1. The director’s personal style shows
that each director’s style is different, and the movies that each director brings to the audience contain the connotation of their thinking and desire to express, but with the approval of the Hollywood assembly line, many directors have lost His own unique personal style is blindly serving the box office results, which has led to the loss of the existence value of many film directors. A director's personal style is crucial and has a huge impact on a film, just like an athlete's coach, "A director is a parent, a mentor in life, and a director has a great influence on actors and movies." Everything can be lost, but The unique style of being a director cannot be abandoned. Even a director like Michael Bay, who has "a lot of bad reviews", is full of his own style: explosion.
"Foxcatcher" director Bennett Miller was originally a documentary director, it is not difficult to explain why Miller's films are always so calm and restrained, unsmiling, always look at everything from a cold perspective. Director Bennett Miller's personal style has been greatly expressed in "Foxcatcher". Miller has tried very hard to leave the personal emotional factors behind in this film, and all uses the narrative method that is closest to the facts, with almost no traces. Any emotion and ideology, all allow the audience to understand the inner meaning of the scenes and characters in the film. This kind of sternness is really rare, but it is different from the sternness of David Fincher, which focuses on It is the atmosphere of the film and the production of the film, while the former has its own unique and stern style for the description of the perspective and characters. Bennett Miller's usual calm and restraint can be clearly shown in all three of his films. There is no fancy dazzling skills, no Nolan style straying from the edge of darkness, no fairy tale brilliance and innocence. Some are just their own unique accurate grasp of biographical and real subjects.
2. The camera is calm and restrained
The most controversial part of "Fox Hunter" is probably here. The film was first screened in several theaters. In the eyes of many North American film critics, the calm camera is one of the most outstanding places in "Fox Hunter". , However, after the expansion, many audiences criticized the inanimate scenes in the film and gave low marks for the style of the film. The polarized "Fox Hunter" has also become a controversial Oscar-nominated film. part of. On Metacritic, 6 media people scored a rare and precious 100 points, 5 media people scored a super high 83-91 points, and only 1 media person scored 40 points, making the Metacritic score of "Fox Hunter" 81 points.
In terms of shots, unlike most films that require rails to travel for shooting or mechanical arms to drag the camera to create a sense of movement, director Miller specifically uses this rare restraint shot, just choosing Set the position and then set up the tripod to start shooting. The lack of motion makes the film feel depressing, and it also deeply makes the audience feel how obvious the inhibitory effect of this kind of depression is on human psychology, and this kind of stability The shot runs through the whole film, full of unique power, noise and tranquility coexist, and the strong contrast gives people an obvious sense of depression. The use of this lens will have two results: 1. It will make the audience lose their patience and interest in watching the movie, and it is very easy for the audience to fall asleep. ⒉ The audience will be attracted by this shooting method as if possessed, and continue to watch the next plot with great interest. There are not too many sports shots or other things to show off their skills, but they focus on the main body in the picture - the performance of the actors themselves, which is a challenge for both the director and the actors.
3. The superb acting skills of the three leading actors
If there is anything other than restrained shots that can make the audience fascinated by the film, it is the three leading actors of "Foxcatcher": Channing Tatum, Mark Ruffalo and Shi Steve Carell.
Who would have thought that the serious, eccentric coach John Dupont on the screen was the man who once brought joy and lightheartedness to countless audiences - Steve Carell, when Bennett • When Miller was asked by reporters why he chose the comedian Steve Carell to play the DuPont coach, Miller replied: "Steve is a comedian, but I believe that all comedians It's all dark inside." Carell's acting is the most successful since his transformation from a comedian, from an actor who can only sell stupidity to a powerful actor, DuPont's moody and urgent need to be recognized His temperament and his obsession with the sport of wrestling were vividly displayed by Carell. There is no doubt that Steve Carell's unparalleled acting is a worthy contender for Best Actor at the Oscars.
Channing Tatum, the actor who has always only been in popcorn commercials, finally broke out this time. The inner thinking and performance of the role of Mark Schultz in "Foxcatcher" is the best in his history. The best performance, the kind of inner fragility, the forbearance of living in the shadow of my brother, and the pain and depravity after losing the game, especially the multiple self-abuses in the film are shocking and deeply terrifying and heartache.
Mark Ruffalo, after experiencing the popularity of "The Avengers", Ruffalo's net worth soared, and then he took over the acting baptism of "Restart" and other literary films, and his acting skills in "Fox Hunter" It makes people feel that the "Hulk" is full of deep feelings. As the actor of David Schultz, who is also Mark's brother played by Tatum, David is a man with a happy family, a delicate heart, and loves his younger brother Mark deeply. After learning the essence of Methodism, Mark Ruffalo is very proficient in controlling characters, and some film critics commented: "Mark Ruffalo is unbelievably good!"
Director Bennett Rice Le, like David O. Russell, is very good at digging out the hearts of characters and helping actors discover their acting talents. The reason why the three actors can have such unusual acting skills is still due to the director's excellent directing ability, and also Once again confirmed that sentence: "80% of the director's work is casting."
