Until a few months ago, I watched the premiere of "Edge of Tomorrow" with a film review editor.
After the film, he said: "This movie should be good at the box office, but this terrier was used by the screenwriters of "Groundhog Day" as early as 1993."
I said, "So, it's no wonder that the heroine's name is even the same. It's all the same. So is this a tribute?"
"Have you seen it?"
"No, but a friend recommended this movie to me a long time ago because my English name is also Rita."
"Ah! Yes! I didn't expect it I watched a movie that I saw ten years ago with a Rita, and it was like a groundhog day."
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opening dialogue above is a bit verbose, uh , I have to use the dividing line to remind myself that I am writing a film review. Yes, the focus of this film review is to analyze the dialogue about this film. The screenwriter of the film, Danny Rubin, wrote many wonderful and concise dialogues for the male lead. I refrained from the urge to press the pause button several times to take a screenshot while watching the movie. Of course, this is still great for remakes after ten years. Good story selling.
The protagonist Fill is a somewhat conceited and poisonous weather forecast anchor. He feels that his talent for hosting can hold a prime talk show named after him, instead of going to a small town year after year to report cheating. "Groundhog Day", but he went anyway. According to his plan, this should be the last live broadcast of Groundhog Day in his life. However, after experiencing a bad broadcast, he found that he was permanently trapped on this day. Inside.
Judging from the initial setting, the male protagonist should scold Fuck for an hour and 20 minutes in the second half of the film, thanks to the (bian) emperor (ju), he did not.
Our depressed protagonist, Fill, tried every means to escape this day. He ran to the hostess and said he wanted help, but the hostess persuaded him to check his brain because of his reckless behavior. The brain doctor thought he must be a nerve. Something went wrong, so Fill really ran to see a psychiatrist. Unfortunately, this psychiatrist is not very reliable, and then there is the following dialogue:
Fill: "Have you been to college? Isn’t it a veterinary psychology? Have you ever practiced with this Relevant courses?" (Tucao completely in line with the protagonist’s personality)
Doctor: "It should be counted as...abnormal psychology" (The doctor even began to wonder if he had ever studied psychology. There should be a smile here. (Sound)
Fill: "Well, what should I do?" (This sentence is more like Fill asking himself)
Doctor: "I think you should come again next time. Is it okay tomorrow?" If the problem is not solved today, he will face the same situation tomorrow. In other words, he has no tomorrow at all. A short and clear pun. At this time, only the audience and the male protagonist understand the special meaning of the word tomorrow.)
Fill : "..." (The male protagonist has choked silently, covering his head with a pillow and tapping)
Doctor: "Isn't it?" (The doctor hurriedly made a knife)
Fill: "... "(Continue to beat the pillow covering his head. Although no one is talking in the picture anymore, I believe the audience can't help but laugh.)
The screenwriter is very witty in portraying Fill’s helplessness. His lines in this scene do not exceed three sentences. Without exaggerated performances and lines, he won the audience’s laughter, and between the lines, the audience and the protagonist have empathy. The tacit understanding. Examples like this are everywhere in the film. The screenwriter used very little dialogue to portray the image of a venomous host who talks about tuberculosis. It has to be said that this is compared to the one who made everyone in the film become tuberculosis by Woody Allen. This method should be smarter. In a movie, dialogue is just a way to convey information to the audience. The most important thing in movie grammar is image language. In addition, it also includes factors such as soundtrack and sound effects. Dialogue, as the sound element of the movie, should bear more plot Information, to promote the development of the story or portray the image of the character, rather than copy the real dialogue that will appear in people’s lives in order to express the sense of reality. Before the invention of sound film, pioneers could tell vivid stories using pictures alone, so there is no reason for current audiences to spend money to buy tickets into the cinema to watch the actors chat on the big screen. Something that can be heard. For example, idle chat, unless it makes a special contribution to the unfolding of the story. There is a scene in the film where Fill is talking to the hostess of the apartment hotel. The hostess cordially asks him if he sleeps well and if he needs coffee. I heard that there will be a heavy snowstorm today. Hehehehe, but Fill is really real. After taking the conversation, he began to broadcast the weather. He told the hostess in extremely professional terms that the heavy snow would be driven away by the hot air from the south, just like what he did on the TV. After that, he would be ironic. "Do you really want to talk to me about the weather or are you just chatting?" There are a lot of lines in this scene, but it is also about the weather. This dialogue is obviously meaningful. It emphasizes the protagonist’s professional identity and his arrogant personality that completely ignores other people’s feelings to create embarrassment. Tell the audience a message: The weather forecast says there will be no coming heavy snowstorm. This is actually a small foreshadowing for the sudden changes in the weather.
If you have enough patience to see the film review here, I will express my gratitude! Because I know that if you want to keep analyzing these creative skills while watching a movie, it is very unappetizing, just like you are completely sinking into the soft talk of everything in "The Tree of Life", The person sitting next to you suddenly tells you that the last lens photographer ran out of focus, just as disappointing. So next I want to discuss the moving parts of this wonderful story itself.
Returning to Fill, who was hovering on the verge of helplessness, he was drinking with a few desperate young people in a bowling alley. He recalled the good day spent with a blonde in the Virgin Islands. He said, why can’t I? Repeat that day? ! The drunk sitting next to him must not understand why he came up with such thoughts. Fill went on to say: "Imagine if you were stuck in one place, every day is exactly the same, and nothing can change the situation, what would you do?" He described It's my current predicament, but I didn't expect one of my friends to reply, "My life is like that." It makes people dumbfounded for a moment. This conversation impressed me deeply. This is also the core proposition of the story. If you repeat the same life day after day, in a boring place, participating in boring things, and boring people talking about boring topics, would you? Aren't you crazy? But for many people, this is not a special scene that appears in a fantasy comedy. The original face of life is like this. Some unknowing human beings can also live to their twilight years, and even more unfortunately, they are passing away. On that day, I didn’t realize that I didn’t know when I was pressed the replay button in my life.
I used to be so afraid of repetition, because my mother made me a week of tomato-fried beef and got angry at her. After repeating the things I love a hundred times, I still get greasy. Yes, we need to eat every day, but fortunately we can choose a different menu every day; we have to sleep every day, but fortunately we can have completely different dreams; we have to get up early and go to work five days a week. It is allowed to create different and novel things in boring work. Life is like a game with countless versions of endings. Every day is a brand new level. If you choose the same path in each level, you can only play one kind of ending, and it doesn’t make sense to clear the level a hundred times. . How you live a day, you will live a life. Whether it’s Tom Cruise being locked up in a game of killing alien creatures, Fill being locked up in Groundhog Day, or Rita being locked up in the curse of tomato fried beef, all are trying to change, even if you know Tomorrow, I will fall into the same mud pit as I did today, and I have to work hard to change to a more attractive posture. Rita, who is stubborn and willful today, might be able to play a nice and kind ending someday, always believing that the repeat button will pop up and life will continue to play for the unknown tomorrow.
Unknown is hope.
After experiencing a series of different versions of Groundhog Day of indulgence/suicide/despair/salvation, the selfish and willful actor Fill finally won Rita’s heart, and he was finally on Groundhog Day. Woke up the next day and said to Rita in surprise:
"Do you know what today is?"
"What?"
"Today is tomorrow. It happened, and you are here."
Yes, today is actually all the bad and boring yesterday. Tomorrow, even if you have to spend many difficult tomorrows to survive the cold winter, but if you try hard to live each today, tomorrow is full of hope, isn't it? Look, how well this line is written!
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