From "Forbidden Love in the Army", Talking about Directing Methods

Angus 2022-01-19 08:02:12

Why are we tempted by a hidden charm? Sometimes this kind of scent turns into perfume, it's just a charm, but the "spoof without saying" is perplexed.

In the empty reverberation, the viewer is eager to grasp the handle of any meaning, so they instinctively search for any relevant clues and play a game of cross-line interpretation. The African continent, the French garrison, the men’s corps, the male body, violence and contact, secret love, repressed love, silent system and politics in a free land, secret life energy. The author's point of view has not been stated clearly and directly, but a game that requires the viewer's intention to explore it by myself. Sometimes this becomes a trick in a large number of contemporary creations. The invisible meaning and value become the phantom, and the ability to capture the phantom becomes the vanity of the audience. The author just made a blank check with no information. In this game, the viewers cashed in as much cash as possible. In the end, the chairman of the jury buckled the crown of gold on the pages of history in the glory of the crowd. Finally the dust settled and wrapped the empty echoes in gold and sealed them up.

The play is dramatic, and the various military trainings of the soldiers on the primitive continent of Africa are themselves a staged setting, in which there is a secret clue of the love between men and men. The director’s method is de-dramatic. It is a description of daily life, a lot of tedious training, and almost no role. Except for the details of the inner drama of several protagonists, the legion can be said to be the same gymnastics for everyone. team.

The drama of the plot setting reverberates in the viewer's mind after the film ends. The logic of the reverberation itself is dramatic, because the brain tends to create drama, that is, to use various filtering and processing methods to create meaningful effects. For example, when you reverberate (recollect) a daily event, the capture of content fragments are all screened dramatic details and moments. Daily traces will be self-filtered because of mediocrity, and all kinds of information left are pearls and valuable. This is the value (meaning) oriented existence mode of the brain.

The film’s viewing process is relatively boring compared to the relatively direct presentation of the dramatic director’s method. Fortunately, the aesthetics of the stage itself (the film picture) supports the entire film and becomes a source of energy for continuous viewing. The looming narrative also operates almost independently through text (inner confession). Telling the story with lines as the main body requires the viewer to have a certain amount of attention, that is, how much effort the viewer needs to listen to before they can gradually understand it.

This is a traditional Hollywood-style storytelling method that will not be used as much as possible. In the commercial appeal of storytelling, the audience must relax as much as possible without too much effort, just open their mouths, and the food will be delivered accurately and satisfactorily. In your mouth. The viewer just came to indulge in pleasure. This is criticized by the author's film, and the author's film requires the audience to work hard, and some need to work hard to participate in it. The audience encounters an uncomfortable service or a challenge beyond inertia, and is forced to carry out "various thinking movements" during the viewing process.

Shouldn't stand on either side, blindly relaxing will lead to groggy, blindly exerting force will resist. Drowsy dreams are the demands of business, and striving to find meaning is the pursuit of fools (self-worth). And revealing the truth requires the waiting of both, and there is a thin string in the relaxation that is aware. The director can make the best use of the traditional way of telling stories, follow the relaxation, and embrace the largest possible audience. However, by burying a mirror in the course of the tour, you can look back at the traces of the tour, and thus see through the logic of the tour, and its falsity, that is, the flaws in the construction of various meanings.

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  • Galoup: [subtitled version] Maybe freedom begins with remorse. Maybe freedom begins with remorse. I heard that somewhere.

  • Galoup: That day, something overpowering took hold of my heart. I thought about the end. The end of me. The end of Forestier.