Damien Shazelle wrote a love letter to Hollywood about "Philharmonic City," which was released on the mainland on February 14. The record of multiple association awards for best picture, 7 single Golden Globe Awards, and 14 Oscar nominations has made "Philharmonic City" a lot of praise.
Emma Stone's Mia and Ryan Gosling's Sebastin are two dreamers in the film, and the director tells their encounter in a very romantic way, and also tells the reality of Hollywood in a very beautiful way. The director tells a contemporary story in an extremely modern way, while redefining the song and dance films of Hollywood's Golden Age in a modern way.
In Hollywood song and dance films, we can see "Cherbourg's Umbrella", which is filmed in full with singing passages, and there are also films such as "Song in the Rain" that are not sung in the whole film. "City of Philharmonic Music" shows a love affair to fans with a gorgeous color and nostalgic feelings, and sends a love letter that belongs to fans at the same time with a very personal favorite fan paragraph.
There are a lot of fan passages in "Philharmonic City", involving posters, character lines, song and dance homage, far more than some of the videos you see on the Internet.
But before you know these fan passages, you need to know a few people in advance.
Director Jacques Demi is a very representative figure in the history of song and dance films. His films are often set in gorgeous settings, and the colors used are very bright and colorful. From his song and dance films, we can always see delicate ideas. In Damien Chazelle's "City of Philharmonic", several song and dance passages are characterized by Jacques Demi.
When it comes to cabaret films, we have to talk about one of the actors in the cabaret film, Fred Astaire. He is arguably one of the greatest male actors of the 20th century. He has starred in a lot of Hollywood song and dance films, and in many tribute paragraphs of this film, he has starred in half of the films. The other is Gene Kelly, who is also well known in the history of song and dance films.
The other is Ingrid Bergman, a famous Swedish actress who has won three Oscars for acting. Several of the films she has starred in have also appeared in this film.
1. Two Ingrid Bergman posters
In the apartment Emma Stone shares in the film, in the room where she lives, the wall next to the bed is a large poster of Ingrid Bergman.
In the second half of the film, five years later, the huge roadside poster is also Ingrid Bergman.
2. Shakespeare's Love History (1998)
The film opens with a long shot of song and dance, which ends with a shot that pulls down from the sky after the title of the film, at which point Gosling's radio mentions Shakespeare's Love Story. Shakespeare's Love Story is a 1998 film directed by John Madden that won the 71st Academy Award for Best Picture.
3. "Willow Flowers" (1967)
"Willow Flowers" is another masterpiece by Jacques Demi in addition to "The Umbrella of Cherbourg". At the beginning of the film, several pairs of men and women get out of the car and dance while waiting for the river to cross the river. This dance takes place at the beginning of the film, and like the song and dance in "Philharmonic City", it is only that the song and dance in "Willow Flowers" is slower and has no singing paragraphs. The male protagonist in "Willow Flowers" is a sailor, and this element is also used in the montage at the end.
4. Casablanca (1942)
Emma Stone's first job in the film is a café set on Warner' set, across from the scene from Casablanca (translated as North African Spy in the film): Ilsa, played by Ingrid Bergman, and Rick, played by Humphrey Bogart, standing by the window and looking out the window. This place is also mentioned in later conversations between Mia and Sebastin. What's even more interesting is that, apart from the film's straightforward mention of Casablanca, the overall story of the film is also very similar to "Casablanca": there are so many towns in the world, and there are so many taverns in towns, but she walked into my tavern.
5. The Black Cat (1941)
On the other wall of the room where Emma Stone lived was three posters, Black Cat was one of them. The film was directed by Albert M. A suspense comedy directed by S. Rogier, released in the United States in 1941.
6. Courage (1927)
Another of the three posters was the film Courage, directed by Roland Weist and starring Norma Tarmech, which was released in the United States on December 31, 1927.
7. Wild Lily (1924)
One of the three posters is the 1924 film Wild Lily, directed by John Francis Dylan and starring Colleen Griffith and Convetell. The film is about a young mother who does not know that her husband is cheating, and after a chance party with her husband's friends, her husband's friends try to insult her, this scene is seen by her husband, who sues for divorce and wins the lawsuit and obtains custody of the child.
