Film is a comprehensive art form. When I first began to try to appreciate movies, what attracted me was probably the wonderful storyline, the plot influenced my main perception of a movie; then I found that in addition to a good script and story, the actor's performance is also very important, and the performance in place can even make the bland and ruthless plot take on a different taste; and now, when I start to taste the movie, I find that the soundtrack of the movie will also affect our perception of the movie, and the emotional communication of the film does not only need to be through the actor's lines and performances. The soundtrack that runs through the entire film can also be conveyed, making people resonate with the movie unconsciously.
The importance of film music is self-evident, and even we can glimpse the director's understanding of the whole film through the OST (Original soundtrack) of a movie, and we can also feel the director's musical taste. Today we will introduce you to a few niche but wonderful movie soundtracks, let's close our eyes and taste the movie with our ears together.
<h1>"The Elephant Sits on the Ground" Movie Soundtrack</h1>
On November 17, 2018, the 55th Golden Horse Awards Ceremony:
The 55th Golden Horse Awards "Best Feature Film", the winner is: "Elephant Sitting on the Ground"!
At the moment when Ang Lee announced this, all the main creative team hugged together, which may be the biggest gift to the director of this film, Hu Bo, but he will never be able to see it with his own eyes.
It's a film that can't be defined precisely. In the nearly four-hour film, the audience will be pulled by the atmosphere created by the director, those social individuals who are related to survival, confusion, and self-knowledge are strangely connected in the film, and fate puts them naked in front of the real world like a joke, but this seems to be a disguised projection of the director's own feelings about life.
Even if in my opinion, the plot of the whole movie is slightly protracted, and the processing between the stories is relatively rough, but it is also this roughness that can present a reality to the audience in the most primitive way, which makes people feel empathy.
Obviously, a low-budget literary film cannot do this only through the plot and director. In fact, at last year's Golden Horse Awards, in addition to winning best feature feature and best adapted screenplay, "Elephant Sitting on the Ground" was also nominated for best actor, best new director, best cinematography and best original film music. All the soundtracks in the film are completed by the domestic extremely low-key post-rock band Hua Lun, and the emotions needed in the film's plot are also ups and downs in the "musical atmosphere" they create.
Even if you haven't seen the movie, listening to the full soundtrack you can still present some self-imaginary scenes in your mind: depressed, dark, gray, cold but extremely real - the eerie silence in "Manzhouli", the brightness and hope in "Through the Flames", and the vastness and greatness in "Leaving", and when I hear "Elephant", the choir harmony sounds, as if I am standing on a holy snowy mountain, and everything in the past I have let go, it makes me cry.
Do you know? Elephants can't sit on the ground, otherwise their own body weight will crush its internal organs, but when the elephant sits on the ground one day, it is probably that its inner part has been completely broken, and it has to be so.
Recommended tracks
Through the Flames
"Through the Ice"
Manzhouli
"Leaving"
The Elephant
Bad Boy Sky
<h1>The Band movie soundtrack</h1>
"Band" is a literary and artistic film that is doomed to impossible fire.
As Peng Lei said in "Summer of the Band", even if the film he directed for all young Chinese people who love rock and roll won multiple awards at the Shanghai International Film Festival that year, it still could not change the fact that Peng Lei was still not on fire.
Of course, if we look at it with our current eyes, it can be completely proved that "Band" is actually not born at the right time: after all, he is not "entertained" enough, and he is too focused on the Chinese youth who are in the rock circle of that generation, and sometimes speaks jargon that only that generation of "Guo'er" can understand.
But "Band" is still worthy of the post-80s generation of rock youth pilgrimage movies, is the real portrayal of the moneyless, mixed, desperate for rock and roll music, at that time they must also be young, clumsy, for the ideal must also shine their eyes... But he is ultimately a film made by a non-professional filmmaker, whether it is the cost or the shooting method, it is full of nonsense and "unprofessional", even if in my opinion this "unprofessional" has a deliberate: the "performance" of the actor is deliberately diluted, but pays attention to the real and life.
Of course, the actors who happen to be selected are also "insiders", and this drama seems to be written for them, Nakano Yang's clumsy Chinese dialogue and love for rock and roll, and Zhao Yiwen's youth, placed in this conscious and "mournful" movie, mixing the taste of youth and blood.
"Band" was not released on a large scale, and the original sound of the film was accompanied by a DVD released later. A movie about young Chinese rockers, the soundtrack is of course indispensable to rock music.
