1、My favorite movieThe legend of 19001105020083 陈依凡,The Legend of 1900,Start of this movie,Max Toone, a musician, enters a secondhand music shop just before closing time, broke and badly in need of money. He has only a Conn .He asks to play it one last time. The shopkeeper agrees, and as the musician
2、plays, the shopkeeper immediately recognizes the song from a broken record matrix he found inside a recently acquired secondhand piano. He asks who the piece is by, and Max tells him the story of 1900.,1900 was found abandoned on the four stacker SS Virginian, a baby in a box, and likely the son of
3、poor immigrants from steerage. Danny, a coal-man from the boiler room, is determined to raise the boy as his own. He names the boy Danny Boodman T. D. Lemon 1900,The early years of his life, 1900,Sadly, a few years later,Danny is killed in a workplaceaccident, and 1900 is forced to survive aboard th
4、e Virginian as an orphan.,The boy shows a particular gift for music and eventually grows up and joins the ships orchestra,He befriends Max in 1927, but never leaves the vessel,His reputation as a pianist is so renowned that Jelly Roll Morton, of New Orleanjazz fame, on hearing of 1900s skill comes a
5、board to challenge him to a piano duel.,Of course, 1900 won,A record producer, having heard of 1900s prowess, brings a primitive recording apparatus aboard and cuts a demo record of a 1900 original composition. The recorded music is created by 1900 as he gazes at a woman (The Girl) who has just boar
6、ded and whom he finds attractive.,He then tries to give the master to The Girl who inspired it, but is unable to and breaks the matrix into pieces.,1900 was just going to step to the land,but finally, he didnt,The story flashes back to the mid-1940s periodically,Max (who leaves the ships orchestra i
7、n 1933) trying to lure 1900 out of the now-deserted hull of the ship. Having served as a hospital ship and transport in World War II, she is scheduled to be scuttled and sunk far offshore.,Max attempts to convince 1900 to leave the ship but failed. In the end, the Virginian blows up and sinks, with
8、1900 still aboard. Maxfeels useless that he couldnt save his friend,A good story is worth more than an old trumpet,Cavell comment: I was totally touched by the perfect design. I really enjoy the piano music played by 1900.For me ,the music is like the masterpiece of heaven.,1.It wasnt what I saw that stopped me, Max, it was what I didnt see. Do you understand that? What I didnt see.,Classic lines,2.Land? Land is a ship too big for me. Its a woman too beautiful, its a voyage too long, a perfume too strong, its music I dont know how to make., ,