8. The Blonde Vampire (1922)
On the side of Ingrid Bergman's giant poster hangs another poster, the 1922 1922 book The Blonde Vampire, directed by Ray Bartlett Phillips.
9. "Embroidered Scarf Mask Thief" (1946)
In Philharmonic City, the four sisters of the apartment danced a passage of "Someone in the Crowded." This song and dance jumped from indoors to outdoors, from apartment to party place, not only explaining the environment, but also explaining the desire of the four girls to embark on the road of acting. The interior scenes also show posters on the walls of other rooms in the room, one of which is from the 1946 embroidered scarf masked thief directed by Robert Theodemek and starring Bert Lancaster and Ava Gardner.
10. The Gold Digger on Broadway (1929)
In Emmastone's room, a poster is posted behind the door. This poster is the 1929 song and dance film "The Gold Digger on Broadway", which tells the story of three girls from broadway's singing troupe looking for a rich husband.
11. The Melody of Life (1969)
The passages in the film where the girlfriends dance together have similarities with "The Melody of Life". Charity is a dancer who, after her loss, meets a movie star, returns to work, and dances with her sisters, which jumps from indoor backstage to outdoors, in line with this song and dance in "Philharmonic City".
12. "Unruly Night" (1997)
There is a scene in Unruly Night, which tells the story of Eddie, a nightclub waitress played by Mark Wahlberg, who is discovered by the director and entered the industry, and there is a scene between the underwater and the water, the scene where the little boy jumps into the water from the springboard, and the man jumps from the upper floor into the pool at the party attended by the girlfriend in Philharmonic City, which is very similar.
13. "Grease" (Hot Prodigal Son) (1978)
"Grease" is about a girl from Australia who goes to the United States for summer vacation and falls in love with the boss of the school tough guy gang. Sister Stone and her girlfriend's "Someone in the Crowded" song and dance in the room begins, from the film "Grease".
14. The Blonde and the Three Bears (1958)
At the party That Emma Stone went to, the strange man she was talking to talked to talked about the short film. The short film tells the story of a blonde girl who discovers the bear's house, enters the bear's house without permission, and is later discovered. This is a very classic children's bedtime story.
15. "Song in the Rain" (1952): Light sign
"Song in the Rain" is the most familiar song and dance film. In the film, the girlfriends in the apartment go to the party, and use the light sign instead of the passing shop, which also appears in "Song in the Rain".
16. "Song in the Rain" (1952): Turning in Circles
In the passage where Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone dance at the top of the mountain, the High Commander circles around the lamppost of the street lamp, paying tribute to Stanley Donan's "Song in the Rain". The actor In the Rain, Gene Kelly, is also a very famous actor and director of song and dance films.
17. "Song in the Rain" (1952): A walk on the set
Later, Sister Stone and Commander Gao walked and chatted on the Warner set, talking about the scene of the aunt taking Sister Stone to watch old movies and so on, which also appeared in "Song in the Rain".
18. "Let Me Be" (1937)
"Follow Me" is a song and dance film directed by Mark Sandrich and starring Fred Astaire. Astaire plays the dancer Petrov, who is skilled in ballet and loves tap dancing. He staged a comedy with Linda Keane, played by Ginger Rogers, who turns a fake marriage into a true love. The two traveled from Paris to New York, where they went from strange to tacit understanding with a dance performed at the Met.
In the film, the two sit on a bench in roller skates and dance a song written with the words "Neither" and "Either". The passage in "City of Philharmonic" where the High Commander and Sister Stone dance grabs this part.
19. "Pong Motorcade" (1953)
Hunter, a film star at the low point of his career, is about to star in a modern version of Faust with Astra, a ballet dancer played by Cedcharlis, but the two have a disagreement about their preferences for ballet, and rehearsals are not going well. In "Pong Motorcade", the two come to the park between rehearsals, pass through the crowd of double-hot ballroom dancers, and dance a double dance in the open space. The twisting and coordination of this section is reflected in the mountaintop duo of Gosling and Sister Stone in "Philharmonic City".
20. The Beauty Plan (1946)
The Beauty Project is a film directed by Hitchcock and starring Ingrid Bergman. When Sister Shi and Commander Gao were walking on the set, when Sister Shi mentioned her aunt, she talked about a few old movies that she used to watch when she was a child. This World War II spy romance starring Ingrid Bergman is one of them.
