A few days ago, I watched a movie called 'The Legend Nineteen Hundred', and I was really deeply impressed by it. Now I will say something about this movie.
On a luxurious ship travelling between Europe and America, a baby was found left on a piano-maybe his parents wanted some rich people to adopt him and to offer him a better life. However, it was a poor worker on the ship that adopted him and gave him the name-Nineteen Hundred. He had no identity, no nationality, even nothing to prove his existence.In order not to be found by others, he could not get off the ship even once. However, he was a genius for piano, he never heard of the word 'jazz', but he could compose the most beautiful piece of rhyme. When he grew up, he became the pianist on the ship. His music was so peaceful and affective that every time he played, people would became joyful and dance involuntarily to his music. Soon, everyone knew that there was a best pianist who never got off the ship.
Also on this ship, the pianist met a trumpet player named Max, who later became his best friend. They both served in the orchestra on the ship and spent their best time together. And Max was the only person who understood him and always supported him.
Nineteen Hundred had never stepped onto the land, not even once in his life.There was one time that he had already decided to get off and experience the life on the land. However, at the sight of the flourishing and busy city in front of him, he hesitated. Eventually, he returned to the ship and continued his life on the ship. He loved a girl very much, and even composed a peaceful and touching melody for her. But he never had the courage to tell her about his love. As the girl got off the ship later, his love could just exist in memories.He spent all his life on the ship- born on it, grew up on it, work on it, and finally died with it.His story was quite a legend.
There were three plots that left the deepest impression on me.The first one comes when Max first got onto the ship. He was not used to the life on the sea, and became seriously seasick when there was a storm. Just then, Nineteen Hundred came and offered to help him. He asked Max to join him playing the piano on the shaking deck.They just sat in front of the piano letting themselves slide freely with it. It seemed that they were waltzing and enjoying the accompanying of the storm. And with the help of the music, Max did not feel sick any more.
The second one is the competition between Nineteen Hundred and the inventor of jazz. That 'master' was very proud and did not believe that there was anyone who played better than him, so he came specially to compete with Nineteen hundred. At first, Nineteen Hundred did not want to compare with him, however, he was later exasperated by him and performed a wonderful melody which shocked everyone present. People were all swept off their feet by the music and there was a complete silence. Then, Nineteen Hundred put a cigarette on the string of the piano. To everyone's astonishment, the cigarette lighted itself due to the high temperature of the string. From this we can see how proficient he was at it.
The third one is the end of the story. Many years later, the ship could not serve anymore, and people wanted to destroy it. Only Max knew that Nineteen Hundred was still on the ship, he believed that. Therefore, he got aboard and searched for Nineteen Hundred. He tried to persuade him to get off the ship, but he failed. For Nighteen Hundred, the ship was his whole world. While, the land was like a piano with infinite keys. It was not a piano he could play, it was God’s piano. Those were his last words to Max:
“I could never get off this ship
At best, I can step off my life
After all, I don't exist for anyone
Forgive me, my friend
but I'm not getting off”
With the burst of the ship, the legend of Nineteen Hundred, and a legend of music finally ended.
We were sometimes like him in some aspects. We tend to live within our own world, and feel tired of the busy city. Perhaps that is why I am impressed with this movie.
I am touched by the movie a lot as well. Nineteen Hundred believed that the ship was his whole world and was afraid to get out of it. However, I think that we should be brave to enter a new world just like we leave China and come to Singapore.
ReplyDelete"We tend to live within our own world, and feel tired of the busy city. Perhaps that is why I am impressed with this movie." Sometimes, we want to go outsides, but as we leave our familiar land, all the strange people and things make us anxious.
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