casting and acting
, "Directing is 80 percent casting." means that the most important part of making a movie (or stage play) is casting. I didn't believe it before. I thought that photography, music, and so on weren't counted. Only after watching this film did I realize that it was amazing, and the last thing I remember was the characters.
It is undeniable that Xiaoben is still a bit paralyzed, but it is very suitable for Nick, a weak and dull working-class dude. The parents are very handsome. In the scene where the crowd lit candles and prayed for blessings, a woman under the stage whispered "He is so hot" without any sense of contradiction. "Superman" has grown a lot stronger, and the eye-catching index instantly exploded. This unique temperament makes people hate him (the cheating big carrot) and people like him (the handsome guy who sincerely admits wrong) naturally, and it strengthens the social criticism, because this is a society that looks at faces. , Just listen to some stories, and have a good face, and the people will entertain themselves (I am not alluding to Ke Zhendong or anything). In a sense, Ben’s facial paralysis has also made Nick the role, because it makes him "silence" for his wife’s disappearance to appear to be false. This is also true when he tells the truth. It emphasizes the hypocrisy of everyone in the marriage. It is really the combination of human and drama, which can be said to be the highest state of using facial paralysis. You owe Uncle Vinci too much to Ben, so I spit on your short neck by the way.
Rosamund, who played Amy, also gave a performance that cannot be ignored for this film. The actor himself is a high-achieving student in the Oxford Department of Literature, in line with Amy's higher education background. Some people on the Internet criticized the British actress's cold temperament for not reflecting the American sweetheart side of Amy in the original book. I think it's nothing. Her unique and quiet temperament and a slightly gentler voice made her look powerful and confident, knowing what she was doing, no matter how distorted what she was doing. This kind of temperament also adds a lot of visibility to her behavior of being a double-faced green tea bitch, because the contrast between the front and the back is very strong, and at the same time unfathomable, it is chilling. It makes me feel that no matter how many variables there are in the middle of the plan, she can always find a solution (subtext: don't go to Harvard, or just come out like this). But her pronunciation has a common problem with all British actors. When they speak American accents, their voices become softer. Refer to Hugh Laurie in "Doctor House". I've heard various interviews he gave in his own English voice, and his voice was very real, but when he said the American voice in "House", the voice became a little bit faint, as if singing with falsetto. The heroine of this film is no exception. The voice has become misty. It is a bit boring after a long time, but it has a unique charm. It feels like a soul whispering in your ear, making the narration disturbing. After all, the hatred is not deep enough. If you really made up your mind to commit suicide, Nick really didn't necessarily have a way to survive. Her conceit made her and eventually destroyed herself.
The scene of someone complaining about Desi on the Internet is completely unnecessary, because there is no such violent pornography and blood in the book. Then the main creative staff told a story: It is said that if you want to kill a person in prison, you will usually be on the playground, because the heartbeat speeds up after strenuous exercise, and the main blood vessels are injured at this time. It only takes a few seconds to hang up. It's too late to call someone. Amy knows this truth well, so this drama treatment fits her psychopath very well. After I listened, my back got cold. This adaptation of the plot can also be regarded as serving the characters.
The other characters are well chosen, Neil’s thousand-year-old spare tire, Tyler Perry’s calm lawyer, Margo’s true temperament sister, Amy’s mother of strong desire for control, a big brainless junior, an objective and fair detective, an exaggerated hypocritical real person Show host... No one deliberately robbed the show (such as Jennifer Lawrence in "American Hoax"), they all perform their duties and serve the story.
