Chapter 10 European Growth Movies (1)

European Growth Movies (1) This is a complex subtopic.Europe is the hometown of movies, rich in masters and classics, and has a rich historical and cultural atmosphere, making growing-up movies as early as the French poetic realism period in the 1930s.Inheriting the spirit of innovation and experimentation in the avant-garde film movement, Jean Vigo's "Zero Score" is an early film about growth.I haven't seen this movie, which tells about boarding school children's nonsense against the school's restraints, but it was banned because of its sensitive subject matter.But the classic status of this film is unquestionable. It led the famous French New Wave. Master Truffaut's "growing up film" "Four Hundred Blows" is almost the son of this film.Children in Europe already have a fair amount of freedom and care, but the themes of their coming-of-age movies still revolve around gaining freedom and fighting against bondage.This is indeed what confuses us from an Eastern perspective.

The author made a somewhat arrogant but not unreasonable comparison: Chinese coming-of-age movies are the epitome of European coming-of-age movies.No matter in terms of genre, level, or theme, Chinese growth movies are similar to European movies.Among the many European growth movies, except Danny Boyle, Giuseppe "The Beautiful Legend of Sicily", "Paradise Cinema", Bernardo Bertolucci "The Dreamer", Bao Wildberg "The Teacher Farewell" "Love" and other familiar names, the author's favorite is "Billy Elliot" by Stephen Deore. A good growing-up movie not only shows the cases of growing youth, but also should show the same depth of meaning and expressive force as other serious movies, and should not make the movie itself pale because of the thinness of youth.

Royal Theater director Stephen D'Orry has won wide acclaim and attention with "The Hours" in recent years.The early debut "Billy Elliot" is the same as Jiang Wen's "Sunny Day", which is also an outstanding work of emerging talent.It tells the story of Billy, a boy born in a miner's family in a mining area in northern England, and has been living with his miner's father and brother since his mother died.His father hoped to train him as a boxer so that he would not suffer the same fate as himself and his brother - becoming a miner.But Billy loves ballet and has an amazing talent for dancing.All day long at the local ballet teacher, I watched the girls dancing, and I couldn't help but jump up.After a series of disputes, he finally got his father's support, and then he was lucky enough to enter the Royal Academy of Dance in London, and eventually became a famous actor.

This is a simple growth story, but under Stephen's lens, it becomes extraordinarily vivid and touching, showing the director's extraordinary skills.The most shocking shots are that during the general strike in the mining area, miners who were forced to make a living every day fled as traitors to the public working in the mine amidst the staunch rebel miners scolding and throwing stones. Get up in the car, compromise low wages to support the family.Both father and elder brother were staunch rebels, but when his father decided to support little Billy to go to London to study ballet, one day he boarded the bus in embarrassment and continued to work as a coolie.That day my elder brother yelled and threw stones together with other miners as usual, but when my elder brother suddenly saw his father's face appearing on the car, he went mad and dragged his father down to ask why.

Weeping sadly, the father spoke out to support Billy's dream and sacrifice for his dancing.Then, the scene switches to the shot of the father wearing a miner's cap and being carried by the cable car slowly down to the bottom of the dark mine shaft: what a beautiful metaphor montage-the fathers have completely sunk, and at their own sacrifices, for the children's dreams Pave the way, and the children eventually rise.It reminds me of the flood at the end of Xie Jin's film and the scene of the tile-roofed houses that were destroyed by the flood. With the secret support of his dance teacher, little Billy rashly goes to London to apply for the Royal Academy of Dance.Seeing those children who have been professionally and meticulously trained, little Billy feels ashamed.When it was his turn, the old dancers with tricky eyes frowned at his bow-legged basic stance.Then little Billy jumped up and down like a deer.From the inexplicable eyes of the teachers, he sadly knew that there was no game.When he was about to leave the dance studio, a kind old teacher asked, what do you feel when you dance?

With tears in his eyes, little Billy said excitedly, "I feel like I'm nothing... I became lightning..." A few months later, I received a letter from the Royal Academy of Dance from the postman. The hearts of the whole family were tightened. They didn't know what the result would be, but they didn't dare to open the letter themselves. Put the letter on the most conspicuous position on the dining table like a trophy (the camera line and shooting angle of this group of shots have achieved amazing shocking effects).