Emotion is the most active and active factor in literary and artistic activities. Emotion has the effect of promoting action, which is the initial source of motivation for literary and artistic creation.
Philip Pat (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), who has a talent for acrobatics since childhood, is selling on the streets when he meets the beautiful street music girl Anne (Charlotte Leben). By chance, Philip learned that the Twin Towers in New York were about to be completed. Since then, Philip has had the idea of walking a tightrope between the two skyscrapers. However, this crazy "art crime" has been met with a series of doubts and misunderstandings, but this has not broken Philip's firm belief, and he has been deeply investigated and carefully deployed, with the help of the tightrope-walking experienced Father Rudy (Ben Kingsley), as well as Jean-Louis (Craimont Sborny) and Jeff (Cesar Domboy) and others. In a 412-meter cloud on 110 floors, Philip began his tightrope walk. Based on the personal autobiography of French acrobatic artist Philippe Pat, the film is a remake of the 2009 Oscar Best Documentary Feature Film The Tightrope Walker.
"Walking in the Clouds" is a biographical film that tells the legendary acrobatic career of French acrobatic artist Philippe Pat, at the same time, the film also has a certain degree of comedy plot, creating a brisk film atmosphere, aiming to deal with danger with an optimistic and relaxed attitude, thus praising the fearlessness of people, as well as the praise of bravery, so it can be said that "Walking in the Clouds" is a classic Hollywood "dream" film, with a combination of dreams + legends, Using the Actions of the French to depict the Liberal American Dream is a cultural transplant and a Hollywood adaptation routine that collects material from other countries and eventually transforms them into their own cultural cores.
Extreme sports enthusiasts have always existed in the world as an "adventurer", they conquer mountains, skies, oceans, snow, they stand on top of man-made landscapes and natural existence, showing the most extroverted human courage, the meaning of extreme sports is to crush the small mentality of human beings in front of nature, they represent human beings to show the brave and fearless strength, with the courage to conquer these obstacles, with action to highlight the power of "people". At the same time, it also shows contempt for death, uses individual actions to shape the form of life' display, and is an outward, radical, and spokesman for the theory of the triumph of man over heaven.
Interestingly, these spirits seem to fit in perfectly with some of the ideas of Hollywood and the "American Dream": advocating freedom, individualism, and flamboyant and passionate emotional catharsis, while at the same time incorporating the free divergence of the art field, ignoring the unchanging rules, and constantly challenging it, in the final analysis, the cable acrobatics, but also the challenge to the laws of nature, ignoring the rules of physics, creating his own, man-led man-made regulations between the steel cables, which determines that he is both responsible for the audience, to satisfy them, and to be responsible for himself , respect for life.
Since the birth of art, the purpose of its existence is to enrich human emotions, improve human perceptual cognition, fill human aesthetic modules, walking the tightrope this acrobatic art is also the same, it can not only bring honor and wealth to the performers, but also with actions to spread the excellent characteristics of human beings, inspire the audience, original acrobatics were born in the new era of people's different acrobatic visual effects and artistic appreciation and other cultural and spiritual needs of the background, and the tightrope will inherit and carry forward this theme, it is precisely for this reason, Tightrope walkers are keen to choose landmark buildings or famous natural areas to show their superb skills, and their purpose is nothing more than two points, the first is that these fields that are given specific cultural significance have their own "eyes", and performing in these venues will undoubtedly increase the size of the audience, but also gain more attention, which is an excellent way to publicize this "life-challenging" act.
The second is that, as mentioned above, with this act of challenging the laws of physics to crush the sense of "domination" brought about by these or natural or artificial products, they use grand or magnificent momentum to set off the smallness of people, and the performance in these places is to justify the name of human beings, the performers are suspended in the air, through extremely dangerous paths and difficulties, and finally defeated, it is this sense of "domination", leaving traces of human "conquest" in these fields, in order to touch the audience, and at the same time show in the process." Skills and "courage" will become the spiritual nourishment of the audience, meeting their spiritual needs - a sense of stimulation, a sense of accomplishment.
In "Walking in the Clouds", there is a more deliberately set up fragment, the color is only left in black and white, the sentient beings are among them, the protagonist is the same, the color rendering is those performance props, food and external "rules" executors, the director to refer to the protagonist's sincere feelings for the performance and the desire to "support the family" mood, it can also be said that this is his way of survival, but also a path to bring him returns. The simple daily life is to support his "rebellious" dream, which is a manifestation of human nature and a violation of rules.
Artistic performance is often accompanied by a challenge to the rules, such as Philip Pat's walking between the World Trade Twin Towers is considered a crazy "art crime" that violates the law, so it can be said that walking a tightrope not only challenges the rules of physics, but also resists the laws of the world, as the film says: "The artist may be a group of anarchists." We cannot determine the correctness of this rebellious trend, we do not know whether its existence is beneficial to society or damage absolute authority, but the existence of this voice is necessary, and if there is no objection to obedience to the discipline, then it is impossible to find flaws and loopholes in it, after all, the secular laws of the world are not as precise as the laws of physics, and challenging it will make it more perfect and perfect.
Therefore, it can be said that "Walking in the Clouds" is not simply an assembly line of Hollywood industrial products, some of the artistic characteristics it has inside, it is a self-interpretation of the current artistic behavior, whether we accept it or not, Philippe Pat will still walk between the twin towers, other artists will still have a point of heat, a point of light, emotion is also our mark that distinguishes us from machines, and art, of course, is the art of emotion.
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