Recently, when I was fine at home, I often struggled about what movies to watch. The easiest way was a list of films in the first two days. I watched the best Oscar movies of the past year by year. By the way, I feel the film development process. I don’t know when it will be. Finished reading.
The best film "Wings" (Wings) in 1929 was called the Best Film Award at the time. It was only renamed the Best Film Award since 1931. Before watching the movie, I haven't checked the relevant film reviews, only some of the most intuitive feelings.
The movie was played for a while, and I realized that it was a silent film when I saw the actors open their mouths silently and intermittent scenes with subtitles inserted. Before that, I only watched Chaplin series of silent films, because of the rich body language, I can only watch it. At that time, I thought the film "Wings" turned out to be a silent film. I wonder if I will see it shut down in the middle. It turns out that I didn't turn it off halfway in the end. Instead, I went back and watched it again if I didn't see the subtitles clearly in some episodes.
To put it simply, this is a war romance film. Before the outbreak of World War I, the male lead and the male second were happy young people in the small town, and they liked a girl at the same time, but this girl only liked the male second. Later, when the war broke out, they joined the U.S. Air Force. In a battle, the second man was captured by the Germans. As a result, the second man later stole the German fighter plane and escaped back. On the way, he encountered the male lead plane who was about to pay for the second man. The male lead thought it was an enemy plane, and shot it down. By mistake, the second man was a real sacrifice this time. Up. The male protagonist is very regretful, the war is over, and he returns to his hometown.
In the movies of this era, the actors’ performance traces are very heavy, like playing a stage play in front of the camera. In some places, the motion range of emotions, sorrows, sorrows, and joy are slightly exaggerated. Due to the limitation of photography technology and the influence of the frame rate of the film, and at the same time Like the movies of the modern era, the people in the play walk and move slightly faster than normal, which gives me the inherent impression that I am still watching a Chaplin movie, with a little bit of joy in the times.
Although it is a silent film, the actors' dialogue in the film is silent, and only some important dialogue information is inserted with subtitles, so it does not affect the understanding of the plot at all. It is also because it is a silent film, without the dialogue sound, the soundtrack is even more attractive. The rhythm of the music fluctuates in line with the actions of the actors, and it is not at all boring.
What shocked me the most in the film was the scenes of several aerial battles in the middle. Many planes shuttled across the clouds and shot fiercely. During the movie, I kept thinking about how these special effects were done in the 1928 movie. Woolen cloth. Later, I checked and found that these battle scenes were not special effects or studio model simulations. They were done by the pilot carrying the actors and the camera in the air during the shooting. The camera was fixed in front of the actor, and the actor performed various actions in the back seat. The scene is very similar to the air battle after "Pearl Harbor" and "Dunkirk" two years ago, but the scene here may be even more remarkable in that era.
There is still a doubt about technology. During the war, the male protagonist went to the brothel to drink. After being drunk, there were some hallucinations, and there were bubbles everywhere that he thought was very cute. How do I think these bubbles are made like computer stunts, but this is definitely not. I don't know how it was done, a bubble of whimsy.
War is cruel. Whether it is won or lost, it is cruel to everyone involved in the war. There is a small scene in the middle that impressed me. A blind soldier with wounded eyes ran away with a wounded lame soldier on his back. In the end, both of them were both. Fell into the gunfire. In the final battle of the movie, there is a very grand war scene. Machine gun shooting, blasting, tanks, and plane bombings, as far as these sections are concerned, this movie was completely an American blockbuster at the time.
After the war ended, the male protagonist returned to the small town, and one day the same girl who had liked him since childhood watched the stars. The girl asked him, do you know what to do when you see a shooting star? He said, you can kiss the girl you love. The war is cruel, the love is beautiful, and the friendship is long-lasting, but in the future, I will never forget that the male lead killed the male second on the plane, and some people died, but it seemed that no one was doing the wrong thing.
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