Movies where photography and music win by plot, you rarely watch them repeatedly. You often go back and forth to watch movies that are more attractive in other aspects, such as photography, music, and so on. The photographer and composer of this film are the people who have cooperated with Vinci many times, and fully express the unique style of Vinci, the cold master. In the scene of the heroine sinking into the water in the trailer, I was directly drunk. The close-ups of the hair and face at the beginning and the end were also on my knees. This unique aesthetic style is really deep in my heart, but it also varies from person to person. . Some people like Yu Ma's red and green costume films, they all have different preferences. This concise, precise, and austere photography has a unique brilliance on the big screen, and it is an experience that cannot be replaced on any computer screen iPad phone. Now mobile products and the Internet have grabbed a lot of box office and reduced the motivation of many viewers to go to the theater. It's just that the movie is not just as simple as watching the plot, some textures can only be felt when going to the theater.
This aesthetic of Vinci is also reflected in the font. As a 7-year veteran fruit fan, I am very sensitive to fonts. The font on the poster is the modern and concise style I like, and the subtitles used in the film are also the same atmospheric and concise fonts. These details are also part of the style.
When "Social Network" got the best soundtrack, many people said that they didn't understand it. Is there a soundtrack for this item? Indeed, it does not have as strong a presence as John Williams's orchestra, but the rendering of mood and atmosphere still cannot be ignored. The soundtrack of the scene of the blood bath is really amazing, and other times it is silently setting off the atmosphere in the background. For example, the music when the truth is revealed after the first hour is not too overwhelming, but it is also appropriate to hold your heartstrings. The salient feature is that music is often prepared in the back. For example, in the scene where Amy made breakfast for Gao Fushuai, it was only a faint expression of emotion at the beginning. You may not even notice that there is music, but when she ran to the window by the camera, she pretended to be victimized. The soundtrack has transitioned to a climax, which is quite natural. The soundtrack can easily become overwhelming and resisting. The negative typical "War Horse", I will tell you with sensational music at every turn, come, I have to be ready to cry this paragraph, this is a bit too much. The soundtrack of the film is equally unique and modern, cold, ruthless, yet catching. The most important thing is that it is not overwhelming, but actively serving the story, which is really rare.
Edit
The editor is arguably the director's most intimate partner. Because they are not on the set every day like the director, and they have feelings for the material they shoot, which means they have enough objectivity. If there is a gorgeous tracking shot but not serving the story, they will bravely cut it off, and the director may not be the same: I took that shot for so long, how can you cut it? Therefore, the director must distinguish clearly that the effect of the final material and the energy he puts into it are two different things.
The feature of the previous hour's editing is "second cut", which won't let you settle for too long in a certain emotion. For example, in the scene of Nick's proposal, as soon as the diamond ring was revealed, the two immediately cut back to reality as soon as they kissed. You will not miss their sweetness at all, because the suspense that is happening in reality is the most important. There is also the scene in which Nick knocks down Amy. When he just approached her with guilt-filled eyes, he cut back to reality in seconds. There was no time for the audience to recall, and the uneasiness that occurred in the past was directly extended to the present. This "non-retaining" editing style really focused attention on the disappearance case, and aggravated the chaotic relationship between the two people, and created a film atmosphere based on the plot.
After all, it is a film adapted from a novel, and it is inseparable from the use of narration to explain part of the plot. We have been watching the progress of the entire disappearance from the perspective of God for the last hour. Nick can see the affair. It should be very objective, but Amy's very personal narration was added. This kind of objective and subjective switching back and forth may be what makes us want to stop. The memory part of Amy's narration is not a distorted "news report" because it is also manipulating our feelings.
The use of cross-editing the two scenes to speed up the plot and suspense is also very significant. For example, Nick solved the third clue and the montage of the police found the diary uses fast cross-editing, which can be said to make the audience reach two at the same time in anticipation. A small climax, followed by a big climax of Amy's self-reporting of the truth, made the first hour of the film end sweaty.
