Next, we deconstruct one by one:
One: Director-Alessandro Gonzalez Inarido
believes that some friends are familiar with this Mexican director as "Birdman" which shined at the Oscars last year. But now with "Wild Hunter" once again won the Oscar for Best Director. Oscar double wins in a row! The strength is evident.
In fact, he has long been a frequent visitor to Oscars. His films have already achieved a very unique position. His film perspective has always been on the feeling of human suffering and torture.
Because the director's own name is awkward, it is easier to remember his movie than to remember his name.
Inarido likes to use multidimensional space to explain his movies.
This space can include real spaces, such as "Love is a bitch", "The Tower of Babel", and "21 Grams" all stagger different regional events and finally return to the core.
This space can also be on the spiritual level after personal experience, such as "Birdman". The protagonist is switching back and forth in the star-drama-fantasy-real life. A very large and complicated multi-dimensional space is formed.
This space can also be life and death, past and future, illusion and reality. For example, "The Mistakes", such as the "Wild Hunter" we are going to talk about.
Therefore, the director's film style is probably like this:
Of course, this is called a multi-linear story structure in film terms. It's not the director's unique secret. "Pulp Fiction" by the famous director Quentin Lee. Gayrich's "Two Smokers". Japan's Jin Min and so on. They are almost of this type.
But Inarido has played out his own taste.
Especially with the 2015 Oscar's "Birdman", the multidimensional deconstruction of the film reached its peak, from illusion to reality, from novel to drama, from vulgar to elegant. Let the audience roam on the glass cube like ants.
So, the director in "Wild Hunter" made a new attempt (try, not upgrade) in his cube. Then the picture demonstration is like this:
The focus of "Wild Hunter" is on the characters, allowing the audience to be infinitely close to the characters, and the surroundings are surrounded by the characters planet events, locations, animals, and even the core of the movie itself, etc. It revolves around the character.
This is actually very risky. The director's slight improper use of the film will be categorized, and it will become a single history of revenge, blood and tears. So control the revolution speed, rotation speed of each star, and the distance between the stars. Must be precise. Director Yin Nai can only say that he has done so much, because he has to fully serve the characters, so even for two and a half hours, he can't spread the entire Rocky Mountain era of the fur barbaric era.
Fortunately, the director's sculpture of the characters finally made Xiao Li get his wish.
Two: The characterization of the metaphors in the picture,
Xiao Li got Xiao Jin Ren this time. It is inseparable from the use of the director's lens and the later editing. First of all, in the role of the movie script, it is really difficult for Xiao Li to play inside. Can only continue to expand outside. Act out vigorously! The externally expanded acting skills are actually hard to be recognized by professional performances. Because you only need to react to what happened (this is just to say it briefly, of course, external performance is also very important). However, the twists and turns of the inner performance (referred to as the inner drama) need to slowly experience the inner changes of the characters through the actors themselves, and then produce the chemical reaction of mind collision, and then express through the actor's performance to make the audience resonate.
also very few lines, and she is acting lying down. Last year's Oscar-winning "Theory of Everything" actor Eddie Redmayne can rely on the twists and turns of the story itself to show his inner drama. But "Desolate" itself has only one main story line, revenge. As a result, he had to add emphasis to the role of extroverted performance. In order to get Xiao Li's most abused movie in history.
As mentioned earlier, this film serves the characters. Next, I will mainly analyze how the clever director fills in the blank spaces in the characters' hearts through other pictures and post-editing, so as to avoid the lack of roles in the characters' hearts.
At the beginning of the
film, the memory of dreams at the beginning of the film is based on the complexity and contradiction of Glass (the role played by Xiao Li) himself. Indian wives, mixed-race sons, burnt villages, these phantom and dream-like realities have been around Glass's dreams for many years. At the beginning of the film, the audience directly enters the heart of Glass, showing the audience a fragmented family. The only spiritual sustenance of Glass now is his son. The son is the reason for his survival.
"Lyric by Scenery" in
order to better express the desperate, shouting, confused and angry inner world of the characters. The film uses the magnificent scenery many times to express it.
The first time Glass looked up at the sky on a stretcher, after his son comforted him, there was a bright moon in the towering woods. At this time, his heart was calm, and the woods surrounded him quietly. He missed his wife as before and gradually fell asleep. At the same time, I reviewed Glass's past. Afterwards, the wife floated in the air, watching Glass sleep peacefully with her son in her arms. It shows that although the pain of bereavement still surrounds Glass, he still finds some comfort in his heart because of his son.
second time after fitz stabbed his son to death in front of Glass, he didn't even have the ability to shout, and in the end he could only look up at the sky. At this time, the woods turned into a heart-piercing roar in his heart. The trees were constantly swaying by the wind. The whole world collapsed like an earthquake. The little hope that remained in Glass's heart also extinguished.
Relying on the fire of revenge, Glass crawled out of the "grave", staggered to the son's corpse, and lay on his son's corpse. The exhaled gas blurred the camera. Then, following the sound of breathing, the camera switched to a mountain range surrounded by mountains. With a thick fog, the fog at this time is like Glass's inner world, lost in a cloud of fog, confused about whether he can survive, even confused about the success or failure of revenge, and confused about the world. Then the mist of the mountains switched to the prominent smoke of fitz smoking. Fitz was also at a loss in his heart at this time. He regretted it. After all, as a forced sinner, he might have to carry this "unknown" secret for the rest of his life.
After getting the aid of the Indians, the two of them sat on the snow to rest once, playing with their tongues and eating snowflakes. This is Glass's only smile in the film, the only time to relax, he who has traveled around from the world and returned from hell. It seems that I have recovered a little bit of life in this moment of rest, only a little bit of fun. The next picture is that the woods in the morning light reflect his little remaining hope for life, but the next second fog and snowstorm will soon come, covering his entire world again.
