keywords: Hachi: A Dog's Tale, music, emotional * * * singing
? In today's film era, film music and film are born together, and film content endows film music with connotation, and film music sets off film content. The interpretation of the film Hachi: A Dog's Tale is no exception.
The film "Hachi: A Dog's Tale" mainly shows a touching picture of life between an American university professor and Akita Dog Hachi. Hachi revolves around Professor Parker almost all the time, sending him to work on time in the morning and waiting for him at the station at 5 o'clock in the evening. In the second half of the film, the professor died of illness. There is no professor at the station, but Hachi remains the same, waiting in front of the train station at 5 o'clock every evening on time, waiting for the professor for 9 years until the end of his life. So the emotional tone of the whole movie is sad and gloomy.
The movie Hachi: A Dog's Tale takes 26 songs from the album Hachiko: A Dog's Story》26 written by Jane Kazmarek as the music of the movie. In view of the "family-like" feelings between people and dogs contained in the film, the director adopted the technique of penetrating development of theme music and scene music to barricade the clues of emotional development. Therefore, the director's theme music "Dance Rehersal" runs through the development of the whole plot.
This film and television music has both in-picture music and voice-over music, with various musical expressions. The opening part of "Hachi: A Dog's Tale" is in the form of voice-over music, "I didn't see it before I saw it", and the scene music "Japan" is used as the opening music at this time. This is a soundtrack played by piano and strings as the main musical instruments, and its melody gives us an unknown and mysterious feeling, which is full of suspense, paving the way for the following picture of Bagong's separation and attracting the audience's attention. Immediately after the opening of the screen, what caught the audience's eye was that the hero's grandson shared his "hero"-Hachi in class. The director's flashback technique is fascinating and leads to the beginning of the film.
In this film, the director used a different musical expression form from other films, using scene music as the opening part of the whole film, and then the theme music "Dance Rehersal" sounded melodiously from outside the painting, and the protagonist Hagong appeared at this time. The whole journey of Hachi being sent to other places was accompanied by this music, which attracted the audience to be full of interest in the following content and wondered where Hachi was taken to settle down. In this scene, the theme music sets off the sad atmosphere of parting and shows the unknown future of Hachi.
After Hachi and Professor Parker met in the railway station, the professor took it back to his home because he couldn't find its owner. Because Professor Parker's wife didn't like dogs, Hachi finally had to sleep in the cubicle for one night. In this scene, Hachiko watched Professor Parker go home, and his reluctant eyes, accompanied by a deep and lonely musical tone, made the audience immersive. It seemed that he was next to Hachiko, and he wanted to hold Hachiko in his arms, so that he could feel warm both physically and mentally in the chilly night.
Then, in the first picture of the film, music appeared. The content is that Professor Parker is playing music at home, and then his wife is taking pictures of his daughter and Hachi. The scene is happy, just like a paradise on earth. The special feature of this film is that as long as Professor Parker and Eight Justice are playing, The Second Dance will be melodious with the picture. Through the combination of audio and video, the audience found the emotion * * *, and could not help but think of the happy pictures of themselves playing with their own dogs, and they would involuntarily enter a warm, happy and lyrical dream with this wonderful melody.
Life is always bittersweet, so is the life picture in the film. In the middle of the film, Professor Parker spent his time with his family because his daughter was pregnant, which somewhat neglected Hachi. At this time, Hachi actually bit the ball that he never touched to attract Parker's attention, echoing what Professor Parker's friend said earlier, "For dogs like Hachi, unless there is any special meaning, they will pick up the ball." At this time, the theme music "Dance Rehersal" quietly came back to our ears. This familiar melody is different from usual, and it has more feelings of eight males longing for being loved.
The whole movie is heart-wrenching, and the tearful plot unfolds slowly in the second half. After Professor Parker's death, Hagong gave up his comfortable new home and persistently searched for Professor Parker, waiting for Professor Parker at the station at 5: p.m. sharp. At this time, the director used montage to describe the scene that he waited for year after year, and the emotional tone of deep, lonely, helpless and hopeful came into being. The scene music at this time is Parker'Dance Played On Piano, and its melody is a kind of urgent and low musical tone, which expresses Hachi's inner tension and anxiety at this time. The pity and sympathy in the hearts of the audience also broke out in an instant, and everyone was immersed in a sad atmosphere.
At the last moment of his life, Hachi was not as vigorous as before, and his body was covered with dust and dirt. However, it is still there waiting for its master until the end of its life. Every living creature has its own mission in this world, and Hachi's mission seems to be waiting for Professor Parker to come back. It took nine years, and three-quarters of its precious life was devoted to waiting without regret. Perhaps this is the meaning of Hachi's life in this world.