went to see "Assassin Nie Yinniang" with my friends in the summer of 2015. After watching the film, I had a lot of discussions. As a genre film, the martial arts film was filmed very emotionally by Hou Xiaoxian. 8 years of meticulous preparation can be said to be refined in details. , Perfect! However, after watching the movie, I still felt a breathless breath, always thinking that the movie should be better. At that time, I was very excited and chatted with my friends about the "Vampire Noble" filmed by Herzog in 1979. "Sferatu" and watched this vampire together, and I felt a lot of emotion after watching. Nie Yinniang's entire movie soul is wrapped in the details of the movie screen, only let me see the Chinese classics reflected in the architecture, costumes, and props The painting scene is indeed the style of the Tang Dynasty; but there is no other existence except aesthetics and "realness". These things as fossils of culture and aesthetics have been displayed and presented in the film, but there is no living thing, and the details are kidnapped by the details. , The movie appears to be fragmented and lacks motivation. If every movie has its own life and character, then Nie Yinniang's real vitality is submerged in the desire to express Chinese traditional culture and vast aesthetic pursuits. What a pity!
He ! Herzog's "Nosferatu the Vampire" is the closest genre of his works, and is a remake of the 1922 F•W Munau expressionist film "Nosferatu". Herzog himself I don’t think that his work is a remake of a film, but that it is an independent and brand new version, which is a kind of tribute! In the work, he is not satisfied with genre films like vampires. The issue of film development". In the interview, he said: "The pictures in vampire movies have a quality that surpasses those of the movies we usually see. In my opinion, genre films mean that they have to be strong and present on the screen. Nearly dreamlike stylization, and vampire genre films are undoubtedly one of the most stylized forms in the movie. In vampire films, there are fantasy, hallucinations, dreams, nightmares, illusions, fears and essential myths. I think What I have to do is to associate my "Vampire Nosferatu" with the real German cultural heritage, especially the silent films of the Weimar period and the works of Mao Nao." This is why I think of this film from Nie Yinniang. Nosferatu the Vampire.
The film premiered in Paris in 1979. It tells the story of Jonathan Huck, a real estate company employee living in Wismar, Germany, who went to a remote Romanian castle to give his wife Lucy (played by Isabel Lajani) a better life. Count Dracula (Klaus Kinsky) conducted a real estate transaction, and later discovered that Count Dracula (Nosferatu) had escaped home as a vampire; at the same time, Count Dracula took his The black coffin and the plague traveled across the sea to Wismar, bringing the plague black death. The story of Dracula being finally killed by Lucy at the expense of himself, but the ending is different from Murnau’s version and has become Huck of the vampire ran away on horseback without hiding everyone.
Injecting vitality into
Herzog’s interview, telling that although his works are based on Mornau’s version, they are infused with a different new spirit. Mornau’s version of the vampire is very scary because he looks soulless. It’s like an insect. But in Kinsky’s version, people can see the real suffering of existence. "I want to'humanize' him, give others pain and loneliness, desire for love, and most importantly, a person’s Basic feature: death. Kinsky did not rely on the long nails and pointed ears that he wore to perform. The vampire he played is a very erotic image to me. In addition, in this movie, Evil is not only negative. For example, there is real happiness in the plague scene."
The scene of the first meeting between Lucy and Count Dracula. (Dracula tells Lucy that her husband will not die.)
Lucy: He will die! Death surrounds us, we will all die... Not like our river water It will flow, time will go, even the stars... they drift towards us in strange ways...
Only death is inevitable, only death is cruel...
Dracula: Death is undoubtedly cruel, but My perception of cruelty is not like this. The cruel thing is that you can’t die when you want to die...
Give me some love like you gave Jonathan...
Lucy: Don’t think about it. I wouldn’t even think of it like this Love to God! If Jonathan cannot have my love, then no one will have it.
Dracula: For me, lack of love is the most miserable pain...
Klaus Kinsky’s version of Earl Dracula performed very well, with delicate layers and melancholy, with a slight sense of vulnerability. Herzog also believes that no one will be able to surpass in 50 years. He. "I can give you 50 years and 1 million dollars to find a vampire better than Kinsky, you will definitely lose". Adjani's performance is also great, sensitive and a little neurotic. "Her The role is very difficult to play: she has to be afraid of vampires and at the same time be attracted by him. I think she succeeded in making the audience feel this."
