"The Empire of Money" tells a story: Nowell, who has just graduated from school, came to the prosperous New York with his ideals. An accidental opportunity made him join a large consortium as a messenger, but he got involved because of it. Into a huge conspiracy, he reached the sky in one step! He became famous in one fell swoop! He has both fame and fortune! He lost his ideals, he fell into prosperity, and when his dreams were over, he realized that he was just an "idiot" being used by others, where would he go...
At the beginning of the story, the camera moves slowly in the night sky. In the night, snow flies, everything is so beautiful! The emotionally deep Daobai, with a hint of philosophy, seems to be telling us something. The high-rise camera of a building stops, the windows open, and the desperate Novel of Manlian faces death in fear. How will he choose?
The camera turned again, time went back, and the young Novel came to this prosperous world with joy, and the music turned from the initial sadness to light and happy! The color is full of golden-gray texture, which fits a theme of the film-money. President Ha's dramatic suicide by jumping from a building and Novel's entry are accurate on the lens, and it also gives the film a layer of symbolic meaning here, a symbol of Noville's future, and also echoes before and after the film!
The initial lens placement can see the ambition of the Coen brothers, and the process of capital operation can be described as incisively and vividly. The exaggerated performance and fast-paced language add a lot of fun to the supposedly rough scene! And Tim Robbins' performance also showed his actor's strength. In the rivalry with Paul Newman, he played the role of a young man from the low-level, who had never seen the big world, and was full of ideals. ! The processing of the sense of space adopts a large panoramic view, and the size of the composition is prominent. It shows the identity and psychology of Novel in a cinematic manner. The setting of the scene is exquisite and decent. Although it is only a few things, it is visually that people cannot be ignored. Half of the clock, and the view of the building outside the window, all have deep meaning!
Although Novell started to climb to the sky in one step, he did not immediately sink. His ideals remained unchanged. He gave himself a greater responsibility. He wanted to save this company that was on the verge of "collapse". Finally, an opposite psychology made his creation. ——Circle (when I first looked at this, it is estimated that it is difficult for anyone to see that this is actually the prototype of the once-popular hula hoop. It is creative!), began to sell throughout the United States. In this process, there was something very interesting. It was originally deliberate. The high-priced hula hoop was not cared for, and even the store owner cut the price continuously and even threw it on the street. At this time, a hula hoop ran out, the camera slowly followed, turning around a depressed and bored child. When he was playing, a large group of children after class saw it. At this time, he took a short high-speed shooting with the mirror. Don’t underestimate the slowness. Its function is to just buffer the audience’s mentality of watching the movie. Let you gain momentum, ha ha! The promotion of the hula hoop, in black and white, is a sculpture of time, and the dialogue between Novel and the president can easily remind people of "Forrest Gump", but this is more simple, without using a computer to synthesize, see here again Reminiscent of the flying paper at the beginning of the film in pursuit of Novel, I couldn’t help but make me suspect that Zemeckis’s creativity in "Forrest Gump" was plagiarized (this film was slightly earlier than "Forrest Gump") .
In the face of fame and fortune, Novel is still lost after all. He indulges in his greatness, but he does not know that he is always just a tool used by others. Whether he is an idiot or a genius, he cannot change his essence as a tool, and he is lost. He just set the conditions for his fall. Facing the same man who was full of ideals and was unwilling to be satisfied with the reality, he stepped on the pioneering work of the elevator attendant. At that moment, he seemed to have become another Masbogge. (Played by Paul Newman, the man behind the scenes of manipulating everything), but what is different from Masborg is that he is facing fear, he is afraid that this young man will become another himself! In this way, he was ruined under the conspiracy, and the cruel thing was that he finally realized that only he was a "fool", and he attributed his failure to love's betrayal, at least on the surface, he couldn't sing that song anymore. In the impassioned "Mengxi School Song", he ran in the dark when everyone was chasing him, and the past scenes flashed past his mind: love, faith, cruelty, betrayal, everything seems to be unchangeable, he can only Choose to die? Falling down, the lens rotated 90 degrees, and he saw the skyscraper that symbolized everything. At this moment, he thought of something, maybe it was Mr. Ha. At this moment, he seemed destined to be destroyed!
Choosing to die is a reality, but it is not a movie, and the movie seems to be out of control at the end.
Death is always difficult to face. He flinched in physical fear. After all, he is still young, but he was rejected. Everything is irreversible? He finally fell like Mr. Ha! However, but, after all, this is only a movie, it will challenge reality, but in the end it can only escape reality. Everything is like a fairy tale. Time has stopped suddenly, Masborg’s triumphant laughter has stopped, and the tragic music has stopped. The old Mawson, who has always been preaching in the film, stands up like a commentator and asks the audience. , What can he do? At this moment, he became the spokesperson of the Coen brothers, playing a trick with our poor audience, everything is like a fairy tale, Mr. Ha landed like an angel to Novel’s side, I gave him a point. The blue letter that we have been neglecting before became the key. It seems to be explainable. The magical joy in style is also in line with the consistent style of the Coen brothers, but it gives me more of a feeling The director's compromise with reality and the audience's compromise, the tone of the film is also determined by this-a good-looking comedy, even so, after thinking about it carefully, it also works. All gains and losses are free and easy, and Novel has fallen. At that moment we already knew his dream awakening, saw his return, and saw the moral of the film: those who became rich overnight, became famous in the past, and a man who has made it to the sky by a coincidence, forgets the way he came, and is lost, At the time of fall, you can only lose everything. So apparent deception is just a deliberate honesty!
The film was once a sensation that year. The Coen brothers selected Tim Robbins, who had just gained fame as "The Shawshank's Redemption", and the acting actor who had won multiple Oscars and was known as second only to Marlon Brando. Paul Newman, and these two performances did not disappoint, especially Tim Robbins. His performance is a combination of exaggeration and restraint, comedy and tragedy. Compared with the "Xiao", the hatred is deeper. It’s taken a step further, and it fully demonstrates the super-actor-level power, which is impressive. The photography of the film is also a classic. The portrayal of New York in the 1950s is fascinating, and the changeable lens also gives the film. It has added a lot of vitality. Although the director of the Coen brothers lost control and lacked tension in the end, his flaws were not concealed. On the whole, this film is definitely a classic!
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