There are young and ignorant love, brotherhood between life and death, and neighborhood friendship between adversity and * * *. These people who live on the ground floor are struggling to live on the invisible rooftop. Although they are poor, they also have their own happiness and beauty.
This film is Jay Chou's utopian ideal, soft and beautiful. This is a masterpiece of his original heart and purity after his experience in Qian Fan. Today, this paper will analyze Love on the Roof from the aspects of color application, background music and theme presentation, and interpret Jay Chou's utopian ideal.
First, the use of color: use color to outline the picture scene and show the romantic ideal world.
1. Gorgeous retro costumes are an eulogy of life.
Light blue riveted denim jacket, yellow striped shirt dress, colorful shirt and dark suit, the characters in the film all have distinct personality characteristics, which are symbols of identity and personality.
The costumes of characters have distinct characteristics of the times. With fashionable costumes, the audience's memories are brought back to the colorful old times, so that the audience can be immersed in it and feel the simplicity and beauty of the old times.
Through the carrier of clothing, it carries people's enthusiasm for life, expresses publicity and enthusiasm for life with bright colors, and sings praise for life with colors.
2, colorful pictures, showing hot and full emotions.
Some people blame Jay Chou's success on his talent, but I think his success lies in his super learning ability. The color application of Love on the Rooftop is that he asked Zhang Yimou? Stealing a teacher? Best study work.
Jay Chou used color to the extreme in Love on the Rooftop, and built a gorgeous castle with color, which enhanced the visual impact of the film and made the work reveal a warm, romantic, chic, warm and energetic atmosphere.
The blue-gray background wall highlights the background of the times, and the colorful life scenes show the theme of this film incisively and vividly. Even at the bottom, the heart should be colorful, so that life on the rooftop is colorful.
3. Fairy tale artistic color reflects the director's inner world.
Color symbolizes courage, happiness and beauty, love of struggle, and of course the fairy tale world. Jay Chou endowed the picture with rich symbolic meaning with color, revealed the positive optimism of the little people, and conveyed the inner simplicity and beauty.
Nicholas Tse once said that Jay Chou is like a prince made of glass, very pure and clean. In fact, we can get a glimpse of it from Jay Chou's works. Jay Chou used the love on the rooftop to express his feelings and reflect his pure inner world.
Love on the Roof is an exhibition of Jay Chou's inner fairy tales. He expressed his loyalty to his friends through the prodigal paste, longing for a simple and happy life, enjoying the time with his friends, immersing himself in his fairy tale paradise, ignoring the secular vision, his deep affection for his brothers, and his enthusiasm and sincerity for his feelings.
Through the love of the hostess, she expressed the idea that big stars want to have the love of ordinary people, regardless of the difference in status and fame, and pursue simple and passionate love. This is the love of the prodigal son cream in the play, and also the love of Jay Chou outside the play.
2. Movie music, which sets off the atmosphere of the scene with music and deduces the tone of artistic conception under different artistic conceptions.
1 and 33 original music laid the joyful tone of the film and enhanced the expressive force of the story.
Easy and cheerful bowling boy, passionate fighting and dancing, romantic and warm lover lake night market, gentle and delicate you everywhere, magnificent prelude to tragedy and so on. Jay Chou's musical talent has been brought into full play in this film, and 33 original pieces of music have made fans who go to the movies at once addicted to it.
These 33 pieces of music have laid a good musical foundation for this musical, and all kinds of music have also laid a happy tone for the film, created a happy atmosphere and made the audience feel the optimistic spirit conveyed by the film.
It also makes up for the director's deficiency in narrative, uses music to express the story, makes the story more convincing and expressive, integrates music with the story and promotes the development of the story.
2. The combination of music and dance makes the movie picture more vivid and the plot more abundant.
Before dinner, the Tiantai people who sang "Tiantai" and danced happily on the rooftop used music to show their beauty and enthusiasm to the fullest, which is not only the theme of expressing the extraordinary life of ordinary people, but also paving the way for the following.
What Jay Chou copied from Zhang Yimou was not only the use of color, but also the application of national elements. Shadow play, traditional Chinese medicine and China Kung Fu's song and dance performances also conceal Jay Chou's admiration and respect for China culture, enriching the connotation and emotion of the film.
Music and dance complement each other, which not only creates a romantic drama atmosphere, but also depicts the inner happiness and joy of the characters, and expresses their feelings in the form of singing and dancing, making the whole movie more harmonious and vivid and the plot more convincing.
3. Perfect integration of eastern and western musical instruments, interpretation of Jay Chou's music kingdom.
The perfect combination of musical elements such as drums, erhu, flute, trumpet, accordion, guitar and drum set is the unrepeatable feature of Jay Chou music. From these 33 songs, we can see Jay Chou's colorful and pure music kingdom.
What is the biggest feature of Jay Chou's music? Really? Starting from the truth of life, this quiet boy uses music to express his feelings, tell his stories and convey his optimism, positivity, self-confidence and courage.
