"Leopard" Italian Film Week Xiaoxi Tianzhongying Beijing

Adalberto 2022-04-19 09:02:37

Watched 187 minutes of Leopard yesterday. Thanks to Giuseppe Rotunno for giving back 187 minutes to the audience. Although I was very tired, I finally saw another movie that quenched my thirst.
I have long been accustomed to the obscure and esoteric name of the movie, and I am used to the thought process of trying to connect the name and the content. However, Prince Salina's almost self-talking dialogue makes the meaning of the title too direct, and I wasn't mentally prepared at all, really. He said, "We used to be lions and leopards, and we were replaced by jackals and earth dogs." - "Leopard"
may be everything for the final preparation, the plot in the movie is like this, our mental and physical strength Also like this. The emotions of the film grow in the blinding drum, and in the last hour, the epidermis is finally torn painfully, revealing the edge. Our mental and physical strength was exhausted and exhausted in the dark, and finally surging with the wonderful waltz in the last hour.
It was aristocratic life, and today, when we are used to luxury, it still stimulates our nerves. They, nobles, talked, danced, ate, laughed. I just want to be there: what are they talking about? Why do they dance ballroom dancing so fluently? How delicious are they eating? In addition to covering up their excessive drinking gaffe, how many times did their smiles come from the heart? We are not people of that era, we do not belong to that period of history, so we can only be spectators, we can only imagine.
The director has created a novel imagination space for us, thank you director! In fact, gorgeous, grand scenes and profound content are not at all opposites. Don't be disappointed with big-screen movies, as long as the content needs it to be big, it has to be big!
If at a big dance, you are lonely, at least you feel lonely, will you cover it up? Will you run away in a hurry? Or trying to keep yourself from being alone? Prince Salina is admirable: he shuttles through the lively crowd, or holds his nephew's girlfriend dancing in front of everyone, he weeps in the mirror in an empty room, he listens to the show with a little food The general uttered nonsense. He exists in the dance, outside the dance, but all his actions are shouting to the others: I am lonely! Really, I am lonely. But did anyone hear it? In troubled times, no one will feel that others are lonely, and shouting is useless. Lonely people are more pitiful than dead people. You can only hide your loneliness and give other people an illusion like the truth. You are crazy, I am not alone.

And the dance was over, and it was already bright.

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Extended Reading
  • Amparo 2022-03-19 09:01:07

    God made. Feng Xiaogang will not be able to shoot for another 10,000 years.

  • Freda 2022-03-27 09:01:15

    10/10. Along with "Barry Lyndon", it ranks as the most "classical" movie. They are aesthetically similar in that they both bring the audience's senses into antiquity with the texture of classical oil paintings (if I'm not mistaken, "The Leopard" is the first masterpiece to successfully give a film the texture of oil paintings), the difference is that "The Leopard" is about The story of the old-fashioned aristocrat, and the director's feelings for the protagonist Prince Sarina, so the texture is warm and bright; "Barry Lyndon" is about the struggle history of a small person, and Kubrick wants more Watch the story calmly, so the texture is cool and restrained. The 45-minute ballroom sequence at the end of this movie is really awesome, and it's definitely one of the best episodes of "personal meditation" in film history. Sequoia's battle segment scheduling is also good. In addition, the aristocratic and noble character of the male protagonist, Prince Sarina, directly influenced "The Godfather", and the old godfather in the latter obviously borrowed from the former Prince Sarina. (It is said that "Barry Lyndon" and this movie like to use deep focus lenses)

The Leopard quotes

  • Don Francisco Ciccio Tumeo: It seems Donna Bastiana is a kind of animal. She can't read, write, or tell time. She can barely talk. She's even incapable of loving her own daughter. Good for bed, and that's all. But what can you expect? You know whose daughter she is? She's the daughter of one of your peasants from Runci. His name was Peppe Giunta. He was so filthy and savage that everyone called him Peppe Cowshit.

  • Father Pirrone: Is Your Excellency here for confession?

    Prince Don Fabrizio Salina: Confession? It's not Saturday.

    Father Pirrone: Listen to me. Come to confession.

    Prince Don Fabrizio Salina: There's no need. You know it all already.

    Father Pirrone: The power of confession lies not only in telling our sins, but in repentance.

    Prince Don Fabrizio Salina: I know. I know! What would you have of me? I'm a vigorous man. I can't find satisfaction with a woman who crosses herself in bed before every embrace, and can only say "Gesummaria" afterwards. I've had seven children with her and I've never seen her navel. Is that right? I ask you. *She's* the sinner!