Vincent Minnelli: A Love Letter to St. Louis

Kirstin 2022-10-14 09:38:24

In the movie "Silver Flower", we see several happy girls, their love, their melancholy, their sadness, and their love for St. Louis. The movie is a story full of excitement and life tension. , the family is reluctant to leave their hometown, and Vincent Minnay uses ingenious stories to connect a large family together. Including friendship, family, love, these small and warm details are the whole of this movie. The songs and dances in the film are the key part. Through these lively dances, we can understand the culture of a city and the splendor of an era. The English name of the film is "Meet Me in St. Louis". If the direct translation "Meet Me in St. Louis" may be closer, but it is a little less aesthetic. Fire tree silver flower is an adjective, describing a kind of liveliness, a kind of prosperity, and this kind of liveliness and prosperity are the labels of St. Louis.

The music in the film is also a highlight. Many people will feel that some songs sung by Garland are familiar to everyone. With the change of times, many melodies have become classics in memory. The music and dance are intoxicating, and the dance scene is not middle-class. The kind of hypocrisy is particularly desirable. When the youngest child, Judy's sudden grief because she was leaving St. Louis made people feel a little sad, and a child's almost paranoid love for his hometown also added a lot of affection to the film. Everyone has a reason to stay in St. Louis, but Judy's reason is the simplest, simply because she likes it here.

Many directors are very good at telling stories about the middle class, but most of them are sad stories. Perhaps because of the particularity of this class, many problems are infinitely magnified in the camera. And Vincent Minnay uses his own way to tell about the happiness and abundance of the middle class. Not every movie needs to inject rich metaphors and philosophical elements to be a good movie. A good movie is a good story, and a good story is a story that can move people.

The fire tree and the silver flowers are closed, the iron lock of the star bridge is opened, the dark dust follows the horse, and the bright moon comes one after another.

Judy Garland has a cute baby face with many wrinkles that don't match her age, but her beautiful eyes make people ignore this small imperfection. Garland was 22 years old when she starred in "Fire Tree and Silver Flower", but she felt like a little child who was nostalgic for her lover and the beautiful St. Louis. Speaking of Hollywood, Garland seems unhappy. I saw an interview with her before, in which she said, "I never wanted to be an actor. I'm not beautiful, I've never been Du Say, all I can do is sing. But when I was only 10 years old, they decided to make me an actor, and I sang in theaters with my dad and my sisters. I saw MGM films Someone from the company, he told me to try it out, so I became MGM property. And that's how they pulled me out of public schools and put me in MGM schools. There's more 6 other talented kids, Dean Durbin, Mickey Rooney, etc. Later, my dad died and MGM became my dad. The words of MGM boss Louis Meyer were the orders. I When my mother threatened me, she said: 'I'll tell Mr. Meyer all this.'

Hollywood women look bright and beautiful, but they are actually full of forbearance and hardship. At the age of nineteen, Garland had a serious nerve. Frailty, perhaps, this is why she chose marriage too early. For most women, marriage is the best refuge, and all unhappiness will slowly subside under the gentle arms of her husband. Garland She is an extremely insecure girl. Although she brings us happiness on the screen, she is not a happy person herself. Most people in the film industry can live without eating or eating less. Good, but not Garland, the only way she can stay in shape is to take a lot of pills, diet pills, tranquilizers, sleeping pills, these pills are more important than her daily diet. The reason for the failure of the first marriage is also because Her nervous breakdown, during the low point of her career, she met Vincent Minnelli and became his wife. The film is a cruel tool that requires all people to hide their true selves, stand In front of the camera, all you can do is act in a movie, and all the happiness and unhappiness seem so insignificant.

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  • John Truett: Wow, that's nice perfume.

    Esther Smith: Do you like it? It's Essence of Violet. I only take it out on special occasions

    John Truett: Exactly the kind my grandmother wears.

  • Grandpa: You'll all be safe with me; I've got twelve guns in my room!