Brief introduction of Julie Andrews.

Teaching Design of The Sound of Music (Excerpt)

Text discussion

First, the overall grasp

The Sound of Music is a classic musical feature film in film history. The synopsis is: In Salzburg, Austria, Maria, a girl who loves singing, was sent by the abbot to be a tutor for seven children of naval colonel von trapp. Colonel trapp lost his wife, and he managed the children as strictly as he commanded the army, so that the children could not feel the warmth of the family. After Maria came, she brought warmth, joy and singing to the children, which was loved by the children and changed the colonel's gloomy mood. Maria married the colonel and the whole family formed a family choir. After Nazi Germany annexed Austria, the German military coerced the colonel to accept the appointment and serve them. The colonel's family sang songs at the concert, expressing their love for the motherland and inspiring the patriotic enthusiasm of the audience. Before the concert was over, the whole family got rid of the surveillance, drove abroad and escaped from the clutches of the German military. The film vividly depicts the image of Maria, a lively and happy heroine who loves singing, and shows the national feelings of the Austrian people who love their motherland.

Excerpts from the text are the beginning of the script. It is about the happy nature of Maria, a young girl, who still doesn't love singing and is unrestrained after becoming a trainee nun. While doing daily lessons and routine solemn religious rituals in the monastery, she sang loudly in the wild and enjoyed herself. Later, she suddenly remembered that she should do her daily homework at this time, so she hurried back to the monastery. At the same time, the monastery was in chaos, and the nuns looked for Maria everywhere. The dean asked for advice about Maria's qualification as a nun, and all the nuns were talking about it. They all love Maria very much, but they don't think she is fit to be a nun. When Maria returned to the monastery, the sisters finished talking about Maria. The text is short and the plot is simple, but it vividly and completely depicts Maria's character and completes the introduction of the heroine at the beginning of the script, laying a solid foundation for the development of the plot. The following is an excerpt from the text. The story is: The abbot introduced Maria as a governess to seven children of Colonel von trapp, and she left the monastery to start a new life.

The text is divided into two scenes: the first scene is in the field of Salzburg, where Maria is singing and playing happily; The second scene is in the monastery, mainly about the discussion of Maria by nuns.

The first scene, starting with the description of local scenery with Austrian characteristics, gradually changes from far to near, showing people the towering Alps, the tall and straight pine trees all over the mountains, the singing of larks, the little snow on the top of the mountain, the whistling mountain wind and the wilderness echoing the music; Salzburg, surrounded by water on all sides at the foot of the mountain, has scattered houses, solemn monasteries hidden by green trees, and grasslands, groves and streams on the hillside. In the poetic scenery, let the protagonist "appear" gradually: introduce Maria's active figure, ring Maria's moving song, and present Maria's detailed movements and expressions. When people meet the heroine Maria in the play for the first time, they will feel her vivid image.

In this scene, the environmental description at the beginning, as the background of the protagonist's appearance and activities, sets off Maria's indulgent singing, blending scenes and effectively sets off the inner world of the characters; Maria's singing has a strong lyricism, which not only shows her love and talent for music, but also reveals her rich feelings and beautiful heart, and internally reveals her lively and free nature. Maria "looked at the mountains, jumped and spun lightly, crossed the Woods for a while, ran to the stream for a while, bent down to pick up a stone and threw it into the stream, causing ripples." She walked forward again, singing loudly. Suddenly, she suddenly saved herself, patted her forehead with her hand and ran away in a hurry. Without running a few steps, she turned and ran back to pick up the coat on the ground and uttered an exclamation: "Oh!" " Rushing down the mountain ",these two descriptions with strong action and jumping, show her lively and free-spirited character.

The second scene, based on the dialogue and duet between the dean and the nuns, tells the image of Maria in their eyes and briefly describes the scene of Maria returning to the monastery, which makes people feel Maria's personality more deeply and truly. During the discussion, the dean and other mothers listed Maria's unusual behavior: she didn't finish her daily homework; She likes animals; She climbed trees, scratched her skin and tore her clothes into holes; She went to mass, skipping, whistling in her mouth, curling her hair under her headscarf and singing in the monastery; She didn't go to church on time, but she sincerely repented; She procrastinates on everything except eating on time; She is nagging and unpredictable; She can't sit still and listen to others. All this makes people feel that she is so free, unrestrained and carefree. The nuns like her very much because she is pure and happy by nature. She is happy herself and brings happiness to others. It was she who brought life to the disciplined and lifeless monastery and always called the nuns "laugh". They think that her unusual behavior and personality are not suitable for being a nun, which is in sharp contrast with the environment and canon of the monastery and is extremely uncoordinated. Near the end of the article, it describes a series of hasty and rapid actions when Maria suddenly intrudes, and her behavior changes under the gaze of nuns. Although it is only a few words, it is a vivid style that can show Maria's personality.

