Many people like to associate this novel with Mitchell's Gone with the Wind and make some meaningless comparisons. If we want to compare all novels with the same theme, then a theme can only be used by one writer, because like originality, a theme is known by others, and other writers will never dare to involve it again, because if we do it again, we must go beyond originality. However, how difficult is it to do this? Therefore, if we can't surpass the original, then the newly created novels with the same theme will lose their meaning, and at the same time, they will lose the same artistic aesthetics, just like the comparison between Cold Mountain and Gone with the Wind. This is not something that can't be surpassed obviously, but why does Fraser come to gnaw at this old pueraria lobata? This is the problem, whether it is civil war or abolition of slavery. In the war, lovers were separated, unaware of life and death, but burned by love. It's just that he used this old story material In fact, Fraser's image is far from the same old story. What he means is a deeper ideological understanding, but you just didn't notice it.
American Civil War novels and movies have become an inexhaustible theme in the United States. But later novels and movies, no matter the plot or actors, no matter the scene or the momentum, failed to surpass the novel Gone with the Wind and its adaptation, as well as Klein's Red Medal of Courage. So, what is the reason? Of course it's the same reason. Novelists have never, and never want to, let the theme of love cool down in their creation. As a result, Fraser's Cold Mountain appeared, telling a beautiful love story like a fairy tale, trying to change a traditional thinking concept of modern people, but failed to achieve that effect. People still look at and think in a habitual way. This novel and the film Cold Mountain based on it still lead people astray again, thinking that it is a copy of another Gone with the Wind. In fact, the theme of the novel is not the theme of the novel, but the point is from which angle you explore and read a novel, so that readers can see its deeper artistic connotation and ideological implication. In this way, this novel will have a magical effect of different opinions, and then become another eternity in literature.
Cold mountain road, cold river bank.
Fraser wrote this passage on the title page of the novel: "People ask the way to Cold Mountain: there is no straight road." People inquired about the way to Hanshan, but found nothing. That is to say, he adopted the meaning of the poem "People ask about the cold mountain road, but the cold mountain road is impassable". He tried to lead readers to a road of thinking and spiritual understanding when reading novels, rather than a road of scenery and love.
Darwin also quoted two verses of Hanshan in 1893, "People ask Hanshan Road, Hanshan Road is impassable", which also explained his career and the road of scientific exploration. Which one is he holding?
In Fraser's novels, there have always been images in Hanshan's poems, but no one cares about them, which is why the novel and the movie Hanshan are all associated with Gone with the Wind and Homer's epic Odyssey, which makes people misunderstand that it is true.
Cold mountain road, cold river bank. Birds are often chirping, but no one is silent.
People ask about Hanshan Road, but Hanshan Road is impassable. In summer, there is no ice, and the sunrise is foggy.
It seems that my future is different from your heart. If your heart is like mine, you can still get it.
Take a hundred feet of tree and cut it into long strips. It's a pity that all the pillars were thrown into the valley.
For many years, my heart was still strong, and over time my skin began to go bald. Knowing the future is like building a stable.
Drive the horse to spend the desert city, and the desert city will move the guests. High and low old streams, large and small ancient tombs.
In other words, Fraser's novel Cold Mountain is constructed by the poems and images of Han, a poet in the Tang Dynasty. The scenery, implication and story in it lead us to understand and interpret another meaning and implication of this novel. It is said that the Odyssey encountered those hardships on her way home. Don Quixote and The Journey to the West were also written in the narrative way of hard travel. Therefore, it is far-fetched to describe Cold Mountain as another version of Odyssey.
Let's talk about novels about war and love. For many years, novels about war and love have been the themes that writers are keen to adopt and never tire of, such as Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms, War and Remembrance, the movies Waterloo Bridge and Walking in the Clouds, the Soviet novels The Silent Don, doctor zhivago and the Soviet patriotic war novels, and the TV series Enjoy Pink, Japan. So Fraser is a contemporary American writer, and he is also familiar with the novels about war and love in past dynasties. He wouldn't be so reckless. He spent seven years writing such an old novel about war and love. He knows that if he keeps writing like this, there will be so many grand endings and landmark masterpieces in front of him. Even if his novel is published, how can he have a bright future? So, he used an old bottle to pack spirits, which made people look at a flower for the first time and look carefully.
