From looking at the first set of shots, I thought I had figured out the style of the film. The male god intends to make the whole work present a humorous and gorgeous temperament, although his thin hair suddenly became very " You" is "smooth" and "slippery" and his opening of his hands in a welcoming manner gives us a slightly amusing aura, but the gorgeous layout of the entire scene and the sophisticated costumes of the actors are Undoubtedly.
However, the next scene made me change my opinion. This is a scene before the subtitles such as the name of the movie, actors, etc. Usually, some interesting photography or image content is used as the background of these subtitles. This movie is no exception. From this scene You can see Alan's art skills in the art school, excellent composition ability, and a rigorous grasp of the order of the drawings. However, this scene is completely inconsistent with the previous set of lens styles. At that moment, I suddenly had new expectations for this film. Maybe the director wanted to express some of his views in these two completely different styles, maybe He has other things he wants to explain. It's rare to see this kind of juxtaposition of a pure lens with a gorgeous interior. This may be risky, but who knows, isn't it experimental?
But the hero in the back still pulls us back into the comedy love sketch. The beautiful drawing of the heroine, the stare of the hero, and the expectation of the heroine are all typical elements of the love sketch. The short-lived opening scene seems to be the director because Personal feelings or some specific art work that is put in for reasons of personal characteristics does not match the whole movie. If a good shot is not placed in the right position, a good shot will become It's broken. This should be a common problem in film shooting. I hope that every lens will be perfect, and I hope that as many lenses as possible will leave a deep impression on people. However, movies are not photography. Of course, composition, color, and sense of picture are all important. Movies The essence of the camera is still the association and the fun of the association brought by the parallel connection of the lens and the lens. This is achieved, even if the lens is very simple and clear, it can give people a shocking feeling. When the relationship between the shots is forgotten, and the purpose or feelings expressed by this set of shots are forgotten, the whole film, at least this set of shots, will fall away and lose the charm that it should have. Alan knows that there are no dirty colors in his paintings, only the wrong colors, but he forgets that there are no boring shots, only empty shots.
In addition to the lack of relevance between a group of shots, the switching between groups has not been carefully designed. This is very well reflected in old Hollywood movies, such as "The Giants". Although the movie is very accountable, the switching of the shots is very good. It is very elegant. The structure of the whole movie is also confusing, perhaps for the purpose of making a point, but the "chaos" is not that small. At the beginning, the film seemed to show a blow to the personality of the old age. After the main line came out, it seemed to want to talk about the innovation of design. Later, it was the king’s confusion about love, the pressure on the male protagonist, and the protagonist’s seriousness in love. , The determination to innovate, and finally the courage to get out of grief, inserted some inexplicable extramarital affairs and homosexual plots, I don’t know if it is to clear the way for the feelings of the hero and heroine or to show the emotional freedom at the time. Anyway, it is a lot of things. They were all laid out, as if they had picked up all the exquisite porcelain pieces from various places, and then piled them into a pile at random, with no sense of beauty at all.
The picture of the whole movie is very beautiful, not the photography is very beautiful, but the shooting scenes, costumes, makeup, characters, these are very beautiful and beautiful, I think this probably represents the director's memories of the aesthetics of the Baroque period and court life Some of the romantic imaginations are just that this kind of imagination is too romantic and lacks the support of reality. In the expression of the characters, it appears a little rigid, fuzzy or incompatible with history. First of all, Louis XIV himself was a king who loved art very much. He loved dancing, and he often performed on stage personally to the point where he was overworked and hurt his body. Madame Pompadour was his respected lover. She was actually French at the time. The queen, who loves literature and art, personally supported the literary and artistic world, and Voltaire was also impressed by her. Even if she grew older and no longer had a real relationship with the king, the king respected her very much. Without saying anything that has withered, Madame Pompadour herself is a very smart woman, she will not be sad and waiting for the salvation of a female gardener. Secondly, the Palace of Versailles itself is a representative work of the Baroque style. When the protagonist first met, the protagonist asked whether the protagonist followed the principles of design, and the protagonist answered that it followed the principles of ancient Greece. Isn't it a Renaissance? The heroine and the king danced halfway through and suddenly threw down the king to find the lover's real husband? The king also has the expression that I am a matchmaker and I stand among a group of people who seem to have come out of the Wizard of Oz, and dance with them in a super cartoon dance. Is there any other reason for this besides creating a comic effect? Alan is a person with art intuition and life intuition, so he can express his insights about life and the beauty of art harmoniously in his previous work, but he is not a logical person, and he is not a logical person. The curiosity of historical events brought him enthusiasm, but his inadequate understanding made him fall into a quagmire of unknown confusion.
The fashion back then was really different from ours now. We don’t know the reason why the protagonist’s wife cheated. In short, a good man met a scumbag, so he decided to leave her to find the good woman, but his wife’s reaction was really shocking. Her reaction was that others would. Laugh at her. People at that time had no sense of morality. Many women were quite proud of being a junior. Although it was a social phenomenon, they still couldn't agree with it. However, there are no Sannomiya and Six Institutes in our country. The history of mankind is crazy.
In the previous works of Alan, whether he acted or directed, there is an implicit sense of beauty, but this one is different. To give two examples, one is the hat that the hostess bought at the beginning. In fact, there should be a higher way to express people’s meaningless desire to express themselves. They exaggerately find a few men standing by the window and exclaiming "Heaven". What! What a beautiful hat" Doesn’t it really feel contradictory? Although it can lead to conflicts with these people later, it is still rough to deal with it this way. There is also a pair of gay lovers. We can all clearly see their relationship. We can also see what attitude his wife has. Why should his wife point out to us later, "They are lovers, you know Is it? But I am very forgiving." Whenever encountering this situation, there is a feeling that the IQ of the audience has been insulted. It's not a big deal to leave a little bit of white space. The combination of shots and the hard performance of the actors are really enough.
I don't know if Alan will make new movies in the future, or whether his next works are good or not, but he always surprises people, and I will still watch it because his charm is already amazing.
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