2021.2.1 Chicago (movie 2002)
I listened to the soundtrack of the musical Chicago many times a long time ago, and saw an eye-catching performance based on it in a nightclub in Cancun. I finally found time to enjoy the movie version, and the musical version will wait for me to get the lyrics familiar. , I will definitely see it, hehe. Before I watched the full movie, I scoured the part with songs on station B, so when I watched the movie again, I carefully observed the details that I didn’t see or didn’t understand the first time, and impressed me deeply The role wrote a summary:
Roxie Hart: A beautiful woman who is stupid and bad, hateful and pathetic. Yearning for a glamorous stage, after being deceived by her lover, Fred Casely, she chose the most irrational method and used two bullets to send herself on a completely different life track. Her rise and fall are so sudden and short-lived. On the stage she imagined, her performances went from full to empty seats along with her exposure in real life, and the neon lights that metaphorize her presence in the eyes of the world, There is only a song's distance between turning on and turning off. Where will the moths fly after the lights go out? All the grand, lively, brilliant, all are eternal. In the end, she and Velma, who was disgusted with each other but had to rely on each other, finally took to the stage to perform a pas de jazz dance. People cheered them crazy again, but everyone knew that, after the enthusiasm faded, They will just be left in the corner like broken dolls and nobody cares about them.
Velma Kelly: When Roxie was first in prison, she was in the limelight, and she didn't even bother to give Roxie a right eye, but just a few weeks later, Roxie rose to become a new generation of star criminals, and in order to gain popularity, she lowered her body to persuade Roxie played with her partner, but she could only be ridiculed by the other side like a clown. Velma was still awake, because before Roxie she had experienced the emptiness left behind when the heat quickly dissipated. But no matter how awake and helpless she was, she could only involuntarily throw herself into the giant wheel of the age that entertained her to death.
Billy Flynn: As the most slick lawyer in Chicago, Billy Flynn's top client is always Billy Flynn. He is extremely hypocritical. In "All I Care About", he said that I only want love without money, but everything he said was the opposite. : "I don't care about expensive things, cashmere coats, diamond rings. Don't mean a thing" - "Expensive things means everything", "All I care about is love" - "All I care about is the $5000 defense fee”. He is very concerned about reputation and self-expression, for example, he accepted to defend Roxie's case at an exceptionally low price because of the "potential" of her case, such as in the puppet show "We Both Reached for the Gun" Roxie's arm blocked him for a second and then he Instantly, he pushed his arm away to reveal his face. He understands human nature, is good at manipulating public opinion, and his eloquent tongue makes journalists who pursue topics and hot topics have no brains to buy them. None of the topical female murderers fascinated him more than the other, because they were just a small piece of the puzzle in his ever-expanding territory of social influence. At the end of the story, Roxie "falls out of favor" again, and he simply says "This is Chicago. You can't beat fresh blood on the walls."
Mama/Ms. Morton: I have to say that the actor Queen Latifah is too tense! ! Her solo "When You're Good to Mama" is really coquettish. Back to the role, as the warden of Mama, because she firmly believes in the principle of reciprocity, as long as the money is in place, she can also leave a finger for you. There is a small detail in the movie. After Roxie became famous, Mama dyed her hair from the same black as Velma to the same golden as Roxie. She was "just" driven by fame, fortune and fashion, and naturally it was inevitable.
Amos: With nothing but his loyalty to his wife Roxie, he is as light as a piece of glass candy, and people's eyes have never stopped here. His solo "Mr. Cellophane" is the song I can't bear to listen to the second time in this movie, excerpted from a comment on station B: "Amos moves clumsily like a harlequin, except for the trial, he will always be billed by Billy. The wrong name was called, and there was no response even when I raised my hands to ask for a piece of exit music. Maybe what the director wanted was to recall this poor and ridiculous person with guilt and pain after everyone laughed recklessly."
Hunyak: As a Hungarian woman with only two English words, "not guilty", no one seemed to care about her confession and defense. Despite her innocence, she was still expected to be sent to the gallows. It is ironic that an innocent man who does not speak English becomes the first "prisoner" to be hanged in 47 years. Her death, as the announcer in Roxie's little theater in his head, put it, "for your pleasure and entertainment." Hunyak in "Death of Hungary" is pure white and innocent like a lamb, while the audience below the stage is in a hazy blood-colored light, allowing evil to grow at will.
There are still many characters that are not reflected in my notes, but they are also there, which depicts a fuller group portrait of the era. When everyone is looking forward to exciting news, and even abandoning morality for it, can you say that they have committed a crime? I thought, as Billy said, "It's all a circus. A three-ring circus. These trials, the whole world... It's all the show business."
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