Appreciation of "The Hunchback of Notre Dame"

Story summary: It describes a beautiful, romantic but tragic love story. The hunchback Quasimodo, who was abandoned by his parents, was adopted by the Archdeacon Claude Frollo as his adopted son by chance. When he grew up, he became the bell ringer of Notre Dame de Paris. Although Quasimodo looks very ugly and has many disabilities, he always maintains a noble and pure heart. He fell deeply in love with a gypsy girl: Esmeralda. For her, he put his adoptive father to death and died in love.

"The Hunchback of Notre Dame" is based on Victor Hugo's masterpiece "The Hunchback of Notre Dame." Its plot is familiar to most people, but the proposition of exploring the human nature deep in the soul makes it inevitably profound and heavy. It is not as complicated and lengthy as an opera, but it gives higher physical expression; it is not like a dance drama where the plot can only be understood through the body language of the actors. It is a fusion of various artistic expressions. The separation of song and dance perfectly captures and interprets the tension of human nature in the play, which can be described as a classic. What's even more rare is that there are a lot of modern dances interspersed in the play. It is understood that these dances are performed entirely by professional dancers, and they also include many gymnasts or gymnasts turned stuntmen, which makes the dances more dynamic and enjoyable. sex. While the singers interpret their inner feelings with their songs, the dancers use body language to express the unspeakable emotional entanglements in the characters' hearts and express these emotions concretely in the form of their bodies. The perfect combination of dance and music greatly enhances the enjoyment of the musical and gives the play more vitality.

The interpretation method of the main actors only sings but does not dance, but it is more like an inner monologue and feels closer to the soul. The profound lyrics shine with wisdom, and the highly textured melody further gives it The unrestrained spirituality first laid a powerful foundation for this musical. And once the strong foundation meets the first-class stage design, the inner foundation is released more completely, and the external form is also given a more calm tension, so complementary, Tengran! This is the most successful part of "The Hunchback of Notre Dame". I have to praise its stage beauty again. Under the perfect rendering of the stage beauty, the transition between silence and unrestrainedness seems to be just between pitch and pitch. It accurately grasps this inner and external interactions. All the designs can be said to be original: iron fence, big bell, Notre Dame... It is a combination of reality and reality, fashionable and even avant-garde, but it does not feel pretentious - the nobility and elegance of French manufacturing.

Another major feature of the play is the music. Such diverse music is innovatively placed together, producing an indescribable and wonderful effect, but each one portrays the character of the character so well:

Quasimodo is a rock singer. I am shocked at this point. It is really hard to imagine that a lot of rock music that is popular in the underground has made it to the elegant hall of musicals, and it has been performed so impeccably. Perhaps it is the innate underground temperament of rock and roll that perfectly matches Quasimodo’s suppressed cry deep in his soul! Hoarse, sad, and disillusioned, this feeling is just like witnessing the scene written at the end: people found two strangely connected corpses in the Yingshan crypt, and a deformed man hugged him tightly. There was another female corpse. When people tried to separate them, the bones turned into dust... an irresistible pain.

The bishop's singing style has a relatively pure operatic tone, which first of all conforms to the religious feeling and solemnity that his status as a bishop brings to people. But his soul is extremely twisted, crazy and even perverted! Every time he was struggling with his inner conflict, under the explosive operatic singing, this hysterical distortion was heightened, heightened, and heightened again! In an instant, it seems that you can feel the power and terror of this tension.

Esmeralda’s music style is very exotic, which is not only consistent with her identity as a gypsy girl wandering in Paris, but also particularly brings out her taste: she is bright, pure, Fresh, noble and even sacred, as bright and moving as an angel. Kind-hearted, she accepted Quasimodo's pure soul, whether it was because of sympathy, gratitude, friendship, or even love... She sang for him, danced for him, and comforted his lonely soul.

There are also Phoebus, the poet...

On the social level, the play reflects the profound social background at that time:

Around 1831, the entire Europe was in great political turmoil, and the feudal forces and the bourgeoisie were engaged in a complex struggle between restoration and non-restoration. In France, the Bourbon dynasty, which was overthrown in the bourgeois revolution of 1789, was restored in 1815 with the support of foreign feudal forces. But the historical trend of inevitable victory for the bourgeoisie is irresistible. In July 1830, a revolution broke out in France, ending the feudal rule of the Bourbon Restoration Dynasty.

The work "Notre Dame de Paris" on which the play is based is the writer's use of medieval themes to comprehensively liquidate the crimes of feudal autocracy and the Catholic Church. It is also a profound criticism of the reactionary tyranny of the Bourbon dynasty from 1815 to 1830. . For example, the description of the tramps attacking Notre Dame in the play is actually a reappearance of the July Revolution of 1830 by the Paris people. "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" is an eternal classic, and classics are just like that. It leaves behind a classic but also a trace of regret. But this regret does not prevent it from becoming a classic. The beauty of the imperfections shown in the play is unparalleled! True beauty comes from personality, from within. Although beauty is loved by others, it cannot withstand the test. Quasimodo, although humans are like apes and not beautiful in appearance, the beauty of personality is better than beauty. Quasimodo shows great incomplete beauty.

It can be seen that the performing arts on the stage, the social aspects reflected and the spirit expressed through the plot are essential for a successful stage play. Art expresses spirit, and spirit resides in art.

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