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Looking far away, the stone path of Hanshan is oblique, and there are people in Bai Yunsheng;
Stop and sit in the maple forest late, and the frost leaves are red in February flowers.
This is a famous poem "Mountain Walk" written by Du Mu, a poet in the Tang Dynasty. You can make your own interpretation of the profound meaning, and each solution has its own gains. Some people even interpret it as an erotic poem. This is a simple truth, who knows depends on how you interpret this poem. What does Hanshan mean, just literally? Hanshan is the "mountain" in late autumn. Are Bai Yunsheng people hallucinating? Always stop to see the scenery. How many hours does it take to understand whether you are looking at people or the scenery, recalling the past through the scenery or having other ulterior motives? Oh, why is this red maple frost leaf so like February safflower? So, can't Hanshan go up? Du Mu was born later than Hanshan poet. Does it mean that Du Mu's poems are not inspired by Hanshan's poems?
These artistic conceptions are hidden in poems, which actually leave us with countless conjectures and doubts. How to interpret this poem? If we compare it with the novel Cold Mountain, can't we find some clues to express in the novel? Still have to ask, where is Hanshan? Does the "cold mountain" in the history of North Carolina really exist?
Then, the novel Hanshan has openly borrowed Hanshanzi's poems to explain the title page. If we still read this novel according to traditional thinking, it would be a big mistake. Don't be covered by superficial phenomena, but see the essence through them. We interpret Fraser's Cold Mountain from different angles. Through the colorful scenery description, sad story and tragic ending of the novel, we really should think about it. What do we see? As we all know, the theme of Gone with the Wind is to reveal the distortion of human nature caused by war, and then to show Scarlett's feminist independence consciousness. Even for love, you are equal and selfish. Even if you get her body, you can't get her soul. This is not love. It was not until you finally lost Rhett that Scarlett found out that the person she really loved was Rhett, which was a supreme love between souls that could not be repeated in words.
However, the description of love in Cold Mountain is just a kind of persistence and waiting. On the way home, a person goes through thousands of difficulties and dangers, and his heart turns home. A lover who cooks slowly at home, thinks hard and waits for his lover who doesn't know life and death to return. The singularity of love exposes the similarity between this novel and many war love stories. Therefore, we can no longer interpret this book with love novels, but look at it from another angle. What is hidden behind the story of this book?
Inman and Ada simply know each other, know each other and love each other. Before, there was no stormy love, which was not commensurate with husband and wife, but because of this, their emotions inspired their souls and hopes. They care about each other, and there is little contact between emails and letters, but they feel their love knot with their heart.
So, there is this story. So, what is Ida's heart? Of course, it is a cold mountain that can't see the edge. She only saw an illusion in the mirror image in Swanger well. She believed that the illusion was real, so she waited for Inman's return. Inman came down from the battlefield and didn't know about Ida, but he believed that Ida would always be waiting for him in his hometown, but then again, Ida was still an invisible cold mountain. It is the right way to build the road to Hanshan with mutual love: people ask Hanshan Road, but Hanshan Road is impassable. It seems that my future is different from your heart. If your heart is like mine, you can still get it. In this way, the story in the novel is not credible. Who can cross the cold mountain road? The ending structure of the story is that Inman and Ada were killed by the guards after having sex, and Ada survived with Inman's children.
So, where is the way to Hanshan? Yes, still no one can find it. Whether the future can be found depends on the strength from the heart. Perhaps, Hanshan is in our hearts, and Hanshan in our hearts is the mountain we want to climb.
Cold Mountain has a high narrative and scenery, and anyone who has read this book will have this experience. Although the narrative method of "interspersed chapters and parallel narration" is adopted in the technique structure, it is a very traditional prose narrative method in the description of scenery and environment, which is read in words. Feel the beautiful sunshine, distant mountains, swimming clouds, endless eagles, dense grasslands, dark swamps, lush forests, gentle hillsides, ancient farms, simple huts, gorgeous gardens, clear streams and rivers, clean and quiet snow scenes, winding mountain roads and bloody battlefields in the southern mountainous areas of the United States. Moreover, it pays more attention to the corresponding description of scenery and characters' psychology, which makes people feel the truth of history, careful observation of the environment and the beauty of words. It is not uncommon for contemporary American novelists to write landscapes in this traditional way.
