Dangerous sex

Johnny 2021-12-19 08:01:11

The Counselor is not only Ridley Scott's feature film released in 2013, but also the first independent scripted play after Cormac McCarthy crossed the border to the big screen. From the beginning of the whole play, it relies on a set of sex scenes to show the danger of desire (especially sexual desire). Other violence, bloody to the end, no matter how heavy the taste, has become embellishment and foil. For this reason, this drama is not unexpectedly classified as an R-rated film in North America, and a third-rated film in Hong Kong, and people under the age of eighteen are not allowed to watch it. Although in the film, Ridley Scott and Cormac McCarthy didn't even put in a dew point lens. But let alone those under eighteen years old, even people in their twenties may not be able to see the core of the film.

The director and screenwriter showed an ambiguous and clear narrative line, just to tell the audience that sex is dangerous. How dangerous is sex? Ninety percent of life and death, intensification or reversal in this play involves sex. Whether it is the main cause or the inducement, sex pulls several characters walking on the edge of the volcano into the heart of the furnace, and eventually there is no residue left. Such a core is more than ambiguous, it is almost in broad daylight.

It's just that behind the director's skillful lens language, the screenwriter did not come up with corresponding dialogue and drama language that could support the entire film. The idea of ​​drama creation in this film is actually not complicated. I hope to describe the characters, time, place, the cause and fermentation of the event through several dialogues in the previous paragraph, then change it again, ignite the fuse, and narrate all the way to the end.

The screenwriter didn't grasp the scale at the beginning, the language was bold, and he tried to be popular, but it seemed that he didn't find the rhythm, not only not sexy, but also popular. Although the actors are engaged, it is also difficult to coordinate language and movement. However, the characterization of several dialogues was quite successful, coupled with the personal charm of the star actor, the entire cast almost contributed a remarkable performance. It's just that the question of language has always run through these dialogues. Although these dialogues have their own dramatic effects and cannot be deleted arbitrarily, the dialogue is still not refined. Even if the treatment is quite life-like, it is a bit lengthy, and even the author's usual black humor is difficult to remedy.

After the variation, the director’s skill quickly made up for the shortcomings, and quickly entered the topic. Several murder and chase scenes, the characters, props and scene settings are very simple, the effect of the filming can be described as thrilling, and the pressing is too big. out. The information hidden in the dialogue before was also volatilized, and the impact was considerable. In the end, the screenwriter can be regarded as portraying the animal nature of human beings. Unfortunately, the ambition is too great. The blueprint of the script itself is quite difficult, or many scripts will be more skilled in creating some scripts. All of his clues are slowly concentrated on the main line, rather than divided into expenditure lines to narrate, but if they are not described in parallel, there are too many clues and too complicated.

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The Counselor quotes

  • Reiner: Are you really that cold?

    Malkina: The truth has no temperature.

  • Malkina: I'm famished.