21. "Baby-Raising Wonders" (1938)
"Baby-Raising Wonders" is about the paleontologist David assisting Susan in giving a leopard to a distant aunt, and along the way, many jokes are made, and the aunt has a bad impression of David, at which point Susan learns that her aunt is the one who funded the museum, and this thing begins to become impossible, and at the same time, a love develops between David and Susan. This is the second of the three old movies that Sister Shi mentioned often watching, and the other is "Casablanca".
22. Dangerous Game (1995) + Orange County Boys (2003)
It's still a walk between the High Commander and Sister Stone, and Sister Stone mentions that one of her interview scenes is like "Dangerous Game" plus "Orange County Boys". Later, Sister Shi also passed the first test of this play. Dangerous Game tells the story of a female Marine Corps mutinied teacher. Orange County Boys is a television series about poor teenagers who come to rich neighborhoods to spend their teenage years. Sister Shi's audition for "Listen to Me or Obediently Listen to Me" reflects some similar styles.
23 Guy and Madeleine on a Park Bench (2009)
The film was the first film by Philharmonic City director Damian Chazelle. The names of the film's protagonists Guy and Madeleine appear in Philharmonic City. When the High Commander and Sister Stone were walking around the Warner set, they stood outside the set of the set, and the long poster that moved behind them was the name of these two people.
24. Rebellion without Cause (1955)
Emma Stone's cinema she drove past after failing another audition was screening the film Rebel For No Reason, directed by Nicholas Ray and starring James Dean. The film's lead actor, James Dean, was arguably a legendary actor of the time, his best-known work was Rebel Without a Cause, and two others, The Legend of the Giants and East of Eden, helped him nominate for the Oscar for Best Actor. Unfortunately, he died young at the age of 24.
One scene in the film that takes place at the Observatory is where Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling go to the filming location of Rebels for No Reason after watching the film. The observatory here is one of the most important scenes in Rebel Without a Cause. This observatory is the Griffith Observatory, which is far away from the Hollywood Hills and overlooks the whole of Hollywood.
25 The Umbrella of Cherbourg (1964): A walk
In "Philharmonic City", the scene of the High Commander and Sister Stone strolling on the bridge under the setting sun during the love affair, in Jacques Demi's famous "Umbrella of Cherbourg", there is also a similar scene of Genevieve played by Catherine Deneuve and the male protagonist strolling through the streets, before and after tribute.
26. The Umbrella of Cherbourg (1964): Personal name
Mia, played by Emma Stone, wrote a one-man show in the film, and the name of the heroine of this one-man show is the same as the name of the heroine in Cherbourg's Umbrella.
27 Moulin Rouge (2001)
Christian, a poet played by Ivan McGregor, meets and falls in love with Hua Dan Dancer, played by Nicole Kidman. They danced a dance of two, and the effect of dry ice was the same as that of the High Commander and the Stone Sister Planetarium in "Philharmonic City".
28. Sleeping Beauty (1959)
The passage in "City of Philharmonic Music" in which the High Commander and the Stone Sister Planetarium dance together in the starry sky pays tribute to a similar passage in "Sleeping Beauty".
29. Radio Patrol (1932)
Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling meet at the cinema to watch "Rebel for No Reason", and while Gosling waits for Emma Stone at the entrance of the theater, the poster of the old movie "Radio Patrol" is also posted in the theater. The film is an action film directed by Edward Kahn and starring Robert Armstrong, Russell Hopton, and Lila Lee. The film is about a police officer in desperate need of money who takes bribes and ignores the impending robbery.
30. "Spring Dream in the Battlefield" (1932)
This old movie is also one of the posters posted in theaters. The 1932 version, directed by Frank Bauschach and starring Helen Hayes and Gary Cooper, tells the love story of an ambulance driver and a field nurse in war.
31. "West End Story" (1961): soloist
"The West Side Story," directed by Jerome Robbins and Robert White, is about a gang of whites and Puerto Ricans in manhattan's western ghetto, which have always been enemies. In the film, Tony, a friend of one boss, falls in love with Maria, the sister of the boss of the other, and the two fall in love at first sight at the ball, after which Tony has a solo standing on the street. This solo is the same as Commander Gao's "City of Stars" in "City of Philharmonic", and there is no right or wrong when love comes so strongly.
