"The Queen of Sound": Everyone loves Aunt Mei

Roselyn 2021-12-26 08:01:45

A quarter of a century ago, the British director Stephen Freys launched Glenn Cross’s classic "Dangerous Relationship", and even became popular with Annette Benning with "Fatal Gambler". Did he say that he is good at shooting bad women? Not necessarily. In 2006, "The Princess and the Queen" helped Helen Milan sweep dozens of actresses including the Oscars, with few misses. The director who can capture the feminine charm in this way finally wants to cooperate with the most powerful actress on the surface, Meili Streep, and teach fans how to resist!

"The Queen of the Voice" is based on real people and stories, focusing on a socialite Florence Jenkins in New York in the early twentieth century. She loved singing since she was a child and dreamed of becoming a great female singer one day. I feel good about myself, coupled with a wealthy family, and the husband of the agent who is waiting attentively, dreaming of my dreams also went smoothly, and finally boarded the Carnegie Hall to have a singing... For the more

diligent fans, Google the pictures, Wikipedia (light It’s the story of "professing to be one of the few who have paid homage to Lincoln’s legacy"). With the jaw-dropping original sound of Youtube, the image of Jenkins is almost ready to come out.

The biggest “watch” of the film is of course Meili Streep’s acting skills. Since the 1980s, Aunt Mei has been constantly using her delicate expression levels and even accent changes to shed light on her acting legend. Until the twentieth century, Aunt Mei, who was getting older and older, took retreat as a way to advance, and created another line of exaggeration. Kuso often stuffed herself into the model of the master, and she achieved remarkable results.

"The Queen of Sound" is inevitably reminiscent of the flamboyant lines in "Delicious Relationship". The time and space between the two are similar, and the interesting distance draws people’s imagination of women in the 1940s-that effect. Qian's perseverance and domineering to fulfill his dreams, but also missed the fool who missed his meditation and received applause.

It can even be said that exaggeration is a stopgap measure. On the one hand, it modifies the brightness of Aunt Mei's twilight appearance, and on the other hand, it focuses on close-ups and physical performance of the characters, and it can also naturally save the cost of sculpting the scenery.

Aunt Mei’s ability to “play big tricks” seems to have indirectly determined the structure of the film’s “big pieces and big pieces”. The number of shows is small, and the lively joy and sound performance only attracts the audience’s laughs and tears. It is inevitable. To give people a pleasurable but unsatisfying shortcoming, to put it bluntly, self-practitioners who lack talent should have more moral aspects and even spiritual landscapes that can be explored. Like "Amadeus", the jealous Salieri One corner is torn freely and deeply into the inside.

It’s a pity that Stephen Friars is not going to make a "Amadeus", he just easily moved closer to the commercial, using cartoon outlines to blur the audience's requirements for sophisticated, to a certain extent, it is also like a compromised literary film. This reality is no longer mainstream.

However, as a director who is good at filming women, it’s not that Stephen Frells didn’t actively use the powerful sign of Meryl Streep. Pale and weak high contrast. Of course, our Aunt May did not pass the paper in vain. However, compared to Freys’s predecessor, "The Late Guardian", Judy Dench allowed her wrinkled face to stretch freely, the breasts and height of breathing, "The Queen of Sound" Aunt Mei's funny lines are full of squeezing and self-deprecating precise operations. As a fan for many years, I said that I was not disappointed and lost.

Hugh Glen's role as her husband is also intriguing. The choreographer cleverly connects the secondary axis of derailment to the end of the husband and wife's affection, which is not profound, but it also makes people smile. The silver-haired Hugh Glenn is no longer the romantic niche he used to be, and he is also working hard to smash the sparks with his 11-year-old Aunt Mei. His signature smile is still "instant" at the right time. It is no wonder that he wanders late and becomes a wife and beautiful. Between the affair, there is no sense of disobedience.

It's a pity that the "war" of the film was only a glimpse of the film, lacking the frequency of the difficult times of the community. The depiction of upper-class social actions is also one-sided. It can only be said that the script has been reduced to simplification, and it has omitted too many possible interesting details. It is a pity. For example, Wikipedia records: "In 1943, Jane Jinsi had an accident in a taxi, and he was able to reach the high pitch after being injured. F, so the lawsuit was dismissed and the driver was given a box of expensive cigars." Such a humbling, humane passage, the movie is so incomprehensible, it is really puzzling. At the end of the film, Carnegie Hall turned defeat into the highlight of victory, and the audience's reaction was wishful thinking, especially embarrassing.

