I like Billy Wilder very much, and I also miss the golden age of old Hollywood. In the contemporary era where commercial films and art films go further and further, what we often see are films that go to two extremes: one type of big themes, big scenes, which take dreams as their own responsibility, stay away from real life, and provide a two-hour peak experience; One type is very artistic and often very boring. The attitude of facing life is reduced to a long lens without modification. In the good movies of the old Hollywood era, the relationship between the movie and reality and the audience is not so turbulent. Good directors have a more natural and cordial attitude in understanding reality and understanding the audience. The reason why Billy Wilder is a master is that although he is not as profound as the later modernist masters, he shows a kind of universality in an old Hollywood movie program, and his accuracy and humor Give this universality a kind of "relevant" temperament. He has an extremely considerate sympathy, but he does not elevate it to compassion, but to comfort.
Movies like "Lost Weekend" are hard to see today. The theme of this movie is very social: Regarding the problem of alcoholism, the main plot is the uncontrollable degeneration of a person with alcoholism in two days. But Billy Wilder made a very compact and beautiful drama. He didn't seem to worry about the conflict between the interestingness of the plot and the seriousness of the subject matter, and the depth of the discussion, and he consciously joined Many elements of genre movies, such as suspense films and horror films. At the beginning of the film, after a large panorama of the urban environment, there is a gradual close-up. There is a bottle of wine hanging dangerously under the window. It brings a suspense on the plot level, and it constitutes a symbolic level. A generalization and metaphor, this is Billy Wilder's ingenious mirror language.
These fine details are particularly beautiful notes interspersed in the entire smooth plot, which can make people feel a kind of "interest". From the perspective of presenting reality in a more objective and documentary manner, the expression of personal interest in movies is dangerous, but from the perspective of entering reality and understanding reality with the audience, interest is not only an attraction Strength is also a kind of enlightenment and resonance in understanding and aesthetic ability. The protagonist hid a bottle of wine in the lampshade, and then couldn't find it when he was mentally collapsed-he rummaged around, found nothing, collapsed on the bed, and from this perspective, he saw the light shine through the bottle on the ceiling The beautiful projection formed. ——At this moment, the audience can almost have the same ease and surprise as the male protagonist. It is very remarkable to achieve a perfect trigger of a feeling through the language of the lens, so that the film does not become a simple moral admonition. The following passage of the protagonist entering the rehab hospital and alcoholism has a rather expressionistic style. This is the other side of Billy Wilder. In addition to the cleverness and playfulness of "The Apartment Spring", he can still It's frustrating and dark to shoot "Sunset Boulevard". And "Lost Weekend" happened to walk between these two Wilders. In the details, he gave an understanding, and in the plot, he gave comfort.
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