The Coen brothers are really geniuses at telling stories. Since I am reading and writing, so just remember something.
P1, why isn't the massacre of ballads on horseback and random taverns the biggest highlight of Westerns! The director's skillful use of breaking the fourth wall makes the audience feel like a companion of Buster (Old Bar, West Texas Tit, San Sabah Warbler), roaming the land of freedom and savagery in the West. And the abrupt ending and the drama enough to make the audience laugh, accompanied by the duet of the sharpshooters, set the perfect tone for the whole film - "We'll be there waiting for you, we can sing together." —The philosophy of existence of free will hhh.
Why does P2 say the Coen brothers are geniuses in storytelling? They can firmly grasp what you want to see, and present the main and secondary concisely and quickly, which is reflected in the ingenious setting of the scene and the arrival of emergencies - you can never imagine what will happen in the next second. What happens, but you are forever blown away by their creative approach. And the director's black humor is also brought out incisively and vividly in this part: when the protagonist is tried again, he says "First time?" Girls are fascinated by men.
At first glance, P3 looks a little mediocre, and the elements of Westerns are used the least, but it is a part of the characters with more emotional conflicts. The director deliberately used gray filters and snowy forests to express the indifferent and ignorant residents and backward regional characteristics. At the same time, he also proposed social thinking: When a world is ignorant and corrupt, can Jehovah really save mankind? When the crippled man and the bound animal have the same need for survival, is the real difference between them language? When barbarism and civilization collide, we have to choose in our hearts which side will we prefer? We can only stand in the most objective perspective, and it is nothing more than continuing to "drive into the impermanence of life".
P4 "The vast canyon is desolate and desolate." The director used soothing music and a lot of fixed shots to show this beautiful borderless land: vast forests, free creatures and gurgling water. It is not surprising that such beauty attracts gold prospectors. The director used a large amount of space to express the details of the life of the gold diggers, but at the sudden end he told us: when greed does not end, the cave of desire will eventually become a tomb of burial. When the film ends with a natural scene again, it also reinforces the irony of "destroying the canyon and leaving peacefully". Indeed, it is desolate.
P5 can be said to be the most perfect story to watch in all aspects (also recommended by the teacher), which is enough to show the director's ability to control the rhythm of the story: there is warmth as well as happiness and regret, perhaps an inadvertent flag is the ending The essential. Although the rhythm of the whole film is a little slow and the plot is a little lacking, it expresses the director's outlook on life, marriage, etc., and also has a sublime theme. As the longest part, it already has the potential of a long story. The handling of the last five minutes is a great example of story design, and those regrets are the re-layouts of the previous parts, which make up for the drama in a dramatic way.
P6 read, but did not fully understand. The whole film is filled with a lot of dialogue in a small space, and it also breaks the fourth largest wall in the whole film, but...
Summary: Although this film is not creative in terms of structure, it can tell all the stories through a book, and has a beginning and an end, hymns and ironies, interesting and aftertaste, which is rich in perception. In short, a serious design that starts with flipping the book and ends with closing the book is commendable. Coen brothers yyds!
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