guarded barracks when the Boy Scout instructor, played by Edward Norton, and the sheriff, played by Bruce Willis, are pursued by phone.
We learned about Sam's background, an orphan whose parents had died, a child who was not loved by his adoptive parents, a troubled child who was about to be sent to a social adoption agency.
Soon people preconceived the image of Sam in their minds: withdrawn, neurotic, and perhaps violent, and even the Boy Scouts' friends were not kind to him.
They carry maces, maces, axes, and bows and arrows to give Sam a good look, but when Sam appears on the grass where he meets Susie, despite being fully armed and moving in an orderly manner, no matter how you look at it, he compares to Susie who is half a head taller.
Sam is a weak little boy with glasses, these two children are desperate for their lives, they may not know what love is, and they decide on the marriage event.
They are arrested on their wedding day, and the people of the island rush to talk to the two children, trying to crush their love with adult experience.
Sheriff: "History has proven that people make mistakes, and it's our duty to protect you from them, and if we can do that, what are you anxious about? You've got a great life ahead of you, I mean, right in front of you," Sam: "Maybe, anyway, you're just a bachelor." ”
The greasy middle-aged like to tell the young people the truth of life at the wine table, and the young people who have not experienced much life have lived into the Buddhist system, and the mentality of not fighting with the world comes from the contrast of material life, and they have not experienced the hard work of the previous generation, but they have directly enjoyed the fruits of the victory of this generation.
When most elders educate their children, they will always sigh "we were much more bitter at that time", and how many parents have struggled all their lives to find the ideal that has become the starting point of their children, and in this era when there is not too much lack of material, what children lack, what they want, parents always can't understand.
People oppose early love, mostly from the perspective of society, against young men and women who do not have the ability to survive in society to enjoy love that has gradually become a social commodity, people oppose early love, in fact, what they oppose is the innocent ideal that has long since died.
However, when the ideal is briefly ended, Sam says to Susie, "Thank you for marrying me", and they don't need to understand adult love at all.
The expression of youthful elements in Midnight Sun
In "Midnight Sun", the setting of the protagonist's attributes, the rationalization of the plot and the choice of the film score are all cleverly placed in the expression of youth elements, and the combination of these methods makes the expression of youth elements more appropriate and concrete, and also makes the youth of the film more dazzling.
The setting of the main character's attributes
As the protagonist of youth, "Midnight Sun" highlights the youthful vitality of the film by setting the attributes of the protagonist, such as the age of the protagonist, Katie and Charlie are both high school students, which is the age to release vitality and bloom youth.
Through the setting of the age of the protagonist, the development of the plot of the movie is more rich in the foundation of Qingtun's vitality, and the setting of the protagonist's attribute highlights the expression of the film's Qingtun elements, thus making "Midnight Sun" more characteristic of a niche literary film.
Not only that, in the expression of Qing Tun Yousu in the American literary film, the age of the protagonist is usually in high school, for example, in the expression of the famous American literary film "Heartbeat", the female protagonist is full of vitality, and the male protagonist is also a high-school bully with a good heart.
The female protagonist is active, the male protagonist is quiet, and through the combination of these two extremes, the audience can be more interested in the love story between the male protagonist and the female protagonist.
And "Midnight Sun" is through the common love of music between Kai and Charlie, and they collide with the spark of love because of music, which is the same as the principle of the active and quiet union of men and women in "Heartbeat", through the combination of the bond between the male and female protagonists, promote the development of the emotional line of the male and female protagonists.
In this way, it enriches the expression of youth in American literary and artistic works, so that literary films can rationalize the discussion of the youth elements of the film based on the overall expression of the protagonist, and at the same time, through the expression of the youth elements in the film, attract the public's interest in watching the movie, and promote the overall development of the literary film market.
Rationalization of the plot
In the creation of films, the plot is the first essence of film creation, and only by using the plot to conduct an in-depth discussion of the film can the theme of a certain film be highlighted, and the in-depth expression of the core of the film can be more reasonable.
The main contradiction of "Midnight Sun" focuses on Katie's illness, the development of which limits the time for Katie to communicate with the male protagonist, and as their emotions deepen, Katie tries to hide her illness, which makes the film's contradictions come to light.
