What are the top ten classic movies that men must watch?

First, life is like a dream: American past course: life

Once upon a time in America contains everything a person can encounter in this world. Friendship, love, thinking,

Responsibility, conflict. More like a dream that people don't want to wake up. This dream begins when noodles lie on the bed and return to those lost years in the warm light and fuzzy telephone ringing. It was not until the last bowl of noodles finally smiled that we returned to our lives and continued those endless stories. No matter what gang or vendetta it is. I only remember a short-tempered teenager, watching a beautiful girl dance. Only one guilty brother goes to bed early every day; Only a white-haired old man, in the face of betrayed friendship, has a calm tone and is quiet. Once upon a time in America took you to a dream of three hours and forty-five minutes. Life is like a dream, which may be the only feeling.

This is one of Lionel's "American Trilogy", which is the image of America in the eyes of Italians in the 1920s and 1960s. The director changed the mode of traditional Hollywood westerns and created American underworld figures from a unique perspective.

Plot introduction:

In the United States in the 1920s, new york, nicknamed "Noodles", met the clever and cunning Max with several friends of the same age. They began to engage in smuggling. Soon, Noodles killed someone in a fight and was put in prison.

A few years later, Tiao was released from prison, and all his friends became mature and strong young people. Under the leadership of Max, they returned to their old jobs and started a series of robbery, theft and extortion activities. With the deepening of criminal activities, Max seems to be carried away by victory, and even includes the Federal Reserve Bank as the target of action.

Noodles who had been behind bars couldn't bear to watch their friends go to ruin, so they secretly called the police and tried to force Max to submit. The police had a fierce gun battle with Noodle's friends, and Max and others were all killed. Noodles, in extreme regret and pain, left the place where they grew up, and the girl they loved deeply moved away from home.

Decades later, the dying noodles returned to their hometown, only to find that everything was carefully planned by Max. He got rid of his accomplices with noodles and the police, but lost his shell and swallowed up the huge sum of money of the gang. After a makeover, he became a politician and a celebrity in high society. Max begged noodles to kill himself, fantasized about atonement, and was rejected by noodles. Max jumped into the garbage shredder in despair and committed suicide.

This film won two awards: Best Accompaniment and Best Costume Design from 1984, and was nominated for Best Director from 1985.

Second, Schindler's List Course: Responsibility

The so-called responsibility is something that you don't have to do, but you must do it. For Schindler, helping Jews in distress is a real human responsibility. As a Jewish artist, Spielberg has the responsibility to put this history on the screen. Schindler's list includes the memory of the victims, the respect for the rescuers, and the belief that the light will eventually come. After the film was released, Spielberg quietly donated all the proceeds of the film to the American Holocaust Memorial Hall.

Plot introduction:

Schindler's List truly reproduces the real historical event that German entrepreneur oskar schindler protected 1200 Jews from being killed by fascists during World War II.

German speculator Schindler is the Socialist Party (Nazi Party) party member. He is a lecherous and enjoys it. He is a famous local Nazi die-hard. He is good at using relationships to get the maximum benefit. Jews are the cheapest labor force in occupied Poland. So Schindler's factory only uses Jews. However, when these people got the job, they gained temporary security and were protected from slaughter as producers of war products. Schindler's factory became a refuge for Jews.

However, the Nazi's cruel persecution of Jews made Schindler more and more dissatisfied. 1943, Schindler's last fantasy about the Nazis was shattered by the cruel massacre of Krakow Jews. He knew the Nazi massacre of Jews and the horror of Auschwitz concentration camp. Since then, Schindler has only one idea, to protect Jews from Auschwitz's death as much as possible. He made a list of workers who claimed that the normal operation of the factory was "necessary" and bribed Nazi officials to survive. He is more and more suspected of violating racial laws, but every time he cleverly avoids persecution and risks his life to save Jews as always. When a train carrying his female workers staggered to Auschwitz, he also spent a lot of money to get them back to his factory.