He sang Sunny Day, Qilixiang and Quiet to express his feelings in the period of sentimentality and ignorance. At the peak of his life, he sang that Superman couldn't fly, cheering for himself and shouting that he was tired. When he was happy, he sang Mojito, confession balloon, past lover and shared his happiness with everyone.
Some fans say that Jay Chou has changed, and the songs have lost their original flavor. In fact, Jay Chou's music has always insisted on being himself and singing himself. At different stages of life, Jay Chou is also exporting different music, becoming not Jay Chou, but a person who can't keep up with Jay Chou's pace towards a happy life stage.
Jay Chou's music kingdom is also the territory of his life. From a frivolous teenager to a middle-aged man who is married and has a happy life, and an infinite old man in the future, Jay Chou recorded his life with music, shared his beauty and happiness, and conveyed hope and strength, while we searched for our own shadow in Jay Chou's music. Although we can't have the same feelings at every stage, we still strive for a better stage.
Third, the theme presentation: the presentation of utopian ideals conveys a positive and optimistic attitude towards life.
1, the utopian presentation of rooftop love
The word utopia was put forward by Thomas Moore, a British utopian. He put the Greek word? Oh? And then what? topos？ Join forces to create? Utopia? The word utopia? Oh? And then what? topos？ What do these two words stand for in Greek? No? And then what? Place? Together, it is a place that does not exist.
Thomas Moore coined this word, because people were living in dire straits at that time, and people longed for freedom and equality. This word is a kind of hope, symbolizing people's yearning and expectation for a better life.
The background of the story and the status of the bottom people are consistent with the utopia created by Thomas Moore. The protagonists in "Love on the Roof" live on the rooftop exiled by the city, which is called the existence of chaos by the so-called upper class, and is a place that many people do not want to touch and touch. People who live on the rooftop are shameless and marginalized by the city.
This group of people who may be driven away by the city at any time live the simplest and happiest life, without financial interests and the temptation of intrigue. They seek the joy of life in poverty, live happily every day and enjoy all the happiness at present.
There is a heaven above and a roof below.
There is heaven above, is there a rooftop below? This is a slogan of the movie "Love on the Roof". Such a place marginalized by the city is used by the director as a metaphor for the paradise that everyone yearns for, because it is the ideal world of Jay Chou: to stay away from the noise of the city and enjoy the beauty of life. The rooftop carries countless memories of youth and warm old times.
The people on the rooftop are simple and pure. They will sing and dance when they are happy, and release loudly when they are angry. Friends and neighbors help each other, and brothers are loyal. Love can go well, everything goes well. Everything is developing in the ideal and beautiful direction. Everyone on the rooftop has the simplest happiness.
The simplest happiness and the bottom people, this seemingly paradoxical combination, complement each other in the film, and seems to be an unattainable utopian ideal. It is actually a realistic presentation of people's subjective world. Some people saw the light in their eyes from this group of Tiantai people, some people dismissed it as a joke, and some people found their lost self in them.
Jay Chou explained to us with love on the rooftop: No matter what kind of environment you are in, you can take the initiative to find and get happiness, live an ordinary life, and you can live an extraordinary life with optimism and kindness.
3. Jay Chou's utopian ideal.
Jay Chou once had the dream of building a "J Building", so that all his relatives and friends could live in this building and bear the building expenses themselves, so that they could live a carefree and free life in this building and be as simple and happy as Tiantai people.
However, it is too difficult for omnipotent Jay Chou to realize this ideal. In addition to considering economic costs, there are many unchangeable factors. For example, except Jay Chou, everyone has their own circle of friends and relatives. Everyone has his own life and career, his own ideas and plans. Of course, people will change.
The J building in Jay Chou is not formed. Some people say that Yang Junrong, Jay Chou's former boss, persuaded him. Some people say that Ye Huimei doesn't agree. Some people say that Jay Chou's ideal is hard to realize. No matter what the reason, the result is a failure, but Jay Chou's utopian ideal has not ended.
He realized his dream with love on the roof? J building? In my dream, the prodigal son frost in the movie is Jay Chou in real life. As for love, he doesn't care about the difference of status. As long as he believes, he will try his best to love. He will accompany his wife on the catwalk when she is tired, and make a surprise for his wife who has been married for many years. The wife's job is always the first support. In love, he is not an unattainable king, but a teenager who is crazy about love, a passionate teenager.
He has a princess's heart and a hero's dream. He likes to be praised by everyone and enjoys taking care of his friends. After 20 years of debut, the people around Jay Chou are still the people who do programs, make movies and participate in variety shows, and they can be seen everywhere in Jay Chou.
Some people ridiculed this group of people as fools who can't help Jay Chou, but they didn't know that their significance to Jay Chou was not an interest relationship. Jay Chou enjoys his heroic and chivalrous dream, enjoying the time with friends and enjoying the simplest and purest life, which has nothing to do with money, fame and fortune.
Jay Chou's utopian ideal is similar to Tao Yuanming's paradise. There is warmth and beauty in his heart, keep his initial heart and enthusiasm, return to the original simplicity of things, and let love follow his heart.