Watching Sofia Coppola's films, it's easy to get caught up in her dreamy landscapes in vintage pastels.
The creamy and sweet rococo style in "Cleopatra", and the rich and agile classical oil painting in "Under the Peony Flower", some people say that Sophia's lens is like a whole fairy tale forest, but this dream is not for you to indulge in, but to shatter.
Cleopatra" Yes, "Broken Fairy Tale Dreams" is almost the main theme in Sophia's works. The women she photographed were not girls immersed in happiness and comedy love, but women who were dragged into the whirlpool of reality halfway.
Watching her films, almost everyone will understand at the moment of goosebumps that behind the most beautiful fairy tale, there is a cold and dangerous world.
Under the Peony Flowers" her new film "Priscilla" tells such a true story - a 14-year-old girl who lives in the military area with her father, and accidentally meets Elvis Presley, a rock star who is in military service, and the two fall in love ever since.
The past biopics of Priscilla are all saying that it is a fairy tale for a rich and famous handsome idol to get married and have children after 7 years of love with an ordinary, ordinary girl. But no one talked about it, and in the girl's memory, there was another side to the story that was covered with dust.
The movie is based on the memoir "Elvis Presley and Me" by Elvis Presley's ex-wife Priscilla Presley, where there are no sweet dreams, some are just filtered by the outside world, the story of how a woman is lost and survives in the discipline of marriage.
The process of watching Priscilla is like watching Priscilla step by step into the abyss. Compared with her pampered wife, Priscilla's identity is more similar to her husband's "private collection".
Although she had countless luxuries and lived in a luxurious estate, she did not have the right to entertain her guests, nor did she have the opportunity to go out for entertainment alone.
Priscilla's husband's love seems sweet, but it is actually controlled.
She is like a captive tool man, before she got married, she had no cash on her, and whenever she proposed that she wanted to work in order to expand her social circle, Elvis would drop cold advice - "you can only choose between me and him", even if he sat on the grass and played with the puppy, he would be considered "losing his image".
Presley Presley lost his charm for the first time in this **, which is flawed.
He is not only sensitive and irritable, but also loves to mess with flowers, saying that "it is better to be separated for a while" during his wife's pregnancy, and even privately always loves his wife openly and secretly, saying that "there are still many women who want to communicate with me", so you have to be "obedient and obedient", which makes Priscilla have a strong sense of crisis.
Priscilla had to become cautious in love, her husband likes black hair and up-and-out cat-eye makeup, so she has maintained the habit of dyeing her black hair all year round, even if she is in labor, she has to put on fluffy eyelashes first.
She is used to repeatedly watching her husband's lace scandals but is not allowed to be angry, and in order to continue to be favored, even after pregnancy, she is so anxious that she has to weigh herself often to observe whether she is "out of shape".
Before Priscilla found out, she had already been eroded by the so-called "favor" step by step.
It wasn't until Elvis Presley flirted with other women in front of her that she broke down and left, and her husband always turned a deaf ear to this, that she realized that the love she had always believed was actually fake.
Sophia's shots are calm, but full of texture. She never used hoarse scenes to outline pain, but only a dark room, a light that shone through the tears that Priscilla had stored in her eyes, and watched her tear herself apart and wake up, a few seconds were enough to shake the audience.
Priscilla" Sofia said that her favorite clip is the scene where Priscilla decides to divorce.
While Elvis Presley was still intoxicated with his "machismo" and used his wife as a toy, Priscilla had long since learned to "live alone". She learned taekwondo, went on a date, changed her hair back to her natural little chestnut brown, erased her thick black eyeliner, and became herself again.
Priscilla's breakthrough and growth are almost the most critical core of Sophia's work. Priscilla's courage represents the self-breakthrough of ordinary women in that period, who are no longer willing to be trapped in a broken family, but run away to find a new path.
From an ignorant girl to a mature woman who finds herself, how precious this transformation is. Sophia said that women in that era had no money, no power, and once they left their husbands, they had nothing, so they could only redouble their efforts to become men's ideals.
Priscilla "Priscilla" not only reverses the fairy tale of bewitching girls, but also symbolizes that no matter how fragile a woman is, she can have the power to break the shackles.
