"The Great Gatsby" has gorgeous scenes and sophisticated props, but the characters have no characteristics and soulless. From the beginning to the end, it seemed that I watched a photography exhibition and listened to a recitation, but it didn't move people for a second. This kind of film is seen a lot. It is too hard to put American directors on them, while Chinese ones fail to pretend to be B.
My mother tongue is not English, but the quality of the dialogue can still be felt. I watched the remake of the movie "Straw Dog" last night. The male lead and the female lead ate at a restaurant in a small town in the southern United States. There is no need to dialogue, but the characters and their expressions have made this small restaurant very weird and embarrassing. Coming down, after eating and paying the bill, the male lead handed over the credit card, and the proprietress in a dusty suit said: We only accept cash.
The host was shocked, and the lady boss went on to say: It's the kind of thing the poor use to pay bills.
This pair is great.
Compared with "You only have the world in your heart, there is no me" than "husband, are you hungry, I will cook a bowl of noodles for you" is obviously a more grounded dialogue. It is difficult for you to imagine that lovers will make love words like this in the world.
I seize every opportunity to scold the movie "Hero", because I remember that from this film, Chinese movies began to spread the epidemic of non-human words, even Feng Xiaogang with strong antibodies can infect (I am Say "Night Banquet"), and the lesion is a person: Li Feng, if I see him a real person, I really want to smear his face.
The down-to-earth dialogue has nothing to do with the subject matter. The court blockbusters can also write good dialogues. For example, in the movie "Qin Song", Qin Shihuang and Gao Jianli chatted, and he said, "One night, I dreamed of a lot of people. Come and chase me, keep chasing, I ran to the mountain and they chased it to the mountain, I ran into the water and they chased it into the water, I ran, ran...horse race" 』
This is the life style In the scene, it’s not abrupt at all.
Compared with Chen Daoming's "I want to build a big territory" in "Hero", Li Xuejian in another "Assassin of Qin" with Qin Shihuang as the protagonist. It's much more vivid.
After talking so much, I want to say that movies are things from life after all. If they are not grounded, they are not worth watching at all, and people who will watch them are dull.
"The Great Gatsby" is a very good novel, a very good story. It tells the tragedy of an idealist with a personality defect.
In the context of that period in the United States, it is the era of the first episode of "The Godfather", after the Prohibition, the gold rush, and the first carnival before the major economic crisis. The cousin in the film said to Gatsby: Our time is decadent, we are all bastards, but you deserve to be surrounded by flowers. (In a word, he was soon surrounded by flowers).
This sentence is the summary of this novel. When everyone gave up their ideals and pursued money and material luxury, Gatsby still had ideals and a goddess. But at the same time, with the imprint of his own time, he couldn't get rid of the inferiority complex of a bad background, and he pursued too much for perfection.
If it had not been for him to ask Daisy to admit that she had never loved her husband in the past five years (how is this possible?), things would not end like this. It can be seen from this incident that Gatsby is a person who has only been in love once in his life. Therefore, he knows very little about women and has no experience in love. His energy is spent on making money to change his identity, but in the end he has to surrender to his fate.
This empty and gorgeous movie fragmented this beautiful story, lacked sufficient detailed support, and lacked touching dialogue, so things became very awkward and unnatural. The only bright spot is probably that Xiao Li lost weight and Xiao Li played well.
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