I like the editing of this film because of its control of the rhythm and various variations. The audience is very sensitive, which means they are also easily bored. We have all been familiar with the crosscutting mode of flashback + notebook close-up + return to reality an hour ago. After the truth is revealed, this editing mode has changed again, which is more vital. For example, the American drama "Fairy Tale Town" always switches back and forth between reality and flashback, without any changes, and it gets really bored over time. On the other hand, in this film, when the close-up should be cut, the close-up should be cut, and when the mid-range should be cut, it is very smooth. The best editing is the kind of craft that can make you unaware that there is a cut. Many movies like to use establishing shots to show the relationship between characters but ignore close-ups, but only close-ups can bring the audience closer to the hearts of the characters. The reasonable use of close-ups in this film greatly enhances the shaping of the characters.
The story
I have not read the novel, but the overall impression is summed up in one sentence: vista. You thought it was over, but there is always. I personally think that the real drama started after knowing the fact that everything was directed and acted by Amy, and it was only at an hour's position. It was different from the previous suspense movies, not by a big reaction at the end. Turn to satisfy the audience, so dig deeper into many things. If you show the reversal at the end, the audience is busy marveling, and there is no time to settle their thoughts. And after Amy's plan was revealed, there is still an hour and a half to give the audience enough time to think about marriage, the media, and analyze the many reasons for this result. It is true that the ending part can be more streamlined, but the human screenwriter is the author of the original book. Wouldn't it be like killing your own child if you let someone delete it? Vinci can be bolder and delete more things. If the ending can be streamlined for another 15 minutes or so, it can really become a masterpiece of the year. But the advantage of being longer is that the audience will be as exhausted as the characters in the film, increasing their recognition of their hopelessness.
This is a frustrating movie, because in the end it didn't give you a serious catharsis. Is she brought to justice? No. Did he expose her? No. In the end, this marriage locked the two of them tightly like a cage, and it was more uncomfortable than it was at the beginning. At least at the time they were complaining about each other, but there was still a possibility of divorce. Now I have to pretend to be harmonious while hating, and acting for others is more uncomfortable than death. This is also the most contradictory ending I have ever seen, because the director used a back and forth echoing technique to end the film gracefully like braces. The audience got a sense of satisfaction, but the plot was chilling. , It is abruptly stripped of this satisfaction. Knowing that the person next to his pillow is a poisonous snake, but unable to break free like a cage, he has to linger and laugh on his face so that he can spend the rest of his life in hypocrisy and fear. Vinci deserves to be a master of coldness, because he knows that death is liberation, and living is torture. Maybe this is what Nick deserves after eating soft food and looking for a mistress. It's more interesting than shooting directly in prison, because he is caught in life imprisonment for his marriage, which is really the same as the marriage vow, "Only death can separate them. ".
The most interesting thing about this movie is that there is no "villain" in the whole film, and the story itself is a big villain. Amy is both the perpetrator and the victim. The media always pays attention to the victim's side, so they give her both attention and sympathy. And after we knew the truth, Nick became a victim again, so our feelings moved to him again. In fact, this is not the case with marriage. No one is clean. Everyone is both a perpetrator and a victim.
I haven't read the novel, but according to various evaluations, the good parts of the novel are very specific. The detailed psychological description of the two protagonists makes the two seem real and credible. Some people think that the movie is not real enough, why the police do not thoroughly investigate the flawed Amy and the like, but I think that if you take it too seriously, you will lose, because although this story takes place in the real world, it is obviously not the real "reality", and "Fight Club" like. Why "The first rule of Fight Club is to not talk about Fight Club"? Because if we expose our dark fantasy to the sun, we will discover the irrationality and realize that everything starts with our selfishness and narcissism.
In fact, I think this film is quite similar to "Fight Club". Both the heroine Amy and Edward Norton's character Tyler have seen through the illusion behind the "perfect" life expected by the society and attempted to restore order through destruction. And both films allude to men's fear of "castration." In fact, Nick is so soft, he always nests with his sister Margo in the event of an accident. She always looks at her face at the assembly and on the interview show. At the end, when he decides to continue living with Amy, he ran to Margo for comfort. affim. At least in "Fight Club", Tyler realized his disappearing masculinity and tried to restore it with violence, while Nick was slightly passive.
