The topic of the movie "Rocket Science" director Jeffrey Blitz "Rocket Science" is: A stuttering boy insists on participating in a debate competition because of his love for mountain female debaters.
Film positioning:
audience: pro-teen audience
type and film type:
investment scale at the junction of fictional movies and prose movies : small-cost movies
Movie creativity: American high school losers seem to be an eternal topic in American movies. Losers always have specific characteristics that are different from ordinary people, such as being obese, short, having different interests from ordinary people, or stuttering. This "Rocket Science" is also telling the story of a loser, a story of a boy who was born stuttering. The creativity of this film tends to "turn decay into magic." The troubles that no one cares about stuttering boys growing up are details that most people ignore, and the director carefully grasped such details.
Topic selection: I don't know the motivation of director Jeffrey Blitz for choosing this topic. But the story of Jeffrey Blitz is fairly clear and smooth.
Text editor: There is a narration to tell Hal's heart. There are shadows of prose movies.
Filming techniques and editing synthesis: no different from ordinary American movies. There are many running scenes in the movie, which seems very youthful.
The logic of the movie: "Rocket Science" is a more logical movie.
Stuttering boy Hal's motivation:
1. In the first half, Hal's motivation is mostly to win the attention and heart of his favorite girl Ginny.
2. In the second half, Hal's motives are slightly complicated. First of all, he wants to avenge Ginny who left him, and at the same time seek relief from this tragic relationship, and the innermost may be looking for self-identification.
Character shaping: success.
Male protagonist Hal: A model of a loser, cowardly, timid, stuttered, and can't do anything well. But in the face of love, he is considered brave. And more often, love is in his heart for self-satisfaction needs. He feels proud of a woman who loves him. Debate should be his most feared thing, and Ginny invited him to join the Debating Club to make him flattered. The director did not explain whether he loved Ginny or the satisfaction that Ginny gave him-that is, he has a gift for speaking.
The little boy Hal is the only character carefully crafted by the director. The other characters are just a little bit in the air.
The boy speaking in the first shot is Ben Wekselbaum, Ginny's former teammate. He gave up and won the speech contest. He explained for giving up the game. "That's the realization I came to at States Last year: Life is nothing but repetition. The same thing over and over, Somebody might give you a trophy and that's supposed to mean you're making progress, but there's no such thing. The fights You fight today are the fights you fight till you die." The Chinese translation is like this: From last year's State Speech Contest, I realized: There is nothing else in life, only repetition. No one will give you a trophy to prove your progress. Fight today, fight tomorrow, fight until you die. This passage is very interesting. The audience may think that this is the main point of the movie, but it is definitely not because Ben finally went to Hal to participate in the competition. I don't understand why he said this, or why he has to do the same work every day in the laundry. This character seems to be a role model in Hal's heart, but his motivation has not been shown.
Ginny: The female debater that Hal likes. Ginny is the goddess of Hal. But the fact is that she is very competitive and unscrupulous. This is my only understanding. Her motive is to win the game.
Hal's brother: A boy who wants to plan, with unknown motives. Perhaps it was set up to increase the dramatic conflict of the movie.
Movie music: small fresh music. It is good music. Low chant, guitar, fresh, simple and no melodic background music.
Summary theme: "Rocket Science" is an unclear movie. Just like youth, vagueness, chaos, groping, curiosity, and searching. In line with the logic of youth movies, young people are already in the process of searching for logic. At the same time, this is also a realistic movie. Fresh and refined. There is no bloody inspiration, no spoof, all the plots are satisfied with the classic French saying: C'est la vie! This is life.
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