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Chapter 452 The Soul of Jazz

Closing his eyes weakened Gao Shuang's perception a lot, and he took anti-sickness medicine when he came out, and the symptoms of seasickness were much better at this time.

As the attention gradually shifted to the performance, the uncomfortable feeling became a little bit lighter.

The repertoire he plays now has no title, basically based on the "Nocturne" series.

After all, he is most familiar with the piano pieces in the Nocturne series.

In a general sense, his random performance based on a certain tune already belongs to the category of jazz.

In fact, "The Pianist on the Sea" itself is a genre film at the core of jazz.

The so-called genre movies are movie categories derived from a certain industry or art category as the core of creation.

Earth's history has had several genre films with far-reaching art styles.

1988's "Cinema Paradiso" tells a story set against the background of film and film history.

In 1990, "Family Journey" was based on an opera.

The story of "The Pianist on the Sea" in 1999 is based on music, to be precise, the background of piano and jazz.

The biggest characteristic of jazz is improvisation and casualness!
If you want to play freely with your mood, it requires extremely high talent and skills of the performer.

Gao Shuang at this moment is like the one in the movie when he played the piano for the first time in 1900.

Gradually, his attention became more and more concentrated, he seemed to have forgotten his physical discomfort, and he became more and more devoted to playing.

The limit badge that no one could see on his chest actually shone faintly.

It's just that the light was on for a very short time, and then quickly disappeared in an instant.

The boat was extremely quiet at night, and the movement made by Gao Shuang soon attracted the attention of many people.

The first person to appear in the banquet hall was quite surprising. It turned out to be Mr. Zhou who taught Wu Hao the trumpet.

She was obviously in good condition and did not experience seasickness. At this moment, she leaned lightly on the door frame and did not make any sound.

The person who appeared after him was Wu Hao who was afraid of Teacher Zhou like a snake.

When he saw Mr. Zhou at the door, he subconsciously paused for a moment, but he quickly moved over and occupied the most prominent position at the door.

Teacher Zhou raised his eyes and glanced at him, then turned his gaze back to Gao Shuang who was playing.

More and more people on the boat were attracted by the sound of the piano and gathered here.

Everyone's reactions were surprisingly similar. They quietly stopped to watch at the open door, and no one made a sound.

Gao Shuang kept his eyes closed all the time, and under his high concentration, he didn't notice what was happening around him!
His fingers danced quickly, but the images in the movie flashed in his mind.

A child in shabby clothes and with a dirty face was sitting in front of the piano, his immature hands gently touching the keys, and the grand piano sang a soft and moving tune.

At this moment, Gao Shuang felt that he was integrated with the little boy!
The picture in his mind continued. When the captain told the boy that he violated the rules by playing the piano without authorization, 1900 blurted out contemptuously: "What rules are you going to fuck him?"

"Fuck the regulations."

Although the language seems vulgar, it clearly reveals the essence of jazz!
Fuck the rules!

Due to Gao Shuang's thoughts, his wrists fluttered, and the speed of playing became a little faster!

The piano music gradually moved closer to a cheerful and enthusiastic atmosphere, completely breaking away from the framework of the nocturne tone, and completely letting go.

The picture in my mind also quickly switched to another clip in the movie.

In the movie, an Italian guest wishes to hear tarantella.

However, this dance music is not a genre familiar to 1900...

So he asked the guest to do a simple demonstration rhythm.

Tarantella is a kind of dance music originating from Italian folk, which has a strong shamanic style.

According to the legend after the fifteenth century, people who are bitten by a poisonous spider "Tarantula" must dance violently to be saved, and Tarantula originated from this.

Another theory is that the dance got its name from the city of Taranto in southern Italy.

It is characterized by 3/8 beats or 6/8 beats, and is emotionally active. It is accompanied by tambourines and castanets when dancing. The music has the characteristics of perpetual music, similar to Courant and Kiger.

After the mid-nineteenth century, composers such as Chopin and Liszt used tarantella to create instrumental solos.

The last passage of Tchaikovsky's "Italian Capriccio" also has the genre characteristics of Tarantella.

After simply listening to a demonstration, 1900 immediately grasped the essence, and then played a warm and unrestrained Tarantella.

Although the amazing jazz playing ability in the movie is a bit exaggerated, Gao Shuang is perfectly reproducing it at the moment.