Every time I see the last carnival scene of people in the square, it is full of bizarre pleasure. The crowd dancing around the campfire, people playing French horns and violin, as well as sheep walking, pigs walking and excreting... It is as if the crowds enjoying a sumptuous lunch in the idyllic and warm sun form a strange and harmonious rhythm with the gray mice clustered under their skirts and on the dining table! As he said above, “the plague scene has Real happiness", I really feel a certain kind of happiness.
Herzog was born in Munich in 1942. His house was destroyed by bombing a few days later. His mother took him and his brother to a small mountain village on the German-Austrian border. People think that growing up in the ruins of the city is a terrible experience, but He thinks it is the most wonderful childhood for children. "The children in the city will take over the entire bombed-out block, claiming that the remaining buildings are the territory where they play, and implement great adventures in it. You really There is no need to sympathize with those children. Everyone I know who spent his childhood in the ruins of post-war Germany is obsessed with that time. This is the best kind of anarchy. There is no father who disciplines people, and there are no rules to follow. , We must create everything from scratch."
As a director who is said to be perverse and crazy, his personal experience has a huge impact on his movies. He brings a lot of life experience and life feelings into it, I believe it happened naturally without knowing it. , Herzog is a person who uses his own vitality to make movies. He is very opposed to the introduction of aesthetics or philosophical preconceivedness into movies. He believes that making movies is a sport, not aesthetics. "I never cared about aesthetics. When working with photographers, we hardly discuss the aesthetics of the film. I often only say to the photographer:'Don't worry about focusing or beautiful pictures, and don't pursue good-looking colors'. If you are used to the lens The design is only based on aesthetics, and you will never be able to jump out of the box of vulgarity. Of course, although I rarely think of injecting aesthetic elements into a specific scene or movie, they will unknowingly pass the back door. Sneak in... If the aesthetics really exist, it will only be discovered when the film is finished."
"Film should be used for direct appreciation. It is not the art of the knowing but the art of the ignorant. You can even say that I am ignorant. I never read or think about a bunch of philosophical propositions in order to make a story. For me, movies are about real life, not about philosophy. All of my movies have no intentions in this regard. Intentions are always born from movies."
The lonely apostate
’s anecdotes about him include walking from Munich to Paris on foot (with only a compass and map all the way under sleeping bridges, farmhouses, abandoned houses) and visiting a sick friend Yi Xi, she will not die, and bet with her friends to lose He really ate his leather shoes, pointed a gun at Kinsky’s head to force him to act, etc. He likes to take risks in filming by himself. I think his philosophy of life is the experience of life, with madness. Everyone thinks that he is a crazy person. If you count his anecdotes, he is really crazy! But as he himself doesn't think so, if you look at it from another way of thinking, he is indeed not crazy, but He has a primitive and true love for life. He is very honest with his heart, so he is not allowed to lie to himself, and he has a high degree of loyalty to life, which can be seen in his movies. No wonder he said this in his movies: "I I have always regarded all my movies as a masterpiece that I have focused on for 40 years. The protagonists in this magnificent story are desperate and lonely apostates. They do not understand the language that can be communicated, so they inevitably endure hardships. They know that their rebellion is doomed to fail, but they do not hesitate to struggle alone with trauma without help." From this perspective, "crazy" comes from his sincere attitude towards life and the search for expectations in it. The meaning of self-existence!
"People often say that all my protagonists are so-called marginalists and outsiders, but I have never felt that a character like Caspar Hauser ("Everyone Loves Himself, God Against Everyone") is not an outsider. He is an insider. He managed to maintain his flawless personality and dignity when everyone around him drifted with the crowd in disgustingly...I am definitely an insider. "
The protagonists of Herzog are all such "insiders". He thinks that characters like Nosferatu, and even Kinsky himself belong to them. From the "outsiders" like me to see them like apostates They all carry a kind of tragic fate. Tragedy makes people reflect on themselves, allowing viewers to see their limitations and limitations in the world through works of art, and then go back to themselves and feel the tremor of life and the connection between self and existence. , And feel such a positive sadness and joy in the tragedy.
