After its release, The Pianist directed by Roman Polanski has won the recognition of Hollywood and global critics and audiences. The Film Critics Association's Best Director, and the 75th Academy Award for Best Director.
Since he started filming, Polanski has shot 27 works of various sizes, including "Tess" and "The Bitter Moon", which are familiar to Chinese audiences. Most of his films involve violence, death and loneliness, and many of them are classics of horror and suspense films, which stem from his profound insight into dark human nature and are related to the unique world outlook and outlook on life formed by his experiences.
Childhood hardships
Polanski was born on August 8, 1933, to a Polish Jewish family living in Paris. Paris and Warsaw were small for the poor, as small as the purse in their hands; but large, as big as the hole in their purse. Roman's father earned just enough for the family to make ends meet. But the ensuing wave of anti-Semitism made it impossible for the Roman family to survive in Paris. When Roman was 3 years old, the family moved back to their hometown in Krakow, Poland. In 1939, Hitler declared war on Poland. In October, Warsaw and Krakow were occupied by German troops, and Jews were persecuted. In 1940, Warsaw and Krakow established a special zone for Jews, and all Jews, regardless of gender and age, were only allowed to live in the zone. The Nazis later ordered all men to go to concentration camps, and Roman's father was imprisoned.
Only the elderly, women and children are left in the special zone. The real life in the special zone takes place at night. In the dark, people left their shelters and went from house to house to exchange what little food they had on hand. Practically everyone walks on someone else's grave because every household has someone killed or taken away.
One day, a motorbike team of Germans drove up on the streets of the special zone. They arrested everyone. Some were sent to concentration camps, and some were sent to hospitals as test subjects. The Nazi soldiers had pointed the bayonet at Roman's chest, but Roman miraculously escaped and hid in the rubble until the night. When I got home, I learned that my mother had been arrested...
Roman fled the Jewish ghetto and was taken in by rural peasant families. He did not return to his hometown until after the liberation of Kekolav. Many were driven mad by the tragic death of their relatives in the camp, including Roman's mother, who died in the gas chambers of the camp. 12-year-old Roman is homeless and living with relatives. One day, the missing father suddenly returned, but Roman was not surprised. His young mind had suffered so much that if one day his dead parents suddenly opened the door for him, he might not even blink an eye. Disaster turned him into a mystic and a fatalist.
One day two years later, his father brought home a woman and asked Roman to call her "Mom". Roman ran away from home on this day.
Love career After the
war , Roman entered the Rhodes film acting and directing department, began a five-year study, and gradually emerged. In the late 1950s, his self-written, self-directed and self-acted absurd short film "Two Men and the Dressing Room" won five international awards. In the early 1960s, some of his early short films have formed his unique noir style, which has won the respect of the film industry and is still regarded as the classics of similar films. But at the time Polanski probably hadn't expected that the themes of sin and suffering in his films would propel him onto the red carpets of various film festivals.
At the same time, love also grows in the heart of this talented young director. His first love was an actress. He was amazed the first time he saw her. Her hair was as red as poppies, her face was as white as marble, and her eyes shone with a mixture of fear and passion. He took her to Paris, where she abandoned him.
After returning to Poland from Paris, Roman made his feature film debut, Knife in the Water. Because of its "decadent" theme, the film was not well received by Polish officials and film critics, but it was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 36th Academy Awards and won the Best Director Award at the 25th Venice Film Festival. Polanski rose to fame for a while. Soon he moved to London and formally broke away from Poland.
In 1967, after the two films "Cold Blood" and "Desert Island" won the Golden Bear Award and the Silver Bear Award respectively at the Berlin Film Festival, Roman and American actress Sharon Tate co-starred in the horror film "Tianshi". "Catch the Monster" began filming, and Roman and Sharon immediately began a crazy romance.
Horror themes once again touched Roman's heartstrings, and immersed in it, he always had unfulfilled desires and curiosity in his heart. Why not try to put the bloody atmosphere of the Middle Ages in the homes of young people in contemporary America?
The Encyclopedia of Ghost Theology appeared on Roman's bookshelf. Sharon Tate wasn't a good fit, and Woody Allen's fiancee, Mia Farrow, was cast as the female lead. As the film started to shut down, Roman and Mia also experienced a love like a volcanic lava eruption, which came and went quickly.
"The Lost Baby" has become a classic in horror films with strong suspense and suffocating horror scenes showing a strong bloody atmosphere. Polanski was nominated for Best Screenplay at the 26th Golden Globe Awards and the 41st Academy Awards.
