personal rating: 8.2/10
Oscar is approaching, and the "nominations" have to be completed recently. Unfortunately, the domestic only relies on the extremely limited picture quality of the dvdscr version. Films such as "Carol" and "Wilder Hunter", which are mostly focused on the graphics and photography skills, are bad news. However, these bad news are also unfortunately fortunate. At least, you can have an extra sneak peek. choose.
Today, let me talk about this "Wild Hunter" first.
I don’t know if it’s a coincidence or providence. It was probably the same time last year. I wrote the 100th movie review of my movie list series. The movie was "Birdman". At that time, "Birdman" was my favorite among the nominated films. (But I originally predicted that "Boyhood" would win an award). On the eve of this year’s Oscar, the 200th film happened to be a film directed by Gonzalez, so I decided to bet on this: If this year’s Oscar’s best picture is really also "Wild Hunter" (but I think it’s difficult ), I decided to predict the best Oscars for the entire hundreds of digital movies every year in the future!
Digress.
In fact, with regard to Gonzalez’s film, I still prefer to deconstruct the film in several ways as I commented on "Birdman" last year, because Gonzalez’s film style is still very obvious, no point of analysis. It feels like a lot of thoughts on this movie will be wasted.
※About the movie & story itself,
"Wild Hunter" has won the Golden Globe Award this year, and the best film winner of the "Critics' Choice Award" of the BFCA (Broadcast Film Critics Association) is "Focus" ("Wild" No nominations for best picture). Last year's "Critics' Choice Award" and the best winner of the Golden Globe Awards were "Boyhood", and the best Oscar was "Birdman." Therefore, considering the situation of last year, whether "Desolation" can finally run in the Oscars depends on the opinions of the more than 4,000 old white judges.
Regarding "Wild Hunter", in fact, I think the translation of "The Revenant" is more in line with the meaning of the original name of the movie The Revenant. The hunter story told by the movie has real historical events to learn from. The original owner of the story is called Hugh Glass. As early as 1971, there was a movie called "Man in the Wilderness" which was also adapted from this story.
Let's restore the prototype deeds of the story characters:
(Since there is no Chinese article related to the deeds of Hugh Glass on the Internet, after reading a few foreign texts, some main and interesting contents are briefly translated and extracted. For details, please refer to Original:
1. http://www.rosyinn.com/more005.html ;
2. Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Glass )
Hugh Glass's deeds before being attacked by bears are actually undocumented , The following is a version that has been circulated more in the United States:
Glass in the early years (about 1816) is said to be captured by a privateer led by French-American Jean Lafitte and forced to act as a result. After two years of pirates, when sailing near Galveston Island in what is now Texas, Glass jumped into the sea and escaped. Upon arriving on the island, Glass spent several years with the local Pawnee Indians, and reportedly married a local Pawnee woman.
At that time, some of the pioneers would maintain a good relationship with the local Pawnee Indians
By 1822, Glass relied on his knowledge of the local geography and topography to apply for the Rocky Mountain Fur Trading Company opened by the well-known William Henry Ashley as a guide. (The 100 hunters who formed this company later became well-known pioneers in Missouri, known in history as "Asheley's Hundreds of People"-well I'm nonsense.)
Then, this expedition was unfavorable, in June 1823 After being crushed by the Arikara tribe (a group of Indians in the Missouri Plain), Glass unfortunately suffered a small injury in the knee with an arrow. However, he still loyally wrote to the parents of the victims of the expedition Wrote a letter (see the wiki link for the specific content of the letter).
However, misfortunes never come singly. Within a few days, Glass was in a solo operation to replenish food for the expedition jungler. He encountered a change (or legendary) the bear of his life - and its two cubs in the wild. , And before Glass didn’t react and fired, Xiong unceremoniously spread Glass like a Shandong pancake until he was almost disabled. What’s amazing is that after a desperate struggle, Glass really did it. This big bear died, and when the pig teammates found him, he had been in the position of "Master Bear" and was dying for a long time. (There is controversy here. It is rumored that Glass killed the bear alone, and it is written on the wiki that Glass also used the help of his companions Fitzgerald and Bridger, the two characters in the movie, to kill the bear. Everyone Just listen.)
Captain Asheley thought that "I can't do it, it will slow down the progress of the party and the people", so he recruited two volunteers to stay and take care of Glass until he went to heaven, and buried him by the way (the document does not mention whether there is any remuneration. ). At this time Fitzgerald and Jim Bridger took the initiative to petition to stay. However, three days after the troops left, Glass couldn't die. Fitzgerald and Bridger were worried that they would be attacked in the Indian territory, so they dug a hole for Glass and threw him down, covered Glass with a bearskin coat, and walked along with him. The rifle, knives, and various equipment just slipped away. However, I don’t know how long it took. Not only did Glass not die, but he also regained consciousness. He woke up and found himself abandoned in the wilderness by the two bastards. He had a lame leg, his scalp was about to be torn, and his body wounds were so bad that he even had ribs. Exposed.
