The highlight of the film is a 6-minute dance scene on the top of the mountain, and it is a major test for the actors in one shot, and a total of 8 shots are filmed.
Director Damian Chazere directs Gosling to play the piano.
Emma Stone's Mia has a poster of Ingrid Bergman in her home.
As the 2016 film of the year, "Philharmonic City" is destined to become a classic from the moment it was born. The films, which are regarded as "divine works", have received unanimous praise at major film festivals and swept countless awards ceremonies. At the 74th Golden Globe Awards, "City of Philharmonic Music" broke the 6 records of "Flying Over the Madhouse" in 1975; as of now, the biggest hit film of the Oscars has won 153 awards worldwide, received 228 nominations, and repeatedly supported the film's "most powerful award harvester"; in the recent oscar nomination list, "City of Philharmonic" miraculously equaled 1959's "Comet Beauty" and 1997's "Titanic". Received up to 14 nominations.
From the award data to the audience reputation, from the box office performance to the creative process, "Philharmonic City" is one of the most successful films since the 21st century, not only that, the film is also the first time in 17 years that the nominated film was released in China before the Academy Awards were announced, and it also provided a precious opportunity for domestic film fans to "uncertain prophets".
origin
"Philharmonic City" was almost finished
"I used to think 'Philharmonic City' was almost finished," said 31-year-old director Damien Chazere, who did not hide his initial trepidation. In fact, "Philharmonic City" was conceived much earlier than "Burst Drummer". In 2010, the obscure Damian had begun to prepare for a song and dance film. In today's Hollywood, cabaret has been marginalized, not to mention that the music they focus on is not popular POP or Hiphop, but more marginal jazz. And, unlike "Chicago", which brings together popular songs that audiences are familiar with. Damian wants to play 100% original, this decision does deter many investment companies, foreign media ruthlessly commented, "they are trying to be extinct type." ”
Related Awards
74th Golden Globe Awards for Best Screenplay in a Motion Picture Series
Nominated for best original screenplay at the 89th Academy Awards
emotion
Love is beautiful precisely because it is imperfect
Obviously, the genre belongs to the outdated song and dance film, telling the story of the old dreamer, why is "Philharmonic City" so dazzling? It is because of its nostalgic approach but such a young mentality that it captures the eternal taste of life and awakens the heart of every audience. It is so romantic that it is so free, there is no shocking, only delicate and true. Directly throwing an art couple facing the dilemma of love career on the table, the ten minutes at the end of the film focus on strengthening the gap between reality and imagination. If the protagonist Mia and Sebastian are reconciled, it may be a good romance, but it will never become a classic. Love does not need to be perfect, love is beautiful precisely because it is imperfect. This is the most tearful love, and the best way to end emotions.
Golden Globe Award for Best Picture in a Musical Comedy Category
British Academy Award for Best Picture
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The most unique features were asked to be deleted
At that time, "Philharmonic City" was in trouble, damian could only switch to the production of "Burst Drummer", and the film unexpectedly received high praise and also made the young director famous. "Philharmonic City", which is almost stillborn, has finally ushered in hope. After the Sundance Film Festival, Lionsgate and Black Label Media decided to invest more and bring "Philharmonic City" to the screen with a production budget of $30 million. Damian admits that "City of Philharmonic" from conception to preparation is also an almost impossible youth story, the most special and unique places in the film, have been asked to delete, "many people say, I want to make expensive museum collections, there have been film companies suggested that we replace the protagonist with a rock singer, change the sour ending, the beginning of the large road song and dance is to be deleted." After taking all this pressure, the nitpick Damian showed a better directorship than Burst Drummer: the extremely simple story spanned for more than two hours, not only rich in detail, there was no flaw between the transitions, no picture was superfluous, and the effective emotional integration and the natural combination of songs and feelings were breathtaking.
69th Directors Guild of America Awards for Best Feature Director
British Academy Film Award for Best Director
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Become a classic, don't forget the classic
"Philharmonic City" is an ode to the classic film, and the trend of the new era and the essence of the old era are integrated in this song and dance film. The film begins with a 4:3 screen widened horizontally to become a 2.66:1 ultra-wide screen, and then the giant words "Cinema Scope" appear, which is the ultra-wide lens standard for Hollywood movies from 1953 to 1967. Mia, the heroine who wants to be an actress, has posters of superstar Ingrid Bergman in her bedroom; the male protagonist Sebastian circles around the lamppost in homage to "Song in the Rain". In addition, the bridge sections of classic song and dance films such as "Top Hat", "We Dance", and "Swing Music Era" by the Golden Age hollywood "Dance King" Astaire appear in the film.
Art Directors Guild of America Award for Best Art Direction for "Contemporary Film."
Nominated for Best Art Direction at the 89th Academy Awards
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How hard the first CP of the year worked
Female lead actor Emma Stone and male lead actor Ryan Gosling have previously collaborated in the movie "Crazy Stupid Love" and "Gangster Legend", and this time the two are more subtle in their emotional grasp, and the chemistry is very infectious.
Emma and Ryan refuse all stand-ins, and the dance and original song singing and dancing in the film are all in person. Emma practiced for a month and a half just by walking, learning tap dancing, ballroom dancing and other dance steps, almost all of which were sung in one line during filming. Ryan, on the other hand, had to be proficient in playing jazz pianos that he had never touched before. The singer John Legend, who plays an important supporting role in the film, is a professional pianist and claims to be "jealous" of Gosling's piano talent.
74th Golden Globe Awards for Best Actor or Actress in a Motion Picture Series
23rd Screen Actors Guild Awards for Best Actress
"Philharmonic" tips
★ Infinite loop OST
"City of Stars" is undoubtedly the film's premier classic OST, the creative process was reversed by the director up to 31 times, modified many times to write the current version, this song deservedly won the Golden Globe Award, the American Critics' Choice Film Award and many other best songs laurels, with a soulful style since its release has airborne on the top of the major music platform charts, becoming a highly sung classic song.
★ "LA LA Land"
LA is the abbreviation of Los Angeles, and LA LA Land refers to the mental state far from the harsh reality. The reporter found that on the American Online Slang Dictionary "City Dictionary", if you search for this phrase, there are two most popular interpretations: 1. When you describe someone who has been immersed in their own world, their world is LA LA Land. 2. Hollywood's characteristic idealistic atmosphere of desperate for dreams.
★ Long shots
The large-scale song and dance on the overpass is cheerful and exciting, and the nearly five-minute scene is basically a shot to the end, showing the director's exquisite scheduling skills, which was completely imitated by the Golden Globe Ceremony as the opening show. Also the highlight of the film, the mountaintop dance is a 6-minute long scene, but also a long shot to the end, which is a major test for the actors, when a total of 8 shots were made, and Emma Stone said that it was the most stressful scene in her whole film.
Compiler: Zhou Hui xiaowan