“Miracle in Milan”的意思、由来-开放百科全书

The film, told as a neo-realist fable, explains the lives of a poverty-stricken group in post-war Milan, Italy.

Plot

This fantasy tale tells of Totò who, found in a cabbage patch, is adopted by Lolotta, a wise and kind old woman. When Lolotta dies he moves to an orphanage. At eighteen Totò (Francesco Golisano) leaves the orphanage and ends up in a shantytown squatter colony on the outskirts of Milan.^[4]

Totò's organizational ability learned at the orphanage and his simple kindness and optimistic outlook acquired from Lolotta bring structure to the colony and a sense of happiness and well-being among the dispossessed who live there.

Totò is given a magic dove by the ghost of Lolotta and he uses its powers to grant wishes to those who ask. Eventually the dove is taken back by two angels who object to a mortal using its magic powers.

When oil is found in the shantytown capitalists acquire it and the squatters are taken away ostensibly to prison. On the way, however, the dove is returned to Totò and his wish for the freedom of his friends is granted. They fly away on broomsticks borrowed from the street sweepers in Milan's central square and circle around the Cathedral and then away, "towards a land where good morning really means good morning."

Cast

Production

Vittorio De Sica wrote that he made the film in order to show how the "common man" can exist given the realities of life: "It is true that my people have already attained happiness after their own fashion; precisely because they are destitute, these people still feel - as the majority of ordinary men perhaps no longer do - the living warmth of a ray of winter sunshine, the simple poetry of the wind. They greet water with the same pure joy as Saint Francis did."^[5]

The Milan Cathedral serves as a focal location in the film, and can also be viewed as symbolic of the miracle to which the film's title refers.^[6]

American special effects specialist Ned Mann was hired for the film. The picture would be Mann's final project.^[7] Vittorio De Sica, in neo-realist fashion, used both professional and non-professional actors.^[8]

Reception

Critical response

The film premiered in Italy on 8 February 1951. Later it was presented at the Cannes Film Festival in April 1951. In the United States it opened wide on December 17, 1951.

The staff at Variety magazine gave the film a positive review and wrote, "The sharp satire on the oil-greedy industrialist is handled in a broader, perhaps exaggerated manner, and pic is liberally sprinkled with intelligent humor, much of it ironic. Performances by pros and tyros alike are flawless."^[10]

Awards

References

1. ^{{cite journal |title=Everyday miracles|url=http://www.alternateending.com/2016/09/everyday-miracles.html|journal=Alternate ending|date = 13 September 2016}}
2. ^{{IMDb title|id=0043809|title=Miracle in Milan}}.
3. ^{{cite journal |title=Overview|url=http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/83558/Miracle-in-Milan/|journal=TCM|date = 2005}}
4. ^{{cite journal |title=Miracolo a Milano (Miracle In Milan) (1951)|url=http://www.vernonjohns.org/snuffy1186/miracleinmilan1951.html|journal=Vernonjohns|date = 2017}}
5. ^De Sica, Vittorio Miracle in Milan, 1968, Baltimore, Maryland: Pelican Books, p11
6. ^{{cite book |last=Schneider |first=Rolf |editor=Manfred Leier |others=trans. from German by Susan Ghanouni and Rae Walter |title=100 most beautiful cathedrals of the world: A journey through five continents |year=2004 |publisher=Chartwell Books |location=Edison, New Jersey |page=11}}
7. ^[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0542904/ Ned Mann] at the Internet Movie Database.
8. ^Miracle in Milan {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070418035324/http://inblackandwhite.com/ItalianNeorealismv2.0/neo-films.html |date=2007-04-18 }} at in black and white.
9. ^Crowther, Bosley. The New York Times, film review, December 18, 1951. Last accessed: January 26, 2008.
10. ^Variety. Film review, 1951. Last accessed: May 30, 2013.
11. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/4098/year/1951.html |title=Festival de Cannes: Miracle in Milan |accessdate=2009-01-13|work=festival-cannes.com}}

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