As a Hollywood director, it should be that all directors will rack their brains, and then think hard to come up with a unique opening, in order to firmly grasp the audience's attention at the beginning of the film. I still remember the famous beginning of "A Hundred Years of Solitude". The only formal education Marquez has received is director, so he must deeply understand that the psychology of readers and audiences is actually the same. How to establish a trustworthy environment and value system for readers and audiences at the beginning of a novel or movie can determine the success of a work to a certain extent. Another example is the first episode of "A Dream of Red Mansions". Based on the amount of information given by Cao Xueqin, the story line of the next forty episodes can be inferred. The director and writer use their own lens language and literary language to construct an emotional element in line with the content of the work for the audience and readers, and make them psychologically predict the overall story in advance. In the following aesthetic process, seek satisfaction in anticipation. Therefore, epic movies have the temperament of epic, and genre movies have the temperament of genre movies. Nowadays, commercial movies are also sub-commercial. Decorating yourself with a good facade is definitely a coup to take the lead.
The Coen brothers have always worked hard at the beginning of the movie. The low-frequency aggravated soundtrack and the boundless snow in "Ice Blood Storm" bring a depressive and heavy mood to the audience. Every time the bass drum is beaten, it causes psychological pressure. In "Barton Fink", a wall in an important place in the film is uniquely selected as the background for subtitles. The lens is slowly zoomed in and zoomed in, giving the illusion of reaching the depth of the mind. Besides, the opening of the debut "Blood Labyrinth" is exactly the same as "Old Nowhere". During the five-minute opening, several empty shots were switched in the Texas environment, followed by the highway in the dark, amplifying the roar of the engine. The camera inside the car is backlit, only listening to human voices but not seeing people, establishing a fast-paced black temperament in both audiovisual and audiovisual aspects. Instantly break free from the shackles of reality and enter the story set by the director.
Talking about the content, the old sheriff used the voice that has been exposed in the sands of Texas all the year round to tell the police career that his grandparents were proud of for three generations. In his memory, he never wanted to miss the story of an older sergeant. Just like the tough guy portrayed in many westerns, or you can imagine the image of Gary Cooper in "Noon". In the westerns at that time, the good and evil were both right and evil, and the story always had an incredible legendary color. However, when he was about to retire many years later, he felt at a loss when he faced the crimes of a new generation of young people. He is neither a hero nor can he stop crime, everything has become nothingness. News media reports will not be the truth. Young criminals seem to have been psychologically sick and distorted since childhood. The old sheriff found that he was no longer relying on heroism and wit as he did in the past, and that he could solve the problem faster than marksmanship. It is not that he does not understand, but is powerless. The real experience is far from the bloody legends he heard when he was a child. He could not prevent the crime from happening, just as he could not prevent his old age. There is a growth ring in the era, and crime has its own growth ring. When the growth ring of crime leaves the growth ring of the era behind, the old police chief suddenly realized that the years in his longing and reminiscence have passed away. He is also tortured by his own conscience. If the police can be inherited as a proud profession for three generations, then how can even criminals become a profession and be passed on from generation to generation? He couldn't get enough of the arrests again and again. Instead, he saw a larger criminal network scattered all over Texas. He even began to suspect that he was part of this criminal network. The girl by the pool would also say the last sentence: "Beer will only bring more beer."
A person was isolated from the crowd, and he stretched out his hand longing for warmth across the wall. Why do some people always seem to carry tragedy and lonely plots? I think there is tragedy with me, so he should be afraid of tragedy. With loneliness, then he should also be afraid of loneliness.
I was re-watching "The End of the Wild Flower" a few days ago. I said that I like to see Thelma and Louise driving the Thunderbird to the edge of the cliff, and there is a beam of backlight on the two people. But when I think about the whole movie, I can't get rid of the last sadness. If fate will be presented in such an "irreversible" way, and I am afraid, what should I do? The first line of the cowboy in "Old Nowhere": "If you stop, look back at the path you have walked. But if you stop, you will stop in the shadow." This is how the film is filled with an invisible sentence: Don't I want to stop and look back. useless. You can't look back, and you can't stop. So when a cowboy is greedy for money, he is destined to be hunted down. Even when the taxi driver met him, he could only take the trouble of having to go through to the end. Before the killer used the coin to decide the life and death of others, he had already chosen the coin. Once something that seems to happen by accident is labeled as "destined", it must end in tragedy.
The ending of the film came to an abrupt end, and the director left more blank space for the audience. So this shot flashed back in my mind: when a cowboy first found a corpse in the desert, a low-camera heel shot. The movement of the characters and the scenes of corpses all over the floor are clearly explained, but there is no cowboy facial expression. When we face any story, the perspective we can see can only be what we are willing to see at the moment, and what the camera does not capture is the logical focus.
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