Compared to 007 and Liang Tang, I still like to hear Sheriff Gordon whispering softly in my ear with a thick London accent.
Some people think it's a little late to write a review of "The Tinker" now? I am calm, although it is late, but it is not too late to catch up. After all, the Oscar's envelope has not been opened, and the discussion about who will win this year's awards continues to heat up.
"Mission Impossible 4" has swept the box office of over 100 million yuan worldwide, becoming the highest-grossing film in Liangtang's acting career. However, if Tom can continue to fight, then Paramount will still release Mission: Impossible 5, Mission: Impossible 6, and possibly even a whole seven-episode series like Harry Potter. Remember that at the end of "Mission: Impossible 4" Bird laid a foreshadowing - Jeremy (by the way, this Jeremy is the spy blockbuster "The Bourne 4" that has been very popular recently in the trailer. The male protagonist) agreed to Liang Tang to take over the task and took away the iphone. Later, Mrs. A and a fat black man appeared, proving that Mrs. Tang was not dead. The two entered the store. He looked at each other affectionately, and finally Tom called his iPhone, which told him that there was a new task waiting for him to do. This foreshadowing shows that there is no accident, Mission Impossible 5 will be out in two or three years.
There are 5 in Mission Impossible and 4 in The Bourne, but it is impossible for Tinker to have a second one, because this one is already a boutique, and more sequels will only appear cumbersome.
In contrast, "Tinker" takes the line of literary espionage. Bourne is too realistic, too many melee scenes; too many high-tech weapons in the soup, and difficult and handsome moves; and our 007, Mr.Bond, only cares about flirting with beautiful women. Only our British guys still stick to the bottom line of making movies by themselves, that is, they don't fight or make trouble, and they just play corrupt and literary with you. Of course, aside from jokes, "Tinker" is not only the most literary spy film, but also the most realistic spy portrait.
According to many spy reports, the British spies in history should be similar to Gordon's Smiley: wearing reading glasses with large thin-rimmed lenses and a dark gray or dark green finely crafted suit. The coat, which is based on a clean shirt of solid color or stripes, is matched with ties of various styles such as twill pattern and diamond checkered squares - this is the typical British style.
But a little different from the movie is that even real spies will use a certain number of spying tools in most cases, although they are not as exaggerated as 007. There is a section in the film that Smiley asks Peter, the head of the skinning group played by Cun Fu, to return to the roundabout to steal the list of retired high-level personnel. In order to highlight the tension of stealing the list, the director did not ask the characters to use any props (for example, many spy films will The classic miniature camera used, which appeared in MI4, is the contact lens worn by Jeremy) - this makes people feel that the whole movie always lacks some bright spots, although it is called spy war suspense, but it is missing The characteristic elements that make up a spy film. It seems that director Tomas is going to decide to play with our brains to the end.
The plot is still unfolding with the infernal way of catching a traitor.
The setting is set during the Cold War, a backdrop of growing tensions between communism and capitalism. At that time, both the East and the West had their own spy intelligence agencies - the "Center" in Moscow and the "Circus" in the United Kingdom. Later, Jim, a spy sent by the Circus, was shot by an agent sent by Karla, the leader of the center, when he was in contact with General Moscow's entourage to obtain information about the undercover "mole (gopher)" lurking in the upper floors of the Circus. The incident shocked British ministers, and for the British intelligence community "it was a total disaster". So, the Circus boss was about to catch the gopher out. The object of his suspicion is among his five key men, whom the boss named Percy Alleline, Soldier (Roy Bland), Tailor (Bill Haydon), Poor (Toby Esterhase) and Beggar (George Smiley) ). However, he died before his ambition was paid, and the boss died in the hospital before he could find the culprit behind it. However, in many meetings before his death, he repeatedly stated that he suspected that "the beggar" Smiley was a major suspect. A year later, after many investigations, the director of the British Intelligence Office, Lacan, believes that Smiley, who has retired from the rounder, can be ruled out and his life experience restored. So in order to get rid of this big worry, he asked Smiley to come out again, bring our lovely Cuan Fu and his Pirates team, determined to get rid of rats for the people.
Long-winded, I finally gave an overview of the plot. For most Geeks, or most popcorn viewers, "Tinker" is indeed a movie that "earned word of mouth, but not the box office." The film is more than two hours long, accompanied by various hints, obscure language, slow switching of shots, and protracted film rhythm. Factors have created the masterpiece "Tinker".
The main point to mention is Gary Oldman (the actor who played Sheriff Gordon in Batman: The Dark Knight and Smiley in Tinker), whose performance not only brought the whole play to life, but also To add to the bitter tone of the whole show: One of my favorite scenes is in the apartment, where he and Cuan Fu are smoking cigarettes and talking to themselves about the experience he met Karla, saying The expression of regret when he saw that Karla had no fingernails; said that he wanted to submit to Karla, told him not to go back to Moscow, and stayed in the UK rounder to work for him, and Karla refused; and he will The emotion that comes naturally when I engrave myself and my wife's blessings on my lighter and give it to Karla. In less than ten minutes, Gary's almost self-talking performance made the whole play a little more emotional. In addition, his messy and undressed hair, the cigarette in his hand as an atmosphere decoration, although it is said that there is no rendering of music, but as appreciators, we can still experience the emotions that the performers want to express.
