Twelfth Night is the end of Shakespeare's early comedy creation. The purpose of story creation is to make everyone happy during the festival, no matter whether the story development is reasonable or not, whether the character is too exaggerated. As long as the plot looks happy, it is enough to have a happy ending.
Anthropologically speaking, people can be divided into daily state and holiday state in emotional expression. During the festival, people's desire for perfect love will be stronger, and Shakespeare probably wrote this love comedy based on this psychology.
Because I saw the online drama "Huainan Orange Secret Love" that mentioned this work, I especially turned to watch it.
In the fourth episode, Sheng Huainan talked with Luo Zhi about the play during the rehearsal.
Prosperous Huainan: The Story of Twelve Nights.
Luo Zhi: Shakespeare's classic. Don't tell the story if it is too long.
Sheng Huainan: Tell me something about the head office. It's popular.
Luo Zhi: A girl disguised as a man became the duke's attendant and fell in love with him. The duke asked the girl to name her favorite rich girl, but the rich girl did not fall in love with the duke, but fell in love with a servant disguised as a man. -Luo Zhi didn't say, at the end of the story, everyone is happy, jack shall have Jill, everyone found their own home. Because at this time, she also fell in love with the Duke of Huainan, just like the squire disguised as a man, but Luo Zhi didn't know whether she would get what she wanted like the people in the story, so she stopped here.
At this time, I didn't know that Shakespeare had such a play, but I didn't care too much-Sheng Huainan should be glad that it was Luo Zhi who spoke. If it is Ye or anyone else, I can only answer: I have never seen it.
In the fifth episode, Luo Zhi and Sheng Huainan confronted Taiwan. Luo Zhi plays the squire Viola disguised as a man, and Sheng Huainan plays the Duke Ossino.
With the lines, Luo Zhi's emotions burst into Viola's silent love for the Duke, with a gentle but tenacious tone. At this time, I don't know whether it's Luo Zhi's performance or Zhu Yanmanzi's performance. I'm completely absorbed in powder. Luo Zhi's deep-rooted secret love blends with Viola's secret love for the Duke, telling a lifelong regret. Unwilling to touch and painful scars fill the screen. At this time, Luo Zhi and Viola bloom in the picture through time and space, and their eyes are infinitely affectionate and sad.
I stopped the TV play and watched Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. The story is not long, it can be read soon, and many minor scenes need readers' brains. I still feel a little unaccustomed to watching Shakespeare's plays, whether it is the way of wording and sentence making in the characters' language or the scene switching. After all, drama is not as convenient as reading ordinary romance novels. But on second thought, it seems very interesting if it is adapted into a romantic drama in ancient costume. Silently began to fill in the actors and scenes inside.
Film adaptation, after all, is the script of scenic spots, and naturally there are many versions. Because of the age, only the Soviet version 1955 and the British version 1996 were found.
1955 Soviet version of the film, the age is too long, the color version of the picture quality is heartbreaking, so I can only watch the black and white version silently. The film restores Shakespeare's script very well, and the dialogue between characters is basically the same as the novel I read, but the order of different characters' appearance before and after is slightly adjusted, which can be regarded as almost 100% restoration. The absurd and funny scenes in the story are vividly portrayed. I was deeply impressed by both the leading role and the supporting role, but Viola's passion for the Duke of Ossino didn't show at all.
The movie version of 1996 is obviously closer to the expression of modern movies in terms of lens scheduling and plot design, especially Viola's fiery emotions are more intuitive. The most classic scene of Viola bathing Ossino, the formality and intimacy between them, also appeared in the movie "Dialogue between Luo Zhi and Sheng Huainan on Love between Men and Women". Zhu Yanmanzi's performance in the play should be close to this version of the Viola.
In this era when film and television resources are particularly developed, I have seen many stories similar to Twelfth Night, but I don't have as many smiles about the feelings between the protagonists as Sir Toby does in the stories.
Throughout the whole play, it seems that the silly Sir Toby is the biggest winner, just like the second generation of Cheng. I didn't pay Malfurion, the housekeeper, the right reward, so I instigated Fabian and Maria, who were equally stupid, to use Malfurion's greed to successfully get Malfurion into the dark room, get Malfurion into the dark room, and marry Maria by the way, on the pretext of shame in my heart; If you want someone to drink, cheer up stupid Andrew. Andrew not only became a drinking buddy, but also sometimes helped to give money. After all, Sir Toby is Olivia's uncle. In his spare time, he began to instigate Andrew and Viola to duel, and then both sides expressed how strong the other side was, and he successfully earned a horse in Andrew's place. If Toby has more business sense, he can also cheat some money in Viola. In that era when communication was mainly based on shouting and walking was mainly based on walking, it was obviously feasible to use this unequal resource to earn a huge price difference. And if Andrew and Olivia are together, people on Duke Ossino's side are unlikely to have much communication with Olivia in the future; If Olivia is with someone else, Andrew will go to his own place, and no one will find such an opportunistic thing. How can Toby be the biggest beneficiary of the story?