smoke

Hilton 2022-08-08 20:37:43

Last year, I watched half of the class in the upper grades, and I wanted to see it, but I couldn't find the resources, and finally I was very satisfied after reading it in my class.

The small section structure is not as clever as the crash of the Tower of Babel. It always fits the main characters and slowly spreads out. The structure of the play seems to be related to the Oster screenwriter, but in the narrative style, the strong east can be clearly seen. Delicate, I heard that there are many Asian staff in the crew. The teacher said that Chinese American directors were thinking about how to speak East Asian languages ​​under the Hollywood system, so most of them will reflect on the relationship between people and families, and watch the two families in the film. Dealing with the chaos of the white family and the sadness of the black family, this association is self-evident, a large number of dialogues instead of actions, the representative of language dramas, the rhythmic tension of the paragraphs are also relatively relaxed, except for the last father and son. Later, two long freeze-frame panoramas were used to restrain, until the final black-and-white fragment of the subtitles, a large number of medium and close shots passed the facial details and texture of the two through the trembling and heavy black voices, allowing the entire play to complete the final closed loop, complete Delicate, the male protagonist does not play a key role in the main line, but he is like a guide, participating in the transformation of everyone, reminiscent of the beginning, the weight of the smoke may be measurable, but the most important thing is smoke. The shadow is invisible to accompany everyone. Brooklyn is such a great place

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Smoke quotes

  • [first lines]

    OTB Man #1, Tommy: I'm gonna tell you why they aren't going anywhere.

    OTB Man #3, Dennis: Why aren't they going anywhere?

    OTB Man #1, Tommy: Management.

    OTB Man #3, Dennis: Aw jeez.

    OTB Man #1, Tommy: Those guys are walkin' around with the head up their asses.

    OTB Man #3, Dennis: Right, yeah. Well ya know, they made some good trades too ya know. Carter and Manis. Without them two there never woulda been a World Series.

  • Vinnie: Last thing I heard, it's still illegal to sell Cuban cigars in this country.

    Auggie Wren: It's the law that's buying. That's the beautiful thing about it. I mean, when's the last time you heard of a judge sending himself to jail?