2011-05-16 23:33:10
art or pornography, pornographic or erotic
American underground cinema in the late 1960s and throughout the seventies, with great commercial potential blockbuster rival, The anti-entertainment value they put forward also just to neutralize the commercial film's market arrogance, but the general audience accepts it and otherwise the leaders are different. The pornographic elements of underground movies, according to Parker. Tyler (Parker Tyler) classified in the book "Underground" (Underground), there are at least the following five categories, they are: voyeurism, eroticism, nudity and sadistic realism.
Most of the underground films in the United States after the 1960s will not deviate from these categories. The reason why underground writers prefer "sex" is mostly to use its provocative and provocative nature to strengthen their statements and propositions. As far as films are concerned, they are generally acceptable. They are classified into the following categories:
1. Deviant cultural undercurrents: Avant-garde artists often deny the system and despise traditions, but they replace them with shimmering and chaotic concepts, Kenneth. Kenneth Anger's "Scorpio Rising" (Scorpio Rising) specifically illustrates the fragmentation of this concept. The film "Heaven" was shot in Brooklyn, New York. The theme emphasizes that the old and conservative culture must be wiped out under the impact of violence, destruction and death. The director regards pop music, drug abuse and promiscuity, and motorcycle civilization as irresistible emerging forces. The "hero" Scorpio in the film is a rebellious young man whose image is constantly competing with Hitler, Jesus, and Marlon. The back and forth of Brando and other photos became blurred. Ange's willingness was to complement the protagonist's complex personality, but the fragmentary jumps made his portrait look like a weak phantom. Ken. Russell (Ken Russell) filmed in 1975 rock movie "Superstar Tommy" (Tommy) also used this concept to follow the same method.
2. The sexuality of attacking society: avant-garde underground film writers use fierce tones of criticism and political and racial prejudice, such as "Household Rape" (Ritz in Jiu District or Jiuding have published DVDs, the disc is not in hand, and English movies are not available. That is, it describes a man who entered the house and raped a woman several times, but was scared by two unusually active women and recalled the situation during the Vietnam War. At the same time, he counter-charged the raper himself with the violence of the Vietnam War.
3. Praise sex: In every field of art, there are always a group of people who are obsessed with technical performance. In the underground movie world, such people are the so-called "sex movies." The relationship is just a kind of material that uses the beauty of the image. The flesh is disintegrated into exquisite pictures like commercials. The boundaries between commercial films and underground movies are becoming increasingly confused. Curtis Harrington, a graduate of the University of Southern California, is a former underground filmmaker. Into the heavily guarded Hollywood, on the other hand, a group of independent productions composed of young people from Canon Inc. also began to invade the Hollywood market. "Coming Apart" made them the most famous one in a series of underground movies. It describes a psychologist who used semi-documentary methods to interpret the bad behavior of adulterous female customers and made a sharp mockery of the moral collapse of Western society.
4. Symbolic and surreal sex: relatively common, seen in many experimental short films in the 60s and 70s, showing the human body in abstract images, and indifferently and objectively describing the orgasm of women,
only Andy. Warhol
Andy. Warhol (Andy Warhol) is a legend of modern art. Few people have the dual identities of artist and film writer with outstanding achievements like him. Andy Warhol. Warhol's art started from rebellion. His painting skills of replacing pen and paper with photocopying and printing, as well as exaggerating the concept of daily necessities are called Pop Art.
In 1963, Andy. Warhol bought a camera and entered another creative field. His expression of film is sharper than that of paintings. Almost all the cameras in Warhol films are still, with high contrast of light, dazzling and heavy scenery, and actively rejects all the activities caused by "movie", because "Any artificial technique is a fake that distorts the real world." The images that accompany the still photography are the famous "Andy Warhol-style procrastination." Most of his films challenge the time and endurance of the audience: "Empire" (Empire) faces the Empire State Building from the early days. In the evening, after nine hours, the camera did not move at all; in "Sleep", the undulating abdomen of a sleeping man was photographed for six hours; in "Chelsea Girls" it was three A half-hour widescreen movie, and using screen split technology, if you count the two frames of the film, it has reached seven hours, and it is sometimes four frames...