There is also the plot of the confrontation with our "gopher" at the end. This can almost be called a movie king-level drama. Colin won the best actor Oscar in the last year for "The King's Speech", and Smiley was nominated for the best actor in the Oscar for "The Tinker". It can be seen that They are all top-level talents: Smiley listened to the phone, and the other end of the phone said that several tinkerers were gradually in place. It was not the "gophers" who went to the headquarters to discuss countermeasures, and the real "gophers" wanted to avoid being exposed. , had to go back to the apartment to ensure safety. "Gopher" entered the apartment, Smiley slowly took off his shoes, raised his pistol, and gently prepared to catch "Gopher" from the attic. If the Yankees were filmed, this paragraph would definitely be handled as a series of difficult action fighting scenes, and then the literary and artistic model Smiley had worked so hard to create would collapse in an instant. Therefore, the final shot is taken by Cuan Fu, who witnesses the best actor vs. the best actor from the perspective of a third party. The camera is from left to right, from "beggar" to "gopher", both of them are sitting with their legs crossed, but I have to say that the aura and posture are really full.
There is another important point to mention, that is our lovely curly blessing.
Many people know him from the British drama "New Sherlock Holmes", his charming curly hair, his and Watson's rotten and tangled marriage spanning centuries, and the pair The eyes full of British style and the mouth that can quickly tell the various characteristics of the other party in a short period of time make the image of Sherlock Holmes created by Cumford deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Therefore, it is conceivable that Tomas will find Cui Fu to join this British spy drama. The person who plays the detective must have a good brain, and the skill of finding an undercover agent must not be bad.
Curly Fu's performance is remarkable, but in my opinion, there is a shadow of Sherlock Holmes in most of them. When he was suspected of being a Double (double spy), he suddenly punched him angrily. Most of the scenes showed his crazy performance in "New Sherlock Holmes", but this did not affect The atmosphere of the whole play is brilliant because of him. Think about it, Sherlock Holmes appeared in "The Tinker", what a movie with a high IQ, the level of this movie suddenly soared by dozens of orders of magnitude.
It is worth mentioning that Peter, played by Cun Fu, is gay. Many people say that in order to make a good British movie, the first thing to learn is how to be gay. In the play, there are very few gay performances of Cuan Fu, only two shots, but when Cuan Fu looked at his husband, the reluctant little eyes, the crying pear blossom with rain, really even the boys saw It will be painful too! This is really in line with the appetite of most rotten girls, but it also makes the audience burst into lament: why are handsome guys so gay! Our Scofield is gay, the peacock man Matt in our thief is also gay, and now even Kuan Fu is gay!
Finally, a few of my favorite shots.
1. This scene appears at the beginning, where Jim meets with General Moscow's entourage. When the unprofessional waiter puts refreshments on their table, he sweats nervously, and the film also treats the sound of sweat beading on the table specially. The director did not directly shoot the eyes and expressions of the characters. Instead, he used a long-distance lens to show the trembling arms of the waiter, the drops of sweat dripping on the table at close range, and the vagueness and ghosts of the surrounding pedestrians. The sneaky and flickering close-ups of the eyes raised the tension around the cafe to the highest point, paving the way for the final shooting and the subsequent failure of the Moscow agent mission.
2. When Tarr, played by Tom Hardy, comes to Smiley's apartment and asks for help, he recounts what happened while he was spying on an important official. The film cleverly handles this part as a "third-party perspective", that is to say, it looks at the development of events from a third-party perspective (somewhat similar to Hitchcock's "Rear Window" lens processing). Look: how could the German woman be so far away to notice that Tarr was on the opposite side. . . . . .
3. Some people say that this play is a men's play, and the only actress who has appeared in more plays is the wife of the official that Tarr monitors, that is, the German woman. A few minutes of footage is reserved for her and Tarr, the two of them circling the pier in a convertible, surrounded by high-stacked shipping containers. But as far as I'm concerned, I think it's already the brightest, cleanest picture in the whole show.
4. There are also many applications of wide-angle perspectives in the movie, such as the old lady who infiltrated from the upstairs to watch at the beginning, the several rooftop meetings of the tinker and the soldier, and many others that I can’t remember clearly, all of which are all about the surrounding area. The scene expands wide and wide, while the person appears small in the middle of the shot. The advantage of this is that the audience will struggle to find people in the picture, so that the focus of the picture is on the characters. There is another reason why I like it, that is, such a lens will have a special British style.
The British think differently than the Americans think. What the Yankees think about the most is the conflict of the plot and the personalities of the characters. It is good to have a superhero from time to time to save the earth; and the British people use the camera the most, and their nirvana: rot. It really can't be called a pure British film that is not corrupt or not based. Take Sherlock Holmes as an example, our little Downey can not only play, but also do experiments and cannons, and can have dinner with beautiful women when he has time; but we are not close to women, and we only love little Watson all our lives, "I As long as there is you" how powerfully said the line! Although this Oscar is ultimately no match for "The Artist", as an outstanding representative of British films and a typical model of spy films, it is worth seeing again and again. It doesn't mean that watching such a movie is a kind of pretending to be a literary art, but it has a deeper understanding of British movies from it.
By the way, I've watched "The Tinker" no less than ten times.
Duck cold
2012.2.17
View more about Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy reviews