In any case, from these perspectives, Gone Girl is also destined to be "fake", and that's okay, it's good for the audience to experience their own problems.
The comedy element of this film's surprise cannot be ignored. In the midnight show I watched, the audience laughed every once in a while. Many characters had a humorous dialogue. I like this method of interspersing comedy with suspense. It adjusts the atmosphere very well, but it hasn’t become nonsensical. But the fan of black comedy has indeed come out.
I often judge whether a movie is good or not by showing the subtext. The negative typical "Moulin Rouge", although it is a pretty good movie, but the central word "Love" appears too many times, there is no room for subtext, and it's all said for you. There are many subtexts in this film, but they are all presented to you, not just for you by the lines. The irony of the media, the ridicule of the truth, the criticism of the illusion of happiness, the despair of marriage, these insights are naturally brought to the audience after watching the movie (although there are some lines about marriage that are a bit too obvious to stop the theme To you), so the force is very high. There are good themes, but those who throw these principles naked on your face are ordinary movies. A good movie is to let you understand and experience it on the premise of having a good theme.
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I know this is a long article, so in order to thank the patience to read all of you, to share a little exclusive "egg."
The U.S. premiere of Gone Girl was at the New York Film Festival on September 26. As a result, on Wednesday of that week, David Fincher went to a small classroom in NYU to communicate with film graduate students. Later, the news “leaked out” as As an undergraduate student, I also went to the classroom to join in the fun, and listened to him talk about his knowledge of movies and various Gone Girl anecdotes (why not go after Gone Girl is released? I have a bunch of questions I want to ask him) excerpt a little Q&A. I think he is a cute old man with resentment, and fuck shit and other words are not shy at all (maybe because all the students are present, he can let go)
Enthusiasm:
If you have enthusiasm and can make your own thoughts clear, everyone will Follow your
big studios:
-All are greedy
-You have to learn to sell your own films
-Sometimes the negotiation ends without the final editing rights, which is very bitter. "Fight Club" I don't have the final editing rights
-there are many idiots (morons, heavier than idiot). Sometimes big studios will ask the "experts" to show them the film first. If they don't like it, the studio will schedule the film to a bad film schedule like early March. The point is that these "experts" are idiots with no brains, and they shouldn't be asked their opinions at all.
Box office:
-If you believe in the box office set for the first weekend, then believe it
-box office is not everything. The box office of "The Wizard of Oz" sank and sold for a billion dollars a few decades
later-"Fight Club" was not good at the box office, but...
telling stories and making movies:
-The time you enjoy the script is always When you read it for the first time, then it doesn't work. Especially as a director, you may have to repeat the same story to many people more than 100 times, and then you will find all kinds of loopholes and unreasonable places in the story. In addition, when you are on the set, you will keep repeating the story, which is very annoying. So you usually have to exercise more. If you repeat the story more than 100 times and you are not annoyed, it means that the story is worth telling and must be constantly improved.
-"Fight Club" I found it very interesting after reading the book, articulate beautifully, so I decided to shoot.
-"The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" I want to shoot because I like the relationship between the two characters in it. You have a 45-year-old reporter who wants to find evil, and then you have a 23-year-old girl who tells you, "You don't know what evil is." She herself is used by government officials, so she knows the ugliness of the world. I think the relationship between these two people is very interesting.
-When I chat with the screenwriters, I will only ask them to say what this story means to them once, because you are very easy to fall into the abstract interpretation of the story. I will tell them, "Here is what I think I can show". Because a movie is never an imaginary thing, it must always be visually present.
-Making a movie is a very contradictory thing. It costs 400,000 US dollars a day. You can't go in for a long time, and many things won't be as you originally imagined. The whole process is like making clothes for a model who is walking on the runway. It will never fit.