After Charlie discovered Katie's illness, the collision of thoughts and actions in life ignited the spark of contradiction, Katie left Charlie, but in the end love made them together again, even though she knew that her time was short, Katie resolutely decided to go to sea with Charlie to seek inner peace.
The rationalization of the plot is the advantage of the natural and smooth expression of "Midnight Sun", and through the rationalization of the plot, the small and pure happiness between Katie and Charlie is delicately and beautifully expressed under the camera.
This kind of film that delicately writes the emotional experience of youth can touch people's memories of youth, stimulate the questioning of youth, and resonate, so that the emotional experience generated by the audience is realized by relying on the expression of youth elements.
The youth element of "Midnight Sun" realizes the main connotation of the creation of American niche literary films, this kind of film does not need to build a strong spiritual system, but only needs to create a concrete description that conforms to youth, and there are differences between people for the concrete expression of Qingtun, which is also the difficulty of American literary film creation.
The choice of film soundtracks
On the one hand, a reasonable soundtrack can be combined with the character of the characters, and with the performance of the actors, the audience can have a more systematic understanding of the changes in their inner activities, so as to promote the rational expression of the film.
On the other hand, a reasonable soundtrack can increase the overall emotional expression intensity of Tunying, making the expression of the film richer and the three-dimensional day more resilient.
The fresh and melodious soundtrack in "Midnight Sun" tactfully expresses Katie and Charlie's beautiful vision and emotional direction of love, and promotes the rationalization of the plot.
As the film nears the end of the film, Katie and Charlie go to sea, the sea breeze caresses their hair, the camera combines the light loan in the distance, accompanied by the soothing soundtrack and the emotional interpretation of the actors, appropriately bringing the audience into the aesthetic artistic conception, realizing the overall narrative of the film, achieving the sublimation effect of the theme of youth, and immersing the audience in the poetic and picturesque integration of the soundtrack and the west.
Through the selection of the rationalized soundtrack of the film, the film brings out the aesthetic conception of chapters, leading the audience to have an emotional experience of breaking away from the painful reality in the sentimental love full of youth, and realizing the cultural function of literary films.
The expression of auditory youth elements in literary films
In the interpretation of Qingtun in literary films, hearing as an auxiliary visual component, in the narrative expression of the film, it has the effect of dyeing the atmosphere and strengthening the psychological activities of the characters, and the expression of the film auditory sense is divided into two aspects: one is the embodiment of the characters' lines in the film, and the other is the use of the film soundtrack.
First of all, as far as the lines are concerned, the lines in "Midnight Sun" are delicately portrayed and fully expressed through the expressions, movements, postures and emotions of the characters, and the dialogue with a little sadness and melancholy in the film freezes the pure love of Kai and Charlie in a more aesthetic context.
The meticulously processed lines and youth themes complement each other, which not only shows the charm of Chinese characters in literary films, but also highlights the acting skills of the actors, and secondly, as far as the film score is concerned, the soundtrack in "Midnight Sun" naturally fits the picture and complements the direction of the plot.
The rational use of the soundtrack not only renders and sets off the emotional atmosphere, but also hints at the direction of the characters' emotions, highlights the artistic connotation of the film, strengthens the emotions of the characters, and makes the youth elements of the film more profound and broadly explained.
The expression of youth elements in film editing in literary films
In the expression of literary films, film editing is realized through the processing of the relationship between light and shadow, and "Midnight Sun" uses the special artistic expression of light and shadow to enhance the visual effect performance of gorgeous youth and aesthetic love.
In the process of using light and shadow to create visual effects, most of the shooting angles are carried out from a third-person perspective, and the perspective changes with the change of the role.
When the hero and heroine are affectionately dialogued, the two are mirrored at the same time, and the audience's perspective at this time is the first: personal perspective, when the prominent and shaped character becomes the heroine, the male protagonist Charlie is outside the rao head, and the perspective at this time is the perspective of the male protagonist.
The perspective serves the characters, therefore, the processing of light and shadow lays the foundation for the presentation of the perspective, and blurs unnecessary things or characters, which is in line with the imaging principle of the human eye, and is also enough to distinguish the key chain of the subject in film creation.
"Midnight Sun" highlights and strengthens the psychological activities of the male and female protagonists through film editing based on the relationship between light and shadow, creates a romantic artistic conception for the audience under the small aesthetic visual Sheng family, and carves the love between Katie and Charlie more poetic and artistic.