Mel Brooks' comedy style
a
brief commenta The comedy director is like a tyrant on the set, with different opinions on humor in camera, lighting, art, drama, and even lunch. Bridge passages, lines, and acting faithfully, then the Tower of Babel will fall when it rises into the sky. Democracy and dictatorship are the same thing. Just because this tyrant recognized God’s anointing, his talents were so extraordinary that it would be unspeakable, otherwise, how could he separate the idiots from the world’s misery for an hour and a half (plus popcorn cola, what else do you want). Even if he is conceited and pretends to be a prophet, how can he not know the tricky truth of "not just being unacceptable in his hometown, you go to the studio to try." Fortunately, he made an agreement in advance, and kept his promise to pay a sufficient salary flood. Everyone naturally took an olive branch and drooped out of an obedient appearance.
The above is a rise in the theme of Wang Jing's evaluation of Zhou Xingchi's "Kung Fu" storm.
Chaplin recalled that the filming of the comedy scene was repeated on the set, and he was tired and smiled. He pulled away to look at the people outside, all with miserable faces. The theater was showing, and the audience was laughing like a block of laughter. All of this is because comedy creation pays attention to shocking the first sight, the second sight is the former, the third sight is the ex-husband, where there are so many surprise climaxes. Tragedy is not the case. Birth, old age, sickness and death, unwillingness, resentment, love parting, more and more love, tragedy is an antique held in the palm of the hand, the past and present are always there, just beg not to cry too much and lose your hand.
The above is an impressionist portrait of comedy director Jiang Lang with a tragic face.
Mel Brooks, comedy master/master, writes and directs and acts by himself, and can still compose short songs by himself (the same goes for Chaplin). What could be done by one person in the past is now left alone to the assembly line, and the division of labor is careful not to overstep each other (is Woody Allen the last rest?). The slash that straddles the master and the master is a fig leaf that is still in the world. Chinese people pay attention to the identification of coffins, and Westerners care about funeral speeches. The reason is so similar.
The above is based on May’s most exciting comedy movies "The Producer", "You Flee and I Escape", "Young Frankenstein", "High Tension", "World History: PART Ⅰ", "Scorching Saddle" ", "Spoof of Robin Hood", "Space Cannonball", "Twelve Chairs".
It is for the order.
b
seems to be Kijeslovsky’s technique, the protagonist of the movie is frequently doomed, and the soundtrack is still pleasing to the ear.
When the protagonist loses his job and loses his love, the violin is low, and the jazz is repeated during the transfer. That is the formula given to the audience by Hollywood. If you don’t believe me, watch Mia Farrow in "The Purple Rose of Cairo". Watching a movie that has been watched dozens of times in a dimly-lit theater is not a joy, but...but that there is no music at all.
Mel Brooks, relying on this trick, kept shaking new tricks.
At the beginning of "High Tension", the driver drove Mel to the mental hospital. The two talked about the former dean who had recently died of illness. Mel regretted.
Driver: No! I think he was murdered!
The tense symphony echoed. Mel and the driver switched their confused expressions. The camera swayed from the inside of the car to the outside. A bus was drawn, and the "Los Angeles Symphony Orchestra" above the car was very eye-catching.
In "Scorching Saddle", the black protagonist is appointed by the governor as the new sheriff of the small town. He rode a horse across the vast desert with a magnificent soundtrack. At a glance, he thought that he had mistaken Sam Perkinfa or Sergio Leon. Inside the movie. The camera followed, and the black man stopped and took off his hat to pay tribute to the orchestra sitting in a corner of the desert.
In "Space Cannonball", the Star Wars princess flies away from marriage and takes the female version of C3PO to fly in a spaceship, and cheerful modern pop songs echo in the universe. In the cab, the female C3PO talked to the princess, but the princess ignored her.
Female C3PO: Can you pick that one out?
After a few times, the princess took off the bun beside her head. Oh, it turned out to be the earphones.
In "Young Frankenstein", the actor newly enters his grandfather's castle. He opened his eyes, got up, and leaned against the wall—the housekeeper relied on this night and not night and night.
