Then other students added:
Oh, I thought of "Red Pepper Papurika" (Well, I just remembered that Red Pepper was once translated as "Inception").
Ah, I thought of "Shards of Memory". (The same director)
Ah think of Wang Jinkang's "Seven Shells". (Science fiction fans are also very keenly aware)
Ah, I thought of "Fight Club".
Ah, I thought of Teacher Kubrick.
Ah, I thought of Teacher Freud.
Ah, I thought of "Life of Roses".
Ah, I thought of Doraemon.
……
……The
conclusion is: watching this movie, everyone thinks of a lot of things that are analogous but specious.
It can be seen that everyone has a lot of experience in literary works using dreams and psychology to explain things. "Draco Cat" is a theme that children love to hear, and they also use dreaming pillowcases to experience triple dreams. Borges has spent most of his life writing dreams, mirrors, mazes, and the like under the structure of various mysterious geometric figures, and he casually goes back to the various fantasy structures in "A Thousand and One Nights". The meditation on the structure of the universe by people in the religious world shows that many dear friends have not touched the idea of "Is the real world a dream?" I won’t mention more examples of science fiction. In fact, why don't you need to be armed with literary works, just find a friend to chat, he may talk about similar ideas to you. I’ve never heard the following passage from more than one person:
“When I was a child, I often wondered whether there is an infinitely small universe in all the smallest particles, and whether we are encased in another particle with countless weights outside. The universe? Or, are we all just the product of someone's dream?"
This last sentence, in fact, has appeared in the various scholastic philosophies in the past similar paragraphs. After pondering the prototypes of various material names, it is inevitable that there will be several "God created the world with thoughts, and we are all just figures in God's dreams". Of course, these kinds of ideas are usually heretics and must be harmonized. This probably shows that
dreams, consciousness, nihility, death, existence, and the real world, similar topics, will always be considered as a major event. Everyone has thought about it more or less.
In other words, the movie is the same as many art categories. At the beginning, it is rough and straightforward and full of tricks. The movies at that time were rough and rough, but the expressions were bold and gorgeous. Because everything is scribbled, everyone loves to do whatever they want. At that time, most of the filmmakers in drama, painting, and music changed their careers, and the talents were very popular. So now watching the early black and white silent films, apart from the uneven quality, I find that "Mom, the old grandpas dare to be so avant-garde if they have no color or sound"!
Then when the movie starts to become a money-making activity, there will be an assembly line, rules, and confinement. Europeans still hate Hollywood now, because they have become a system of stereotypes. It is the same reason that TVB audiences now hear that "being a human being is the most important thing is to be happy". In the 1940s, Hollywood scriptwriters were like a cloud, and the next ten years were much more plain. No way: you have to tell the story round first, and you have to tell it in the linear structure of popular novels serialized in 19th-century newspapers, so that the people will love to read it. Movies in the commercial age are all shackled and danced. Do you think everyone is a new wave, play tricks with you? We smashed the dollar and hoped to make a profit!
Famous paintings and famous novels often have legends that only become famous after death. Although it sounds bad, the taste of the public is slightly lagging behind is a big reason. Movies are different from paintings and novels: it has more investment and more conveners. Capitalists, unlike the 19th century aristocracy, can sponsor musicians to make art for art. Therefore, in Hollywood, every time the innovation of the film is One will succeed in everything. There are more creative people, but fewer can be photographed. Not mentioning Hollywood, but only what women and children know: How terrible was the box office of "A Journey to the West" and "Evil West" in the mainland? Fortunately, Zhou Xingxing and Wang Jiawei saw these two re-appointed gods alive. Therefore, films like "Pulp Fiction" cannot be exaggerated: What is great is not in the film itself, but in the connotation of this kind of film that can sell for money, the capitalists will loose their hands and the artists. You can take a breather without relying on a portable DV to live.
Pull away a bit.
"Avatar" was planned for many years. Part of the reason is that it was not until the end of the first decade of the 21st century that there were such mature production methods and screening methods to fully reflect Cameron's ambitions. Similarly, I can hardly imagine that "Inception" will appear in 1990. Not only the hardware such as shooting methods and special effects, but also the audience. It's not very nice to say, but the audience is really trained from generation to generation.
Movies accumulate; the audience accepts a little bit of complicated narrative; Kurosawa Akira’s epoch-making "Rashomon" narrative was copied in "Hero", and everyone is not new (of course, with a certain gymnastics director The teacher’s technique is generally related); in 1990, it was difficult for capitalists to invest cruel money on a script like Inception, but it became possible in 2010.
"Inception" is truly remarkable, because of this compilation process. It not only provides an inspiration for everyone to understand "Wow ha ha ha ha, are you confused by dreams, do you also think my movie is very deep", but it provides a mellow and perfect movie. How to edit, how to describe special effects, how to grasp the rhythm, the requirements of sound effects, and the measurement of various details. Just think about it, it’s already very troublesome to analyze the movie itself. How did the specific sub-shots of this movie be compiled, how to arrange the actors to make it out, just think about it, and you will be amazed:
the most eternal entanglement of mankind-dreamland , The level of reality, the subconscious-shake away.