Excluding the exquisiteness that Aunt Mei expected, the accompaniment pianist Kang Shimei played by Simon Hyperborg is the biggest surprise of the film. He emerged from the TV series "Otaku", this time he penetrated into the core of the clown, his string-like expression bounced, which timely assisted the movie's comedy rhythm, as Aunt Mei said: "Without him, this film would be difficult. Established.” Unfortunately, we can be sure that Oscar will not easily nominate this type of side dish licorice, and Hugh Glen is the more competitive candidate for the supporting actor.

Having said so much, "The Queen of the Voice" is still full of laughter and perfect play. Under Aunt Mei’s efforts to interpret, this quintessential but charming generation of wonderful works can be called lifelike, and the reaction of movie fans can probably keep up with the theater audience on the screen. The original intent of Steven Freils. To describe it, listening to Zhen Jinsi sings, it is as if the stomach is uncomfortable and straight to the toilet. After a bitter battle, the intestines and stomach are cleared, and everything is suddenly clear!

In the past, Aunt Mei’s big-screen voice was so amazing. "Postcards from the Edge", "The Silkwood Incident," "Everyone Come to My House", not only the accents change, but even the heart and lungs can be deformed along the film. "The Queen of the Voice" provides an illusion situation intimately at the end of the film to show Aunt Mei a good singing voice. Although fans are happy, they also make it clear that this is Aunt Mei's movie, not Jane Jinsi's movie.

The greatest actress on the surface, as soon as she released a new work, she was unconditionally included in the seed list of the Oscar for actresses, which is also commonplace. But in fact, in recent years, Aunt Mei’s works have been uneven. Compared with her peak in the 1980s and 1990s, many of the films have higher acting skills than the film quality, which is slightly unsatisfactory. After "Iron Lady: Strong Tenderness" was sealed in time, Perhaps it has quenched the thirst of some diehard movie fans, but after watching "August Heart Storm" and "Magic Black Forest" all the way, entering the decade of 2010, Aunt Mei's masterpiece has not officially appeared yet.

However, compared with the bomber of "Sophia's Choice" in the early years, she played all the emotional levels in a woman's life. Aunt Mei, who has entered her old age, is not limited in her face, but she does rely on some technical operations, such as exaggerating makeup and accent. , Kuso transforms the character tonality to escort the character to land safely. Like sports cars, certain types of performance are gradually declining, so peripheral accessories have to be strengthened; middle-aged and elderly actresses have difficulty finding good roles in Hollywood, which is a well-known reality. , It is also comforting to still be active in a considerable genre of literary and artistic films.

In any case, I can't help but imagine that if "The Soundtrack" is made into a feature film, will it resemble "The Soundtrack of Paris" that has caused twins recently? Or slightly lift up Aunt May’s Oscar momentum? ...What's the use of talking about this? Alas, there is no way, who would teach most movie fans to be hungry for Aunt May, so long as to "when will I get the fourth Oscar to tie Katharine Hepburn's record" to such a high demand!

Aunt Mei, you are not a mortal, everyone loves you!

This article was originally published in the June issue of New Audiovisual Magazine

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  • Alden 2022-03-23 09:02:32

    The actors are so strong... Faye Wong has also been out of tune recently

Florence Foster Jenkins quotes

  • Cosmé McMoon: I think Madam Florence might need a little more preparation before she sings in public.

    St Clair Bayfield: Well, we've been rehearsing for a month.

    Cosmé McMoon: I know. But, from time to time, she can be a little...

    St Clair Bayfield: Mm?

    Cosmé McMoon: Flat.

    [chuckles]

    St Clair Bayfield: Flat?

    Cosmé McMoon: A tad. I'm - just a tad.

    St Clair Bayfield: Carlo Edwards didn't mention any flatness and he is the leading vocal coach in the city.

    Cosmé McMoon: Jeez, Mr. Bayfield, we can't be talking about the same singer. I mean, her vocal cords, they don't phonate freely. Her phrasing is haphazard. As for her sub-glottal pressure... it defies medical science.

  • Florence Foster Jenkins: You inspire me. I shall write some lyrics for you.

    Cosmé McMoon: Oh... wonderful.