1995 Before Sunrise won the Best Director Award at the 45th Berlin International Film Festival.
In 2004, Love at Sunset and Dusk was nominated for the Golden Bear Award at the 54th Berlin International Film Festival.
20 13 "love before midnight" was nominated for the best adapted screenplay award at the 86th academy awards.
This series spans 18 years. The three films are connected in series, forming a life track from love-marriage-having children-raising children, and also seeing the changes of the two protagonists from youth to middle age, they are very patient.
This article first looks at the first part: Before sunrise.
Director: richard linklater, 1960 was born in Houston, Texas, USA on July 30th. He is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, photographer and editor, and graduated from Sam Houston State University.
Actor: ethan hawke (1970 1 1.6) was born in Austin, Texas, USA, and is an American actor, director, screenwriter and screenwriter. Besides the trilogy "Love is ...", there are Dead Poets Society and Modi.
Heroine: Julie Delpy (1969 65438+February 2 1) was born in Paris. She is an actress, screenwriter, director, composer and producer. ? Graduated from the School of Performing Arts of new york University, she not only loves acting, but also is passionate about writing plays and directing plays. In 2005, she won the Oscar for her play Before Sunset.
The protagonist Jesse: American youth, divorced parents, literary youth type, full of romance. I'm going to Madrid to see my girlfriend, but she doesn't want to see him. Therefore, some people sadly return to the United States by train via Vienna.
Celine, the heroine: an independent woman from a middle-class family in France, pays attention to feelings and details, and has her own persistence in feelings, adventurous spirit and career pursuit. I lived in America and England for a while. This trip is to visit my grandmother in Budapest during my college holiday, and then go back to Paris to study.
Jesse met Celine on the train and they had a good chat. Then meet and get off together and spend the night in Vienna.
What happens when a single handsome guy and a beautiful woman are together? Everything can be imagined, and everything that should happen will come as scheduled.
The next morning, Jesse will leave by plane and the date will end at the dawn of victory. Reluctantly, they met again at the station in Vienna six months later. In order to keep fresh, the two did not leave any contact information with each other.
The duration of the film is about 14 hours, which shows the complete process of how two strangers meet, know each other and fall in love.
Compared with many movies, this movie almost uses the dialogue of two people to prop up the whole story.
Dialogue form: Question-and-answer game In order to enhance mutual understanding, two people come and go, exchange views, and even playfully and honestly face each other by simulating "calling a friend" in "You ask me and answer me".
Dialogue: It is like a wild horse, involving family background, childhood experience, love, marriage, gender relations, career, life, religion, death, technology ... and of course, there are trivial and strange ideas. The hero and heroine are witty and full of thinking and speculation. Every seemingly casual conversation is quite incisive and worth picking out and savoring. It is also a problem that we may have explored all our lives but can't understand.
Shooting: In Vienna, the city of music.
There are local urban landscapes: urban buildings, old streets, public transportation, video stores, restaurants, ferris wheel, bars and churches. Public cemetery, etc.
It is also permeated with the artistic atmosphere of the music city. For example, passers-by who love amateur performances, impromptu poets on the Danube, palm-reading prophets in the square, enthusiastic gypsy dances, record stores that play beautiful songs, mysterious and wonderful divination witches, bartenders who care about sponsoring red wine and so on. The romantic atmosphere in Vienna makes the feelings of two foreign youths who meet for the first time gradually brew and upgrade, and gradually become romantic, ambiguous and passionate.
At the end of the movie, after dawn, the two will go their separate ways. I met at the same station in Vienna half a year later because I was worried that the communication after leaving contact information would destroy their initial intentions. There is no phone number and address, only "I have you, you have me", I just hope this is eternal.
At this time, the movie screen shows the city that the two people walked through, but it is empty, as if nothing had happened, just a dream, but the loss and nostalgia in my heart are lingering. ......
1. The reason why the man asked the woman to get off the bus is quite attractive. Will you be attracted to get off the train with Jesse?
Jessie: "Imagine that 20 years later 10 years later, after you get married, your marriage loses its vitality. You will miss all the men you meet in your life, and I am one of them. I am just a loser like him (husband), and then you will feel that you have made the right choice and are happy for it. "
The girls were finally persuaded to spend the night in Vienna with the boys.
2. They met a divination witch, and the prediction was novel and full of mystery. What do you think of divination? Does the appearance of this story in the film have any special meaning?
The witch said to Celine, "You are an adventurer and explorer. You are very interested in the strength of women and their potential strength and creativity. You are becoming such a woman. " The witch looked at Jesse. "He (Jesse) is studying." Celine likes the witch's evaluation and is willing to pay.
Before leaving, the fortune teller said a meaningful sentence: "You are both stars. Billions of years ago, the stars exploded and everything in this world was formed. Everything we know is stardust, and you are stardust. "
Jesse is very resistant to this, thinking that this is just a means for witches to make a living. He also mentioned that if Selena had just been replaced by an old man, the result of divination would not be a bright future, but a dull day after day.
3. Is life a scam?
When they talked about marriage and love, Selena asked Jesse, "Have you ever seen a really happy couple?"
Jesse replied affirmatively, "Yes, but I think they are cheating each other."
Selena agreed with this view, but after a helpless smile, she said, "People can turn life into a scam. My grandmother lived with my grandfather all her life, until when she was old, my grandmother told me that she loved another person all her life. "
Selena feels that grandma's life is very sad, but she also appreciates that grandma can have such feelings in her life. Jessie added that her grandmother was right not to fall in love with that person, because if she did have it, it would only disappoint her grandmother: "People always have romantic imagination about everything, even though these things are not practical."
