What he escaped was love, an Italian movie
"The Pianist on the Sea"
Original title: La Leggenda del pianista sull'oceano
English translation: The Legend of 1900
Chinese translation: The Pianist on the Sea-Taiwan/Sound and Light Fly with Me-Hong Kong/The Legend of 1900
Screenwriter: Giuseppe Toner Giuseppe Tornatore/Alessandro Baricco
Director: Giuseppe Tornatore
Starring: Tim Roth as Qianjiu/1900
Pruitt Taylor Vince as Max Tooney
Mélanie Thierry as the girl
Type: Drama/Music Level: R Level (foul language)
Length: 125 minutes Country: Italy Language: English
Distribution: Fine Line Features (USA)
Release date: October 1998 December 28 - Italy / December 25, 1998 - United States
Won the 1999 Golden Globe Award for Best Film Score
On the first day of 1900, traveling between Europe and the United States On the cruise ship Virginian, Danny Boodman, a worker in charge of adding coal to the cruise ship, was trying to pick up the things left behind by the rich in the first class cabin. He unexpectedly found an abandoned newborn baby on the piano, packed in an empty TD brand lemon. Inside the carton. Because he firmly believed that "TD" stood for the abbreviation of "Thanks Danny", Danny raised the baby independently regardless of the ridicule of other workers, and named him: 1900 to commemorate this special day.
Born in 1900 at sea, he is a person who has never existed on land. He has no relatives, no household registration, and no nationality. The sea is his cradle, and he also berths back and forth with the Virginian. Each dock gradually grows up. However, the good times did not last forever. A sea accident caused the accidental death of Danny, who was raising 1900. Fortunately, miraculously, everyone on the ship was awakened by the beautiful sound of the piano late one night. Tong's 1900 played selflessly in front of the piano, and the moving melody moved everyone. From then on, 1900 embarked on a journey of playing piano on the sea, attracting more and more admiring tourists.
By chance, Max came to the Virginian to join the band accompaniment, and thus met the legendary maritime pianist-1900, and the two became friends. After 1900 competed in piano skills with Jelly, the legendary pianist who invented jazz, the momentum became even stronger. But despite Max repeatedly encouraging 1900 to get off the ship and show his talent to the world, 1900 has never set foot on land. It wasn't until he was recording a solo album for a record company that he unexpectedly saw a pretty and charming girl outside the cabin. He was moved and composed "1900's Theme" (the unknown song mentioned by Max and the owner of the musical instrument store in the opening scene). As the girl got off the boat and left, 1900's heart began to fluctuate. Will 1900 leave the boat life of more than 30 years in order to find the girl?
The whole film follows the two main axes of Max's memories of 1900 and Max's pursuit of the whereabouts of 1900 in reality. They are intertwined and interspersed, tightly touching the hearts of the audience. When Max learns from the owner of the musical instrument store, The story reached its climax when it was learned that the Virginian was about to be dismantled.
Max, who had never heard of the 1900 since leaving the Virginian before the war, firmly believed that the 1900 must still be on the ship. He worked hard to delay the dismantling of the ship and came to the dilapidated ship. Looking for the last trace of 1900 on the hulk. Will 1900 still be on board? As Max expected, he found a place, married a wife, gave birth to a child, and mentioned Max as a good friend to them after dinner...
In addition to the twists and turns of the plot, there are several wonderful bridges. The passages are even more fascinating, including when Max first met in 1900, when the two loosened the fastening bolts of the piano during a storm at sea, sat in front of the piano and swayed with the ship, playing the piano and sliding around in the hall, like A dancer who dances waltz or tango; and faced with the menacing challenge of the arrogant Jelly, how 1900 showed his extraordinary piano talent, turning the attendees from contempt to shock; and the unknown girl , emitting dazzling light like a comet but quickly departing, making 1900's faint sadness and sentimental memories more and more vivid in the yellowish images that are abundant in the film. As for the immigrants who came to the New World by boat with their dreams in mind, and the joy of exclaiming "America!" when they saw the Statue of Liberty, it also echoed the indifference of the lonely 1900 people watching the passengers go up and down...
The character 1900, because of his experience of loneliness, is able to see through people's hearts more keenly, and he can use this to play and compose touching music. But facing the ocean, facing the piano, and everything on land all his life, there were too many uncertainties for him, which made him hesitate to move forward on land. As he said: "I can't see the end of the land." Perhaps for 1900, the sea and sky were all visible on the horizon, and cruise ships traveling to and from many places also docked at the port. The 88 keys of the piano were limited, and he could use them according to the limit. He can create infinite music, but the endless big cities on the land are beyond his ability to see clearly and grasp.
The director of this film is Giuseppe Tornatore, who won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film before 1990 with "Cinema Paradiso". Just like the feeling of "Cinema Paradiso", Tornatore uses his good narrative techniques to make the audience easily integrate into the plot as memories and reality intersect, and almost doubt whether the film is a real person. Adapted by the matter.
In this film, Tornatore also collaborated again with Ennio Morricone, a master in the soundtrack industry. (Morricone's famous film scores include: "Cinema Paradiso", "The Untouchables", "Hamlet", "The Untouchables", etc.) Like all movies with the name "The Pianist", the soundtrack must be in the movie plays a pivotal role in the film, so the film's soundtrack is also an object worth savoring and collecting.
It also traces back to ancient times from modern times, and the background of the story is also on a cruise ship at sea. If "Titanic" is compared to a sumptuous dinner, after being accustomed to Hollywood movie dinners, I believe that it is exquisite, The delicate "Sea Pianist" will be a good afternoon tea dessert, making you and I feel more fulfilled!