Soon, the Soviet Red Army came to Krakow to announce the end of the war to the surviving Jews who worked in Schindler's factory. On a snowy night, Schindler bid farewell to the workers, and 1000 Jews were rescued to see him off.

They gave Schindler a signed testimony to prove that he was not a war criminal. At the same time, some people knocked out their gold teeth, made a gold ring and presented it to Schindler. The ring is engraved with a famous Jewish proverb: saving one life is equivalent to saving all mankind. Schindler was in tears, and he felt pain for not saving more Jews. Schindler has done everything he can to save himself. All his property was used to save the lives of Jews. In the snow, the Jews watched Schindler leave the city. His righteous behavior will always be remembered by Jews.

Comments:

The film Schindler's List is a blockbuster film made by Steven Allan Spielberg in 1993. The film profoundly exposed the terrorist crime of German fascism killing Jews, and became the most watched film in the world in 1994 with its high artistry. The seriousness and extraordinary artistic expression of his thoughts have reached an almost insurmountable depth. The film was released in the United States on 1993, 65438+February and 65438+May, which immediately caused a sensation. It won the Golden Globe Award for Best Film and Best Director, and the American Directors Association Award. At the 66th Academy Awards in 1994,

Schindler's List won six awards, including best film, best director, best adapted screenplay, best artistic direction, best cinematography and best film editing. This is well-deserved for the achievements of the film. Steven Allan Spielberg won the Oscar for Best Director for the first time. This is a belated affirmation of his talent.

In the process of filming, Steven Allan Spielberg devoted great energy and enthusiasm. In fact, the editing rights and production rights of the film were bought as early as 1982. But it was not until 10 years later that the shooting plan was really implemented. In order to make this film, Spielberg gave up his usual movie stunts for the first time and refused to invite Hollywood stars to star in it. Instead, I collected a lot of relevant materials, invited the survivors of the concentration camp to be deputy directors, and invited the Jews rescued by Schindler to be film consultants. Spielberg spent $23 million to complete the three-hour 15-minute film, and refused to pay the fee, donating all his personal income to the American Holocaust Museum.

As a Jew, it is Spielberg's long-cherished wish to make such a film. Although the film Schindler's List is mainly black and white photography, its production scale is no less than that of any large-scale color film.

The movie * * * has 126 characters and 30,000 extras participate in the performance. The plot of the film is touching, the momentum is tragic, and the documentary shooting method with black and white photography as the main tone makes the film have extremely real effects, touching and thought-provoking. The use of film language in the film is excellent. There is a red scene in the performance of the tragic experience of Jews. In the scene where the stormtroopers slaughtered Jews, the little girl in red formed a very strong contrast with the picture, which produced a visual effect with great artistic impact. When the little girl appeared again, she was already a corpse on the corpse transport car. This therapy is classic. At the same time, it also points out the influence on the protagonist's mind. For Schindler, this little girl represents all the Jewish misfortunes he has seen and the changes that have taken place in his heart. The profound connotation and artistic value of this shot are enough to go down in history. Its artistry has reached a classic status.

When the movie went on until the Jews were free from the concentration camp, the screen suddenly lit up with bright colors. The application of this obvious film language skill has played an excellent role. From dull black and white to rich natural colors, it vividly shows people's cheerful mood after lifting the danger of death and regaining freedom. At this moment, almost every audience can't help applauding. This is not only a relief for Jews after their freedom, but also the highest appreciation for director Spielberg's secret work. The ending of the film also has its touching artistic charm. It reflects the Jews' infinite respect for Schindler, and at the same time makes the film have the artistic effect of reviewing history and making people think deeply, which greatly expands the performance space of the film.

Schindler's List will exist as an eternal glory in the film history, and it is a classic in the film history. Steven Allan Spielberg's name will also be associated with this film and will be passed down forever.

Three The Shawshank Redemption Courses: Faith.

