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ENGL 961A
Professor Sauve
Yvonne Shao
5 March 2013
Not a Legend: 1900 as Great Filmic Art
What is a great work of art? Art is not as simple as beauty. Beauty is something that stays in one’s memory and vanishes eventually, but real art are never lose easily. When people leave from an exhibition or a theater of a great art, there is something that breaks away from the superficial implications and possesses an extended pattern. This is the essence of art, which is constant, powerful and meaningful. Filmic art, as an important branch of art, consists in filmic facts encompassing both aesthetic and linguistic considerations. More specifically, filmic art is not simply the images and the sounds of the film itself, but the themes and expression that directors try to express through the characters’ personalities and stories. “The Legend of 1900”, a 1998 Italian film directed by Giuseppe Tornatore, representing a talented pianist’s whole life who never touch the dry land. People praise 1900’s talent of music and use “magic” to describe this movie, but they seldom see 1900’s innermost thoughts and feeling which define the movie as a great work of filmic art.
Audiences can see the theme of the film through 1900’s whole life and also learn insistence and optimistic attitude from the 1900’s personality. Danny Boodman T.D. Lemons 1900, a boy abandoned in first class by his immigrant parents. 1900 was found and adopted by Danny, a stoker, and raised in the engine rooms. After Danny’s death in an accident, 1900 remained on the ship and increasingly lured by the sound of the piano in the first-class ballroom. Eventually, he became a gifted pianist and a great jazz improvisationist. He plays unbelievable jazz improvisationally just by looking at a person’s expression, action, dress and through their mood. His talent earned him such accolades that he was challenged by, yet for all the richness and variety of his musical expression, he never left the ship, except almost, once,
Professor Sauve
Yvonne Shao
5 March 2013
Not a Legend: 1900 as Great Filmic Art
What is a great work of art? Art is not as simple as beauty. Beauty is something that stays in one’s memory and vanishes eventually, but real art are never lose easily. When people leave from an exhibition or a theater of a great art, there is something that breaks away from the superficial implications and possesses an extended pattern. This is the essence of art, which is constant, powerful and meaningful. Filmic art, as an important branch of art, consists in filmic facts encompassing both aesthetic and linguistic considerations. More specifically, filmic art is not simply the images and the sounds of the film itself, but the themes and expression that directors try to express through the characters’ personalities and stories. “The Legend of 1900”, a 1998 Italian film directed by Giuseppe Tornatore, representing a talented pianist’s whole life who never touch the dry land. People praise 1900’s talent of music and use “magic” to describe this movie, but they seldom see 1900’s innermost thoughts and feeling which define the movie as a great work of filmic art.
Audiences can see the theme of the film through 1900’s whole life and also learn insistence and optimistic attitude from the 1900’s personality. Danny Boodman T.D. Lemons 1900, a boy abandoned in first class by his immigrant parents. 1900 was found and adopted by Danny, a stoker, and raised in the engine rooms. After Danny’s death in an accident, 1900 remained on the ship and increasingly lured by the sound of the piano in the first-class ballroom. Eventually, he became a gifted pianist and a great jazz improvisationist. He plays unbelievable jazz improvisationally just by looking at a person’s expression, action, dress and through their mood. His talent earned him such accolades that he was challenged by, yet for all the richness and variety of his musical expression, he never left the ship, except almost, once,