短片《红气球》由阿尔波特·拉莫里斯导演,讲述了一个小男孩儿与一个红气球的故事。红气球显然意有所指,他可以是伞下人与人之间心底的一抹善意,可以是小男孩儿一颗赤诚的童心,导演用较为戏剧化的手法突出红气球,展现了红气球的“魔力”,一时之间,法国的街头竟像个童话世界,而短片中的场景,也向我们展示了一个浪漫美丽的法国街巷。镜头跟随着气球和小男孩儿的脚步穿梭于街头各个美丽的角落,带我们领略了另一种法式风情。
值得一提的是,短片中优美的配乐,当红气球飘荡在美丽的法国街头时,悠扬的提琴声响起,极富西方魅力的乐器强化了短片的时代特色,也放松了人们的心神,让人跟着镜头的移动领略法国的街头风光。而当戏剧冲突出现时,如小男孩儿被围住,音乐变得起伏,富有强烈的节奏感,鼓点伴随着急促的脚步声,让观众变得身临其境,为小男孩紧张着急。这不断变化的音乐风格,不仅贴合了影片上声音元素需要,更完美弥补了无人物台词的缺憾,小男孩的心声和情绪都通过音乐完美的展现了出来。
同时,影片中的色彩也独具匠心,红色象征着勇敢热忱的心,而气球则充满童趣的意味。在周围环境都是冷色调的条件下,红色的气球穿梭其中,变得格外显眼。小男孩儿素净的衣裳也象征着他内心的纯洁无瑕。当小男孩抓住大把大把飞来的五颜六色的气球时,这些不同的鲜艳的色彩包裹着他,透过五颜六色但半透明的气球,可以看到他的小脸,此时的色彩既象征着男孩自我内心缤纷的心情,更强化了环境与世界的丰富色彩,正包裹着他,让他远离灰暗的敌意,飞向五颜六色的天空。
NO LANDMARKS The Red Balloon, took place in Paris, uses no typical symbolic meanings of this city. All the scenes that appear in this film do attach to the story, and never remind people purposely where the story took place. Looking back on the plot, it doesn’t differ the Parisian children from those from other places, it tries to touch everyone by presenting the innocence of a boy with no special characteristics so that all the people can find themselves in his image, and that’s why it is unnecessary to show landmarks of Paris. SPACE AND TIME STRUCTURE OF THE FILM If a map is made to describe this film, in the middle of it would be the stairs. Downstairs would lie the civilized world, which contains the city, streets and buses, shops and railways, and the school. Upstairs would be another world, the forgotten part of the city, the slums. It can be supposed that the boy’s home lies close to the stairs in the up side according to the movie. To draw a conclusion to the map, there are three important locations on it, the stairs and the boy’s home in the middle, school at one end and the deserted land where balloon dies on the other. The Red Balloon tells a story about the friendship between a little boy and a human-liked balloon, and it can be divided into three main parts.. The main part carrying the theme of the film is about the friendship between boy and balloon, and this is the poetry in the film. Apart from friendship are conflicts, dramatic parts of the film. Conflicts between the boy and the civilized society, for example the bus, the school and most importantly the headmaster, supports the first 18 minutes. Wild children leading the balloon to its fatal destiny support the plots in the last 12 minutes. The three types of scenes can be accurately attached to the three parts of the film. THE LINEAR SPACE AND ITS SYMBOLIC MEANINGS In the first 18 minutes the story takes place in the civilized space, and in the rest 12 minutes the deserted land becomes the stage, besides, there is a transition between them and appeared on the screen for 5 times, the stairs. With the map the audience and see that the film starts in the middle, the stairs, and then shifts between home and school, and then gradually turns to the other side of the map, upstairs, at the end of the film the boy flies highly above the whole map. There is no flash back in this film, nor narration interposed. The timeline of the film is linear. Different scenes correspond to their unique situation, and as a result to it, the spacial structure follows the timeline to be linear, which means one scene carries a pure effect on building a simple atmosphere and doesn’t have conflicting symbolic meanings. For example, the school means oppression to a child’s nature, and the deserted land means wildness to destroy a child’s innocence. With the path of the main character on the map and symbolic meanings of each location, an explanation to the film can be drawn. Human beings are born to have two conflicting identities, one relates to animal instincts, the deserted land, and one relates to social moral, the school. The boy was born just in between, behind the up side of the stairs, way of civilization. It was when the boy stepped downstairs that he found the balloon, beauty and kindness. However, highly civilized people are far from their original nature, so the balloon is not welcomed on the bus and in the school. When the boy ran away from the cathedral, he took the balloon to the wild field and went free from the sanction of adults and school, he experienced real happiness and freedom, but the wild children had waited to kill the balloon for long. Animal instincts also don’t welcome the balloon, and furthermore, they kill. This is a way to understand the film, making it like a serious fable of human civilization. Similarly, it can explain how a person grows to maturity. Obviously there are much more ways for the audience to find to understand this film, among which the most simple one can be that it is a cute film focusing on children as audiences.