Therefore, even if the image of Elvis Presley in the film caused the movie not to be allowed to use any of Elvis's **, Sophia still felt that "it's not a big deal, after all, this is not something for Elvis fans to see".
What she wants to shoot is always the most real woman. Even if you have been lost, as long as you have the power to break through the gaze, you are attractive.
I've seen so many of Sophia's films, and the cage of the female gaze has always been something that has been recurring, and I think, maybe it's because she has also experienced almost dark moments when she was being scrutinized.
Sophia was born into a family of directors, her father Francis Ford Coppola is the director of the famous "The Godfather", her mother is a documentary filmmaker, and any distant relative seems to have something to do with the camera.
Sofia Coppola with her father, Francis Ford Coppola. Since infancy, she has been labeled with the halo of her father.
It is precisely because of this that when she was invited by her father when she was 18 years old to play the role of the gangster daughter who was suddenly rejected by Winona Ryder in "The Godfather 3", she caused so many bad reviews.
Sophia starred in "The Godfather 3".
Because of her youthful acting skills, she is considered to be the culprit who ruined the classics.
At that time, everyone ridiculed her for being "stiff and pretentious in front of the camera", "the father has no ability to distinguish, and the daughter has no talent", she angered the fans of "The Godfather" and became the most hateful and condemnable "bad actor" in the magazine.
Sophia starred in "The Godfather 3".
Although, now many people are beginning to rehabilitate her, thinking that the inexperienced Sophia, in addition to her decent performance, actually does not have too many loopholes, but under the halo of many actors, she seems too weak.
But at that time, with the blessing of the director's father's fame and the voice of "resource coffee", the audience's anger still won her the Worst Newcomer Award and the Worst Supporting Actress Award for Jin Sumei.
Sophia starred in "The Godfather 3".
Many years later, when it came to this incident, Sophia still felt very wronged and sad.
She admits that she didn't think much about it at that time, thinking that it was just an attempt, after all, she was not mentally mature at that time, there were too many possibilities, and she wanted to try to understand who she was and what kind of job she was suitable for. Although she was criticized badly, at least she knew that she was not suitable for acting.
Sophia starred in "The Godfather 3".
With self-torture, she stayed away from movies, went to art school to learn painting, took pictures for magazines, and spent ten years in the fashion industry.
Perhaps it was this experience that made Sophia rediscover her instincts and talents, and she felt that she "likes to look at people more than being seen".
Sophia, who is hidden in front of the camera, has appeared on the cover of "Frisko" magazine and is also the focus of the flash.
1999's ** work "The Death" is a transformation of Sophia, and it is also a counterattack to being looked down upon by the outside world.
Relying on this **, she not only won the "Hollywood Best Young Director Award", but also the work was selected as one of the "Top Ten Best Films" in the French magazine Millennial "Film Handbook".
The movie "Death" begins with the suicide of a young girl, and gradually unravels the indescribable anguish in the heart of an adolescent girl through the boy's narration and doubts.
Maybe it's the generation gap with her elders, the confinement of her mother, the indifference of her father who is obsessed with his own world, or maybe it's the tree that has been cut at the door that makes her feel like she has been robbed of her freedom, and the girl jumps out of the window and becomes an answer that she can't figure out.
* Death in the 90s of the 20th century, in the male-dominated screen world, there were few depictions of women's complex inner emotions, and Sophia's lens began to give girls a concrete world.
This film adapted from the youth ** "Winged Angel" has already been sold to others at the beginning, and it was after the producer saw Sophia's script that he decisively asked to be replaced by her.
After the release of "Death", it caused a lot of sensation, and people didn't believe that this resource coffee girl hiding behind her father's aura also had this kind of magic. Sophia didn't say much, but used her next few creations to make a big comeback.
In 2004, she wrote and directed "Lost in Translation", which not only won the Best Original Screenplay Award at the 76th Academy Awards, but also made Scarlett Johansson, who had just debuted at the time, famous in one fell swoop. Sophia also became the first American woman to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director with this work.