The text uses the language description, action description, expression description and environment description of the characters, and combines the front description with the side description to vividly depict the image of the girl Maria who loves singing, has a beautiful mind, is lively and free, and is innocent and happy, which makes the image of the heroine Maria vivid.

Second, the problem research

1. What are the positive descriptions, side descriptions and artistic effects of the heroine image in the article?

The scene of Maria returning to the monastery at the end of the first and second scenes is a positive description of Maria's image; In the second scene, the dialogue and duet between the dean and the mothers is a profile description.

The first scene describes Maria singing in the wild, in which the lyrics focus on her inner feelings and spiritual world; Maria's movements and expressions are described in the first and second scenes, which shows her character from the external image. In the second scene, we describe the dialogue and duet between the dean and the mothers, focusing on Maria's daily behavior. They tell about Maria's various performances, their views and attitudes towards her, and reflect Maria's image from their eyes.

In this paper, the front description and side description of the heroine complement each other, and Maria's character image is shaped from different angles. Among them, the profile description of characters is very artistic: it enriches the characters and makes them fuller; Will describe the rich content that is difficult or impossible to express in a positive way and express it succinctly and artistically; The lively and witty discussion added a relaxed and pleasant comedy atmosphere.

2. How do words reflect the characteristics of music feature films?

Musical feature films are feature films with music as an important form of expression. In Europe, America and other regions and countries, it has long been a quite mature film art type. "The Sound of Music" is regarded as the masterpiece of "new style" music feature film. In this film, music is an important form of characterization and an important means of plot development, which is closely related to the heroine's life and destiny. There are many solo, chorus and duet performances in the film, and the atmosphere is lively and cheerful. Songs such as Jingle Bells, blossoming flowers, Coming, Dinner, Goodbye and the theme song The Sound of Music are beautiful and popular, and some of them have become classic songs, which are deeply loved by people and widely circulated around the world. The great success of this film lies in the artistic appeal of its music to a great extent.

The text is an excerpt from the movie script, in which Maria's inner monologue is full of lyric style; Many mothers' exaggerated singing is full of comedy style. Both of them embody the characteristics of the music feature film "The Sound of Music", and the latter highlights the comedy color of the music feature film.

Practice note

First of all, the nuns' evaluation of Maria, summing up everyone's opinions and saying what kind of person Maria is in everyone's eyes.

The purpose of this question is to understand the attitude and evaluation of many mothers to Maria and grasp Maria's personality characteristics.

In the eyes of many mothers, Maria is lively and loves to sing; Unconventional and unrestrained; Innocent, cheerful and free; She is happy herself and always brings happiness to others; She's cute and a headache. Maria's free and lively personality is extremely incompatible with the environment and requirements of the monastery, so they think she is not suitable to be a nun. They like Maria very much and are at a loss.

Second, the abbot compared Maria to "bright moonlight" and "clouds in the sky". Do you think this metaphor is appropriate? Why? You also try to describe Maria with one or two metaphors.

The purpose of this topic is to understand the figurative meaning of figurative sentences and use metaphors to vividly express the personality characteristics of characters.

The abbot's original lyrics were: "What should people do with Maria? How can one catch the clouds in the sky? " "What should I do with Maria? ..... How can one catch the bright moonlight? " It means that it has nothing to do with Maria, just as people can't catch "clouds in the sky" and "bright moonlight", the abbot compares Maria to "bright moonlight" and "clouds in the sky", which vividly and aptly shows Maria's free and lively character and all mothers' heartfelt love for her. In addition, there are two lyrics in the article: "Margarita (singing): How can water stay on the beach? Sisters (singing): What should people do with Maria? " The meaning is the same.

Third, we should pay attention to the sense of picture when reading film and television scripts. How do you think this article expresses the sense of picture?