"There is a kind of bird that can never be caged, because every wing of it is covered with the glory of freedom." What kind of spiritual strength is it that a person can live in a painful prison for fifteen years without giving up his yearning for freedom? So he succeeded and regained his freedom. There is a saying in The Shawshank Redemption: Institutionalization is such a thing. At first you reject it, then you get used to it, and finally you can't live without it. Think about it, how much of our bodies are institutionalized?

Industrialist Andy was wrongly convicted of killing his wife and serving time. In Shark Bone Prison, where villains are rampant, Andy relies on wisdom to survive, and gradually wins the trust of the warden and the love of the inmates around him. However, his ability to handle tax returns was exchanged for the warden's determination to put him in prison forever.

Plot introduction:

After 20 years of unfair career behind bars, Andy's only hope is behind the big poster on the cell wall!

The iron gate of Shawshank prison opened. An old black prisoner in an ugly old suit came out and stood at the door. He looked around subconsciously. In the bright sunshine, everything is so deja vu and everything is so fresh. He hesitated, helped the hat on his head, grabbed the broken suitcase and walked towards the strange freedom.

This is a prisoner who has been imprisoned for 40 years. He has long been disappointed in his freedom. He lives comfortably in prison and many people need him. It takes a lot of courage to go out from here, because he has no place in real life, he is an outsider, because he is institutionalized by the prison. This is a nearly perfect prisoner image, a performance realm created by Morgan Freeman.

Four Apocalypse Now Courses: Pain.

War is a kind of destruction of order. The saddest and most painful thing in the world is war, and the most painful war movie is Apocalypse Now. Apocalypse Now is about the retrogression of human nature and the destruction of order. But nobody can stop the progress of civilization.

Plot introduction:

During the Vietnam War, Captain Wilder, an American intelligence officer, was ordered to get rid of Colonel Courths, an American soldier who defected "without mercy". After receiving the order, Wilder led a small team and ventured into Cambodia by boat.

In a remote tropical jungle, the deranged Colonel Courths ruled the local aborigines with his bloodthirsty brutality and became a totem of their blind worship and superstition. When the ship sailed into Cambodia, Wilder and his party seemed to be involved in a surreal and stark raving mad world, submerged in the darkest and meanest shadow of the human soul. ...

Apocalypse Now is a classic shot by francis ford coppola in 1979. At that time, influenced by the political environment and in order to cater to the appetite of mainstream audiences, the film had deleted 49 minutes of content. Twenty years later, when Coppola saw this old work on TV, he deeply felt the disadvantages brought by "obedience" at that time. Perhaps, after these 20 years of changes, today's audience has matured and can bear the plot with unique personality and obvious political significance that has been drastically deleted. So, under the planning of Coppola, this amazing work finally recovered its true colors.

Sure enough, Coppola's action opened the audience's eyes: the new version of Apocalypse Now is more plump and mature. Not only is the theme expression more pertinent and profound, but the rhythm and atmosphere are also more changeable. 196 minutes of screening time passed unconsciously, and there was no suspicion of overstaffed procrastination.

The plot framework of this film is roughly taken from the novel "Black Heart" by British writer Joseph Conrad, with only the changes of the times, background and characters. This film tells the story of Captain Willard (Martin Shawn), an American intelligence officer, who goes upstream into Cambodian territory. His mission on this trip is to get rid of Colonel Courths (Marlon Brando), a smart and arrogant professional soldier. Courths gathered some aborigines in the mountains and forests, formed an army, took the mountains as the king, monopolized one side, and became an arrogant dictator. The film truly and vividly describes all kinds of madness brought by the war: the cocky and arrogant Colonel Kilgore (robert duvall) is intoxicated with the music of Wagner's opera while flying a helicopter to hit the target; The "Playboy" club get-together that came to offer condolences fell into uncontrollable chaos from the beginning; In a battalion besieged by the Vietnamese army, the officers and men were addicted to drugs, and the command department was useless, and the soldiers were in a state of chaos. All this is just a prelude to Captain Willard's trip to the jungle. Around Courths's stronghold, a terrible picture is displayed: the body hanging on the branch is swaying in the hot sun; The traitor's head was cut off for public display.