He did not completely imitate the performance of 1900 in his mind, but re-deconstructed Tarantella based on his own understanding and experience, and then reproduced it in the jazziest way.

In the process of playing, Gao Shuang became more and more handy and awe-inspiring!

This kind of awe is not only the awe of the music, but also the awe of the Italian composer Ennio Morricone who created all the original soundtracks of "Sea Pianist"!

"The Pianist on the Sea" won the 57th Golden Globe Award for Best Music Award on Earth, but it did not win any Oscar music awards.

Morricone's soundtrack in the film is a new peak he has set in front of film composers all over the world!
In some ways, he even went beyond his own limits.

Americans don't understand the heights, depths, and difficulty of the film's music.

If you analyze the relationship between music and audio elements, you will find that the recording and synthesis of "Sea Pianist" is very difficult, far exceeding the average music movie.

Such an innovative and pioneering film in terms of art and technology, but the Oscars on earth, which everyone expects, turned a blind eye to it and turned a deaf ear to it. This kind of operation is really incredible.

Gao Shuang privately thought that this might be the reason why Oscar became more and more depraved.

The scene cut back to reality, and the crew watching on the boat seemed to have experienced this intense emotional outburst, and the crowd gradually became restless from the initial tranquility.

Standing at the front, Wu Hao even had the urge to dance to the music.

However, he was quite self-aware, so he forcibly held back and didn't jump out to make a fool of himself at such a time.

I don't know whether it was intentional or unintentional, when his arm was waving naturally, it gently touched the warmth beside him.

The passion that had boiled up had nowhere to vent, but it faintly aroused his courage.

While staring at Gao Shuang intently, he quickly grabbed Teacher Zhou's catkin!
In an instant, Wu Hao's heart almost jumped to his throat, his whole body was stiff, and cold sweat broke out on his back.

However, his hand was still in a grasping motion, without moving an inch!

Die or die!

Wu Hao murmured to himself in a low, inaudible voice like chanting sutras.

However, this apprehension didn't last long, and it quickly turned into ecstasy!

Teacher Zhou seemed unaware of Wu Hao's presumptuousness, and just let Wu Hao hold hands without any resistance or other actions.

There was just a faint smile on the corner of his mouth.

"I'm going to get the camera!"

Standing beside Wu Hao, Zhao Daquan whispered to the people around him.

The people around him consciously gave way to Zhao Daquan.

Zhao Daquan rushed to the room where the equipment was stored.

Gao Shuang seemed to be completely immersed in his own world, and the surrounding noises did not affect him at all.

He played this piece unrestrainedly and naturally, turning into waves, wind, and even the Virginia itself!

The last note was struck in the cheerful rhythm, and the banquet hall returned to silence.

But the silence lasted only for a moment, and there was loud applause at the door!
Gao Shuang opened his eyes in surprise, and looked in the direction of the applause.

"How long have you been here?"

Gao Shuang smiled and asked everyone.

Wu Hao who was holding Teacher Zhou's hand was the most embarrassing of them all.

After all, he stood in the most central position, did not applaud, and was still doing invisible things under his hands.

When Gao Shuang asked, he replied with a guilty conscience: "It's been a while, we came here when Director Gao just started playing."

Gao Shuang didn't notice Wu Hao's small movements.

He feels that his condition has never been better!

My head is no longer dizzy, my feet are no longer weak, and even the uncomfortable feeling in my stomach is gone.

Gao Shuang looked past Wu Hao and looked at the crowd behind.

Although the light is not good, you can vaguely see the dark heads of people. It is roughly estimated that about half of the people on the boat are concentrated here.

Taking advantage of his high interest, he smiled and waved to the crowd and said, "Come in! The filming starts tomorrow and it's up to everyone! Let's liven up the atmosphere at the dance party first!"

"it is good!!!"

Amidst the cheers, someone asked with concern: "Is Gao Dao getting better from seasickness?"

Gao Shuang laughed and played a cheerful arpeggio when he heard this: "It's no problem anymore!"

There were more foreigners among the actors, and the actors who had been aroused for a long time poured into the banquet hall one after another.

Lu Jiu even turned on the switch of the banquet hall, and the whole place was illuminated by warm lights!

Gao Shuang was surprised to find that many actors who came over were wearing costumes.

