Everything looks great, even the birdman who entangled Riggan like a curse in the inner small theater-the surreal and super capable self-closed his mouth at this moment and squatted quietly on the toilet. A flock of birds flew over the city, Riggan opened the window and disappeared...
This is a story about a superhero who needs to eat and drink Lazarus before the tiger falls to the sun. Riggan was only remembered by audiences and circles about his golden age of playing "Birdman", and like many Hollywood stars, he is eager to make a comeback through a Broadway stage that shows more literary style and solid acting skills. At the same time, in and out of the play, he has to face the entangled relationship with his daughter and the fierce conflict with his opponent, Mike Shiner. What's more interesting is that the actor of Riggan is Michael Keaton who once starred in the two "Batman" in the early 1990s. Excessiveness, bloat, mid-life crisis, family troubles are the common situation of Michael and Riggan.
"Birdman" and "Batman" both need to eat and drink after taking off their Hollywood shirts. This inevitably reminds people of the hardworking celebrities on the Avenue of Stars in Los Angeles and New York Times Square who dressed as superheroes and sold group photos for a living. Turning into a nearby supermarket on Friday afternoon, you will see Spider-Man pushing a shopping cart and wearing " The "good friends" in the "screaming" mask and Thor, who put down the sledgehammer, bought microwave food and beer and drinks together. After loading it into the car, we will spend a pleasant weekend curled up on the sofa watching sports games and late-night talk shows in a shared house on the outskirts of the city.
Compared with Mexican director Alessandro Gonzalez Inarito’s most famous three-part stories ("Love is a bitch" and "Tongtian Tower"), the structure of "Birdman" is deeper It is not complicated, only the Riggan story in the movie and the stage story as a play in the play; and compared to its most affectionate "Beauty Mistake", it is also the protagonist in the psychological horizontal, flattening the ordinary flesh and body. Two opposing voices of Super Power Soul.
In terms of the plot alone, from the excitement of the context to the abundance of emotions, "Birdman" can not be compared with Alessandro’s famous predecessors, but he cleverly used the play in the play and set it to be adapted from Raymond Carver. The drama of the classic short story "What are we talking about when we talk about love", which makes Edward Norton, Naomi Watts, Zach Galifianakis, Emma Stone and other dramas solid foundation The big-name celebrities of, can work with Michael Keaton to activate the Broadway stage in a Hollywood way.
Films built on theatrical stage, from Fellini to Polanski to Alan Renai and other masters, have long been commonplace, and Alessandro is not prepared to follow suit. He invited the Mexican fellow Emmanuel Lubezki, who had taken the shots of the incredible long shots of "Gravity", to continue playing and experimenting with the spliced "fake long shots" in "Birdman". . The two-hour full film has only about 10 long sports shots, from the dressing room and the corridor to the stage and the Times Square block over and over again. The camera and the protagonist spend most of the time in a narrow scene. After a conversation or quarrel, the narrative protagonist and the point of view are skillfully shifted in a single shot. The processing details in the same space are also quite interesting. In the dressing room, the objective shots always show the side of Riggan's super-powered birdman, the eyes move the cup, and the light bulbs are exploded in the air; they are transferred to the shots of other people’s supervisors, It became Riggan's hysteria for real skin-to-skin contact. The hero's self will always only be hidden in the heart and will not be seen by any outsider.
Along with superpowers, what is fictionalized and magnified by the heart is full of extremely disturbed free jazz. Irregular drum sets appear in the streets and even the aisles of theaters from time to time, intensifying with the sound of footsteps and gasps. The protagonist's inner anxiety. At this time, teasing other stars who acted as superheroes, they jumped out in a timely manner with dialogues to ease the tension.
"I don't want to play anymore, why don't you call Michael Fassbender and Jeremy Renner?" Riggan murmured at the unsatisfactory audition effect.
"Jeremy? Who is that? What is it for?" the choreographer replied.
"Robert Downey Jr., the clown, is not as talented as half of yours, but with a'Tin Man' (Tin Man), he made a comeback and made a lot of money." The "Birdman" in Riggan's heart chattered endlessly.
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Perhaps he is too keen to compete with Mexican compatriots such as "Pacific Rim" and "Gravity". This time, "Birdman", the storytelling master Alessandro, is also the first time that the work should have His thinking space is obscured by fancy technology. From the exploration of the inner state of the late hero, it is indeed not as simple and crude as "I am Shang Ge Yun Dun", the martial arts star Shang Ge Yun Dun, used his real name and body to intervene in a bank robbery in which he was unable to be a hero. , Not to mention the level of image presentation that can compete with Woody Allen and Bergman.
Of course, from a benevolent point of view, the use of audio-visual technology this time is really exciting, so that the entire conventional in-play story is stabilized in a full or even agitated jazz mood, which is really nice and beautiful.
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