It is true that the 79-year-old version of Apocalypse Now is still a masterpiece, but its ruthlessness and cruelty are really suffocating. From time to time, the new edition relieves the nervous mood of the audience from Colonel Wilder's murderous adventure. Shortly after the film started, Wilder and his men stole the surfboard that Colonel Kilgore regarded as a treasure. Here, we saw Colonel Wilder's happy smiling face for the first time. In addition, members of the "Playboy" club made public appearances again. Wilder and his team met them during the voyage. Because their helicopter ran out of fuel, they had to ask Wilder for help. Wilder made a deal, asking the girls to accompany each of them for half an hour in exchange for fuel. This obscene and funny scene makes people appreciate an unforgettable innocence and bitterness.

However, the most important supplement is the legendary plot in the French plantation. Willard's team meets the French planter Herbert Mareuse (played by Christine Marquand) and his huge family on the way up the river. The plantation owners in the family have long adhered to the upper-class lifestyle, although the shadow of death hangs over them all the time. This episode mainly includes: at a noisy dinner party, the guests argued about political issues enthusiastically, and Willard's affair with a charming French widow. After reading this love story, we will feel that it is like a surreal dream, like a mirage that western colonialism can't reach. However, please listen to a meaningful sentence from men at the dinner party: "We fight for what belongs to us, and you Americans always fight for those meaningless things."

After 22 years, the film is still first-class in terms of sound and image quality because the new version adopts advanced dyeing and coloring technology and re-records the audio tape with Dolby digital technology.

In addition, the new version of Apocalypse Now is not simply mixed with the original story. The director revised the film as a whole, making it more full and delicate, and thinking about the theme more deeply and thoroughly. It can be said that this work will eventually become a well-deserved eternal classic in the world film history after thorough transformation.

The fifth and seventh seal courses: philosophical thinking

I dare not say that I can read the seventh seal, but if I want to see a movie before I die, I must choose the seventh seal.

Martin scorsese once said, "If I had to choose a movie before I die, I would definitely choose The Seventh Seal." This sentence has two meanings. On the one hand, it expresses Martin Sr's love for movies and his reverence for Bergman. On the other hand, it also reveals the profound thoughts of this film, which is worth exploring all our lives. Now there are always some directors clamoring that their films are for people after 10. In front of the real movie master, they are just like monkeys. Bergman never explains his films, because he knows that his films are not for people in a certain year, but for people in that year. 10 years later, people can still see them 50 years later. Just like me 50 years later, a child living in the era of Transformers and Spider-Man 3, all I can do in front of the master is to bow down and worship reverently.

Decadence, depravity, cruelty, melancholy, abstinence, wildness, contempt, mystery, evil, piety and strange combination. And different people have different ways of living in the darkness at the end of this century. This is the content of Bogman's film The Seventh Seal. Bogman personified death as death, and trapped people through the pursuit of death, which made different people show different attitudes when they met death or were chased by death. These people have become "typical" people in the world, including you and me as spectators.

Plot introduction:

The story happened in the Middle Ages, when a crusader returned with his entourage and met the incarnation of death on the way. At that time, when the great plague was raging in Europe, he dragged his tired body and his heart was full of problems that needed time to be solved: what is the meaning of life? What is the essence of death? He decided to bet a game of chess with death, and if he lost, he would let death take it away. The chess game is intermittent. The knight also tried to continue his journey. What he saw and heard along the way made him gradually understand that truth is the happiness in the world. It is not the magic of heaven that saves them, but the human beings who are pregnant with life and love each other. However, at this time, death caught up with him and asked him to finish the unfinished chess game. As a result, the knight lost. The next day, the wanderer seemed to see death take the knight away and drag him into a "skeleton dance" circle.

