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1. Response Paper on Jane Campion’s “The Portrait of a Lady" 2011/06/18 17:32
The Portrait of a Lady was a film directed by Jane Campion in 1996. This screenplay was adapted from a Henry James’ novel of the same name which published in 1881.
At the beginning of the movie were girls of different race and different age telling their expectations of love, it was the scene which first caught my attention. And this scene may be implying the power that Isabel looking forward to run after. Isabel is a girl who always pursuing freedom while there’s not much freedom for woman in her time. As a young woman who is just starting her life, she is ambitious and beautiful, and this also made her desirable to men around her. Longing for more adventures, she turned down to Mr. Goodwood’s proposal. This may be the reason that Madame Merle, a talented woman, said to Isabel “I give a good deal to be your age again, to have my life before me.”
As a novice at love, Mr. Osmond was so mysterious and attractive to Isabel. Isabel then easily been trapped by the conspiracy that Mr. Osmond and Madame Merle plotted without any consciousness. She swiftly changed her original intention and walk into the cage of a mistake marriage regardless of the words from others and the ideal live she was chasing. Cage though, everything became different while you love the cage. In the cage, she still strived to insist on her belief but always turned out to be compromise.
After found out the secret relation between Mr. Osmond and Madame Merle, Isabel knew that she was used to made Mr. Osmond became wealthier. Isabel finally screwed up her courage again, left the control of Mr. Osmond and went back to England resolutely. She visited Pansy in order to help her escape the control of her father before she left. While being a woman of traditional thinking of the time, Pansy decided to keep on following the decision her father, Mr. Osmond, made. Isabel eventually went back to her cousin, Ralph, who still loved her without hope. She met love again, but she wasn’t brave to take the risk of it any more.
In my point of view, I like the way the author put three representative kinds of women together. But I have two reasons to being not quite fond of this movie. First, I think this film didn’t have any impressive or specific climax. The story just went on so commonplace and ended up suddenly while I was expecting something more happen. Second, I felt depressed to the outcome of the main character, Isabel. At the beginning I wonder she was a wise woman with her own opinion to things, then I felt more and more disappointed at those wrong decisions she made. If I were the director, I would change the ending of the story to make it more acceptable to the people.
2. Response Paper on Jane Campion's "The Piano" 2011/06/18 17:31
The director of “The Piano” was Jane Campion. This film was released in 1993 and won so many awards, such as Golden Palm, Best Actress (Holly Hunter), Best screenplay and Best Supporting Actress (Anna Paquin) of Academy Award, and the Best Film of the Australian Film Institute and so on.
Ada, who was a mute, was the leading role of this film. At the beginning, we can hear her voice” The voices you hear is not my speaking voice, but my mind’s voice.” “ I don’t think myself silent, that is because my piano.” She was a sentimental woman, and playing the piano is the only way to express her feeling. In her live, piano is everything.
After been sold into a marriage, she forced to live with a man she didn’t know. Her new husband didn’t understand her and her piano and regard her piano as trash. The mute woman decided to find the piano on her own. She met a man, George, who realized her and cherish her piano. They became needed each other. Little Flora couldn’t endure seeing her mother betraying her new papa. It was the little girl who became the informer of the secret. Ada’s love to George was so strong that she played the piano in her dream and even bore the pain of losing a finger without shed a tear. Finally Steward fulfilled Ada and George.
When Ada was leaving New Zealand, she found out that she couldn’t play the piano anymore. She tried to drown herself with the piano. While being underwater, she realized that there is a new meaning to her life. She now has not only the piano but love. In the end she opened her mind again and tried to live a new beautiful life.
I like the way to Jane Campion told the story. We know from the title that piano played the most important role in the movie. Jane Campion made good use of different tune of the piano songs to express the mute’s feeling specifically. The child star did a good job, too. She well transformed the innocent image of a girl. I also think there is an implying of the little girl as morality. The most successful point of the film was that Jane Campion conveyed the women right to make their decisions explicitly and appropriately, without giving audience an uncomfortable feeling. That may be the reasons why it became the representative work of Jane Campion.