Andy. Warhol's works have no plot, no acting skills, and no montage. The lengthy presentation does not provide the audience with a temporary escape from reality, but requires the audience to reflect on their own lives by watching the passage of a period of time. Unlike most radical underground movies, Warhol is often quiet and ambiguous. Through his indifferent long lens, the isolation and unfamiliarity of urban life are revealed. People are nervous, nervous and helpless. This is the most Warhol on this level. The theme of Er's preference and success is sexual repression and confusion. His sex is part of a gloomy life, not dramatic at all. "Empire State Building", staring at the Empire State Building towering majestically in the twilight, some people suspect that this is a kind of worship of the genitals. In "Blow Job" (Blow Job), a camera was held to photograph the head and shoulders of a man who was engaged in sex. His expression was recorded in the course of forty minutes. The head shaking back and forth means that there is no dialogue in this part. Actions and edited movies create imagination, and sex is nothing more than a tired mechanical movement.
Hybridization is another interpretation of sex by Warhol. Starlets, addicts, artists, and sexual perversions are the protagonists of the film because their personalities contain elements of degeneration, and it is the artist's responsibility to face the degeneration. "Beauty #2" (Beauty #2) is a virtual triangular physical relationship, "Flash" is also a man and two women, and "Horse" is a semi-documentary story of a New York male prostitute. And the most prestigious "Chesse Girl" is composed of many half-hour single shots, which tells the various avant-garde people in the Chex Girl Hotel in Manhattan-drug addicts and transvestites.
The rise of underground commercial films and the emergence of anti-heroes.
In the late 1960s, American films have undergone great changes due to the addition of a new blood. These low-cost films have exposed the past traditions of praising heroes and rendering the upper class, focusing on those People who live in dark corners or outside of mainstream culture use "real movie" techniques to expose the distress of modern people, such as "The Graduate", "Midnight Cowboy", and "Easy Rider" are all out of this In my opinion, these protagonists are all defeated and helpless "anti-heroes". In fact, they are the portrayal of most modern people. The film describes their dissociation, confrontation, and self-reconfirmation, making American films that have always focused only on sensual entertainment. Reborn with new life.
Similar in nature to "new humanistic realism", and some films that are close to underground movies in form have been released as commercials, such as "Trash", "Faces" and "Performance". Outstanding films are made by a group of young people who refuse to bow to the set, including John. Casa Vitz, Paul. Morris and Dennis. Hope, they raised themselves to criticize social changes in the United States in an uncompromising manner.
All of these people’s films are highly concerned about the "modern degeneration", Andy. Warhol’s protagonists are usually drug addicts and transvestites, while Kassavits likes to describe the intricate relationship between businessmen, prostitutes, housewives and little white faces. The pressure of urban life and the expansion of material civilization make people feel hesitant. Help, they had no choice but to escape reality from the anti-traditional release.
It used to be Andy. Paul Warhol's long-time helper. Morris has the most thorough observation of this kind of spiritual idleness. From his "Scum", we can see how a group of people who have been abandoned by society live. Under the structure of fragments, Morris made the film widely tolerate a diverse society. Dancing girls, pornographic actresses, unmarried mothers, and runaway middle school students, each hesitant to live in the dark, from In the eyes of some people, they are no different from garbage. The protagonist of this pair of rubbish is a 19-year-old hippie Joey. He is mildly impotent due to excessive indulgence and is addicted to drugs. One night he broke into a newlyweds’ house and robbed him to buy drugs. The director showed an ambiguous and complicated relationship here: his wife was attracted by Joey’s appearance and waited for his rape while pushing and half pushing, and the husband secretly admiring his half-naked body. Sexual orientation began to falter. But this kind of mutual deception turned into disgust immediately after witnessing Joey's self-injection ugly, and the two finally blasted the uninvited guest out of the house. The director's description is sharp and cold, and every citizen as a member of society is responsible for such an incurable disease.
Kasawitz’s "Faces" is a plain but profound love triangle. It describes the family affair caused by the negligence of a successful husband with his wife and causes extramarital affair. His "Husbands" further points out the perennial involvement of career and family. The man was tired of marriage. Three New Yorkers got drunk to mourn the death of a friend, and then flew to London to find an affair, but felt dull and boring.
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