4. Makeup and hair design
The makeup artist in "Foxcatcher" is very powerful, the reason why we can now see such a chilling coach DuPont It is largely because of the tailor-made dresses made by the makeup artist for Steve Carell. Every day I spend two hours on Carell's dress up, and I have to put on a dress for Carell. The fake big nose is more in line with the image of John DuPont in reality. The final effect can only be described as amazing. The DuPont played by Carell is just like the real DuPont. Regarding hair design, there are three distinct hair designs for Mark Schultz in "Foxcatcher". The first is the most common hairstyle, which is specially shaved for wrestling competitions, and the second is DuPont. The period when the coach and Mark became more intimate, but made Mark more and more unprofessional. During the period of self-deprecation, the hair became frizzy, and there were obvious signs of dyeing. This is a sign before the storm, and the third time, at the end, after the fall bald head shape.
Such a styling design does add a lot of points to "Fox Hunter" in terms of details. It is full of the sense of the times and can highlight the state of the characters. I have to say that the makeup and hair design of "Fox Hunter" are indeed high-class.
"Foxcatcher" is a despairing and terrifying film. It disguises the sportsmanship but digs out the twisted human nature beneath the seemingly beautiful American dream. The bashing and blatant irony of the book restore the essence of the American Dream in a realistic and hopeless way.
There is a person in everyone's life, that person is your shadow, and you live in this shadow to suffer, be overwhelmed in the shadow, and give up on yourself in the shadow. Some people say that "other people's children" is that shadow, some people say that parents' expectations are that shadow, and some people say that anyone who is better than themselves is that shadow.
It is true that everyone lives in that shadow, and that shadow always seems to be better than you, and you are nothing compared to the shadow. You can suffer, you can feel inferior, you can give up on yourself, you can leave everything behind, but you can't get out of that shadow.
Why do shadows exist?
This shadow is created because of our comparison of our current situation with the current situation of others. We are not as good as others. What we do, even if we are successful, is attributed to the person who was excellent at the beginning. It is because of this. Shadow was born. We struggled in the shadows, trying hard to find our own brilliance, but unfortunately, we couldn't escape.
The actual meaning of the existence of the shadow is derived from the expectations of others for us. Excessive expectations and excessive disappointment after failure promote the expansion of the shadow, and this expectation is beyond our reach at this stage. We desire success, but this kind of success cannot be achieved. The conditions are extremely harsh.
The greater the expectations, the greater the disappointments, and this vicious circle ultimately only leads to greater failure and depravity.
What we don't get is the best. Without recognition, we expect more and more recognition, and everything we do is for "recognition". I don't know when, getting recognition from others has become an indispensable part of life. huge impact. We no longer live for ourselves, but for others.
What is the American Dream?
The American Dream is “an ideal of a better life in the United States that can only be achieved through perseverance, that people must prosper through their own hard work, courage, creativity, and determination, rather than relying on specific Social class and the assistance of others." The American Dream represents the American system. This free system and beautiful dreams have attracted the best people from all over the world to come to the land of the United States to make a world. People believe in the American dream. , firmly believe in the prosperity and prosperity that the American Dream can bring.
The American dream is a way to realize a dream. The phrase "as long as you work hard, you will be successful" was finally confirmed in the American dream. As long as you work hard and put in sweat, then success will not be far away from you.
You might ask why?
Because this is the American dream.
But the American Dream is not perfect. It overemphasizes the role of material wealth in measuring victory and happiness while ignoring the place and profound influence that the spiritual support of others occupies in life.
Whether the American Dream is "equality, freedom, and democracy" in a broad sense or "hard work can be successful" in a narrow sense, it is inexact and vague, and this illusory dream is difficult to come true.
It is not as long as you work hard and you will succeed. Sometimes even under the "illumination" of the American Dream, the shadow still exists, and the seemingly beautiful dream is just a sad dream with a bright and bright coat, and the American Dream is covered with a haze. .
Like the tragedies of the Schultz brothers and John Dupont, the American Dream is sad, an illusory dream that is shattered by one point, like a drop of dew under the scorching sun, seemingly beautiful and short-lived, eventually evaporated and nothing. did not stay. Mark Schultz's life was shrouded in the shadow of his brother David Schultz, and John Dupont's life was shrouded in the shadow of his mother, Jane Dupont, as people say: "The more empty, the more It needs to be affirmed, the more they pursue the ideal and spirit of the false and empty.” No matter how hard they work, even if they get the wealth and the life they want, but they have lost their spiritual life, they can still only fall in a trance and be caught by others. Abandoned, reviled. The American Dream did not bring them any good, only pain and despair.
Is the American Dream really as good as we think it is?
"I want to see my country prosper, I'm giving America hope, and I'm living the American dream." That's what John Dupont said as the Fox Hunters coach.
The American Dream is a banquet that will eventually dissipate. It will not last forever. Everything has an end.
This is the broken American dream.
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