Eva in Conquering Berlin
Now it seems that the setting of Hitler's mistress Eva in the 1949 Soviet film "Conquering Berlin" is very biased and does not conform to the actual human setting of the real Eva in reality.
"Conquering Berlin" roughly defines Eva's image shaping from the following three points:
"Conquering Berlin" sets up Eva's shape following the following principles - we can see Eva's image positioning from the description of this character in the script:
"Blonde hair, very neatly combed, like a noble object. Her beautiful face, thoughtless, two wonderful arms with bracelets. ”
In the movie, her face grasped a core keyword of "foreign doll", and this impression should come from the initial appearance brought by Eva's photo, when Eva was 33 years old, which was really not a modifier of "doll".
Mary Novanova, the character of Eva in "Conquer Berlin", was born in 1924 and was only 25 years old when the film was filmed, which is obviously much younger than the real Eva.
Mary Novanova does have a baby face, and the age of the actors is relatively young, and Eva in the movie looks a little bit like a doll design.
Eva in The Destruction of empires
And the German actress Julianne Koehler, who played Eva in the German filming of "The Destruction of the Empire" in 2004, is 39 years old and looks old, full of wrinkles, and has no "doll" charm. In terms of "beauty", the German version of Eva really cannot be compared with the Soviet version of "Conquer Berlin" in Eva.
Eva, who played Eva in 1970's "Liberation", is also a German actor, and she was only 26 years old when she participated.
Eva in Liberation
It can be seen that the Eva in the former Su movie is younger than me, and looks much more beautiful. Such a design may be the need to highlight the shaping of the character "like a peach and plum, the heart is like a snake and scorpion". At least in Conquering Berlin, we can see that this principle is followed.
In ConquerIng Berlin, Hitler is faced with a collapse of the war situation, and Eva becomes her spiritual comforter.
In the movie, Hitler continues to dream of "taking Moscow", "driving the Russians to Siberia", and "taking Stalingrad", and Eva actively echoes him, saying that "only you can come up with such a solution", as if to elevate Eva to his power.
Even Eva in the movie, after hearing the news of Goering's betrayal, said to Hitler: "Your generals are beasts." Such indignant words are difficult to match Eva's true identity and actual reality.
In the limited shots of "Conquering Berlin", Eva is told to use poisonous food and fed to the pet dog Brenty, which instantly makes the dog die on the spot.
In Conquering Berlin, Eva places poison
In fact, in reality, this famous pet dog was killed by Hitler's doctors.
In "Conquer Berlin", Eva poisons her dog
This fact, as can be seen in "The Destruction of the Reich", was hitler and his people around him who completed the brutal act of poisoning and killing his dog.
The poisonous dog scene in The Destruction of the Empire
Obviously, "Conquering Berlin" is not friendly to Eva's image, and deliberately portrays her as a helper or accomplice to the abuse.
By the 1970 Soviet film "Liberation", Eva had no violent elements in her body and had become an authentic victim. In the film, Eva is reduced to a fearless character of the ignorant, and it is precisely because she does not understand what kind of bloody historical creation she is involved in, so she inexplicably spends her life to celebrate the last days of the crazy fascist controller.
Eva in "Liberation" is miserable
"Liberation" is, to some extent, a new version of "Conquering Berlin", and the story direction of the two films is the same. But obviously, "Liberation" is far better than "Conquering Berlin" in terms of the true restoration of history.
The German version of "The Destruction of the Empire" filmed in 2004 because the film's perspective is from the perspective of a female secretary, looking at Hitler's last days, so this film is more with a feminine understanding of warmth, and this understanding is only a symptom, like Hitler in the movie in the attitude towards the women around him, or polite, tolerant, like a harmless non-domineering president.
However, "The Destruction of the Reich" still captures the essence of Hitler's unbelievable thinking, revealing his brutal, shameless, and despicable inner essence.
This is the success of "The Destruction of the Reich", the film does not avoid revealing and refracting the foundations and elements of Hitler's thought because of the intervention of the female perspective.
This grasp of Hitler's heart is very different from the soviet film that only externally portrays the overall characteristics of Hitler's hysteria, arbitrariness, and tyranny, but grasps from the inner universe where he got his crazy and rampant behavior behind the vibratory words and self-exposition.
Stills from The Destruction of empires
This can be seen that the German film "The Destruction of the Reich" captures the fatal violations of humanity and humanity in Hitler's character and thinking in a quiet, silent and calm presentation, and reveals Hitler's sinister, ugly and vicious inner world from another deeper perspective.
We can roughly summarize the image positioning of Hitler in "The Destruction of the Empire":
He claimed that his strategy was correct, that his men could not do it, and that it was not perfectly executed according to his plan.