Through the wandering life of the idealistic knight Brock and his companions in the plague-spreading European continent, the film shows the audience different expressions of different people facing death, and at the same time raises tit-for-tat questions about the significance of human existence, the root of belief and the existence of God, and affirms the power of belief itself through the life of the actor Joseph's family. The film itself is full of obscure metaphors and symbolic elements, which can be said to be the most representative of Bergman style.

Knight Brock and his entourage can be said to be the most important characters in the film. Brock is an idealist. After returning from the crusade, he found that his motherland was swallowed up by the plague, and the crusade was completely futile. In his most painful time, he met the death who greeted him, but he didn't want to die in emptiness. He started a battle with death-playing chess. In the pain that Brock has been thinking about, he felt the emptiness of life and the emptiness of God. His life seemed worthless, so he said, "I will use this pause to do the most meaningful thing." In his confession to the priest (actually pretending to be a god of death), he asked God a fundamental question: "emptiness is like a mirror, which reflects an empty self, which is really terrible and scary." Is it true that people can't see the real God? Why does he always hide in those unrealistic miracles? I can't trust myself. How can I trust others, those who are willing to believe in God but really can't do it, and those who are unwilling to believe and can't do it? What will be their fate? What I want is not hypothesis, but wisdom, and I want God to show himself ... "Brock is a painful idealist who pursues truth, and his life is full of burdens. At the same time, he is also the only person who can communicate with death, so he himself is being tortured. Brock's The Attendant is a typical realist. He takes a calm and accustomed attitude towards everything, and at the same time, he often reminds people around him to stay awake with his keen observation. He never responded to the absurdity of death and fate with any dissatisfaction and doubt. He understands everything and accepts everything. He is a person who conforms to life and learns to laugh and tease in life.

The hypocrite's name is Rafa, and he graduated from a seminary. He has God's knowledge and morality in vain, but he is doing unjust things. He stole the property of the deceased and resold it. He also stirred up the relationship between people and made himself a spectator. It was he who tricked Brock into joining the Crusaders, but now his deception is getting more and more despicable, and finally his life was swallowed up by the plague. People who live in chaos may represent the image of most people-blacksmith, blacksmith's wife, and Ska in the troupe. And such people are also the most in real life. They maintain some life instincts, have no clear beliefs and moral values, and have no sense of self-reflection. For them, life is about meeting material and physical needs. Scarface once said that he was best suited to play the role of death, and he also read a line. Unfortunately, all this has not touched his life. When death really found him, he showed humble servility and incomplete personality.

Six "Forrest Gump" Courses: Persistence

Every time I think of Forrest Gump running between the east and west coasts of the United States, I am both sad and excited. Do you believe in the success of a mentally retarded child? Do you believe that the people who get the most in the world are those who don't care about gains and losses? Forrest Gump doesn't know that he can't always fight with a woman to help her, and he doesn't know that an adult shouldn't always say his own words. Forrest Gump knows nothing. He only knew that he had been running on the road by instinct and finally ran to the finish line.

Mom always said, life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get.

Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you will get.

Who is Forrest Gump?

Forrest Gump: I promised Bubba, and I have been trying to keep my promise.

Forrest Gump: Mom says stupid people do stupid things. I am not an idiot, I am Forrest Gump.

Comments on Forrest Gump:

In the 67th Academy Awards 1995 Best Film Competition, the film Forrest Gump won six awards: best film, best actor, best director, best adapted screenplay, best editing and best visual effect. By describing the life of a mentally retarded person, the film reflects all aspects of American life and shows important events in American social and political life in the past few decades from a unique perspective. The film is adapted from winston groom's novel of the same name. It's just that the original is an absurd novel full of irony, while the film embellishes and beautifies the story. Abandoned the absurdity and satire of the original work, and added a warmth to the film. This undoubtedly makes the film more suitable for the audience and judges, but it sacrifices the rebellious spirit of the original work and makes the film a symbol of idealized morality.