Lost in Translation" starring Nicole Kidman and Elle Fanning and other actresses The Sophia version of "Under the Peony Flower" not only broke the traditional male director's perspective of women as the flame of desire in the original movie, but also replaced the role of the hunter for the first time with the home of women.
In Under the Peony Flower, a wounded soldier unexpectedly arrives at a girls' boarding school and comes from a nightmarish battlefield to heaven.
Just when the audience, along with himself, thought that the man would be the winner in this affair story, he didn't know that the women were the masters of playing him around.
Under the Peony Flower" When he is harmless, women use him to play their desires and fantasies;When it was confirmed that he was dangerous, the poisonous mushroom became the ingredient that ended the man's life.
"Under the Peony Flower" can be said that it is completely herself who instills the soul into Sophia's film. A long time ago, she discovered that even if she sat in the chair of a famous female director, the film system was still "not so friendly" to her.
"The top executives in charge of investment are always men, and they don't agree with me so much, and they're not so interested in what I'm interested in," Sophia said, and she decided not to make big commercial films in order to gain independent creative rights.
Lost in Tokyo has always had voices speculating whether Sophia's success has an element of her father's help.
But Sophia drew the line early on with action, saying countless times that she refused her father's advice on her own film because "I don't want a male perspective on my world." ”
Sophie Adam has been directing for 24 years and has produced only 9 films.
The girl who was hurt by negative evaluations in her early years and had low self-esteem now apparently has her own voice to fight back.
In 2007, the film magazine "Total Film" left her a tricky and cute review, saying: "As an actress, she is traggy, but as a director, she is very assertive, and her works always break the rules and show her brave and fantasy side." ”
Sofia Coppola.
Indeed, every time I watch Sophia's play, there is always a sense of subversion that breaks the framework, and the same legendary story can give birth to different flavors in her pen.
Take 2006's "The Peerless Cleopatra" as an example, she actually filmed Queen Mary, the profligate "sinner of the ages" in traditional memory, as a "buy, buy, buy girl" with no political power ambitions.
Although this adaptation has attracted a lot of criticism, Sophia said that the film only wants to tell the story of a woman, and only wants to dig out the unknown parts of Queen Mary that everyone can understand.
Kirsten Dunst plays Queen Mary. "Cleopatra".
Queen Mary, like all women, has an inescapable gaze violence.
All eyes will be on you", was her mother's instruction to her before she got married, and at the age of 14, she left the country, and at the age of youth and ignorance, the duties of wife and queen were pressed on her shoulders at the same time.
The absence of children in Cleopatra has become evidence of her lack of charm, and every time she walks through the corridors of the gardens of Versailles, the ridicule surrounding her exotic identity and childlessness is like a shadow.
She indulged in extravagant dresses and jewelry, in order to escape isolation, until she gave birth to a prince, and the shadow on her body was washed away.
The whole picture of "Cleopatra" is classical, but the background ** uses restless rock music, ** crossing, as if she is hesitant, lonely, and lost, even after many years, there are still parts that can overlap with modern women.
The uniqueness of Sophia's photograph of Mary is precisely that she dilutes the grand history into the background, restoring the growth and pain of the girl queen. Queen Mary can't change the world dominated by men, let alone get rid of the fate of "red face and trouble", she is just a woman in the torrent of history.
Cleopatra admires the women in Sophia's films as much as she admires Sophia.
In many interviews, she said, "Growing up on a set full of boys, I always felt that girlishness and femininity are precious things", and that confused, defeated, and sad women are all made up of feminine charming.
Kirstin Dunst, who has worked with Sophia on many films, said that Sophia's camera always captures a beautiful side of her that she has never seen before. Sophie Asia is good at digging out the hidden parts.
Whether it is Elvis Presley's wife, Ripscilla, or Cleopatra, who has been scolded for so many years, they have fragile and lost parts, but only under Sophia's lens do they really show a complex and resilient side.
The reversal of life between them in the movie and Sophia outside the play is like an intertextuality - even if you have experienced a deep trough, don't easily underestimate women.
Sofia. Nowadays, although some people still call her "godfather's daughter", Sophia, who looks indifferent, may have jumped out of the title halo of her father early.
With so many good movie blessings, who cares how many logos are connected behind Sophia's name?
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