The scene
when Jonathan came to the castle to discuss the real estate transaction with Count Dracula. In the darkness, with the howling of the wind and the howling of wolves at night, Count Dracula’s low German lines read a poetic rhythm. .
Dracula: I like the darkness and shadows, where I can be alone with my thoughts together ......
time is an abyss, the abyss of hundreds of night ...... turn of the century, can not grow old is terrible ......
that is not the worst
Yes , more terrible than this, can you imagine going through countless centuries... the pain of doing nothing every day?
Most of Herzog's films are produced, screenwriters, and directors. He writes scripts very distinctively and very quickly. It is said that each script does not exceed 4-5 days and goes straight to the theme. Fill the script with lines-in order to maintain continuity and tension. "It is more important to enrich the movie with fresh life and real pictures"! His script often does not write down the dialogue verbatim, it only "Description" dialogue. "Many dialogues are written when the lights are set up, and I stand still on the scene, because the actors really need lines at this time. Leaving this writing need to the last moment means it will be full Vitality will inevitably adapt to the current situation more appropriately, because the actors have already stood in the middle of the set in costumes.” This is very similar to the process of painting creation, and creativity bursts from here!
The tremor of life,
the ship carrying the black coffin and the plague sailed to the port, and the gray rat army came ashore. Thankfully, these rats were dyed by white rats, and their tails were not so terrible! Their fat bodies crowded together are a bit vigorous. At this time, the soundtrack sounded slowly, and it was consistent with the soundtrack of Jonathan's rushing over the mountains to Count Dracula’s Castle, with a bit of idyllic feeling, and foretelling the taste of dusk. Then I took the next shot, in the dark night Count Dracula, wearing a black cloak in the middle, landed ashore in an increasingly expansive orchestra, and the broad tone of the French horn ensemble reflected Dracula’s huge black shadow projected on the quiet town, with a strong expressionist picture. And the magnificent wind music brings a mood and atmosphere-the last afterglow of the dusk, the dark chaos will cover the earth.
I especially like this set of shots.Every time I see it, my heart is full of bulging peace with last-minute brilliance, and at the same time, I have a fateful tremor about the upcoming development.
In the nearly two-hour film, the vampire played by Kinsky only took about 17 minutes to play, but he controlled every scene in the film. "Everything in this movie is for these 17 minutes. At other times, you can also feel the existence of this character. This depends on the story itself and the images that reinforce this sense of fate, fear and anxiety."
Willpower
"What you need to make a movie is willpower, that's how it feels to make a movie. Nowadays, every sound filmmaker should be able to earn a meager salary enough to make a film like "A Quiet and Dark Place". Waiting for a certain system to allocate funds to you, for God's sake, it's okay to grab the bank! "As a patient with procrastination, my love for Herzog is the envy of my soul!
There are too many things to say in his movie, and every time I can find some details that I haven't noticed before! For example, the people shopping on the Wismar Canal, the chickens on the boat, and the dogs on the street. Slippery girl! The places that make up the background of the movie are full and natural, and people believe that it happened like this! I think that all the details can be done in such a way without stagnation and not prominent to grab the main rhythm. The level of a master requires the most precise control, but Herzog can easily do it! He said that his ability to make good use of the surrounding space comes from the ball he used to play for a bad place football team for many years, and he is good at reading. In the game, watching the ball drop, the movie is the same. He is an actionist. In his work, he often moves a lot of heavy furniture around with the set designer, and repositions it personally. He has a lot of perceptual understanding of the space; I personally plant strawberries, beans, and flowers in the garden I took, understand the precise position of each plant and vegetable, and have a clear idea of how to move. I can arrange a harmonious arrangement in just a few seconds without preparation. Picture. Seeing this, I only have two words "ashamed" in my heart! This wholehearted dedication is not only a kind of dedication, but also a kind of passion and tenacity for life that grows from the heart. Maybe he doesn't feel the need to persist, or just What he called "willpower". "I have an intuition about the room where the filming is, what the actors should look like in costumes, where they should stand, where the camera should be placed, and what lens we want to use. 、Completely physical cognition, this final plan is from this. "Friends who paint should be able to understand that this intuitive and physical cognition is often more unexpected and outstanding than what is expected in the mind, and wonderful things. It comes from this.
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