Leading actor:
-I’m not the kind of patient director. Let the actor sit down and ask "What do you think?" I don’t care what they think, I just tell them here’s what I want.
-You must tell the truth when communicating with actors. If I think they are not acting well, I will tell them, but this also has to pay attention to speaking skills. Okay, I think I understand what you are going for, but here is what I actually see.
Music:
- I do not like 18th century classical music that set of things
- music is an extension of the sonic role of movie
-The best soundtrack, you and him will always only talk about the story, and then he will create it for you, and you will not entangle with him on the details of the soundtrack, such as whether to use a cello or a flute. I am honored to have worked with Trent so many times, he is great.
Gone Girl:
-Rough cut for more than 3 hours, we listened to a lot of opinions, and then put a lot of effort on the music
-we shot more than 500 hours of material. I have learned well now, knowing that not every one will appear in the movie, just a good one, but I still like to shoot more on the set
-I enjoy being on the set. I really enjoy working with the cast of this film
-I admire Tyler Perry very much, he is very dedicated, never idle on the set, professional attitude
-the casting is still very natural, and I can't say why. I chose Neil Patrick Harris because... he is Neil Patrick Harris.
-When making this film, I kept thinking about how to bring pleasure to Virgin Audience from this film that I am already familiar with. It is not easy and requires learning. (Kneel to this metaphor...)
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* I didn't pay attention to NPH and Xiaoben Luniao at all when I brushed it for the first time, and watched hard when I brushed it for the second time. I just saw it (in fact, it was only a few seconds, and the NPH was in a pool of blood, so I didn’t see it really. The small one was just a side...) Then the little wife Jennifer Garner was domineering about this nude scene. Replied: "You are welcome. I try to consider myself a charitable person and I wanted to give back." It's pretty straightforward.
** The creators uploaded all scanned pages of Amy's diary in the movie to pinterest, which is really crazy. You can click here to watch: http://www.pinterest.com/gonegirlmovie/musings/
*** The script is ready to download! (Oscar award season god horse) Hurry up if needed, because it will probably be gone after a while. https://www.foxscreenings.com/GoneGirl_Final_Shooting_Script.pdf
Finally, I will talk about some technical aspects. Readers who are not interested can directly close the web page, because it has nothing to do with the film itself.
I am a person who is very interested in post-production, so I was shocked when I knew that the entire film of "Gone Girl" was edited with Premier CC, because the mainstream Hollywood editing software is still AVID, and this is the first one. A major Hollywood production that uses Premier to cut the entire film. Although my classmates and I are using Premier, NYU is still an old-fashioned AVID School and requires us to use AVID. After all, this software is the most recognized in the industry. Although Vinci used to use Final Cut Pro 7 (not AVID anyway). Then why did he switch to Adobe? One of the reasons is that the collaboration between Adobe After Effects and Premier is very smooth. The editor is busy at this end of the room and the special effects staff is doing the basic special effects at the other end of the room, and then through the CC sharing, the editor can get the information immediately. Material processed with special effects. Many scenes of high-investment blockbusters were shot on the indoor sound stage to better control the shooting elements, which resulted in a lot of green screens in the material. A lot of green screens are also used in "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo". Vinci is a person who likes to use special effects to create a sense of reality, but he suffers from the later stage personnel. For example, the vision of the casino in the film is actually just an ordinary building, and the sign of the casino was added later. (Yes, I still wonder where I found such a shabby little casino)
In any case, I am very happy that Vinci has the courage to try new things, and let the people in Hollywood know that it is possible and efficient to use Premier to cut feature films. Suck it, AVID! FCP7 I will not black you.
Extended reading: http://107cine.com/stream/56624/Reference
material (need to overturn the wall):
Interview with Gone Girl editor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2o6pjd2AU9c#t=158
Gone Special effects for Girl: https://vimeo.com/115019179 Special effects for
"The Girl with Dragon Tattoo": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDGqKyNV-HU
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