First of all, I want to talk about the characters in the two films, because I think that only after the characters are structured first, some elements such as plot and structure will be completed naturally. There is no doubt about Charlie Kaufman's ability to frame characters, but in my opinion, "Barton Fink" is slightly better than "Adapted Screenplay" in terms of character description. It is not without basis that I say this. The leading actors of the two films are not ordinary people. The acting skills of John Turturro and Nicolas Cage are unquestionable, but "Charlie Kaufman" and "Barton" Funk" always feels like something is missing in comparison. In my opinion, "Charlie Kaufman" is less than "Barton Funk" is something called the ultimate, or it is less hysterical, and in more popular terms, "Charlie Kaufman" is worse Just a little less passion. Of course, what I'm talking about is not the kind of passion that we understand on the sports field or in singing and dancing in the usual sense, but whether the attitude of the characters in the face of what is happening in the film can give us a clue shock. Because this is a kind of feeling that is hard to describe, I just describe the feeling that I want to get, which I think is more accurate to express with hysteria. In my opinion, the characters in "Barton Funk" are more distinct and more concrete. The characters I am talking about not only refer to the protagonist Barton Funk, but also include many characters in the play, such as the murderer Charlie, the movie The boss of the company, even the hotel waiter and other people who don't appear much, each of their characters feels so different, so people want to see such people in real life, but It's not necessarily to get to know them, because some of them are the kind of people who come into your life and disrupt your life, and being able to make the audience yearn for the characters to some extent is definitely It's a huge creative success for the director and screenwriter. The reason why I think he is relatively weak in character structure in "Adapted Screenplay" is that although his characters are also different and colorful, they always seem lifeless, played by Nicolas Cage and Meryl Streep The role of the characters in the whole play has been brought into full play, which is a success for the screenwriters, but compared with "Barton Fink", the roles they play will not give people a strong desire to be in The impulses seen in real life, because although they also have their own characteristics, it is undeniable that they are all dull overall, making people not interested in them outside the film. Next, I will specifically talk about the characters in "Barton Fink" that I think are better. The first thing to talk about is of course the protagonist Barton Fink. Dun Funk, after watching the whole movie, the image of Button Fink has been deeply ingrained in my mind, and it has a taste of Confucius's voice for three days. He is timid and cowardly on the surface, even a little neurotic, and he is not strong inwardly. He always wants to rely on others when he encounters problems. In terms of creation, he wants to rely on the secretary of an alcoholic writer, but when he encounters difficulties in life, he relies on him. The one who is next door is Charlie, a writer who is addicted to his own writing world and has caused a considerable gap with the real world. I believe that in the future, as long as I think of the image of the writer, I will immediately think of Barton. Image of Funk. Charlie, who lives next to Patton, is also a very important character in the play. He can be said to be the key character who completely disrupted Patton's life. First, he approached Patton as a good neighbor, but it was unexpectedly revealed that he was a murderer in the end. The image fits perfectly with the image of Patton and represents the two major categories of hysterical characters I admire. One is gentle hysteria, while the other is flamboyant hysteria. Although the forms are different, the essence is the same. The character I want to talk about is not the obese Jewish boss of a film company. His lines are so many that they don’t appear to be superfluous, but instead give people a feeling of passion, because every line is not nonsense, every line is The boss's Jewish shrewdness is vividly displayed. I have to talk about this character because this character reminds me of Wang Shuo's talkative style, and Wang Shuo is one of the Chinese writers I admire the most. The arrow hits so deeply where my interests lie, it's hard to keep me from being fascinated by him. The hysterical hysteria, while the other is hysterical hysteria, is different in form, but the essence is the same. The character I want to talk about is not the obese Jewish boss of a film company. His lines are so many that they don’t appear to be superfluous, but instead give people a feeling of passion, because every line is not nonsense, every line is The boss's Jewish shrewdness is vividly displayed. I have to talk about this character because this character reminds me of Wang Shuo's talkative style, and Wang Shuo is one of the Chinese writers I admire the most. The arrow hits so deeply where my interests lie, it's hard to keep me from being fascinated by him. The hysterical hysteria, while the other is hysterical hysteria, is different in form, but the essence is the same. The character I want to talk about is not the obese Jewish boss of a film company. His lines are so many that they don’t appear to be superfluous, but instead give people a feeling of passion, because every line is not nonsense, every line is The boss's Jewish shrewdness is vividly displayed. I have to talk about this character because this character reminds me of Wang Shuo's talkative style, and Wang Shuo is one of the Chinese writers I admire the most. The arrow hits so deeply where my interests lie, it's hard to keep me from being fascinated by him.
The plot, confusing and intriguing,
as two very in-depth films, the plots of both are extremely exciting. In terms of plot, "Adaptation" beats "Barton Funk". But this doesn't mean that the plot of "Barton Funk" is not good enough, it's just that there are strong players in the strong, and a mountain is even higher. Let's talk about "Barton Funk" with a relatively weak plot first. The most intriguing plot in the play is that Charlie who lives next door turns out to be a murderer. Charlie acts like a good guy at first, even stepping up to help Funk deal with Button Funk's accident. But who would have thought that in the end, Charlie turned into a murderous demon, and the secretary of the alcoholic writer who died in Funk's room was also killed by Charlie. At first I didn't notice this symptom of Charlie, but in retrospect I found that the director had hinted at Charlie's madness for us long ago. When Fink and Charlie talked about how he was affecting his writing because he heard the moans next door, Charlie heard it a room apart, and according to him it was through the water pipe, while in Patton and the secretary lingering When the camera suddenly turned to the sink in the bathroom, it implied that Charlie must have heard the lingering voice of Barton and the secretary through the water pipe, and entered Barton's room to kill the secretary. This can be said to be the director's good intentions. . This has had the effect of shocking me, but I can't think of "Adaptation" is better. His whole story can be described as a serial pattern, which reminds me of the Russian nesting dolls I played with when I was a child. It turns out that the narrative thread of Charlie Kaufman's younger brother, the narrative thread of the female writer, and even the narrative thread of Charlie Kaufman in the play were all fictionalized by one of the writers in the play, Charlie Kaufman, This kind of plot mode is unimaginable by any means, but it is expected to know that Charlie Kaufman can write a good script like "Becoming John Malkovich".
The above is a little superficial view of the characters and plots of the two films that I have produced through the comparison of the two films. In addition to showing me the whimsical ideas of the screenwriters’ predecessors, the two films also let me I saw the pain and joy of the screenwriter's difficulty in finding inspiration when creating. I believe that the influence of these two films on me will definitely play a very important guiding role in my future screenwriting path.
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