4. Do you dare to love when you are injured?
Jesse, he just got hurt by love. Even though he has contradictions in his heart, he is still willing to believe in love. Otherwise, he wouldn't bravely and abruptly invite Celine to get off with him on the train.
Jesse said, "Love is a safe haven for two people who are afraid of loneliness."
Later, Jesse added, "Sometimes, I want to be a good husband and father, but sometimes, I feel stupid, as if it would ruin my life." This is not because I am afraid of commitment, I am afraid that I will not take care of others and love others. I know I can do it, but if I can't be honest with myself, even if I do a good thing and have some special skills, I would rather die because I can't go against my will. "
From this passage of Jesse, we can easily find that he sometimes longs for marriage and love, and sometimes conflicts with marriage and love.
Many people are eager to have the key to the contradiction between marriage and love, but they are afraid of being hurt, or because they don't want to be hurt, they don't want to get close to love and don't want to pay, thinking that they won't taste the sweetness of love, so they don't have to bear the hurt of love. What do you think of this?
The film Before Sunrise is not so rich in characters and the plot is not so ups and downs. Jesse and selena have been chatting. So some people call it a "chatterbox" movie.
But it presents more the most beautiful and true appearance of love at the beginning. The hand that I want to touch and take back on the bus, the affectionate eyes of two people in an antique record store, the analog phone call "I like the feeling that he secretly looks at me, and I like him more and more when night falls", the romantic kiss on the ferris wheel at dusk, and the love poem written by a wandering poet with a "milkshake", like telling their story, drunkenness on the grass. ......
If it is only love at first sight, a short meeting, and if the whole story is not remembered and praised for so long. The film explains the process of getting along with each other step by step, which is not limited by the length of time, but determined by the depth of communication. When two people are together, there is only one other in their hearts, and there are endless words. Love is not caring for each other, but maybe endless conversation. Love is two compatible souls, with endless words, although I don't know what to say.
And this is the pure and beautiful appearance of love.
If life is just like the first sight, why draw a fan in the autumn wind?
In this way, the film entered everyone's heart and was unforgettable.
20 13 is the last part of the trilogy, Love Before Midnight. When the next nine years come, will the director bring surprises in 2022?
Attachment: Relevant background information
1. The titles of the two books they read on the train.
Jesse holds the love I need.
Celine's is "The Story of Eyes"
2. Milkshake Poems by Wandering Poets on the Danube
Angel of illusion
David Jewel.
Daydream delusion. An illusion immersed in a daydream.
The limousine eyelashes blinked her long eyelashes.
Oh, baby, your beautiful face. Oh, honey, slide over your beautiful face.
Drop a tear in my glass.
Look at those big eyes staring at your pure eyes.
See what you mean to me and understand that you are the meaning of my life.
Sweet cakes and milkshakes blend into the sweetness of cakes like milkshakes.
I am a delusional angel. I'm like an angel emerging from a trance.
I am a fantasy parade. Wandering in the dream.
I want you to know what I think. How can I bear to see your heart turn again?
I don't want you to guess anymore. But people in two of a kind.
You don't know where I'm from. I don't know where I come from.
We don't know where to go. We don't know where we belong.
Expand in life. Embrace life.
Like branches in the river. Just as a stream will eventually merge into a river.
Flowing downstream. Slow down.
Go with the flow.
Let me carry you. You will go behind my back. You have me and I have you.
Maybe that's it. I think so.
Don't you know I know my heart?
Don't you know me now? Finally know my heart.
3. The man Jesse read a poem fragment.
After dawn, before leaving, the two men tried to engrave each other's appearance in their minds and reflect it in their memories. Even though the sadness of separation made them find themselves far from being free and easy as they thought, Selena was lying on his lap, and Jesse was holding Selena, unconsciously reading a poem by Auden:
"The city bells rang at the same time. Don't be deceived by time. You can't conquer time. In troubles and worries, days pass in the dark, and time will write rhapsody, today or tomorrow. "
This poem is excerpted from Nocturnal Travel, the representative work of English poet W.H. Auden.
Auden is recognized as a famous modern poet. /kloc-0 was born in England in 1907, and/kloc-0 became an American citizen in 1946. Auden's writing, especially his poetry writing skills, is deeply influenced by the major poetry schools in Northern Europe and is recognized as the most important English poet after Eliot.
4. About Quakers
In the movie, Jesse told Celine about the Quaker wedding: two people knelt face to face and looked at each other until God's induction came to someone, otherwise neither of them spoke. They just looked at each other quietly and got married an hour later.
Find information on the internet, Quakers, also known as Quakers and friends. 1648, Quaker Society was established in george fox.
Quaker means trembling. It is said that at the beginning of the Quaker society, some people trembled at a party, and others said that george fox was famous for warning judges to "tremble" before God when facing the arbitration of the Inquisition.
Quakers oppose external authority and complicated forms. Weddings and funerals are also very simple, without clergy and furnishings. Believers gather to meditate and listen to the guidance of the Holy Spirit. Any believer who is inspired can speak or pray.
When it comes to Quaker, it will be associated with Quaker cereal that is popular all over the world. 190 1 year, Henry D. Seymour and William Heston of the United States established Quaker Flour Company. The company's first registered trademark adopted the image of a man dressed as a Quaker. The trademark was used by the company's breakfast cereal, and it is still the logo of Quaker Cereals Company. At the beginning, the company adopted Quaker as a trademark precisely because of Quaker's professionalism and persistence.