At the same time, the weather in the whole film mainly occurred in cloudy, rainy and snowy weather. It is also to highlight the film's repressive savage taste and the gloomy and desperate mood of the characters themselves. Everything is full of death.
Third, the phantoms and other metaphors that portray the characters in the
film has six illusions of Glass. Every time the illusion is progressive, the reminiscence dreamland from the beginning slowly evolves into surrealism, adding more illusions and illusions.
One of the most important illusions is that Grass was ritually wrapped in a "smoke therapy wooden house". He came to a dilapidated church, saw his son, and hugged him. This postmodern apocalyptic scene. It means that Glass has entered the deepest part of the ghost gate. Jehovah, who was nailed to the cross on the wall, also foreshadowed that he would be born again just like Jehovah. This important illusion is more like a spiritual religious baptism. Pave the way for why he didn't kill fitz himself in the end. "Let the hand of God decide." In the end, Glass did not personally kill ftiz
Ever since Glass started his revenge plan, he has been wearing the bear skin that almost killed him. Dress yourself up as a bear. This also indirectly implies that Glass himself, like the bear, sacrificed his life in order to protect his children. In this relationship, Glass and Bear are the same. Protection has become their common thought.
From the lake, Glass saw a group of bison running away on the plain. A group of wolves pounced on a bison and killed it. Showing this primitive scene where the weak and the strong eaten more closely shows that the environment in which Grasse is located, whether it is the natural environment or the current human civilization, is still an era of the strong and the weak, savage and barbaric.
In Glass's illusion, there would often be a pyramid made of buffalo corpses, and he stood in front of the pile of corpses and looked directly. That pile of corpses is the so-called source of interest. The interests of mankind are to chase the fur of the bison, the fur of the beaver, and all the benefits bestowed by nature. The fur trade has become the source of humans fighting each other.
Fourth, the end of the film and the end of the core
film are open, and it is also the core of the film to express.
Yes, the core of this movie is not revenge. It is Glass's love for his wife and son. There is a saying that is said, once you have a plan of revenge, you are already digging two graves, one for the enemy and the other for your own. In the end, no one will truly win in revenge.
As the dying fitz finally said to Glass: Do you enjoy revenge this time? Even so, your son will not be resurrected. "
Although in the end Glass said that "give you to God to deal with" some of the main theme is suspected. But what the director wants to express is to let the audience understand the meaning of revenge for life. In the
end, Glass, who "wins", sees himself again Wife, and then the camera started to lose focus. This time the wife didn’t stand still and looked at him, but moved away from him. I think there are two meanings of this: The
first is to follow me, we can’t understand if we leave this one. The world. The
second is the "third" rebirth of Glass. He wants to completely let go of his past and face the future life.
Here I am more willing to accept the first meaning. Because at the end of the film, Glass’s stare at the camera is full of unprecedented emptiness (this is the essence of the movie’s inner drama). If a person loses everything, the way the body exists is no longer important. For Grice’s The inner world, like a dead soul, wanders on the edge. This also clearly points out the name of the movie "the revenant", literally translated into Chinese means the soul of the dead. The inner drama at the end of this paragraph also became an important bargaining chip for Xiao Lizi to get the golden man.
But as an open-ended ending, where the protagonist is going, it is this complicated look at the camera that ends. This reminds me of the classic ending of "Four Hundred Strikes". The protagonist, the little boy, also looked at the camera with confused and bewildered eyes. Go straight into the hearts of the audience.
About Xiao Li
can be brave to say, if only relying on the performance of this movie, Xiao Li will never get this little golden man. After all, I have analyzed a lot in the previous. Although the inner drama is superb, the main line of the characters' revenge has been portrayed too broadly, so that all kinds of performance art-like outdoor survival reality shows have to be expanded.
But after all, the Oscars and those awards such as the Golden Globe American Union Award are decided by voting, which means that the best male lead cannot be vacant. And compared to other actors nominated together this year. The most lethal is "jobs" played by Fassbender. What's a pity is that biopics are difficult to control not only in the actors but also in all aspects of the movie.
Taken together, Xiao Li's contribution is greater than the performance of the movie and the director's skill. Of course, this is not to say that Xiao Li is not worthy of this award. I want me to say that he should have won it in "Infernal Affairs." Xiao Li has a good grasp of the switch between black and white. But because "Infernal Affairs" won the best film and best director of the year at the same time, combined with the more powerful opponent "The Last Dictatorship" male protagonist Turk. Can only regret that it ended in failure.
But gratifying, Xiao Li's hard work and strength, finally! finally! Get the little golden man! It is well deserved! Adding dishes-
a story beyond the
movie 1. The movie is based on "The Revenant: A Novel of Revenge" written by Michael punke.
2. Regarding the fight between bears, many articles write that Xiao Li was raped by the bear. In fact, after watching the video, I knew that it was not like being raped by a bear at all. It's just a marketing method to make sufficient publicity in the early stage. The official also came forward to clarify that Xiao Li was not raped in the play shortly after the show. . . . . As for the bear, it was actually him.
3. Although the bear is not real, the fur of the bear is indeed the fur of the real bear in order to achieve a sense of reality.
4. In addition, I really ate a lot of beef innards and some extremely heavy sashimi.
5. Out of fear of being accused by the Animal Protection Association, and of course out of love for nature and animals. The dead buffalo and horse inside are all CGI special effects or props. Of course, it also includes the horse that Xiao Li is sleeping on.
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