It is not uncommon for American stars to shuttle back and forth between Hollywood and Broadway. Even since the first sound film in the United States, "Jazz Singer", stage and film have become a form of performance regardless of each other. In the following decades Has maintained a marriage relationship. Broadway has always been a nurturing of Hollywood. Popular dramas are enduring and accumulate to a certain extent, and they will get the eyes of Hollywood producers. "The Sound of Music" and "West Side Story" were both born in the 50s of the last century. The product of the golden age of musicals in the 1960s. But in "Birdman", Broadway became a confrontation with Hollywood consumer culture. The director used Reagan's mouth to ridicule the current popular superhero culture. A number of blockbusters with the prefix "Xia" have been labeled as fast-deteriorating. . On the contrary, drama has become a noble existence. Although it is squeezed by commercial capital and drama critics, the number of audiences of 800 people per night is undoubtedly insignificant compared with the number of moviegoers starting at least one million, but this is the protagonist. The only way to achieve self-salvation.
The vigilance of pop culture makes "Birdman" look very different from ordinary pipeline movies. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarrido abandoned the brain-burning technique of multi-line narratives in "Love is a bitch" and "Tong Tian Pagoda" and became a believer in minimalism: superficial peace, Ordinary themes, insignificant stories, and unclear characters, even the scenes are as concise as possible. Except for a few uncomplicated locations, most of the time, the story takes place in St. Forty-fourth Street, Bainaohui, New York In the James Theater, fourteen seamlessly connected long shots were used in the editing to forge the effect of one shot to the end, realizing the seamless transition between different scenes, leading the audience to walk through the maze-like theater, effectively bringing all the actors in This narrow field threshold is connected. The movement of the camera and the change of camera position have eliminated the gap between the stage and the backstage, so that the scene of the drama and the shooting of the movie are wonderfully integrated. The introduction of the three scenes of the scenes are all using the method of horizontal or vertical movement of the camera position, eliminating the inconsistency that may occur when the montage jumps and cutting transitions, and further weakens the time element to highlight the depth of the theater space. Possibility of coming.
The chaotic theater in "Birdman" represents the general anxiety of the actors: to put it more loftily, these anxiety are related to the self-cultivation of the actors, how to achieve self-breakthrough in the existing evaluation, how to gain the recognition of the public and the market, and even, How to bravely climb the peak of art, become immortal and legendary. To put it vulgarly, it is nothing more than vanity that is not on the table: box office and front page. The restless jazz drum beat in the movie, like a time bomb, stirs the fragile nerves of the people in the play, and also conveys the anxiety of life and death in Vanity Fair to the audience. However, the director implanted precious earth energy into Reagan who was behind bars. In the movie, as an anti-hero symbol, he actively rejected the role that once brought him great success and no longer played the superhero "Birdman". Instead, he turned and plunged into the simple embrace of Raymond Carver, and set up a realistic middle-class living room on the stage, while drinking gin with ice cubes, while talking about love and existence. Although the super-powerful fantasy brought by "Birdman" still hovered in his mind from time to time, and constantly tempted him to move in the direction of conceit, in the end the problem of eating and drinking Lazard dispelled the unrealistic demands: how to Replace actors with poor acting skills as soon as possible, how to get along with their partners, balance the delicate relationship with their daughters, acrimonious critics even give bad reviews without watching the show, how can we resolve the crisis of word-of-mouth...
Faced with the double attack of artistic pursuit and daily concern, "Birdman" embodies the difficulties of Raymond Carver, "It is not only inappropriate to solve difficulties elegantly, but also impossible to a certain extent." In order to highlight this dilemma, Alessandro Gonzalez Inarido did not stop in the face of realism, but added the magicalism of his hometown in the film, and even boldly appropriated the talent in the blockbuster. The computer special effects that will appear make "Birdman" permeated with absurdity and joking, and become a collage-style satirical text: on the one hand, it is the real gun and live ammunition of the method of life, and on the other hand, it is beyond reality. Reagan thought he could soar like a birdman above the rows of tall buildings in New York to reach the theater. In fact, he relied on the power of a taxi driver. A piece of toilet paper that Mar Stone tore off, even if it was filled with codes representing the evolution of human civilization, could only be used to wipe off the greasy corners of the mouth after a meal.
The open ending makes "Birdman" a video text with multiple meanings, and it also allows us to see the unlimited potential of Alessandro Gonzalez Inari as a director. He uses movies and plays The trinity of music presents the absurd existence in contemporary society, using a story of an actor's midlife crisis, criticizing popular culture's insatiable pursuit of spectacles, and shouting for the purity of art. At the end of the story, he even provided us with a solution to "break away from low-level tastes": tear off the label and remove the disguise. If the mind can fly freely, so can the body.
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