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Just as, United States although Hollywood is the film factory of the world today, the last two words in the three words "movie", "cinema" and "film" used to refer to movies in the English range are actually evolved from the French language, and the art of film was born in France and revolutionized France -
1895年,法国的卢米埃尔兄弟(Light)受到缝纫机的启发,发明了活动电影机,拍摄了人类史上第一部动态短片《火车进站 The arrival of a train in La Ciotat》
The Lumière brothers, the international cinema chain Lumière Studios, are named after the father of the cameras.
In the fifties and sixties of the last century, ·France filmmakers such as Jean-Luc Godard· François Truffaut (Jean-Luc Godard), set off the France French New Wave movement with their personal masterpieces "Exhausted" and "Four Hundred Blows", which completely changed all later films in terms of narrative style and editing techniques (there is no audience in the world who has not seen New Wave films, There is no director who is not influenced by New Wave cinema, because all the film paths that we are accustomed to today are things that have been iterated by the New Wave)
Godard on the left, Truffaut on the right, once good friends, later turned against each other
A few days ago, the grand opening ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympic Games, as a grand ceremony organized by the France host and conventionally showing the essence of the nation, naturally in this opportunity for the world to focus on the country, it is indispensable to quote and display film art!
OK, so let's take stock of what cinematic elements appeared in the opening ceremony, which is more than four hours long!
Then, the first thing to introduce must be the above-mentioned shots that pay tribute to the Lumière brothers' "The Train Enters the Station" -
Back then, the moving picture of the original short film on the curtain shocked the world's first video viewers, thinking that there was really a train about to crash through.
The original film of "The Train Enters the Station".
The tribute shot of the Paris Olympics is cleverly used as a transition shot to break through the space......
Opening salute
紧接着,避开火车的蒙面火炬手,钻出室外,来到巴黎心血管的塞纳河岸,用以手持的奥运火炬,点燃热气球的举动,则又致敬了屡次被反派成电影的法国作家儒勒·凡尔纳的长篇小说《八十天环游地球 Around the World in Eighty Days》的主人公乘坐热气球历险的桥段,
The protagonist and his assistant set off on an adventure in a hot air balloon in "Around the World in 80 Days".
Opening salute
And the hot air balloon that flew into space was seamlessly connected to the first science fiction film in the history of human cinema from France released in 1902, "Le voyage dans la lune", the moon with a pierced right eye,
and "Le Petit Prince", which has also been adapted into film and television works many times and is the world's first fairy tale picture book, written by France writer Anto·ine de · Saint-Exupéry, about a pilot's solitary journey in space and his life
The Moon and the Little Prince
"Journey to the Moon" poster
"The Little Prince" poster
As the first Olympic Games in the history of the Olympic Games to hold the opening ceremony outdoors (this alone is more difficult to schedule live than all the opening ceremonies held in stadiums)
It not only gave birth to athletes from all over the world, not to walk in line, but to take a boat on the Seine, a chic and leisurely way to appear and pay tribute.
The director team also used "water" as the carrier of the image to a great extent, and staged a number of ingenious transitions with water such as film montage techniques (PS: Montage is also from French)
The Seine is the element of water
For example, the first focus is on the picture of the masked torchbearer visiting the Louvre, the world's first museum, and the torch in his hand is contrasted with the famous painting candle flame on the wall of the museum.
The Olympic torch is the element of fire
Immediately afterwards, the ancients in the famous paintings, who couldn't help the attraction of the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, resurrected and jumped out of the frame, stopped by the window to watch the athletes from all over the world, and entered the grand scene by boat.
Where are the ancients in the famous paintings?
Watching the opening ceremony by the window, the scene was divine
However, the masked torchbearers found that the most famous portrait of the ancients, Madame Mona Lisa, was no longer as simple as escaping from the frame, but was directly framed and stolen by fanatics......
At the same time, on the surface of the Seine River, a mysterious yellow object appeared, and when the camera dived, the audience will find that this is actually the secret submarine of the Minions, a supporting role in the popular Hollywood animated movie "Despicable Me......
That's right, the thieves don't change, and it's they who stole the "Mona Lisa", but what bad intentions can these stupid little guys have, they just took advantage of the fact that the whole of Paris was focusing on the opening ceremony, and they just showed their hands.
And in the submarine, they are also deeply stimulated by the Olympic spirit, and they play all kinds of Olympic sports in the cabin, such as weightlifting, pole jumping, and boxing......
And the archery project almost hit the world treasure "Mona Lisa"
The beret under the apple, the baguette, the elements are too complete
You can't shoot it in the face
But in the end, under the toss of the devastating project represented by the Javelin, the Minion submarine, flooded and exploded,
Would it be cruel to say that this scene is a tribute to "Titanic"?
