I suspect that Quentin, who I liked the other day, likes Fellini as much as I do, because Fellini's "Eight and a Half" has a woman and a man with the same hairstyle as Mia in Pulp Fiction I danced the same classic dance as Mia and Winterson in Pulp Fiction, but it really has nothing to do with Fellini's obscenity, so I won't dwell on it. The male protagonist in "Eight and a Half" is a director who is preparing to make a movie, which I talked about yesterday. The content of the movie he is going to make is actually a collection of things he has experienced since he was a child. When casting roles, we can easily see that some people play the prototype of his wife, some are his mistress, some are Give him the fat woman who danced when he was a child... The
producers and the people who invested in the film are all in high spirits, and they are all very serious about choosing actors. But the male protagonist was very impatient with all this, and he no longer wanted to make the movie. He stared blankly at all kinds of people coming and going in front of him, but what he thought was that someone dragged the chattering producer aside and hanged him with a rope. In the moment when he was in a trance, this kind of scene actually appeared in the movie, but when he came back to his senses, everything went back to normal.
The male protagonist's life is also very unsatisfactory. His slovenly yellow-faced woman always loves to nagging in front of him and keeps arguing with him, and the fashionable and sexy lover makes people feel very annoying. He likes a lot of women around him, but he always can't tolerate the shortcomings of those women or this or that. But suddenly one day all the women around him, young and old, became his slaves, and they gently waited on him to bathe, change, and dance for him. The young one stayed by his side, while the old one went into the cold palace. When he is happy, he has fun with those women, and when he is unhappy, he fights with them. The strange thing is that those women actually like being beaten by him very much... How beautiful all this is! Unfortunately, when he regained his senses again, he found himself having another daydream.
What will happen if the hero goes down the unsatisfactory life and persists in making that movie? Once the characters are chosen, the filming starts, and when the filming starts, it is time to hold a press conference to promote the film. So, the producer built two very high iron towers, and held a grand reception and press conference for the actor and his film under the towers. When they arrived at the meeting, the producer and the boss almost escorted the actor to the rostrum, and at the same time, the reporters were all noisy and besieged the poor actor with various questions. We can find Fellini's way of depicting the panic of the hero in many later films, such as Mrs. Li Shaohong mentioned yesterday and the shaky and fancy scenes in Lu Chuan's "Looking for a Gun" added today. I guess, that's the legendary montage shot. Unable to bear the mental pressure caused by the chaos on the scene, the male protagonist finally hid under the table, only to see him tremblingly pick up the pistol and shoot it at his head...
Rest assured, the male protagonist is not dead, this is his white daydream. In fact, under the iron tower built by the producer, he refused the producer's request to continue filming the film. When this decision was settled, the hero's fantasy came again -
all the characters who had appeared in his fantasy or in reality walked down the tower like a tide and passed in front of his eyes, Then leave him. Among them, his elegant old mother was mixed up while walking. He rushed up to help her, and her mother tidied up her clothes and continued to walk into the distance holding his father's hand. At this time, a band played a cheerful dance song, and he kept walking with the band, feeling the unprecedented ease and happiness...
Fellini still leaves some meaningful words at the end of the film, so I don't know how long the hero's lightheartedness and happiness lasted when he returned to reality. But, my dear, in the face of a person who is so good at obtaining joy through fantasies, what else can he be called a master of lust?
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