The Portrait of a Lady was a film directed by Jane Campion in 1996. This screenplay was adapted from a Henry James’ novel of the same name which published in 1881.
At the beginning of the movie were girls of different race and different age telling their expectations of love, it was the scene which first caught my attention. And this scene may be implying the power that Isabel looking forward to run after. Isabel is a girl who always pursuing freedom while there’s not much freedom for woman in her time. As a young woman who is just starting her life, she is ambitious and beautiful, and this also made her desirable to men around her. Longing for more adventures, she turned down to Mr. Goodwood’s proposal. This may be the reason that Madame Merle, a talented woman, said to Isabel “I give a good deal to be your age again, to have my life before me.”
As a novice at love, Mr. Osmond was so mysterious and attractive to Isabel. Isabel then easily been trapped by the conspiracy that Mr. Osmond and Madame Merle plotted without any consciousness. She swiftly changed her original intention and walk into the cage of a mistake marriage regardless of the words from others and the ideal live she was chasing. Cage though, everything became different while you love the cage. In the cage, she still strived to insist on her belief but always turned out to be compromise.
After found out the secret relation between Mr. Osmond and Madame Merle, Isabel knew that she was used to made Mr. Osmond became wealthier. Isabel finally screwed up her courage again, left the control of Mr. Osmond and went back to England resolutely. She visited Pansy in order to help her escape the control of her father before she left. While being a woman of traditional thinking of the time, Pansy decided to keep on following the decision her father, Mr. Osmond, made. Isabel eventually went back to her cousin, Ralph, who still loved her without hope. She met love again, but she wasn’t brave to take the risk of it any more.
In my point of view, I like the way the author put three representative kinds of women together. But I have two reasons to being not quite fond of this movie. First, I think this film didn’t have any impressive or specific climax. The story just went on so commonplace and ended up suddenly while I was expecting something more happen. Second, I felt depressed to the outcome of the main character, Isabel. At the beginning I wonder she was a wise woman with her own opinion to things, then I felt more and more disappointed at those wrong decisions she made. If I were the director, I would change the ending of the story to make it more acceptable to the people.
2. Response Paper on Jane Campion's "The Piano" 2011/06/18 17:31
The director of “The Piano” was Jane Campion. This film was released in 1993 and won so many awards, such as Golden Palm, Best Actress (Holly Hunter), Best screenplay and Best Supporting Actress (Anna Paquin) of Academy Award, and the Best Film of the Australian Film Institute and so on.
Ada, who was a mute, was the leading role of this film. At the beginning, we can hear her voice” The voices you hear is not my speaking voice, but my mind’s voice.” “ I don’t think myself silent, that is because my piano.” She was a sentimental woman, and playing the piano is the only way to express her feeling. In her live, piano is everything.
After been sold into a marriage, she forced to live with a man she didn’t know. Her new husband didn’t understand her and her piano and regard her piano as trash. The mute woman decided to find the piano on her own. She met a man, George, who realized her and cherish her piano. They became needed each other. Little Flora couldn’t endure seeing her mother betraying her new papa. It was the little girl who became the informer of the secret. Ada’s love to George was so strong that she played the piano in her dream and even bore the pain of losing a finger without shed a tear. Finally Steward fulfilled Ada and George.
When Ada was leaving New Zealand, she found out that she couldn’t play the piano anymore. She tried to drown herself with the piano. While being underwater, she realized that there is a new meaning to her life. She now has not only the piano but love. In the end she opened her mind again and tried to live a new beautiful life.
I like the way to Jane Campion told the story. We know from the title that piano played the most important role in the movie. Jane Campion made good use of different tune of the piano songs to express the mute’s feeling specifically. The child star did a good job, too. She well transformed the innocent image of a girl. I also think there is an implying of the little girl as morality. The most successful point of the film was that Jane Campion conveyed the women right to make their decisions explicitly and appropriately, without giving audience an uncomfortable feeling. That may be the reasons why it became the representative work of Jane Campion.
