The story behind the big C degree movie "Dream of Paris", the success of the film, can not be separated from the persistence of the director and the original author.
Or to put it another way, if there was no birth of the novel "Dreamer", there might not have been the advent of the movie "Dream Paris", let alone let us see the "Dreamer" behind us through "Dream Paris".
The novel "The Dreamer", those friends who like literary novels, I believe have read it. Written by the Englishman Gilbert Adair, the book was published in 1988, but at first the book was not called by that name, but was originally called Divine Innocence, which was his debut novel.
So why did you change the name and change a lot of the content? All this is because of Bernardo Bertolucci of the movie "Dream of Paris".
After the author Gilbert Adair wrote "Divine Innocence", he claimed that he was not very satisfied with this first edition, and was not satisfied with the fact that as soon as many film companies came to negotiate with him about purchasing copyright to make films, they were all rejected by him one by one.
Until 2001, Bernardo Bertolucci commissioned the famous British film producer Jelomy Thomas to offer an offer to the author Bernardo Bertolucci, hoping to get the adaptation of the novel into a movie, and finally, I don't know whether it was a rich offer and the director was sincere, and finally won the author's heart, but also willing to become the screenwriter of the film, personally rewrite the script.
At The suggestion of Bertolucci, and at the author's will, the title of the rewritten novel was changed to "The Dreamer", and the film was called "Dream of Paris".
The author's dissatisfaction with the first edition of "Divine Innocence" also got the opportunity to correct it in "Dreamer", and at the same time let people appreciate this film work that is enough to "stay in the history of film".
So what kind of story does "Dream of Paris" tell? And why do so many people like it?
In my personal opinion, popular movies have only the following elements, or account for one of them.
One is that the plot has something to watch, the second is that the picture has an impact, the third is the emotional resonance, and the fourth is that some friends like to hear the most.
Well, I would like to say that in this movie "Dream of Paris", there are all.
Talking about movies in the movie is also the unique feature of the plot of this movie.
Matthew, a young man who is one of the male protagonists, is an exchange student from the United States.
He loved French, so he came to paris to learn French in the spring season.
He is also an avid fan of movies. So he came to one of the earliest birthplaces of cinema, often lingering in the French Film Archive, in the palatial cinema of the Palais de Chaillot, feeling and reveling in the visual impact of various artistic avant-garde films.
It should be noted here that avant-garde movies are his favorites. As for what the 1968 French avant-garde film was made, you can refer to the style of Mr. Lee Han-hsiang in Hong Kong in the 6.70s.
Maybe it is sneering, saying that it is not some movies of wind and snow, but think about it, at that time, how avant-garde thoughts were to make such art films.
To put it a little off the way, Matthew, who pulled back into the film and immersed himself in those avant-garde films, also came into contact with films that were not defined as Cult films at the time, and he also lamented that some things that could not be said in reality were expressed through movies.
But the good times were short-lived, and in 1968, a Red Revolution swept through almost the entire world, and France was no exception. Matthew's avant-garde film-loving ideas and practices were heinous to people at the time, so he panicked. Matthew dodged in a foreign land.
On the street, he always felt that someone was staring at him, and one time when he looked back, a beautiful young girl, that is, the heroine of the film, Isabella, appeared.
The appearance of Isabella, she has to mention her twin brother Theo. The twins, who have the same interests, are also avant-garde movie enthusiasts along with Matthew.
A common hobby brought the three of them together and became close friends.
The brothers and sisters invited Matthew to the house, a wealthy family, and the parents also welcomed the American very warmly, and after dinner and a series of greetings, the time came to midnight, so they left him for the night.
But because of the sudden appearance of other things to deal with, the adults all left the house, so that only Matthew and the twin brothers and sisters were left in the family.
Because the things that need to be dealt with cannot be completed in a short period of time, this huge home has become a paradise for three people to party and be funny. Matthew, at the strong invitation of the two, also moved over and lived together.
They imitate the bridge sections in the movie, and they perform the plots of those famous movies, real knives and real guns, and completely enter the drama. So, with some memorable classic scenes in the film, they perform movies in movies, and they chase movie dreams in movie dreams. This should be the theme of the novel and the film - the dreamer.
As the director himself said, Italian films have some shocking plots, so for him, this is normal, but he easily let the screen spring infinitely, which really makes the audience blush.
But all this may be attributed to the author of the novel, Gilbert Adair, an Englishman, who is also the screenwriter of the film.
It was precisely because he refused to adapt the first version of it by other film and television companies before that he had the final draft of "The Dreamer", the final finished product of "Dream of Paris", and the discernment of director Bernardo Bertolucci.
However, some unusual things in the film also make the film full of controversy. But in this era, if there is no controversy, there is no value for discussion, and it has no traffic, so the director and the author of the novel should be said to be the old players who create topics and traffic.
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