Analysis of Audiovisual Language in "Hot Blood Police Detective"

Julien 2021-10-13 13:06:31

"The Hot Blood Detective" is the second film in the "Blood and Ice Cream" trilogy. Although it is a very story-telling movie, the tight rhythm of the plot also contributes to the entire movie through many audiovisual effects. Add a lot of color.
The movie tells the story of a workaholic police officer named Angel who has repeatedly experienced battles because of his hard work in London. Other police officers and sheriffs in the police station had a bad opinion of him, so they transferred him to the national security through relationship. The highest town is going to be a police officer. As a newcomer, due to his innate sense of mission, he arrested all the people in the town who he thought was offending the police station on the first day, but what made him at a loss was that all the people in the police station in this town The police officers, including the sheriff, showed a very indifferent attitude towards these things, which made Angel incredible. Over time, Angel discovered that the accident rate in this small town is quite high, but there has never been any accident that has been recognized as an adult committing a crime. This makes Angel, who has a strong sense of responsibility, puzzled, so he and the sheriff Danny's son started the ups and downs investigation together.
For such a male protagonist with a distinct personality, the shaping of the image is very important, and the director used sound effects at the beginning of the film to match the male protagonist's appearance. At the beginning of the film, before Angel enters the screen, the audience hears strong and powerful footsteps with a very stable rhythm. This kind of sound effect makes people think that the person who is about to appear will be a very honest. A powerful man, as expected, when Angle approaches, the audience can clearly see that he is a policeman who sits upright, and with the previous sound effects, he can portray the protagonist into an extremely capable and confident man. People, and psychologically, fully meet the audience's viewing needs. In another scene, Angel and Danny are talking about things in a police car on the side of the road while measuring the speed of passing vehicles. Whenever they talk about a more sensitive topic, there will be a sound of the car passing by. At this time, Angel It will quickly record the speed of the car. The car’s sound in this place seems inconspicuous, but it is to ease the atmosphere at the time of the plot, and this set of shots were all shot in the car, no pictures on the road were taken at all. It can be seen that the sound effect of the car driving by was added later. The dynamic effect of going up. Sound effects are sometimes very useful as a tool to portray the atmosphere of the environment or to predict the occurrence of certain situations. In the latter part of the film, Angel comes on stage to speak, but the microphone keeps making extremely harsh noises. The uncomfortable sound is very hidden but it gives the audience a bad premonition without the audience's awareness, as if a catastrophe is imminent. The sound effects add an unquestionable role to the movie.
And one of the characters in the film, supermarket owner Simon, is a gloomy person in the film, and every time he appears, the music that accompanies him is mainly based on the melody of falling tune, which is very sinful and negative. Therefore, the appearance of Pepi with this kind of music will give the audience a qualitative understanding of the characters from the beginning of the film. From the beginning, everyone will think that Pepi is a bad person, and his appearance will definitely bring something Bad things, and the story develops in this way, so the music also portrays a distinct character for the characters in the film. In the film, a refrigerator king was burned along with his home, and Angel immediately suspected that Pepi was on his body, so the next day, when Pepi drove past Ange, the lyrics of the background music that rang just happened to be "The fire will cover up what you did." "Everything" is actually in line with Angel's psychology, when the music tells the character's psychology. In the film, when Angel is upset because of things, the background music is a relaxed and cheerful country folk song, which forms the effect of sound and picture counterpoint.
In a movie, if the director can properly use light and shadow effects, he can also add to the lens effect. In the first part of the film, Angel was drinking juice in a bar in a small town. He constantly noticed that there were many student-aged people drinking beer in the bar. When he was thinking about seeing a boy with braces, the boy Laughing openly, the steel braces on the teeth gave out a very strong white light, which flashed into Angel's eyes exaggeratedly. At this time, Angel could not help but turn his head away by the flash of light, when he turned his head back. , Guang was gone, but he stood up resolutely and walked to the students, severely taught them a lesson and took them all back to the police station. The white light in this lens is quite exaggerated. We can see this white light as Angel's sudden realization. There is also a part of Angel who temporarily escaped from the town after the film and was shopping at a gas station. When he was determined to do a big job, he gave him a close-up, and at the same time he used the top light. This place allows One can't help but connect with Hannibal in "The Silent Lamb." Such a lens effect will portray a person into a similar ruthless character, which will show a certain horror effect. There are many murder scenes in the movie. For the creation of the murderer in the movie, the director used a set of shots with the same content but different scenes. The switch to complete this set of shots. The content of the shot is a murderer wearing a black cloak. There is a red light next to the murderer. The red light emits a red light. The director used a quick switch to complete this set of shots. The red light has a dangerous message. So this red light shrouded in the murderer's side will bring a sense of danger to the audience, thinking that this person in a black cloak is a dangerous person! The same red light was used. When Angel and Danny drove outside the town at the end of the film, the two got out of the car and quarreled. The rear lights of the car emitted a strong red light, and the light made the faces of the characters extra red. The two people are arguing
at this time. The red light at this time represents the danger and the anxiety and anxiety of the characters. The director uses light to portray the psychological activities of the characters and their ecstasy.
Talking about the film from the perspective of the camera, the overall rhythm of the film is a fast-paced plot, and the protagonist is also a very resolute, capable man, so there are many groups of shots in the film in the form of a process. It is repeated in the movie. For example, when Angel caught the teenagers who violated the rules and brought them into the police station, the teenagers were wearing black and white striped shirts standing in front of the height line and holding the identity license plates in their hands. The footage of Angel writing records. , Quickly switch back and forth with the lens of the teenagers covering their fingerprints. This type of lens is used more than once in the film, which portrays Angle's public and private distinctions, serious work attitude and tough personality characteristics. At the beginning of the film, Angel had just arrived in the village, and his daily life was the same, lacking the excitement that he had when working in London, so how did the director express the boredom of his life? The director took Angel to the police station every morning to open the box, close the box and wear the hat. Multiple shots are still repeated in a quick-cut form. This actually shows the similarity and monotony of life. When the man in black hit the refrigerator king's head with a hammer, it was reflected that Angel did indeed fall to the sofa in the camera, and in this, a very good transition was completed. In a group of Angel and Danny's front and back shots, the director constantly used the zoom lens, which shows that the relationship between the two people is constantly getting closer, and the closer the lens also shows that the distance between the characters' hearts is getting closer.
This series of films is called the "Blood and Ice Cream" trilogy, so ice cream in the film is an essential element. Ice cream is always used as an important tool to harmonize the rhythm of the film and bring a relaxing interlude to the film. The three movies in this series have specific genres and ice creams. The first "Zombie Sean" is represented by red strawberry ice cream, which symbolizes the flying of flesh and blood; the second is what I am today. The film "Hot Blood Detective" is represented by the original blue ice cream, which symbolizes that ordinary policemen have done different deeds, subverting the mode of previous police and robber movies; the final step is "End of the World". It is an apocalyptic science fiction movie, even a little crazy, so it is represented by green mint chocolate ice cream, which symbolizes the fantasy style of the movie.

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Hot Fuzz quotes

  • Tom Weaver: If we don't come down hard on these clowns, we are gonna be up to our balls in jugglers.

  • Nicholas Angel: Did you notice what I was doing? I was writing down everything that he said.