Now let's talk about anthony minghella's Cold Mountain, which is based on the novel. After it was broadcast in June 5438+February 2003, it caused a sensation, but failed to win an Oscar. But after watching this film, we can still feel that it is a masterpiece, in which the story, characters, acting skills, scenery, the west, canyons, snow scenes, farms, music, war, violence, blood and love are all properly expressed in the film. I have to admit that a master is a master. Movies and novels, except for the selection and rearrangement of some episodes, are basically creating the artistic aesthetics, environmental atmosphere and potential artistic conception of the original works. In particular, the three actors selected have their own characteristics, and they can express themselves as much as possible according to the original characters. Jude Law's lazy but serious eyes, Nicole's gorgeous and noble sex appeal and Siegfried's wild nature left a deep impression on the audience. And Natalie Portman's femininity will be unforgettable for a long time.
I don't want to compare it with Gone with the Wind any more, because the themes of the two films are different. Although they use the same background and have some similar plots, such as killing people, making love and fishing in the sun, I still have to admit that both films have their own themes. Of course, the scenes and stories designed and built in the film Cold Mountain are a kind of lingering confusion and soul-stirring, especially when Inman was shot by guards, the tired horse slowly came from the snowy mountain canyon, and then Inman fell off his horse and died. Who watched the scenes one by one, who won't be moved? The lover who had been waiting for many years was about to start a new happy life, but suddenly he was changed and died. I hope too long, wait too long, only half a day's journey, I can go home, but, however, the ending is so cruel, and the sudden meeting makes two people separated forever in this world, separated ... who will not lament when I see this? Human love comes from the heart, and human love cares about the soul. Both of them are lost together. What reason can we exist? Perhaps, the film made Yan see this proposition, so the solution is that the film gave us a lens to make this answer.
Anthony minghella was really involved in this film. He was so emotional that he forgot that he was a director and the natural laws of life. I don't know. He asked Teague, the captain of the guard, to destroy the old woman, but he hasn't done this to Ida for a long time. This is really puzzling. The novel is like this, but the movie is moving, and the next cruelty should be shown as soon as possible, unless the captain Teague goes to other places to perform a task, which is beyond his control for a while, but it needs to be explained. Third, even if Inman and Ida get together at the Black Canyon Farm as they wish, if they don't escape from here, their lives will still be in fear, because Inman is a deserter. Even if Captain Teague lets them go, other guards will catch deserters to get rewards. Besides, Inman and Ada came together, fell in love, had sex and felt a little out of place. Anyway, Ruby should always avoid or not be so presumptuous. At least, Ada is a noble woman, and they should have received such a noble education. Finally, Focus Plane in Jamila still lacks the deep and quiet generosity of American manor, the bitterness of the sunset as blood, and the hint lens of the broken heart with scattered branches and leaves. This "Focus Plane Like a Manor", which was originally common in the United States, also represents an image of that period. However, we didn't see it. It may be that there are too many shots in the Romanian mountain scene.
It was cold last night, very cold. I thought it was the coldest night in Lijiang since nightfall, but I had a dream. I dreamed of a very high mountain. The snow on the mountain is like cotton and the clouds are like brocade. There are picturesque scenery, flowers and green branches, sunny and clear streams, fish and waterfalls. This is a warm spring with time. Look, a path winds up. When you get there, you must be in a good mood and stop obsessing over trivial paintings. However, just when I got up the courage to go down that road, I looked back and found that my dream had awakened. I opened my eyes and went to bed, leaving only the dream on that high mountain. In fact, where is that mountain?
At this time, the song rang again: where is spring? Where is spring? I also want to ask, where is Hanshan, where is Hanshan? North Carolina, USA? Or is it an inconspicuous mountain that Datang people saw in autumn?
2005 1 1 25th, the swordsman was in Lijiang.