Maybe because I had nothing to do at night, I took out the costumes given by the costume sister to try them on, and didn't change them when I came over.

The cross-mixing of clothing from the 21st century and the early [-]th century has brought a different kind of harmony.

Gao Shuang consciously assumed the role of the atmosphere group after the lights came on, and the bright music came out from his hands again.

He didn't choose the repertoire deliberately, but used jazz to interpret everyone he saw, showing completely different character characteristics through different music styles!
As his gaze moves to a freelance actress playing a gorgeous woman, the music's unmistakable gypsy presence speaks volumes about her elegance, as well as where she seems to come from.

When he looked at Zhao Daquan, who was walking around the field with the camera in his arms, his style changed again. As the elastic and tense tango rhythm cut in, everyone saw an image of excited discovery for joy.

The actors cheered and joined the atmosphere of the dance party, and many of them stepped onto the dance floor of the banquet hall in pairs, dancing beside Gao Shuang.

One of the couple danced jerkyly, making Gao Shuang's eyes almost pop out.

Wu Hao clumsily hugged Teacher Zhou's waist, and his eyes met with affection.

The music oscillates between warm and eerie, and the strange mode of tearing makes many people tremble subconsciously.

Gao Shuang quickly looked away, and the piano style eased down.

In the warm atmosphere, he vaguely felt that he had captured the essence of 1900 through jazz at this moment!
He even feels that, in a sense, 1900 is the embodiment of jazz! ! !
Raised black in an immigrant environment full of Europeans, Americans, Asians and blacks.

Growing up at the bottom, inspired by ragtime and the blues, the self-taught 1900 liked to improvise on the piano.

More and more thoughts came together, making Gao Shuang's heart more enlightened!
Just imagine, if all of these are symbols and metaphors, what does that mean?
That means, "1900" might not be human at all!
He is actually the anthropomorphic image of jazz! ! !

This story is not at all the legendary life of a virtual artist. This movie tells the whole history of jazz being born from the bottom, popular when it was brilliant, and finally falling!

There is a narration in the movie that describes 1900 like this: "He has no nationality, no birthday, and no home."

Just like jazz, it has no nationality, no birthday, and no home. It is a great music born in a brothel!

Everyone knows the ending of jazz and era movies, 1900 chose to explode with the giant ship, and his body was smashed to pieces.

Most people interpret this as the self-destruction of a genius.

But in the eyes of Gao Shuang at the moment, this is not the case.

With a little calculation, we can know that the time when the ship exploded was about the time when American jazz was declining on earth, in the middle of the twentieth century.

And this giant steamship floating on the sea is actually a symbol of the age of great navigation under the frenzy of immigration in the early [-]th century.

In 1900, this symbolized the existence of jazz. Even in the era of jazz decline, he did not choose to "disembark", even though there was love, money, and a wider world on land.

He chose to be destroyed together with the giant ship that symbolizes the era of great navigation, which actually means: it is not that the new era has abandoned jazz, but jazz has voluntarily abandoned the new era.

Jazz is unwilling to change. Even if it will eventually decline and return to dust, it must stick to its pursuit.

The scene of 1900 planning to disembark is a decision: Do you want to change yourself and move towards a broader new era?

The answer is "no"!
In this movie, the past and present of jazz are expressed through the perspective of 1900!

At the bottom of society, blacks taught themselves instruments that belonged to whites, but used them to play their own music.

This kind of wonderful fusion attracted white people in the upper class of society, so whether it was black people in slums or white people in high-end clubs, they all fell in love with jazz obsessively.

Times have changed too fast, and within a few years, public preferences have changed, and jazz has become less and less popular.

But even if it dies, jazz still insists on its pursuit.

So, "jazz" died along with that "era".

At the end of the movie, the best friend of 1900, the trumpet player Max, took the outdated Conn trumpet, regained the broken record of 1900, and disappeared in the smog of the industrial age.

Many people felt desolate, but Gao Shuang felt a kind of hope in it.

Because although the body of jazz is dead, the soul of jazz has survived!

On that broken record, in that bizarre story, in that battered trumpet.

Although small, although unknown, those who love him will love him forever.

People who have inherited the soul of jazz are still willing to continue playing three thousand chords for this! ! !
(End of this chapter)