Movies are very wonderful entertainment. A good movie is not only used to express the director's point of view, but also to let the audience remember endlessly. The details of the movie often play a symbolic and metaphorical role, giving people a kind of distraction.
Some masterpieces of famous oil paintings were selected by the director to be placed in the background of the big screen. Some appropriately represent the character of the character, and some are a metaphor for the fate that the protagonist is about to face. Such oil painting stems are used in this movie. In the plot, James Bond, who had already been cultivated and rested, returned to service and began to work with his new young partner, Dr. Q.
Their meeting point was arranged in the art gallery. The painting they faced in the film was "The Fighting Temeraire" by the British painter William Turner.
This painting depicts the battleship Intrepid in the afterglow of the setting sun, being pulled up against the current by a towed ship. The dark steamboat hauled the gray-white Intrepid like a ghost ship, heading for a journey that was about to be abandoned.
This painting has an impressionistic light and shadow effect. The sun stays above the river, and the sunset passes through the smoke reflected in the water. The beauty of the old ship is in sharp contrast with the ugly tugboat with steam power. This represents the arrival of the industrial age, and it is also appropriate. Shows the theme of the hero's ending.
The MI6 in the play is already a world of new agents and new technologies, and Bond was ordered in danger, but he has not passed the regression test. The Dreadnought in the painting just symbolizes that Bond is like an old warship in the eyes of others, although it was glorious in the past. Now he is almost middle-aged. MI6 is not sure whether Bond can complete the mission, it has a sense of being very old and capable. The dialogue in the play also expresses such feelings.
Q : It always makes me feel a little melancholy. Grand old war ship, being ignominiously hauled away to scrap... The inevitability of time, don't you think? What do you see?
James Bond :A bloody big ship.
It is said that the oil painting that appears next to the Intrepid also belongs to Turner, and is also quite famous "Rain, Steam and Speed".
There were two paintings that appeared behind them when they talked, one is Wright’s An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump, which belongs to one of his candlelight night scenes group.
Another portrait is from the 18th-century British painter Gainsborough’s "Mr and Mrs William Hallett", which is also called The Morning Walk.
The interesting gossip about him is that because the painter Reynolds proposed that blue is not suitable for large-scale use in the painting, he created the masterpiece "The Blue Boy", which is also very rebellious.
The work of an Italian painter also appears in another part of the film. In the underground trading scene in Shanghai, the buyer was looking at the painting "Woman with a Fan", and the painter was Modigliani, a representative of expressionism. He was brilliant but died young, which is worth writing alone.
The amazing thing is that this painting was indeed stolen in the Museum of Modern Art in Paris in 2010. At the same time, five paintings including Picasso and Matisse were also stolen. The painting of a woman with a fan is estimated at 35-40 million US dollars. Experts once believed that this painting was eventually sold to China. I checked the news, and it seemed that I didn't see the painting re-emerge. Do you think this seemingly ordinary cutscene suddenly becomes interesting~
Chinese people often say that seeing words are like faces and paintings are like people, and movies are the same. After understanding the metaphors of these paintings, the viewing experience will be more interesting~ I will write it here today, and the others will finish it in the official account, I hope you like it~
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