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In the works of Peter, Depp and Jay Chou, a style element is used.
If you don't know what Gothic style is when you see the title, you can look at the following four pictures and guess.
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▲ Richmond, the stunning Gothic man in Notre Dame, tim burton's film Corpse Bride, Todd the barber and the English drama IT Madman.
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Movies such as Jay Chou's In My Father's Name, Depp's tim burton and European Castle in the Middle Ages are often described as "Gothic". But what exactly is Gothic style?
The Cultural Roots of Goth
When it comes to Goth, we always think of medieval castles and ruins, stories of murder and violence and gloomy and mysterious atmosphere of terror, and unconsciously equate Goth with a gloomy, dark and decisive tone.
However, is Goth really just gloomy and dark?
The so-called "Goth" first refers to the Goth tribe living in northern Europe and belonging to Teutonic people. In the long process of national migration, Teutonic people constantly clashed with the Roman Empire. Teutonic people conquered many ethnic groups and were quickly assimilated after the conquest. Centuries later, the country disappeared.
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▲ Teutonic knights, armor and flags are very gothic.
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But Gothic culture did not disappear with the disappearance of the nation. Many years later, Italian Fasali found the word "Goth" from the dust of history to describe the architectural style of the Middle Ages. At that time, the word Gottic came from Goth, which means "God". Towering spires, thick walls, narrow passages and colored glass windows, it seems that we can still see ugly quasimodo shuttling through the mysterious and gloomy Notre Dame, in order to follow the divinity of light passing through the glass.
▍ Definition of Gothic Style
/kloc-in the 20th century, the French monastery of saint-denis was demolished and converted into a church, becoming the first Gothic church in history. In the TV series "Spring and Autumn of the Temple" based on this church, the protagonist Tom once defined the Gothic church as "light is everything".
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▲ French saint-denis Church
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▲ Temple Spring and Autumn Posters and Stills
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Perhaps the earliest Goth was born and grew up in darkness, but stubbornly walked in the opposite direction, pursuing the faint light, eager to awaken the belief in life through dark and melancholy symbols.
/kloc-In the 8th century, after horace Walpole wrote the novel Otrantoberg, Goth began to walk on the road of "no return" inseparable from "dark terror".
As a pioneering work of Gothic novels, Tobburg, Autran tells the story of Manfred family shrouded in heavy prophecy.
Since the ancestors have usurped the castle of Otranto, it is predicted that the Manfred family will be destroyed and the legitimate owner will appear. Sure enough, the only son of the castle owner was crushed to death by a helmet falling from the sky on the wedding day, and his daughter was killed by mistake. In a mysterious and terrible situation, he had to return the castle to its real owner, Theodore.
Horace was born in a prominent family, and his father robert walpole, the first Earl of Orford, was the actual ruler of the British cabinet. He spent his childhood in Parliament and was educated at Eton College and Cambridge University. After graduation, he traveled around the world and spent a lot of money to buy a farm called Strawberry Slope in Vikner.
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▲ horace Walpole
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"I want to build this place into a small Gothic castle according to my own taste." He wrote in a letter to a friend.
After careful design and construction, Strawberry Slope has evolved into a strawberry villa, which is even considered as a model of European Gothic architecture.
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▲ Strawberry Mountain Villa
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"I think I'm in an old castle. On the top step of that big staircase, I saw a big hand in armor. " One night, when he was sleeping in Strawberry Villa, he was inspired by this nightmare. That night, he began to write at his desk, and there was the "Otrantoberg" we just mentioned.
In 1970s and 1980s, Goth broke away from the post-punk movement, and many cultural branches emerged, such as Goth music, Goth movies, Goth costumes and so on.
Different from punk music, Gothic music is indifferent to political movements and full of more and more beautiful decadence. On the one hand, it is fine aesthetic feeling, on the other hand, it is cold darkness. In the disharmony caused by the existence of the two, there is an instinctive pursuit of vitality in the melody.
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▲ American Gothic Metal Band Evanescence
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In Jay Chou's early work "In the Name of Father", a deep narration, a high-pitched female voice, a drummed guitar, and strange screams quickly substitute people into a horrible atmosphere. The chorus is based on the chants of the church, and the beautiful voice that appears from time to time makes people tremble and fear, and at the same time awakens the heart of repentance and humility.
The cultural representative of Gothic style.
If we want to talk about Gothic film and television works, we can't help mentioning tim burton. In fact, in the Encyclopedia Britannica, there is no such term as "Gothic film". But that doesn't stop the genius Tim? Burton seamlessly integrated the ancient Gothic culture with the film culture, injecting new vitality into the Gothic theme.
Edward Scissorhands still brings warmth to the audience behind the intense loneliness and pain. In addition, movies such as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Corpse Bride are also warm and beautiful stories under the appearance of horror.
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▲ "Edward Scissorhands" stills
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Apart from tim burton's works, other equally famous classic Gothic films include The Raven, which is regarded as a Gothic textbook, and Interview with Vampires at Night, which co-stars Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt.
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▲ "Vampire Night Visit" stills
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As for Gothic clothing, black pointed shoes and hats are often layered, plus pale skin-this may come from the Victorian aesthetic that "pale skin is a symbol of nobility"-although it will make people go backwards three feet on the road, no one can deny its distinctive personality. Basically, we can classify people who wear such clothes as goths at a glance.
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▲ Gothic style women's wear with Victorian style.
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▲ Improved Gothic Fashion on the T Stage
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▲ Gothic audience at Leibis Music Festival
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Burke, a philosopher, once pointed out in Philosophical Discussion on the Conceptual Source of Sublime Beauty and Beautiful Beauty: "Anything that can make people feel pain and danger can be the source of Sublime Beauty."
Lonely and anxious people seem to be naturally eager for lofty beauty, for being in a certain safe zone, and for the destructive power, threats and injuries in Gothic culture to bring happy aesthetic pleasure.
Who isn't? Wandering between hope and despair, I tolerate endless hopelessness and hesitation all the time.
The only difference should be that in castles, abyss, storms and bright moonlight, the characters in Gothic culture have been dragged by psychopathy and death consciousness; And when we close the book and turn off the computer, the sun will come out tomorrow morning and we will go out, study, work and live. ■
(Youth Digest Hurry Up)