Burning is an exceptional film, earning the highest rating in the history of the Cannes Film Festival's program, 3.8 out of 4, and a long overdue honor for Korean cinema at European festivals. Critics and the general public are rarely on the same page in terms of aesthetics and taste, so it's not surprising that "Burning" has received polarizing reviews.
The reason for this list of favorite dance sequences in the movie is also because of the breathtakingly beautiful African Bush solo dance by the female lead in Burning, which is an all-time classic.
Megumi walked into the champagne-colored dusk, in front of the empty field, the grass and autumn wind, she took off her shirt, indulged in self, quiet dance. In the melodious trumpet music, she slowly grasped her hands upward, is thirsty and pilgrimage; arms open, gliding in the wind, is free and sinking. Undulating and rotating, layers upon layers, like clouds rolling in and out, waves coming and going. Until you jump until you cover your face and faint in the field.
This poetic passage is a perfect expression of the theme of "existence" explored in the film, as she says: "For the Bushmen, there are two kinds of hungry people: little hunger and great hunger. Little hunger is people who are hungry in general; great hunger is people who are hungry for the meaning of life, why we live, what is the meaning of life, people who search for that kind of question all the time, they think that kind of people are really hungry people, call them great hunger."
The two kinds of hunger are frankly, one for survival, one for existence, and the other for the "class" theme. The difference in "class" is obvious. Another great dance that speaks to the difference in "class" is the Irish dance in the third class cabin of Titanic.
2, James Cameron's "Titanic", Irish dance
Poor boy Jack (or Leonardo, who is still a fan of the million people) with the end of the aristocratic young lady Ruth, from the boring aristocratic party to the third class, and the "lower class" with the dancing and revelry. The countryman's revelry, the countryman's music, the call to return to nature, the whole cabin seems to be filled with the joy of all living things. "I don't know this dance either, just follow it", the Jack of the hour, the Jack of the world, with Ruth spinning, shouting, throwing off the false veil of the aristocracy, returning to the simple human nature. Who couldn't love Leonardo at that time, who was full of spirit? Like an angel.
Men and women dancing is a very interesting thing, two people fit, the need for tacit understanding, but also to have a distance, which is related to morality, reputation, non-familiar with the dancers is really a problem. It's no wonder that the square dance lady accuses moncler outlet store her new dance partner of being a rotten tooth in the comedy works; the mature middle-aged people probably pay more attention to the reputation, the proportion is always in the heart, but also can do "hair on the feelings, stop at the courtesy".
3, Quentin Tarantino "Lowlife", swing dance
For example, another classic dance in movie history, "Lowlife" Travolta and the boss of the woman Uma Thurman in the bar swing dance. As a light-hearted American dance style, it has fast-paced rhythms paired with lazy, loose steps that were cool in pop culture at the time. In particular, the two men's spontaneous little moves in the movie were well-coordinated and fun to watch, making it an absolute delightful classic, and one that has been honored or parodied by later generations of film and television.
Because of the ambiguous nature of the dance itself, the dance partner is a gangster's woman, so the drama Travolta on the dance of this tacit understanding of the fear or embarrassment, dancing to get the trophy in the boss's home, how to explain? Thankfully, Uma Thurman's drug-induced coma leads the story elsewhere, or it would be a story.
4, Martin Bryce, "Smells like a woman", tango
Quentin's fun in the three religions and nine streams, relatively wild; corresponding to the upper class dance, on the elegance and wonderful, non-tango is none other than. In particular, the uncrowned king of the Argentine tango Carlos Gardel (Carlos Gardel) composed "Por Una Cabeza" is the most popular in the world, the classic never fails.
Classic movies such as "Smells Like a Woman", "Schindler's List", "True Lies" have used this tango, the most elegant and moving or "Smells" in the film, Al Pacino took the British girl dancing paragraph.