And the "Mona Lisa" floated to the surface on its own, perfectly transitioning back to the heroic posture of athletes from all over the world who were entering by boat on the Seine River in reality......
I have to say that the Paris Olympics is definitely the most skillful use of film transition techniques in the history of the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games.
The Mona Lisa is always the winner who sees through everything and laughs without saying a word
It is worth mentioning that the director of "Despicable Me", and the author and voice actor of the classic contemporary cartoon character Minions (from beginning to end: Banana) are the France ·Pierre Coffin, so Minions belong to both Hollywood and France.
And to some extent, the appearance of the Minions at the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics can be regarded as the self-blackening of the France -
As we all know, the "Mona Lisa" is the representative work of Leonardo ·· Vinci, one of the three masters of the Italy Renaissance, and is the treasure he brought with him when he was invited by King Francis I of France to immigrate to the France, and Italy people often ridiculed France to return their treasures free of charge, and at the same time, there have been rumors that the paintings hanging in the Louvre are fakes and have really been stolen.
YouTube blogger interviewed Italy's feelings about the Mona Lisa belonging to the Louvre, popular science, Mona Lisa was given to King Francis by Leonardo da Vinci, the king admired Leonardo da Vinci very much, and conveyed Vinci finally swallowed in the arms of the king, which shows the depth of the feelings between the two parties
I have to say that the focus of the opening ceremony of this Olympic Games is indeed the host team, with three actors, paying tribute to the threesome relationship between director Truffaut France New Wave classic "Zu and Zhan Jules et Jim", which has taken too much attention and discussion......
Holding the hat while running, a high salute
"Zu and Zhan", as a story about friendship and love between two men and a woman, is indeed a bold story of dissoluteness, which makes many later directors who have obviously experienced the baptism of the New Wave movement consciously or unconsciously form a complex of creating threesome stories.
The poster of "Zu and Zhan", running represents freedom, and holding a hat represents restriction and restraint
For example, Bernardo · Bertolucci's "Paris of Theatre"
Jia Zhangke's "Mountains and Rivers", Chen Zheyi's "Burning Winter", Luca Guadagnino's "Challenger" ·
But instead of saying that these directors are deliberately provoking the world, it is better to say that in fact, the situation of love triangle and love and hate is the normal state of life, but we can all be based on the real interpersonal situation, out of love, stop at the self-restraint of etiquette, and nothing happens, and this kind of emotional display is suitable for the dramatic story display of the movie, which is worthy of being amplified and interpreted.
"Theatre in Paris"
And to talk about the opening ceremony of this Olympic Games, the most frantic scene, that is undoubtedly a vivid presentation of the history of the France Revolution, the people who were overthrown the feudal dynasty, pushed to the guillotine Queen Mary, this figure,
And compared to the opening ceremony on the side of France, the soul of Queen Mary, preaching freedom and equality,
Recalling the opening ceremony of the 2012 London Olympic Games, ·James Bond, who is the national film card, accompanied Wang in the short film and attended the finale with Queen...... It's all in silence!
Compared with the two natural queens, the France female director Alice · Guy (Alice Guy), who appeared in the France great man link, as the world's first female director, and gave birth to "Kale Fairy 1896", which is recognized as the author of the first narrative film with plot and expression in film history, is admired by the world because of her personal creative achievements, and in the opening ceremony of this Olympic Games, there is really no more essential element of cinema than this.
Just as the 2016 instant classic song and dance film "La La Land" opens with the opening plot of Los Angeles' traffic jam turning into a square dance, paying tribute to the carousel plot in the 1967 France New Wave comedy "Play Time",
The opening short film of the torch relay at the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympic Games also pays tribute to this romantic classic!
La La Land
Playtime
The opening ceremony salutes
Similarly, just as many Western conservative religious figures have been chasing after the wind on the Internet, accusing and criticizing the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympic Games.
A group of drag queens, imitating the composition of Leonardo da Vinci's other world-famous painting "The Last Supper", preach Satan worship, but in fact, what people sit around is not a dinner table at all, but a catwalk for watching the show.
Bad comments from conservative religious figures
Red, white and blue, the color of the national flag
In addition, Joan of Arc, a France national hero who wears a five-ring flag as a cloak and rides a mechanical cyber silver horse, gallops past the Seine, is mistaken for the Gray Horse Knight, who is dressed as described in the Bible, and the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, who symbolizes death, and is engaged in satanic worship......
Bad comments from conservative religious figures
Joan of Arc, Seine, galloping horses, the best ideas
Official Figure
White Horse Knight - Plague, Red Horse Knight - War
Dark Horse Knight - Famine, Gray Horse Knight - Death
All kinds of arrogant criticisms that are unreasonable, completely denied, and maliciously distorted are often exposed by the critics' own prejudices and ignorance......
The open and inclusive Paris 2024 Olympic Games is the victory of movies!