32. West End Story (1961): Dance
In addition to a solo in "West End Story", the passage where the heroine and sisters dance together is also more consistent with the passage where Sister Stone dances with her girlfriend in the room and is about to attend a party.
33. "Song in the Rain" (1952): Song and dance on the set
There is also a song and dance on the indoor set in "Song in the Rain", which corresponds to the group dance in the montage passage at the end of "Philharmonic City".
34. The Red Balloon (1956)
"Red Balloon" is a short film about a young boy who picks up a red balloon on his way to school, and this red balloon brings him a lot of happiness. But his classmates tried to break the balloon. The red balloon also appears in the final fantasy montage of Philharmonic City.
35. "Spring Colors of Jincheng" (1949)
The three male protagonists in "Spring in Jincheng" are sailors, and they can only spend one day ashore in New York. Among them, the sailor played by Gene Kelly is hunted down by the police in order to play the subway lady who fell in love at first sight and breaks up the dinosaurs in the museum. This sailor element also echoes the final montage passage.
36 Sweet Sister (1957): Cable Car
Audrey Hepburn, played by Joe and Fred Astaire, the photographer and the magazine editor-in-chief played by Kay Thompson, take the elevator up the Arc de Triomphe, reach the platform and jump out. This passage is similar to the passage in which the two travel up Hollywood's shortest cable car in "Philharmonic City" in a clip in which the High Commander and Sister Stone are in love.
37 Sweet Sister (1957): Arc de Triomphe
Joe, played by Audrey Hepburn, went from being a bookstore clerk to being a magazine cover actress. The scene where she takes a picture with a string of colorful balloons in her hand in front of the Arc de Triomphe is consistent with the scene at the end of "La Philharmonic City" where Sister Stone holds a balloon in front of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris and prepares to take a photo.
38. Broadway Melody 1940 (1940)
Cassie and Kim Sean have been a bunch of pairs who perform together, and Claire is going to dance with one of them. In the film, Kim Shaun finally pretends to be drunk and causes Cassie and Claire, who already has a love for Claire, to dance. The dance is performed on the indoor stage, with mirrors on the stage floor and behind, the rest of the stage is not decorated in any way, and the black background and rows of lights create a dreamy starlight scene. The montage at the end of "Philharmonic City" is the part where the High Commander and Sister Stone dance together are scene reproductions.
39. "Flower Dance" (1951)
At the end of "Philharmonic City", there is an 8-minute montage after the high commander and sister stone meet, which is a part of the film that shows the charm of the film. This segment was previously used in Vincent Minnelli's "Dancing in the Flowers" (aka: An American in Paris), directed by Vincent Minnelli and starring Jean Kelly.
In "Dancing with Flowers", the painter Jerry falls in love with Lisa, and the two love each other, but they can't be together because Lisa is going to get married. At the end, as Lisa prepares for the next day's wedding, Jerry stands upstairs alone, looking at the shredded painting of his own Arc de Triomphe in Paris, and the camera begins to change. From the fake triumphal arch in the room, the fake street, the playground, the fantasy of being with Lisa, this song and dance passage is 17 minutes long in "Flower Dance".
"Philharmonic City" also uses this method, but the endings of the two films are different.
40. Coca-Cola and French umbrellas
In "Philharmonic City", there are some nostalgic places that are worth mentioning, although they do not come from the movie. In the living room of the apartment Emmastone rents, there is a poster of an umbrella, a French umbrella manufacturing company, Paraplue Revel. The more important song and dance films in history are related to umbrellas, such as "Song in the Rain" and "Umbrella in Cherbourg".
On the Warner set, there was also a Coca-Cola 1940 advertising poster. Whether it is Hollywood in the 40s and 50s, or Hollywood now, for dreamers, it is the peak that they want to reach.
"City of Music" once again won five awards including best picture and best director at the British Academy Film Awards, known as the British Academy Awards, today, so what will be its fate at the Oscars? At 8:00 a.m. on February 27, 1905 Movie Network will broadcast the entire video of the 89th Academy Awards, let's make an appointment!
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