If the Oscar awards also open lottery quiz, then Simmons won the best supporting actor is undoubtedly "stable" on this lottery. I think the whole world should reach a consensus on this point, and it hasn't appeared in the past few years. Had such a highly anticipated performance. We can even say that it is an honour for the Oscars to award the Little Golden Man to Simmons. Just like "The Silent Lamb" is to Anthony Hopkins, "Inglourious Basterds" is to Christopher Waltz, "Burst Drummer" brought Simmons's life-long waiting role, and then he bid farewell to the unknown life .
The reason why Simmons sings about Simmons first is because the role of Fletcher, the "devil instructor" he has portrayed, is so shocking that he even broke the balance of the film, and it is difficult to compete with the little boy he played in the rivalry. Moreover, the time has passed, and people's memories of this movie are probably only Fletcher and the violent drums. Apart from this award, for other awards, such as best director and best film, I basically have no illusions. On the one hand, the rivals "Birdman" and "Boyhood" are indeed too strong. On the other hand, how can a film that won the Sundance Film Festival award win an Oscar? Oscars, who pay attention to the main theme, generally do not favor such unscrupulous independent small films. In this regard, Oscars are more conservative than the three major European film festivals.
To describe this movie in one sentence is probably the story of a pair of children torturing each other. If you define this movie again, it might be called an anti-inspirational movie. It is tit-for-tat, such as "Death Poetry Society", "Mr. Holland's Movement", and "Mind Catcher" such as filial and tender inspirational movies. You can also regard this targeting as a mockery, mocking the sentimentality, hypocrisy, and false nobility of these films. The music tutor Fletcher in the film is no longer the kind of Robin Williams-style honest teacher, but a downright devil, that kind of vicious abuse of students, can simply make everyone who thinks that China is richer than the United States. People re-examine their opinions. As for the humiliation of student personality, if we list the so-called politically correct views of Americans one by one, you will find that Fletcher has offended each one. Putting it aside in reality, he may have been expelled countless times.
Seeing the middle of the film, we may still have so little hope that the plot will be reversed. Fletcher may be a hard-faced mentor, he may be like the Zaizen Goro in "The White Tower", he is unscrupulous for a lofty ideal. The heart-to-heart talk between the master and the apprentice in the cafe seemed to confirm this idea. By the end of the film, the plot really has been overturned, but it has completely overturned our lost hope. Ah is a big villain.
In fact, when we know that he mourned the "death in a car accident" of the master who actually died by suicide, it should be clear that what he wanted was not to teach a genius musician like Charlie Parker, but such a genius musician. He taught it. In other words, what he wants is to achieve his glory through his apprentice, and this is the first. So he doesn't care about the "tragic death" of students on the road to genius. His teaching philosophy is to either succeed or abandon it. There is no such thing as "okay". There is a detail in the film. At the final concert, Fletcher smiled when the students went into a state of madness. I understand that this smile is probably not because the student has succeeded, but because I feel that I have succeeded. And compared with success, the betrayal of the previous students does not matter. This is really the smile of the devil.
This educational concept is completely different from the Keating teachers who are selflessly dedicated and lead students to appreciate the beauty of art. However, the reality is that despite the film and its exaggerated and extreme ways, it is a more real teacher-student relationship.
Our traditional culture pays attention to the parents and teachers of the heaven and earth. The kindness of teachers is like the kindness of the father. It needs filial piety and service. But in contrast, Shien is actually more like what Mr. Hu Shi called the "city favor", that is, in this relationship, there is a utilitarian color that is hard to ignore. The teaching is not selfless, and the master needs the apprentice to bring him. Fame and fortune. Confucius and his old apprentices also asked the other party to pay for the tuition of pork jerky, and he also needed Zigong, Zilu, and Yanhui to give him a face. Three thousand disciples are not too few, and only 72 sages have been produced, but this is enough for Frye. Too envious and jealous.
The so-called strict teacher out of high disciple, for the sake of this high disciple, be cruel to one's own disciples, at least it is relatively common in the traditional master-disciple relationship. Why did Guo Degang exchange his son with Yu Qian to accept his apprenticeship? His own explanation is to teach his son how to do it. How ruthless is it to be an apprentice in the old profession? "Farewell My Concubine" is played clearly. Many people’s first reaction to "Burst Drummer" is that they will not survive if they are not crazy. This is Duan Xiaolou's evaluation of Cheng Dieyi, but how did this madness come from? The master slapped Cheng Dieyi's sexual orientation with one slap and slap. It's just that "Farewell My Concubine" is going to show the story of the apprentices, and the devil instructor who is no less than Fletcher has been weakened.
The screenwriter of "The Great Master" Xu Haofeng talked about the old society martial arts accepting apprentices. In addition to the fame and fortune mentioned above, a very important purpose is to help the master to support the market. The so-called boxing is afraid of being young, and even martial artists who can fight will have a day of old age and physical frailty, but there are always younger generations who want to use you to become famous. what to do? It is necessary to strictly train a few apprentices no less than one's own to block these challengers and retain the master's fame. In the movie, the masters of all walks of life want to fight Miyaheda, and have to pass the white monkey horse three first. This is the reason.
It seems to be a bit too far. This kind of traditional mentor-student relationship is actually no longer in modern society. Such a "wolf spirit" can only exist in ancient societies where survival is not easy. Teachers need to use strict and even cruel means to "train apprentices to guard against old age", and then also need the concept of "teacher's kindness" to prevent apprentices from resisting. Therefore, to worship the teacher, resisting is considered to be deceiving the teacher and destroying the ancestor. In this society, it is a miracle that a teacher like Fletcher can still teach at the university. It is a matter of time before he gets beaten and expelled.
So, what this movie shows is true education, or an exaggerated reality. In contrast, Teacher Keating can only be a beautiful dream. Perhaps every teacher has a teacher Keating deep in his heart. He represents ideals, but it is difficult for him to come out because he is relatively incompatible with human nature. And I believe even more that every teacher has a devil instructor deep in his heart. He represents desire. It is not easy for him to come out now, because this kind of person is easy to lose his job in modern society. In this way, angels and demons live in our hearts at the same time. Few people can truly become them. All we can become are human beings. The beauty of movies is that they have made this kind of imagination for us, but too many movies go to create angels. This movie goes the other way, creating a pure devil out of low-level taste. What's more, the movie actually comes with crazy music like a magic sound, which will make you alive and well.
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