Interestingly, the song of the original new pants was handed over to many other musicians to interpret, which produced a very interesting chemical reaction in the movie: "I don't want to lose you" after the adaptation of the tour group, it sounds more fresh and touching, "Don't Let Go" is handed over to the Chinese and not smooth starring Yang Nakano to interpret, the rough feeling makes people both touched and want to laugh, and "After Party" This is more like a song with a point, if you compare the lyrics, this song echoes the famous work of the new pants: "Bye Bye" Disco》。
Echo
《After Party》
"Walking on the Ice of Shichahai"
"We Can't Be Together"
<h1>"Floating City Mystery" movie soundtrack</h1>
Lou Ye's films have always been polarized by word of mouth, in the movie, he will deeply interpret the most absurd things in the world, so praise or criticism, "Floating City Mystery" puts the dog blood thing in front of the big screen, the world's sorrow and joy are all under the eyes, the story is not great, but these are all put out, the audience big guy will naturally think while watching.
After watching commercial brainless blockbusters, looking back at Lou Ye's films, there will always be some room for maneuver to provide thinking, compared with other contemporaries, Lou Yesheng in the subject matter and taste.
Watching movies is like this, we will always compare the differences between directors, Zhang Yimou is good at visual effects, Feng Xiaogang is good at shooting stories, and Lou Ye's movie is made for you to see, many elements are like foreshadowing to put up, looking back need to think about the taste, such as the soundtrack of this movie.
Unlike the "Floating City Mystery" movie itself, the evaluation of OST is surprisingly consistent: many people, including me, go to the movie because of OST, the reason is that when the music expresses the emotion to the extreme, you will imagine whether the scene in the movie will be the same, when you see the scene of the movie, you will find that it should be the song "Panic" to set off the characters and psychological state, and after the comparison, it will feel really wonderful.
This may be the reason why many domestic literary and art films will eventually choose to shake back, the "Southern Sect After Shaking" swamp band contributed three works to this film: "1911", "Like a Dream" and "Panic", what is surprising is that the latter two vocal works depict modern urban emotions with guqin, and the seeming conflict is a metaphor in disguise, why not a contradictory embodiment of the film itself?
"Panic"
"The Mystery of the Floating City"
《1911》
<h1>Bohemian Rhapsody movie soundtrack</h1>
Even if a niche biography film to rock music, if it is about a great character, then the audience projects on themselves, will always imagine it as a hero, and if the hero originally grew up from a nobody, then the ups and downs of the story seems to be gossip, but ordinary people can always find a different attitude to life, which is also the charm of biography.
Rock fans and ordinary audiences feel about "Bohemian Rhapsody" is completely different, rock fans are often preconceived by ear, because they have an early understanding of Queen's music, their music is a milestone, or change the history of music, the greatness is obviously self-evident, and the film is more like their music creation process: why Queen is great, fans watching movies is another form of "pilgrimage".
For ordinary audiences, this film is a review of the life of a great person under the aura, and behind the great people reflects the social problems of that era, which shows that heroes are only imagined or shaped by the people, they are actually ordinary people, and even they want to have a "do nothing" life like us.
Since it is a rock biographical film, the selection of OST can be said to be hand-to-hand: after all, Queen has left too many heirloom works and works that have changed the history of rock and roll, and it is not an exaggeration to say that its music is a breakthrough in the development of world culture.
So no amount of rhetoric can describe how wonderful this OST is, and if you haven't heard Queen, osts that cover almost all of its Denser studios and live productions are worth listening to over and over again.
Recommended Songs: All songs.
"La La Land" movie soundtrack
Song and dance films are also purely niche in the current movies, and the reason is actually not difficult to find, because compared with other plots to movies, the musicals of song and dance films are too "formal" and "academic", and movies are prone to "paragraph sense". Of course, if the musical and the plot can be seamlessly integrated, it is certainly not difficult to mobilize the emotions of the audience.
One of the most successful aspects of "La La Land" is that he fully integrates the music into the plot, and the music uses a lot of song and dance to convey emotions, even if you take out the song and dance clips in the film alone, you will be cheered by these clips: the opening "Another Day of Sun" is the largest song and dance clip in the film, this clip uses exaggerated musical theater expressions to express the protagonist's optimistic mood at the time, and the use of long shots here is also just right, which also pushes the first climax of the film.
Later, you will find that the OST in the movie begins to guide the plot development, the tense four-person chorus in "Someone in the Crowd", and the most charming "A Lovely Night" double song and dance part in the back, from happiness, to life choices, to relief and sentimentality, and finally "Epilogue" - we have all tasted the sweetness of love, but we have to follow our hearts and find our own truth and dreams.
From then on we went from intersecting lines to parallel lines, stopping abruptly.
If I should see you，after long year. How should I greet, with tears, with silence.
Recommended Tracks: All songs
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