Accompanied by the gorgeous and noble tango song, the music from the lazy, soothing to minor key, sudden passionate, and then turned back to the soothing, melodious, violin and harmonica echoed the gradual silence until the end of the sound. With a gentleman's character and uncommon taste of the blind retired officer ShiFanLan, with the girl dance with the music, with the beat stroll, open and close, close; sometimes the pace of the lingering, sometimes open and gorgeous, the body dance, let a person see the life of the spirit of the movement and the wonderful, and every time to see to the touch.
5, John Woo's "Across the Four Seas", tango dance
John Woo shot "Across the Four Seas", but also arranged a tango dance, Leslie Cheung and Cherie Chung, a black dress of the brother and the skirt of the fragrant beauty, the dance floor, spinning, stride skidding, is the God stole the hand of the spring. A turn, guffaw, full of youthful pleasure, shining eye-catching in the crowd.
6, Choukou Masayuki "talk about love, dance", social dance
1996 Japan this "talk about love, dance" is a middle-aged people learn to dance interesting film. The story originated from a middle-aged man's "dream", nine-to-five office worker Sugiyama on the subway, see along the dance classroom window an elegant and fresh woman, and thus into the dance classroom, began to learn to dance the story of social dance.
This kind of dance originated from France, has an elegant and flamboyant core, the movement of flowery and repeated, open and close and full of unrestrained enthusiasm, is a kind of difficult dance, need more trust and tacit understanding between dancers. The most beautiful passage is the end of the film, Kusakari Minyo entered in a red dress, and Yakusho Hiroshi in the dance floor, spinning, skating, with confidence and pleasure, as the king of the dance floor.
In contrast, the neurotic Naoto Takenaka, in the film, flails and unleashes his nature, dancing a wild and uninhibited Latin dance, with flamboyant movements and a complete loss of the beauty of the dance. How small is the work, how crazy is the dance; how can middle-aged people who are worn out by life please themselves? This movie at least gives a good answer.
7, Iwai Shunji "Flower and Alice", ballet
The most moving passage of this film is not the flower and Alice to meet the strange and playful youthful fluttering, but also is not entangled with the senior "amnesia" game and the relationship between love and love, but the end of the film at the end of the 16-year-old Aoi You stunning history of a ballet.
The film's title is "The Dance of the Dance of the Dance".
Alice is auditioning to be a director for a commercial, and to show off her ballet talents, she uses a paper cup as a shoe, and dances solo in an empty room. Light into the room to form a dense, Alice wearing a uniform, plaid skirt, stockings, from the dense spin jump out; dance, she is like a white swan, playing in the light and shadow; stationary and like a clean plant, the world alone.
Inside and outside the screen, onlookers are looking silly. This is the magic of 16-year-old Aoi You, the sister next door, youthful and energetic, the beauty that is not stained with dust, the beauty that is within reach and out of reach, the beauty that we have never arrived at; no wonder that it has made generations of people sad and tearful.
8, Peng Fei "taste of rice flowers", Dai dance
"Taste of Rice Flowers" end of the film mother and daughter secretly sneak into the cave to dance in front of the Buddha, is a thrilling passage.
In the silence of the ages, there is light, there is water, the mother danced alone at the water's edge, and saw the animal spirits between the movements of the flamboyant style and charisma; the daughter to join in, the movement is consistent, echo each other, the shadow of the fluttering physique is reflected by the light in the stone wall, as if a thousand years of ancient frescoes on the stone wall, penetrating the time to meet the present moment; the mother and daughter dancing shadow and reflecting in the water, it seems to be into another dimension, the distortion of jumping! The mother and the daughter are superimposed on each other.
This is a dance that breaks time and space, the past and the present, the cave and the faraway place, intermingle here, the mother and daughter to complete the reconciliation, you have me and I have you.
There are two other favorite dancing-themed films, recommended for interested friends: British Stephen Dudley "Jump out of my world" (2000), the inspirational story of boys dancing ballet; Hong Kong Wong Hsiu-ping "Crazy Dancing Pie" (2013), to see the University Dancing Club fight dance PK, burning your heart.