However, Glass relied on the will to revenge, he just connected his leg, and then approached Cheyenne River 100 miles away. The fever and wound infection caused him to lose consciousness for a while, but he still ate the roots of the tree and the wild. Fruit, let the maggots eat their own necrotic meat to prevent the spread of gangrene, and finally spent two months insisting on coming to the river. (Anecdotal story goes that after he woke up from unconsciousness, he found his wound was being licked by wild animals, so the wound healed faster than usual. And Glass's self-report said that the reason why he hasn't given up is really to find The two men killed their revenge.) When they
arrived at the river, Glass made a raft and drifted along the Missouri River to a place called Ft.Kiowa, which was 200 miles (about 320km) away from where he first woke up. NS. Here, he spent several months to recover his health, and then set out for revenge.
Glass's survival route all the way from being buried
But what is embarrassing is that in fact, the result of Glass's revenge is like this:
1. When Glass found Jim Bridger, he basically forgiven him immediately—because Bridger was only a 19-year-old child at the time, and it is known whether Jim Bridger was genuine Advocating the abandonment of Glass has always been controversial in historical records. This is also in view of the fact that Jim Bridger later became one of the most famous pioneers in history (in fact, the later achievements were much greater than Glass, but Baidu "Jim·Berry "Zhe" Understand).
2. When Glass found Fitzgerald, Fitzgerald had been enlisted as an American soldier (the murder of an American soldier would face severe punishment).
Finally, this tragic and legendary man died in a battle with the Arikaras Indians in 1833.
After reading the historical truth, you can actually find that "Wild Hunter" is still quite different from history. The most obvious thing is that history did not mention that he had a son, nor did he say that he took his son to the expedition, let alone Saying that his son was murdered by Fitzgerald, more movies should be adapted from Michael Punke's novel "The Revenant: A Novel of Revenge". Movies and novels add to this contradiction, which is naturally more conducive to the rationality of the development of the storyline and the character of the characters. Three-dimensional (another novel "Lord Grizzly" is also based on this historical story).
※As for photography
, I said that it is unknown that this film won the Oscar for Best Picture, but I believe that it deserves the best photography (maybe the biggest competitor is Mad Max).
The long-lens photography style naturally comes from Gonzalez. To be honest, I personally feel that The Revenant is much weaker than Birdman in terms of script. In order to make the movie more in-depth, the movie is constantly interspersed with hallucinations or flashbacks of Xiao Li’s encounter with his wife and son, as well as the tribe. With a bit of religious sacredness, secondly, it can also highlight the conflicts between civilization and barbarism, plundering and original ecology. It is probably because Gonzalez wants to sublimate the film from ordinary wilderness survival adventures to more in-depth humanistic thinking. Level, but I think no matter how big the ambition is, if Chongao fails in the end, it should still be defeated by the narrative rhythm and script adaptation.
However, for an audience, sometimes the vision of watching movies is not blindly harsh and strict. Although the story of the movie is a little worse, I feel that just watching the low-definition version of the DVD, I can feel the natural scene scheduling and some long periods in the movie. The real shock of the lens, the capture and use of light and shadow in the forest and the snowy field, these techniques are no less difficult than writing an excellent script. The step-by-step film alone has obvious characteristics and imprints. Make it a mediocre work-even if I appreciate the movie, I pay more attention to the script and story. When you watch a movie, you often use the "asked sky" super wide-angle scene in the picture below. If I'm in a theater, it would be even more shocking. Not to mention that these lenses are all taken from various cold regions or forest bushes. I just took a trip to the Northeast Mohe in January. I just took pictures with a SLR camera, and I could feel the difficulty of shooting in extreme cold weather. And painful, not to mention that shooting with this difficulty is likely to require repeated attempts, minutes by minutes, waiting for a few hours of weather changes for a shot.
It's meaningless to say more, just feel it in the picture above. (The pictures below are mostly borrowed from the screenshots and stills of the movie homepage album, thanks to the peasants for their diligence~)
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In fact, the focus of the film about Xiao Lizi has completely shifted from the movie itself to Xiao Li. Even before, there were even reports of "little plum was overpowered by Xiong" and I personally clarified that I was not "Bear rape" is a farce statement, so in fact, I don’t want to discuss this hot topic again.
But to be fair, Xiao Lizi really made a lot of determination to make this film. I have read an interview news before. Xiao Lizi said that he was really cold during the shooting process and he felt like he was about to collapse. As soon as there was a shooting gap, he would immediately run to a heating hair dryer. The ambulance team stood by beside the scene at any time, and For example, a vegetarian, he really wants to break the precept to eat wild yak meat, swallow all kinds of tree roots and grass roots and so on. However, whether his performances of various bitter tricks can help him avoid the "seventh time" depends on the faces of those thousands of old men.
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