Woody also used this trick, "Banana". Just after he fell in love, the violin echoed the scene. He slowly turned around, opened the closet door of the room, and found out the performer hiding inside. But I prefer that when he ate with the dictator king later, there was a cellist playing on the dance floor above, with a piano without a bow, and he worked hard. After the meal, Woody rushed to the innocent performer,
"Can you
stop playing? It's so noisy!" Subverting the audience's inherent movie-watching experience, for this reason, he does not hesitate to be the gravedigger of his own film soundtrack.
C
It is said that Truffau directed the tube and was so nervous that he didn't know where to put the camera.
I heard that Bergman in his later years was often distressed by the placement of aircraft.
In other words, Kitano admitted that when he didn't know how to put the camera or how to design the camera position, he used all the shooting techniques he could think of.
The above three people all follow the first rule of film creation: you can do whatever you want, but don't take the camera in!
In the Mel Brooks movie, this golden rule is broken up, shattered, and thwarted.
At the end of "Space Cannonball", the big-headed black warrior and the male protagonist use a lightsaber ring to duel. The battle is full, and the black warrior cut off his arm with a sword. With a sound of "Ah", the cameraman fell to the ground and struggled, and the crew members were dumbfounded. The black warrior pointed at the hero with a guilty conscience:
he did it!
In the first dinner where the new director and his colleagues met in "High Tension", the camera zoomed in from outside the window to the interior. Everyone was sitting around and chatting. With a sound, the camera smashed the window and went deep into the dining room. Everyone looked at each other and looked at the camera. The camera and assistant whispered and then zoomed out of the camera. The crowd pretended to be fine and continued to act.
At the end of "Robin Hood", Robin Hood has a honeymoon with his wife, and the two roll over on the bed. The camera zooms out from near, "booms" several times, and the camera emerges through the wall. The hero and heroine are stunned for a few seconds, continuing the foreplay.
Brecht’s theory of alienation can be explained by writing three graduation thesis. For Mel Brooks, he was nothing more than telling the audience:
this is just a comedy, a movie, not real, and the characters understand it very well. , Do you understand?
And at the end of "The Scorching Saddle", the fourth wall was shaved beyond recognition.
The bad guys and the good guys are fighting in a small town built of wooden boards. The camera zooms out from near to a panoramic view, then slowly moves to the left, revealing another studio house. Cut to the interior scene, a gentleman in a top hat with dozens of dovetail bows is filming a dancing scene, and the director is picking one by one in every way. In the electric light and flint, small town residents and bad guys scuffled to the modern dance shooting site. The three groups formed a group, together with the cafeteria staff (various costumes and various roles), visitors (the cream cake pie in one suit was the biggest gain), and finally Chased to the cinema, at this time the cinema was showing "Scorching Saddle"!
At this moment, the lines of the bad guys and the good guys finally agree:
I have to see what the ending of the story is!
There is no ending, this is just a comedy movie, don't take it too seriously.
d I
remember the information of Chamel Brooks on IMDB last year. The first defining his style was:
Walk this way.
At that time, English was poor. After reading "World History: PART Ⅰ", I learned the truth, namely: Wang Wen Sheng Yi .
The scene is as follows:
During the Roman period, the saint protected everyone from the chase of the Roman guards. She was going to take everyone to escape into a theater where the tragedy of Troy was about to be staged. She said to the people behind:
Walk this way.
Everyone was stunned, but Mel was still smart, and he immediately followed the way the saint walks, his buttocks twisted. Others had an epiphany, and they all learned that the green white snake first stepped into the world, "Twist and twist, twist and twist and twist...
Thank you Sister Manyu.
Everyone dressed in Troy costumes and fled to the corner drugstore, and then dumped the officers and soldiers. Then they arrived. The officers and soldiers asked the pharmacy owner on the side:
——Are there any Trojans?
——Unfortunately, no.
So, after Durex, Jasper, and Okamoto, I learned about Troy. The
officer angrily said to his opponent:
Keep finding! The Streets are crawling with soldiers. The
camera is switched, and all the soldiers are crawling on the ground.
• In "Space Cannonball", the hero proposes to JAM against the enemy radar to save the princess’s spaceship.
Vast space, a bottle of giant tomato butter fly giant enemy radar.
Mel Brooks plays • enemy commander learned that the princess landed on a desert planet, flew into a rage:
! comb at the desert
Cut to the cottage stormtrooper holding a giant comb to comb the desert, trying to Find the princess.
I keep reminding myself how important it is to be proficient in translation tools.
E-
plot . I’m
too tired, so let’s rest.
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