这正是巴赞笔下典型的“故事的影像”,以此与“影像讲述的故事”相区分,因为它没有使用蒙太奇的潜在延伸意义来制造幻象,而是依靠长镜头严守了事件的空间统一性,这时影片中的现实脱离了对所暗示虚构时间的想象性再现,使其成为风格统一的“真迹”,而非精美的“赝品”。在这种情况下一切特技都是允许使用的,观众在明确知道事件是经过特技处理的前提下,还能深信其真实性。正如电影中所描绘的童话般幻境,它赋予了非生物以动物的性态,却又借助这一非生命意象将我们引向现实,最终达到了真实性与想象性融为一体的状态——仅从电影摄影本体论层面解释它是符合一切审美与叙事标准的,恰恰由于它没有使用任何电影技法,才使其具备了虚构的真实性,它是纯粹的故事所衍生出的影像,而不是由影像向我们灌输的故事。正因此每个人都能看到属于自己的那一个气球
太好了!!!导演没什么野心,没有强烈的表达欲探讨欲说教欲,只有平和的心态和真正的热爱。
恶童遍地走,气球满天飞,此中有真意,欲辩已忘言。
太美好了!全程惊奇地张大眼睛看六十年代的巴黎和现在有什么区别。房子风格没有变,蒙马特的面包店也一直在那里,只是街上的车变了。从前的小轿车真美啊。我总觉得巴黎的屋顶不够美,灰灰的,和鸽子一个颜色,入了冬就显得萧索。一只吸睛的红气球握在孩子手中,基调为之改变。您能为我的气球撑个伞吗?
题外话:看完这个我更害怕气球了 = =
天啊原来“飞屋历险记”是抄它!奇幻动人的想象,鲜艳调皮的红气球就像一道光照亮了二战后百废待兴的巴黎。小盆友的笑容快把我的心给融化了...
1956戛纳短片金棕榈。1.击败费费[大路],唯一获奥斯卡原创剧本的短片。2.通过长镜头与深焦摄影维持空间完整性,使观众忽略特技的存在(细线操纵),让活泼顽皮又不失乖巧的拟人气球形象跃然屏上。3.灰暗阴晦的巴黎街道与色彩鲜艳的气球对比,现实vs梦想。4.气球破损慢镜与[飞屋环游记]结尾。(8.5/10)
内容完全不同于那部同名的中国动画,最后的高潮让人叹服。只是想吐槽的是:帕斯克君,你怎么扔下朋友的尸体跟着其他新欢走了呐……(毫无疑问每个气球都是有独立人格的,红气球中途还想把妹还是吊凯子来着,对了,它的性别是男是女?)
法国人的脉脉温情
可惜他最后没有再回头看看那个死去的红气球。
1957年奥斯卡最佳原创剧本奖项、英国电影和电视艺术学院特别奖、1956年戛纳国际电影节金棕榈最佳短片奖、1956年路易德吕克奖。
永远不要怀疑孩子纯真的梦想,虽然它们有时是那么不可思议
饲养红气球作为宠物的男孩,聪明的红气球恰如童年的梦,那刻意和街景分割开来的颜色将童年隔离开了。一帮坏孩子就是想将气球处以极刑,本以为最后气球们会来复仇,看着地上红气球的尸体觉得气愤(那孩子忘得太快了),不过再一想,和孩子们发什么火呢?
真好!!!我也想变成一只红气球,在孤单的童年里陪伴你。而我要是你,全巴黎的气球我都不要,我只要那个调皮的会跟我捉迷藏的小红气球。童话结局圆满,但又如此忧伤。坏孩子永远存在,心爱之物永远要被凶恶的敌人夺走。我们每个人的童年都承受了太多太多超过负荷的苦难。
童趣
会飞不会叫的狗~
居然也忘了这部,最近出了导演的白鬃野马才想起来,一生只有三部作品,英年早逝。ps,最近的版重新修复,画面无比醉人
看这片子让我想起小王子,唏嘘不已,感动不已。不知艺术是否总在早期时才更加认真深刻,五十年代的片子到现在都难得有人堪比。
短短34分钟里的特效、色彩、音乐、剧情、想象力,充分征服我。而当我知道是56年出品的作品时,则更加惊叹不已。每一段陪伴都弥足珍贵。
童真,自由,有魔力的红气球。结尾太美,不知道《飞屋环游记》的灵感来源是不是这里。