网范文:“Critical analysis of The Bicycle Thieves”。这篇文章通过一部电影主要讲述了二战后罗马城普通百姓的艰苦生活。“在形式主义电影中，有大量的手法和程式化的部分。事实上，英语论文范文，大多数电影是站在两者之间的。一方面他们展示了真实的事实。另一方面，在这些电影中使用程式化的处理技术，以澄清导演的主观意见。而剧中的自行车窃贼，作为一个现实主义电影的杰作表现，是值得观看和略论的。” Many people like watching films, while few of them would pay much attention to distinctions between different kinds of films. There are mainly two types of films based on the techniques they use-realism and formalism. To begin with, the difference between realism and formalism is actually a war between contents and forms. Realism is based on fact which makes the audience feel that the story taken place in the film can be found in daily life. In other words, the audience believe that the story is true. To get this goal, film-makers usually wipe out the man-made part and record the natural scene. According to Dogme 95 (Reference 1), “Shooting must be done on location. Props and sets must not be brought in. Temporal and geographical alienation are forbidden.” Different from realism, formalism techniques mean that film-makers tend to choose some particular details from the complex daily lives and sometimes distort or stylize the facts in order to express the director’s subjective opinions. For formalism, form is far more important than content, and camera has its role in making comments on everything. It is a vital technique to emphasize the inner essence rather than the outer fact. There are a lot of manipulative and stylized parts in formalism film. As a matter of fact, most films stand between the two. On the one hand they show the true fact. On the other hand, stylized processing techniques are used in these films to clarify the director’s subjective opinions. While The Bicycle Thieves, as a masterpiece of realism films is really worth watching and analyzing. This film is a famous representative work of Vittorio De Sica who is a well-known character in Italian Neo-Realism movement after World WarⅡ. The story in the film was set in Roman after the Second World War. Both of the two main leading roles in the film were chosen from nonprofessional actors. And at that time Roman was devastated. Its infrastructure, political institutions and social services had to be rebuilt immediately. The hero in this film named Ricci who defeated dozens of competitors and won a work chance to put up posters for a company. However before getting this job, he must possess a bicycle. Therefore, he and his wife decided to sell some of their daily necessities to get some money in order to buy a bicycle. With the new bicycle, Ricci got this valuable job. And with this valuable job, he could get a respectable income. All his families were looking forward their happy new life. Surprisingly, on the first day of getting his valuable job, Ricci’s new bicycle was taken away by bicycle thieves. Then, Ricci and his son started looking for their bicycle in every bicycle market. Although they tried hard, they could not find the bicycle anymore. Losing the bicycle means losing the valuable job. With so much disappointed experience, Ricci got desperate and decided to steal a bicycle instead of going on looking for his own bicycle. But he was not that lucky, when he tried to steal the bicycle, he was caught by the bicycle’s owner and his friends. We can fell Ricci’s desperation and the son’s sadness when we saw that Ricci was caught in front of his son. His son was shocked and burst into tears. In the end of the film, both of the father and the son were desperate toward life and with tears in their eyes. In this film, the director uses realism techniques to show the hard lives of ordinary people in Roman city after World WarⅡ. Through this film, the audience can know the living conditions of Italy at that time quite well. According to CineCollage (Reference 1), “Italian neorealism is a style of film characterized by stories set among the poor and working class, filmed on location, frequently using nonprofessional actors.” As one of the most famous representative film of Italian Neo-Realism, The Bicycle Thieves has great effects on the following film art form. The use of realism techniques can be concluded in the follow aspects. Firstly, it is the first time to choose unprofessional actors to act as the leading role. No one else has ever done it before. Such innovation is really a remarkable breakthrough of Italian Neo-Realism films. “Italian neorealism is a style of film characterized by stories set among the poor and working class, filmed on location, frequently using nonprofessional actors.” The mixture of professional and unprofessional actors has special effects on the film. On the one hand, these actors can learn from each other and the interactions between these actors bring a kind of authenticity to the film. This kind of authenticity combines real life and art form together. Thereby, audience can easily find the theatricality from the real life. On the other hand, many dialogues in the film are made impromptu by these nonprofessional actors according to their own life experience. Thereby, we can draw a conclusion that, The Bicycle Thieves may belong to realism spectrum. |
