Isn't this the reproduction of exotic mandarin ducks? There are 3 screenwriters in Foreign Mandarin Duck, but it seems that Billy did the job of writing political satire.
And Otto's speech on capitalism in Cagney's office is not exactly the same as Garbo's performance in exotic mandarin ducks?
Billy is good at writing such lines, such as this paragraph:
Soviet Commissioner: We signed an agreement with Cuba to exchange cigars for our missiles.
Cagney: You are fooled, this Cuban cigar is of inferior quality.
Soviet Commissioner: It doesn't matter, the missiles given to them are also inferior.
Billy is the best screenwriter in Hollywood in my mind, not one of them. But it is difficult to accurately analyze the characteristics of his screenwriters. His ten criteria are all basic things. Excellent screenwriters can also master seven or eight points. However, from comparing the Jade Girl Merry and the exotic mandarin duck, and then looking back at the lines in the Jade Girl Merry, we can feel some ambiguities, which are Billy's idea and which are IAL's. Like Mrs. Picking up a chrysanthemum disguised microphone at the airport, I think IAL is more likely than Billy, and Mrs.’s phrase “Okay, my head of state is more like Billy’s.”
Billy likes to use stalks when telling jokes. It is easy to have contrast or parallelism. Cagney’s phrase "do me a favor please, bury us, but do not marry us" is like "I love me" in to be or not to be. Country and my slippers", this is probably a feature of Billy’s lines I pondered. Although Billy only started to learn English when he was 30 years old, and his English has always had a very serious accent, his pronunciation is the most difficult to understand in Hollywood, but he seems to be very good at mastering rhymes and some interesting similarities in the language. For example, bury and marry,
there are similar:
Mrs. Mac: maybe we made the mistakes(about the vote)
scarlet: that couldn't happen in russia
Mac Mrs.: they don't make mistakes?
scarlet : they don't make mistakes? Scarlet: they don't vote.
These two they don't make mistakes through turning points, which is also a typical Billy smile.
You can still see Liu Bieqian's shadow in this play. Basically, Billy's comedy has Liu Bieqian's shadow. In film-noir, it is Straugen. In this movie, a staff member drew a straight line of rising sales on the wall. This is a legacy of silent films. Billy has never made silent films, but he has seen how Liu Bieqian made the film. Although Billy said he couldn't learn, he still learned a little bit, which is already quite remarkable.
Go back and talk about Billy's comedy. What is the biggest difference between Billy's comedy and Liu Bieqian's comedy? It's because Billy has a clear stand, he is not a director who allows things to happen in front of the camera, he is a director who allows certain things to happen in front of the camera. Basically, his attitude towards politics is the most clear. He has made a few shows about Berlin. Among the prosecution witnesses there is a woman from Germany. He does not forgive this history. He faced its cruelty, because he felt great pain from it. His father and stepfather died in a concentration camp. Geographically speaking, he was a Polish again, and could not forgive the Soviets for the ravages of this land. But Billy and Liu Bieqian learned to use laughter as a weapon, but his weapon was sharper.
There are always some opinions that abuse of the word cynical must attribute Liu Bieqian and Billy to cynics. When we use the word cynic, we must figure out what the word really means.
Cynicism, from Greece, has a school called Cynics. The philosophy of this group of people is to live a life of virtue in agreement with nature, so they reject all conventional things, such as wealth, rights, honor, and social status. From this From a point of view, this group of people are Taoists, and what they advocate is no different from Zhuangzi.
After two thousand years, the term of this cynic has deteriorated, and different people have different interpretations. Wilde said it means A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing, and George Orwell believes that the cynic is right The denial of religious fanaticism is an agnosticism. But generally speaking, the meaning of cynicism is distrust of social values and moral values, a kind of outright cynicism, rather than reservations.
Let's take a look at Liu Bieqian, is Liu Bieqian cynical? There is one thing, but that is Jewish legacy, not cynicism. Liu Bieqian is not thorough. He insists, has reservations, has faith, and does not deny everything. He has morals to persuade, not cynicism. Break all the rules.
Billy is slightly better than Liu Bieqian in cynical level. The reason lies in his life experience. He was not a noble background. He was a journalist in his early years. When he came to the United States, he lived next to the women’s bathroom. He suffered, sad, and experienced. The pain of the death of his relatives, the nostalgia of the past, the sorrow and scorn of the country, the experience of being insecure, his attitude towards society is naturally not superior, and his attitude towards Hollywood is not a joy in it. But Billy can only be said to be a marginal insider, not a complete outsider. He is still in this system, or tuned out of this system. Although he is naughty, he laughs at many things. He laughed at it from the beginning, but He also has a foundation, not contempt for everything, although it is difficult for us to find his starting point and find what he insists on, it does not mean that they do not exist.
I don't think there is a real cynical director. If there is, the early Herzog can be counted as one. In itself, the Germans are too complicated. Gu Hongming said that they are profound and vast, but not simple, while the Americans are vast, simple but not profound. Therefore, when the Germans are not pure, they will come to the imperfect America. Produces these things we see. Generally speaking, it is a kind of subconscious anxiety. Liu Bieqian and Billy are only at different levels of anxiety.
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