In the film, Hitler said: "The army pulled my hind legs, I should have put the senior officer to death", it can be seen that Hitler did not recognize the ultimate fate of his failure, but thought that his team could not keep up with his speed and rhythm.
Hitler inflicted serious harm on the German people, but he did not reflect on this, but believed that the people were responsible for the people, and that the people had elected him, and that the people deserved the suffering he had caused.
In the film, Goebbels puts it more bluntly: "I don't sympathize with them, they choose it themselves." I did not force the German people, they chose us, and they had to pay for it. ”
Hitler meant almost exactly the same thing: "If my people could not be tested like this, I would not shed a single tear, which they deserved, which was their own destiny." ”
In the face of death, Hitler believed that the sacrifice was worth it and deserved. He scoffed at the breakout plan proposed by his generals, saying, "Young people should spill blood on the battlefield." ”
Such a careless disregard for people's lives, but without any self-blame, it can be seen that there is no respect and cherishing for other people's lives in his consciousness. Those who died for Hitler's suicide in the film reflect the real face of a demagogue and agitator without humanity, which just highlights Hitler's shameless and despicable nature, which shows that the film exposes Hitler from the inside is still quite accurate and in place, no less than the crisp and neat effect of the ugly appearance of him in Soviet movies.
It can be said that Hitler in the movie is incomprehensible from the perspective of human nature, so Eva, in the background of Hitler, provides a kind of incomprehensible confusion of normal people.
Eva in The Destruction of the Empire says, "I've known my husband for fifteen years, but, come to think of it, even though he loves to talk, I don't know him at all, and he only talks to me about dogs and vegetarians now." ”
In fact, the part of Hitler that Eva did not understand was the part of Hitler's human degeneration and the loss of humanity, and these parts that did not understand, Eva adopted a blind attitude and angle.
This is the tragedy of a woman's blind love. The Eva in "The Destruction of the Empire" is basically shaped according to this principle, and the Eva in the film does not have the setting of the "doll" in "Conquering Berlin", and is completely a heartless woman who gets by, plays every scene, and dreams of death. She smoked, drank, danced wildly, and she tried to change Hitler and intercede for her sister-in-law, but Hitler did not obey any of her women's thoughts: "There can be no mercy to the traitors, no sympathy for them." ”
Eva in the film is still sympathetic, and this dimension does not exist in "Conquering Berlin" and "Liberation".
From this point of view, the performance of Eva in "Conquering Berlin" is quite superficial, thick lines, and demonization.
Stills from Conquering Berlin
However, the shape of the "doll" created by the actor who played Eva in "Conquering Berlin" is still quite cute, if you remove the ugly and violent heart that the movie gives to the character.
It is worth noting that the character of Eva in "ConquerIng Berlin" is Marie Novánova, who is not Soviet or German, but Czechoslovak.
Born in 1924, Marie Novanova died on 25 June 2011 in Prague, Czech Republic, at the age of 87.
At the age of 25, she starred in a rather eye-catching role in "Conquering Berlin", but it did not seem to bring her good luck, and later her acting career, there was no more outstanding image shaping to attract attention.
After that, she often appeared in some film and television works shot in Czechoslovakia, but unfortunately, the roles were some soy sauce-playing roles, and the ranking of the cast list hovered at the bottom, which was indeed regrettable.
Let's take a look at what other films Mary Nova has acted in:
In 1952, she participated in the performance of Anna the Proletarian.
Poster of Anna the Proletarian
In 1954, he participated in the performance of "Joker", and the film was exhibited in the main competition section of the 7th Cannes Film Festival, and was nominated for the Palme d'Or.
Joker poster
In 1957, she starred as Miss Lot in the Czechoslovak film The Adventures of the Good Soldier. The film was screened in China. However, it is not easy to find her role.
In 1974, he participated in "Who Is Looking for Gold?" 》。
Who's Looking for Gold? poster
In 1975, he played as a hostage in Killer Theme.
Killer Theme poster
Eva in "Conquering Berlin" still outlines a general image and comic characteristics of the character from the appearance, and the excavation of the soul is far from deep enough, and in the German film "The Destruction of the Empire", although the inner world of Eva is also secretive, the role of this character obviously plays a role in the voyeuristic function of penetrating the hidden corners of Hitler's heart.
The difference between the two reflects that with the progress of the film, the exploration and secret of the human heart provides a possibility, which is also the attraction of the film, that is, in addition to expressing distinct love and hatred in the image, the film can also be closer to the secret groove and inner essence of the human heart in the process of shaping the image.
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