I'm used to understanding the word "gorgeous" in the broadest sense. No matter from the aspect of picture, story, performance, form or content, any colorful paragraphs that can bring aesthetic pleasure and viewing pleasure to the audience can be called "gorgeous". Even if we return to the most original meaning, "gorgeous" does not mean the layout of scenery and the stacking of colors. From this point of view, "The Banquet" is more gorgeous than "The Golden Armor in the City".
The difference in artistic taste between different films can be seen only from the performance of the court scenes, and the brilliance of the film is not limited to the beautiful pictures like oil paintings. With just a little attention, there's filmmaking skill behind the fluid, rhythmic narrative. When showing the royal family's reaction to Diana's car accident, the director only used a few shots and a scream from Charles, which makes the narrative at the beginning of the film very concise and easy for the audience to get into the play. Since then, the attitude of the royal family and the ebb and flow of various forces have always been exciting. If you compare it from the level of simplicity, the British media's evaluation of the film like a soap opera can be regarded as a compliment. Only superb skills can make it invisible, so that the audience can ignore the accurate movement of the mirror and the refined editing, and only feel the extraordinary effect of the film as a whole. Only with superb skills can the director have the courage and tolerance to cover up his talents under the light of the screenwriter, and let all technical means serve an excellent script.
As a comedy, the film is not vulgar because it is deliberately funny. Except for Blair's image to be slightly caricatured, other character creators just magnified and exaggerated the shortcomings of these high-ranking people, and did not maliciously vilify and distort them. For example, the images of the Queen and Mrs Blair are quite expressive. The characters are funny because the film restores real characters, and the plot is funny because the politics itself is funny. Showing the unknowable daily life of a serious leader is interesting in itself, and politics with a squalid interior but seemingly solemnity is laughable in its own absurdity. Therefore, the film only needs to faithfully record these ridiculous people and things based on facts, and the humor produced in this way is a humorous one that makes people laugh, and it is also a low-key and gorgeous humor. Presumably those who live in the UK will have a better understanding of the political allegory in the film.
The film's understated and flamboyant, easy and elegant owes ultimately to the subtlety of screenwriting. Directing, filming, beauty, performance, and soundtracking are all means of storytelling, and the story itself is the goal. The most prominent part of the whole film is the setting of character relationships and the shaping of character images. On the surface, the film tells the behind-the-scenes story of Diana's burial; in fact, the screenwriter has made a political interpretation of this event, reflecting the contest and game between various political forces, including public opinion, through the dispute over how to bury Diana. . The different opinions on funerals are appearances, and the establishment of their own political status is the essence. Everyone involved in this incident has their own interests. The royal family needs to maintain its dignity, the cabinet needs to defend its power, the media use public sentiment to fan the flames for their political or commercial purposes, and the uninformed public, out of pure love for Diana, has unconsciously become a coercion. An important force in changing decisions by the Royal Family and Cabinet. And there are large or small conflicts of interest within the royal family, between Blair and his aides, and the relationship at the top of the political hierarchy is more delicate and complicated. This delicate and complicated relationship allows the outstanding political skills of politicians to come into play. , and all of this has been turned into a wonderful and beautiful plot through the scriptwriter's old and spicy brushwork.
The film has successfully created a group of high-level British political figures, the most successful of which is the Queen. This is thanks to the actors, but also to the writers. The heroine Helen Mirren has an accurate understanding and grasp of the Queen's strong and fragile, supreme and lonely character set by the script, and has made a well-defined performance design for the Queen's expression, posture and tone on different occasions. Make the image of the queen vivid and full.
In addition to the overall grasp of the characters on the main line of the story, the screenwriter also used some details to add the finishing touch. For example, when the Queen met the audience, she wanted to help a little girl lay flowers for Diana, but the little girl said, "This is for you." This unexpected plot design will inadvertently hit the audience's heart, I believe In addition to being moved, the audience will also praise the screenwriter's sensational skills. There is also the elk that appears from time to time. The screenwriter uses it to subtly depict the Queen's complex heart that is both ruthless and affectionate, and reflects the Queen's psychological changes from ruthlessness to compassion. The deer represented both the humiliated and damaged people, and the strong and weak queen, who was outstanding and lacking in her kind.
This film tells a small piece of British history a few years ago, and confronting history - especially the history that has just happened and is still going on requires not only skill but courage. Skills Needless to say, the film's precise portrayal of characters stands up to comparisons with living archetypes. If you pay attention to reports about the United Kingdom, you will find that the screenwriter's depiction or conjecture of the character's activities has its actual basis. Therefore, the historical materials and role-playing in the film can be so closely integrated, which makes the film both a historical reproduction and a reappearing history.
Compared with skills, although the film also reveals a little flattery to the queen, the courage it shows to face up to history is more valuable. Because my country's films do not have the courage to tell the history of the past, let alone the history of the present.
2007-1-28
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