Category: Entertainment and Leisure gt; gt; Movies

Analysis:

Apart from the art of music, movies are the best expression of the art of time. Jia Zhangke said in "Platform" that 20 years ago a woman rejected a man, and 20 years later the man accepted the woman. I want to use movies to record the changes that time has on people. Time can change a person.

Tarkovsky said that film is an art that records the passage of time. Therefore, in his films, there are often scenes of slow flowing water, a boat, or a wooden block moving sideways. These all illustrate the function of film to record time.

Apart from time, smoothness is also something that film masters pursue. The charm of the long lens is not only that it is a true representation of space, but also that it makes smooth temporality. And smoothness is a characteristic of music. There is something rhythmic here, and the flow itself is also a rhythm. Music is about rhythm, and so are movies. The difference is that film's dependence on rhythm is relatively less obvious than music's dependence on rhythm. The essence of music should be melody and rhythm.

This afternoon I watched Tarkovsky's "Space Flight" and I was convinced by its use of music. The beginning is Bach's music (Ta thinks Bach's music is the most harmonious), and the electronic music in the middle (in 1972, the earliest person to make electronic music in the Soviet Union collaborated with Ta), and its use is extremely shocking. The philosophical significance of the film itself and the torture of human emotions are enough to make people shudder. Especially at the end of the film, in the protagonist's hallucination (let's call it a hallucination), the past scene that appears, where he has seen his mother, and the scene that appears in the painting match perfectly with the sound. We can see that music has a magical function in movies.

Japanese and Hong Kong horror films generally use music to create an atmosphere. Without sound effects, no matter how scary a movie is, it would not be scary. This is also because the time and the picture of the movie are synchronized.

In the last scene of Ang Lee's "The Wedding Banquet", in addition to the conflicting moods of the parents and the final act, the ethnic and Western music paired with it also played a role in pushing the film forward.

In Takeshi Kitano's "Summer, That Sea", two mute lovers are designed to sit in front of the beach. Although there is no intense story situation, we still found it enjoyable to watch it. Because the silent scene highlights the beauty of the mirror, it makes the audience feel like they are peering into the inner world of a couple in front of a window. The passage of time is slowly displayed to people through the spatial flow of the sea, achieving an extremely poetic effect.

I personally think that the most beautiful music in the film should not be human singing. That would not have the effect of the film. There is already MTV, so there is no need for that anymore. Some people even think that without adding anything artificial The music, natural sound is the most beautiful music in the movie. I also agree with this. The so-called natural sound is the natural sound of the universe, with harmonious directions. Bludahl also thinks so.

But as long as music is added, it should be cinematic. Good film music such as An Zhe's "Eternal in a Day", Hou Hsiao-hsien's "Sad City", Oshima Nagisa's "Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence", Kieslowski's "Red", "White", "Blue", etc. wait.

In short, good music may increase the artistry of the movie, provided that the two are stitched together and the themes of the two are consistent. Instead of music for the sake of music, no matter how good the movie is, it will be ruined by the good music.