The Legend of 1900
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Movie Reviews of The Legend of 1900
Movie Review: A journey, a dream, a fantasy
Summary: 5 Stars
I feel that many of the reviews here do not get Tornatorrwe. To appreciate this fabulous Italian director is to understand that the plot does not really matter in and of itself. The plot here is simle, if unusual, a boy who is a musical genuis - born and living his whole life on a transatlantic liner in the golden age of translatlantic voyages.
Those looking for a "period drama" will be disappointed here. This movie, like many of Tornatorre's films, is a journey through time and human experiences. The film is interlaced with retrospectives back and forth through time, weaved on a canvas of beautiful images - such is the picture of fascinated passangers arriving in America when they see the statue of Liverty or the main character playing a piano which is "dancing" in the ballroom of a ship.
This movie is a rich poetic and artistic exerience for those who are willing to take the journey. The music of Enio Morricone is wanderful, the performances are impressive and the experience memorable.
Gen on the ship and enjoy the journey!
p.s. for those who like the movie, I recommend other Tornatorre/Moricone features, such as "Malena" and, of course "Cinema Paradiso"
Movie Review: Beautiful Music and a story worth telling
Summary: 5 Stars
This is one of my most favorite movie especially in music. The music played in this movie are amazing with classical and Jazz music; Ennio Morricone and Amedeo Tommasi composed some great pieces in this one with some very lovely and intimate songs like Playing Love, Magic Waltz, Danny Blues & A Mozart Reincarnated (similar to Mozart's Piano Sonata No 11 in A Major K331 <same song played in Jet Li's Unleased, which is also a great meaningful movie with the theme of "Music Saves Lives">). You have to buy the sound track and enjoy the music (recommend buying the Italian version because it has more songs). Anyway, the movie is quiet buy very nice; kind of sad at the end but a person who truly understands art wont mind sadness as much. This movie also introduces the Jazz legend Jelly Roll Morton with some of his very awesome songs like the Crave and Fingerbreaker. This movie really got me interested in Jazz piano. Tim Roth, the main charater, performed a great role in this movie; one of his best. He also fakes playing the piano really well. I heard that it took him 6 months to learn how to fake playing piano. Great movie!!! Buy it if you love classical or jazz music. Buy it still if you like a good story.Movie Review: My Favorite Film of All Time
Summary: 5 Stars
_The Legend of 1900_ is a film I recommend wholeheartedly to anyone. It is a film about friendship, about knowing yourself, about love, and -- above all -- about art.
It is a film that quietly seeps into your soul and remains there, so that (before the DVD was released) I always jumped at the chance to see it whenever it rarely showed up on cable.
It is a film that continues to elicit my emotions. . .ok, often my tears. . .whenever I view it. The soundtrack adds to the emotional evocation, but also underscores the points of the film: that friendship endures, that backgrounds and stereotypes are thin where true and honest character is concerned, that other-oriented love motivates while self-oriented love (true love) can also instruct; and that art -- into which one can become fully emerged (whether that art is musical or has to do with story-telling) is a force that needs an outlet, must have an outlet -- will be shared. . .eventually.
I teach English at the college level, and share this film with both colleagues and students. It is stunning, both artistically and philosophically. It is a film very much worth viewing and discussing
Movie Review: On A Sea Cruise
Summary: 5 Stars
Wistful. Subtle. Nostalgic. Moving. Soul-stirring. Fanciful. Passionate. Painful. Beautiful. Tragic. Introspective. Haunting. Metaphorical. Magical. Musical. Heart wrenching. Mystical. Majestic. Fantastic. I adored this movie. There is something fantastic and appealing about the grand ocean liners, and this film uses that setting as its world. The cast is superb, the images striking, and the story of the life of the main character is moving beyond words. The scene as he is stepping off the ship to find a woman really tore at my soul. The music, a vital component of the plot, is by the remarkable Ennio Morricone, who has been scoring hundreds of films over the past 40 years (including, for example, Wolf, Mission to Mars, Cinema Paradiso, La Cage Aux Folles, Once Upon a Time in the West, The Good the Bad and the Ugly, and Fistful of Dollars).
Like many other reviewers, I discovered this film by accident on television late one night in Paris. I do not know why this film was not more popular, but there seems to be a growing cult of devotees. This is a film to watch, share with friends, ponder, and watch again.
Movie Review: 1900's legend
Summary: 5 Stars
1900, saw the world pass him by, 2000 people at a time. In the middle of all that, he bucked the conventions from the moment he was found in a T.D Lemon box on a grand Piano. His grand piano. The movie starts after the second world war where a Trumpet player goes to sell his trumpet, then plays it one last time. Thus starting the story of 1900, spinning a true yarn with the shop owner about the song, a the broken and mended master record.
1900, is deep down a lively story, that shows us a path from childhood to adult hood. the gang plank and land he fears so much, is really growing up and leaving all you know for certian and going into the uncertian future of adulthood.
He's an adult, 1900, with the childlike frankness and intuition of a child, and the piano playing skills to make him the best kept secret, ever.
possibly the most brilliant movie, and each person depending upon their life's background, understand it, and get a different 'message' or way of thinking of 1900 then the next one. we're all 1900...most of us with out awesome piano proweress...or a huge ship to sail in. *sigh* lucky man.