Then create a mysterious idea.
Unfold this mysterious idea to build a complete logical world.
Establish the rules of this world, and establish the contact methods between all levels.
——If it only ends here, many talented literary film screenwriters/genius fantasy novelists are capable of doing it.
But:
According to the rules of this world, the plot of Cobb is perfectly embedded in it (the knot between him and his wife, and some key contradictions between him and the world system itself),
and the appropriate plot is prepared (to create Saito and what he wants to accomplish) Task, making Fish and his father)
According to the connection between the various layers, the key classic plot (the first layer of dream car falling into the water, the second layer of dream hotel weightlessness, the third layer of dreams fighting in the snow, the edge of consciousness, etc.)
was filmed with a lot of dazzling and skillful techniques. Edwards, the scissor hands holding the crab claws, could not guess which section should be cut and which section should not be cut.
It's dazzling, but it still follows the classic Hollywood format to make people look pleasing: create various suspense at the beginning + a mission (unsuccessful) to show the world view, look around for companions to join in various tidbits by the way, fully introduce the world view, entering the mission is the main line of the plot + Countdown to tangled suspense + Finally various foreshadowing collective display functions. (An example: The structure of "The Expendables": start with a task to show the world view and reveal the internal contradictions by the way + take the task to describe other companions and explore the opponent + finally enter the task climax-although the subject matter is completely different...)
-insert a sentence: There is a well-known easter egg in Fight Club. There is something hidden in the film, which affects the audience subtly.
The last beauty of "Inception" is as mentioned at the beginning: it summons a series of thoughts that you have thought, read, and feared, and subtly implants this thought into your mind, making you again Start to doubt (you must have doubted before) dreams and reality.
In this way, "Inception" is not only a victory for Nolan, but also a victory for the screenwriters and directors. As mentioned above, the success of every similar movie can loosen the constraints of geniuses and allow them to get more freedom from the bastard capitalists.
But in the end, it was also a victory for the audience. Because of the experimentation and development of film narrative methods from generation to generation, and because of generations of mature audiences, capitalists dare to let Nolan make such films. Really: It’s the audience who has these lovely research plots, logic, spoilers, analysis, "I don’t understand, I watch the second time, the third time, and the fourth time" (not "Bah, what a bad movie" I can’t read it or watch it”, or the veteran cadres who wrote to the leadership in 1994 that “Journey to the West” insults the classics, please request to stop broadcasting), only such a good movie has the soil for survival.
This kind of thinking:
directors enlighten the audience little by little while maintaining observability—the audience’s vision expands so they can accept more diverse movies—the capitalists/directors dare to shoot bolder and more diverse themes— Virtuous circle.
Compared to another movie idea:
speculative filming what the audience likes to watch-audiences are getting lazier and more accepting of mediocre movies-overwhelmingly vulgar and cheap speculative films pile up bad money to drive out good money-the vicious circle
goes away More than thousands of miles?
PS:
A few years ago about Leonardo DiCaprio.
DiCaprio: Watching a man who first revealed his evil spirit in "The Troubles of Growth", was chic and comfortable in "Romeo and Juliet", and became a global icon in "Titanic". He has both blonde hair, a small evil spirit and a handsome face. The one guy, standing right now, leaves stubble in "Infernal Affairs" and "Aviator" to sharpen his skin and become a tough temperament, which makes people sigh. A man with a baby face is a mixed blessing. The happy thing is that when you were a teenager, you could easily move around and become the target of beauties tossing fruits and handkerchiefs; what is worrying is that after middle age, even if you have a beard, a cigarette, a shirt sleeve, and a few swear words, you still can’t get rid of the sweetness. The taste of ice cream.
In the case of DiCaprio in the movie, in 1998, he dumped all beings with a handsome little boy. It is no longer necessary to lower his eyebrows and ruin the power and dominions in exchange for the tears and tickets of the audience. So after "Titanic" sank into the ice sea charmingly, the boy changed his appearance. In fact, he and Winslet are like this, no more than many characters, and they still have to put on powder when they are in their forties or 50s, and be handsome and pretty to conceal people's eyes.
But Hollywood is so labelled. The princes and princesses have to take two steps towards the working-class men in order to appear "powerful". Probably in the Hollywood world, "beautiful" and "strong" are very distinct, and the two can be compatible only with talented characters like Vivien Leigh. Moreover, for a beautiful boy like DiCaprio who once dumped the world, no matter how powerful he is, the impression he gave people will always work.
But...
Just like the audience's taste has been changed a little bit, DiCaprio's status has been changed a little bit. After filming one mature male movie after another, and after accumulating enough weight, "Middle-aged Man Powerful DiCaprio" will always overwhelm "Beautiful Boy Jack DiCaprio" and become his core image of.
"Inception" is another weight.
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