Back then, Quan Ge, with a thin face and a melancholy temperament, set up a stall for wholesale ballpoint pens in the wholesale market at the entrance of the school, while throwing one after another unfamiliar and imaginative new terms in class. Finally, this word made us somewhat familiar, and the boy shuddered from a coma.
That scene is still impressive. KISS, Keep It Simple Stupid! The teacher taught that writing should maintain a simple, clumsy, or even chaotic style. We lowered our heads and scribbled wildly, not dare to miss a single word, if we didn't understand, we should write down how many. Afterwards, I repeatedly watched the fragmented words recorded at the time, trying to figure out the profound meaning. After a long time of thinking, I found that: Sure enough, the messy intentions, too many deviations occurred in the process of trying to express, making the entire text extremely chaotic, sublimating a simple and clumsy beauty. . . Years later, I learned that KISS turned out to be an advertiser reprimanding a rookie: Idiot, keep it simple! I'm still willing to choose the teacher's translation method, which is simple and clumsy. The recipient's analysis of the text is also a part of the creation, and even in turn has an impact on the creator. There is no sense of beauty due to misinterpretation, because every understanding is a positive solution.
It is this kind of experience that makes me extremely sensitive to all comments. For example, on the one hand, I feel that many people don’t understand the movie "Heavenly Stranger" at all. On the other hand, I can’t just speak about post-modernism. The analysis of the text is all nonsense, because it hurts the integrity of artistic creation.
Although university education is fragmented, I at least understand that if you want to, make everything as complicated as possible, which is the point. But if you have been immersed in traditional Chinese literature such as Jin Ping Mei and Hai Hua, and know how to find the tip of the iceberg from the implicit and introverted line drawing without any psychological description, then you have not read any semiotic master's text. In theory, it can easily handle this kind of pioneer movie.
Because of the ambiguity of audio and video, I believe that many people have not been able to see the main point of the story from the beginning. Although the screenwriter used the simplest method, a single phone call to explain all the elements of the whole story: the United States, new immigrants, cousins from Hungary, and the hut where men and women live alone.
I always have the urge to revise the beginning of the movie, not because of its clumsiness.
I like this clumsy beauty, but while I appreciate it, I can't help but worry that it will be despised by ignorant people from the beginning. So I modified the structure of the movie without authorization, intending to start telling the story from that bag of mischievous money. Of course, I would also change the dialogue and change it to the entanglement of love and hatred between two men and one woman.
Following my changes, the movie will most likely become a black-and-white version of "Crazy Stone".
In fact, I think movies like "Heavenly Stranger" and "Crazy Stone" are not fundamentally different. They both have a temperament that makes people laugh crazy. Those who feel desperate after watching the movie, please walk through the back door, so that the scene of you and me fighting each other with bricks will not happen.
It's not that "Stranger in Paradise" has climbed the top of the art film, I must look up at it, or deliberately despise it, to highlight my own brilliance.
Depressed young viewers, I would say that those sadnesses are trivial tricks that are not worth mentioning. In particular, the deliberate black scenes, whenever the darkness floats up, I seem to hear the director of the press annoyed in my ears, remove all the black scenes for me. You fucking wouldn't use other shots for transitions?
But you still have to admire the director and screenwriter. Lao Jia's awesomeness lies in his strong tolerance and hypnotic self-confidence. If you are a fainthearted person like me, you can’t set up such a long and boring foreplay. It means the freezing atmosphere in the cinema, the terrible cold scene, no laughter, even no audience, and the first 15 minutes with zero ratings will be Irrevocably lowered the viewing share of the entire film. Only when they are strong enough, can they completely ignore the audience, calm down, and concentrate on the 24-hour, 365-day sorrows, joys and boredom of the three little characters. This is similar to the principle of love, when two men and women look at each other for a long time, they will have love. After paying the money, you who were locked up in the cinema (the people who watched piracy at home are not on the statistical list) stared at three boring men and women, watching how they lived a life that was more boring than you, and spent 50 minutes like this. If you don't believe it, you won't find a projection point similar to yours. The observant guy will have more fun.
A Cheng, who wrote the novel, said that by writing more useless things, the atmosphere will come out. Movies are the same. Finally, if I can't do such a wonderful thing, the reason is not entirely because of my lack of talent, but my lack of courage.
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