This topic aims to understand the artistic characteristics of film and television scripts with a sense of picture.

Picture sense is the basic feature that distinguishes film and television scripts from other literary genres. As a visual art, film and television is composed of pictures. Correspondingly, besides the description of characters' language, film and television scripts mainly use the description of environment, characters' actions and expressions to portray characters and express events, thus transforming them into actual visual images in film and television or visual images imagined by readers, which is what we call the picture sense of film and television scripts. Therefore, film and television scripts focus on descriptive language that can be transformed into visual images, and pay less attention to narrative language and psychological description that cannot be transformed into visual images. In this paper, the description of Maria's singing environment in the wild, as well as the description of Maria and all the nurses' movements and expressions, has a vivid sense of the picture.

4. Is there anyone with Maria's personality around you? Observe carefully and write a paragraph describing this person.

The purpose of this topic is to train students' ability to observe people and express characters in daily life.

Teaching suggestion

First, understand how the text describes Maria's image with positive description and side description, and taste the description of the environment, character language, movements and expressions in the text.

Second, try to figure out the language, give play to association and imagination, feel the picture sense of the text, and the characteristics of the music feature film embodied in the lyrics of the characters.

Third, you can watch the audio-visual materials of The Sound of Music, understand the story content of the film and experience the characteristics of the film script.

related data

Notes on the Sound of Music

The Sound of Music is based on a Broadway musical that has been staged for four years. The play is based on a true story that happened in Austria in 1938: there was a Colonel von trapp in Salzburg. After Nazi Germany annexed Austria, he, his seven children and his wife who had been a governess formed a family choir and sang Austrian folk songs and patriotic songs everywhere. This story was once made into a German film "Bodhi Tree". 1960, "20th Century Fox Company" bought the remake right of this musical for1000000 dollars, but on one condition: the film should not be shown before Broadway is completed. Shooting started at 1963, first directed by William Huikan and then directed by producer robert wise.

The film was shot in Salzburg and its surrounding mountains and plains at a cost of10 million dollars. At that time, it attracted some criticism, but it was quickly praised. After the film was released, it earned $20 million in the first ten months in North America alone, creating the highest box office value. The film won five Oscars. In two years, the screening income soared to $42.5 million, surpassing Gone with the Wind. Many viewers, mostly women, watched it more than ten times. By 197 1, "The Sound of Music" was still hot, ranking third among the highest-grossing movies in the United States over the years.

(The Sound of Music, edited by Anke, selected from foreign film series, China Film Publishing House, 1980).

The movie "The Sound of Music" is the experience of a real family, but where did the real Huntep family go after that? 1938, when the family left Austria, Maria was pregnant with Johannes, the tenth child of the von trapp family. Without colorful homes, they became penniless fugitives, and the life of a family of more than a dozen people immediately became a big problem. But the von Trapps are not discouraged. They don't care that everything has to start from scratch.

The family formed a choir, wandering around the world and struggling for life. Everything from the birthday reception to the royal performance in the concert hall. 1939, when they came to the United States for a concert tour, they found a farm near Stowe, Vermont. This small farm reminded them of their home in Austria and fell in love with this land at once. They bought the land with the money they saved and built their own home far from home. In the following decades, the von Trapp family performed all over the world every year, covering more than 30 countries. However, they have always regarded this farm in Storley as their permanent home.

From 65438 to 0947, Maria established the trapp Family Music Camp in Storey. With the expansion of the music camp, the room provided by her family for the night became insufficient, so trapp Villa was built.

They also suffered a lot because they were not familiar with the social environment. 1949 Maria's biography received a strong social response, but when someone first proposed to buy her story, Maria was cheated and didn't get her due rights and rewards.

The unhappy fate did not cause them to lament, and setbacks and lessons could not bring down this immigrant family.

1965, the film "The Sound of Music" was released all over the world, and scenes of "truth, goodness and beauty" were interpreted, so Maria became a household name. However, in 1980, the trapp Villa, which was built so hard, was reduced to ashes by a fire. A year and a half later, a brand-new trapp villa was built on the original foundation, and scattered guest houses were built at the foothills and lakesides to receive tourists. Now trapp Villa is well known.