Forrest Gump is portrayed in the film as the embodiment of virtue, honest, trustworthy, earnest, brave and attached importance to feelings. In the film, Forrest Gump is a very pure image, while Jenny becomes a symbol of depravity. This is very different from the original. For everything described, the film is expressed with a warm and cordial attitude from beginning to end, and even poetic elements are added to make the film appear soft and harmless. The promotion and embodiment of traditional moral concepts in movies. Make the film easy to be accepted by people, and the director's superb arrangement skills and the use of film language also make the film very attractive. The content of the film ensures the commercial success of the film, and the director's artistic treatment also makes the film more exciting, which is the reason for the success of the film. Forrest Gump became one of the most popular movies in America that year.

Tom Hanks's performance in the film is very simple and natural. He won the Oscar for best actor for his performance in this film. This is the second time in a row that he has won the golden statue of best actor. The success of Forrest Gump also made Tom Hanks one of the most popular movie stars in Hollywood. For Tom Hanks, those two years were the luckiest days in his acting career.

Seven "Dong Fangbubai" courses: talents

Men shouldn't skip watching martial arts movies. If you could only watch one martial arts movie, what would you choose? I think it should be "Dong Fangbubai". There are three thousand guests in the hall, and the sword is cold in fourteen States. The swordsman's posture dances with the sword wandering in the air, just like Youlong. Jin Yong's the legendary swordsman is about the pursuit of freedom. Tsui Hark, Cheng Xiaodong, Zhang Shuping, Jet Li and other talented people used movies to reproduce the magnificent martial arts world written by Jin Yong. The song "The Sea Laughs" has been sung until now, and it has become a reference for our fantasy and an escape from reality.

Love and Responsibility: Roman Holiday Course: Love

Maybe Roman holidays are a little romantic, but Audrey. Hepburn's appearance made it really a fairy tale. She is like an angel traveling around the world, beautiful and flawless. The reporter kissed the wet princess and then watched her walk slowly to the official residence. At that moment, will you silently say "don't go" in your heart? In the palace of Rome, two people stood so close and so far away. Joe can only say, "Your friends will never let you down." And the princess can only answer, "Rome, of course." A person's life, even if there is only such a moment of empathy, will be less regret!

Audrey Hepburn's blockbuster debut not only won the Academy Award, but also set off a "Hepburn fever" in the 1950s with its exquisite and elegant temperament. Many girls imitate her hairstyle and clothes. As far as its entertainment effect and artistic value are concerned, this film is also a blockbuster classic. The story describes that the British princess's visit to the ancient capital Rome was regarded as a chore. In the evening, she slipped into the city to enjoy the night and met a kind American reporter. They swam arm in arm and had a crush on each other. However, when the British delegation found the princess missing, they all broke out in a cold sweat. Finally, the princess sacrificed her love for her duty, which made people sad. Director william wyler vividly integrated the story with the landscape of Rome, and the handsome Gregory Parker and Audrey Hepburn also produced a very warm and pleasing romantic comedy.

Nine, the courage of freedom: "Brave Heart" course: courage

Maybe a hero is not an omnipotent god, but a hero must be a fearless warrior. Now you are standing on the neon street. When you face a mean and obscene smile, you think of Wallace who makes you feel ashamed. Then you put away your usual smile and say hello to Mel silently. Gibson's tribute has never been so solemn. Because he taught us what a real hero is. "Freedom!" Wallace's dying cry ignited your blood.

X. childlike innocence: e.t. course: childlike innocence

If you shed tears while watching E.T., don't be afraid or ashamed, no matter how old you are. In fact, it is a great thing to be able to share the joys and sorrows of E.T.' s experience with the children, which shows that we still have a little childlike innocence and some dreams hidden in our hearts. Did you feel shocked when E.T., who has a pair of children's eyes, used his super power to let children's bicycles fly into the night sky and cross the bright moon? Do you have any doubts about what you are used to? ?