Faced with the possible negative effects of the film, Polanski summed it up succinctly: "The effect of the film on people should make you forget that you are sitting in a movie theater."
"The Lost Baby" premiered in 1968. Proud screenwriter and director Polanski escapes Farrow's temptation and decides to renew his relationship with Sharon Tate. Of course, what prompted Roman's decision was that Sharon was pregnant.
In keeping with their status as new popular icons, the Polanskis purchased a Beverly Hills villa adjacent to Gloria Swensen. There is
a kind of nonsense: there is a "ghost" in the human life that communicates with his soul, and this "ghost" will do some bad things to harm this person from time to time.
Polanski's "ghost" was a man named Charles Mason.
Charles Mason and Roman Polanski were born on the same day, two years apart, one in Paris and one in Cincinnati, USA. Mason grew up in an orphanage. When Polanski was hiding in rural Poland, Mason was being "transformed" in a reformatory; while Polanski was in film school, Mason was constantly changing prisons. After his release in 1967, Mason decided to completely change his life.
He believes that the place where ideals can be turned into reality is Hollywood. So he and his cult gang hid in an abandoned ranch near Los Angeles. There were no crowds or police patrol cars, just vultures and jackals. On this California wasteland, the son of a prostitute, Charles Mason, decides to complete a horror that shocks white American society. But the crime after the incident should be borne by "black people", which will lead to a quick verdict from the court. Mason then made a sensational statement accusing the court of wrongfully convicting innocents for setting a bomb among people of color. But Mason has never found a fuse.
One day, Mason was shocked after watching Lost Baby in the cinema. He knew what to do...
bloody massacre
On the hills of Beverly Hills at dawn on August 9, 1969, three women and one man gathered: Susan Atkins, a former church choir member, a shoemaker Former company secretary Patricia Kronwinkel, unemployed Linda Casabia, and former wrestling coach Charles Watson. These four people looked at the mansions of the stars, and their hearts were burning with anger: Is there anyone else who lives like this?
Their eyes swept across the houses of different styles, and finally decided to take action against the Polanskis. Watson slid down the hill, over the fence, and headed for Polanski's house. He picked up the knife and cut off the telephone line on the wall, then raised his hand and broke the glass door with his accomplices and drove straight in.
They passed Sharon Tate's bedroom first. Susan Atkins slashed to death Sharon Tate 16 times in a row, despite her 8-month-old belly. In another room, Watson beat Polanski's friend, the Polish film director Vojjc Frykowski, first with a softball bat and then with a knife.
The killer killed a young couple in another room on the first floor: 18-year-old Steven Parent and his girlfriend, Hollywood hairstylist Yeya Sibling. After that, a figure running in the grass caught their attention. They chased after her and killed her immediately. The victim was Abigail Folgers, the cafe owner's daughter. The housekeeper and the maid who lived on the second floor were tied up by the murderer and slowly killed one by one.
Seven innocent people were killed in the bloodshed. The murderer wrote the word "pig" on the door with the blood of the victims.
Polanski was in New York that day and was spared the disaster. Police found remnants of cocaine and marijuana at the homicide scene, presumably Sharon Tate and her friends killed each other after taking drugs. Two weeks later, writing in the blood of the deceased was also found on the door of an elderly couple in Los Angeles: "We will come again." But police have yet to find the killer.
It wasn't until Susan Atkins was caught in another case that she boasted to her fellow female inmate that she had killed the famous Sharon Tate, and the seven murders came to light.
As always After the
cataclysm , Polanski still makes films that expose sin, and he wants to forget the past, as he did after his mother's death. Critics have noted that Polanski finds justification for the killer in each of his films. In 1999, he wrote and directed the thriller "The Ninth Door", which made a profound reveal of the good and evil, beauty and ugliness deep in the human heart. The film won the 12th European Film Award, European Achievement Award and Best Director, Polanski reinvents the status of Europe's No. 1 director.
"The Pianist" is based on the autobiographical novel "The Destruction of a City" by Polish Jewish pianist Varadyslaw Spearman. The film describes the touching story of a talented Polish-Jewish pianist who finally ushered in freedom under the protection of a German officer during World War II.
A person can express and realize his wish with the help of his profession and his art. Polanski's wish was to go back to the past, to the past that had changed his life. Perhaps, he hopes that his mother can also meet a kind "executioner" who saves her. It can be said that "The Pianist" is Polanski's memory dedicated to indelible childhood impressions. It can also be said that Polanski's dearest mother has always guided his destiny.
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