What can be more gratifying than starting from scratch? Today, trapp Villa, a family-run enterprise, receives thousands of tourists who have a special liking for the experiences of the von trapp family and their songs every year. Johannes, the youngest son of the von Trapp family who was born on the run, is the manager of this enterprise.

(Wei Yi's Story after the Sound of Music, selected from Northern New Newspaper, June 25, 2002)

Second, the director and heroine of The Sound of Music

1. The sound of music directed by robert wise.

Robert wise is a famous American film director and producer. Born in Winchester, Indiana, 19 14, 19 entered the film industry. He did audio editing first, and then edited the films Citizen Kane and Aberdeen Family with Audi Wells. After he was promoted to director, he tried to make horror movies, such as Curse and Blood on the Moon. He is familiar with the trick of saving money for filming and is good at using suspense skills. Soon, he turned to social reality and made a film "Trap", which revealed that boxing only paid attention to making money and ignored human life, and achieved success, thus establishing his position as a social film director. Later, he filmed "Remuneration of Arms", which truly reflected the serious social problems in the United States at that time, namely violence and racial discrimination, through the case of unemployed workers robbing huge sums of money from banks. Robert wise is also a great musician. 196 1 Shoot the musical west side story, jump out of the set circle of the studio, lead the audience to the streets of new york, and show the love tragedy of modern Romeo and Juliet and the daily life scenes of hooligans. Many song and dance scenes are unfolded in the real environment and have certain realistic colors. The combination of the social atmosphere handled by director Wise and the bold dance moves designed by Robbins made the film a great success and was awarded eleven "Oscar" awards. The Sound of Music is another masterpiece of robert wise's new style music film. The well-known interludes "Flowers, Come, Rice", "Goodbye" and the theme song "The Sound of Music" vividly depict the protagonist's warm and lively character, and also express the Austrian people's national feelings of loving the motherland. Song and dance constitute an indispensable part of the plot development. In addition, Wise also boldly used helicopter shooting to shoot a panoramic view of the foothills of the Alps or Fort Satz from a very high place, and then descended rapidly until the close-up or bust of the characters was pushed, which effectively set off the inner state of the characters and made the film poetic. Then The Sound of Music was followed by The Star, still starring Andrews, which described the artistic career of actress gertrude lawrence. Another feature of Wise's creation is his distinctive social and political views. During the Vietnam War, he filmed "Gunboat san pablo", which implied American aggression through the historical facts of China's resistance to foreign colonists in the 1920s. In the late Vietnam War, he filmed "Partner" with the theme of desertion. As critics have pointed out, "Wise likes politics" and "He belongs to an entertainment director with political insight".

2. Julie Andrews, the heroine of The Sound of Music.

Julie Andrews is a famous sasha jackson and singer. 1935 was born in Walden, Surrey. Her father is a comedian. After his careful training, she showed her acting talent at an early age. /kloc-performing in London at the age of 0/2. Later, he moved to Broadway in the United States and participated in music performances, which was a success. Especially in My Fair Lady, adapted from Bernard Shaw's famous play, Ai Lisha, the heroine, made a sensation on the American stage and became a famous corner of Broadway. At the age of 29, she starred in the musical Joy on Earth and won the Oscar for Best Actress. Then in The Sound of Music, Andrews gave full play to the talent of jugglers and vividly portrayed the heroine's cheerful and generous personality, thus winning the love of the audience including children and becoming a movie star. Besides musicals and musicals, he is also good at acting drama films, such as Star. Andrews doesn't just rely on beauty to attract the audience. As an individual actress, she has her own unique charm, portrays the role with a bright and optimistic tone, and strives to convey the beauty and atmosphere of innocence. Her movements are bold and unrestrained, full of dance beauty, and her voice is beautiful and lyrical. The red star felt lifelong regret that when her famous My Fair Lady was put on the screen, she didn't get the leading role, so Audrey Hepburn was vying for the title. At that time, many people in the film and television circle sympathized with her and spoke for her. Andrews' creative attitude is serious. She thinks that "it is quite narrow to regard movies as a way to make her famous forever." Therefore, after she made ten films, she once quit the film industry and devoted herself to children's education. She once wrote several fairy tales under the pseudonym of "Edward Lee", and she was very concerned about the situation of Vietnamese orphans and Cambodian refugees. Recently, I have returned to the film circle, and my charm has not diminished.

(Selected from Foreign Film Series, China Film Publishing House, 1980).