Be Better

Maudie 2022-03-21 09:01:09

To avoid lengthy texts, copy taboos, and pay for evil. Criticism is literary, based on skills. The same goes for film critics. However, today's texts are sloppy, sloppy critics, and film critics are even more casually smeared. It’s okay to do this for equivalent studies, but to talk nonsense to others, sorry for the work, sorry for the business card, and sorry for your signature. Just think it's self-excitation.

Facing the same story, different people have different ideas. This is instinct. Facing the same story, it is the ability to let people with different ideas finally express that their ideas are all around the story. "Three Billboards" is here. Through a murder case, two dead people, and three billboards, everyone in all directions said different things. The story slowly unfolded and faded away, leaving the audience to think about billboards and be better.

One, Be character

1. A more ruthless mother (action)

As soon as my mother came up, she worked vigorously and drove her own car, bought her own billboards, and asked the advertising company to install it according to her own design. Then I brought my son, cut the dentist, kicked the campus bully, burned the police station-I did everything by myself. This is a very popular setting. Of course it is a good person design, but it is limited to people.

Then, mother talked to deer, mother was beaten by ex-husband, mother was threatened by veterans, mother could not put out the fire even with a fire extinguisher. At these times, she was no longer herself, she expressed her story, her emotions, her fear, and her unwillingness.

Instead of using conspicuous lines, you use your own actions to show yourself out and let the characters speak for themselves: This is cruel.

2. The warmer sheriff (choice)

The role of the sheriff in the United States is either easy to superhumanize, or easy to become Bush Jr., or easy to demonize. But the small town sheriff is not. He is personified-when he came up, he took a moment to do business; then he talked to his mother, talked to the silly policeman, talked to the dentist, and so on. A sense of warm man.

Then, he banged his head in the roughest and most manly way-the blood was brought out in an instant. Then, through three letters, a dying person's thoughts about life, responsibility, and career came out quietly, and no one could hide it.

When the result was not chosen, the sheriff used three letters to choose his own way of returning and living. With a bang, he told everyone outside the silver screen that no matter when and where, you will always have a choice: this is called warm.

3. The cooler son (perspective)

The son is the next generation, one of the next generation is dead, and the other is still alive. A little bit literary, the son should be neurotic; a little lazy, the son should be rock and punk; a little serious, the son should be bad at school-but not at all, the son is a sunshine, youth, A rational, good-tempered boy. Tolerance to my mother, caring for my sister, polite to classmates, and respect for priests.

Then, as soon as he brushed it, he took out the knife and prepared to wipe his father's neck. Of course, it was the father who wanted to commit domestic violence to his mother. The first thing the son looked for was his neck. What does this show? It shows that he hasn't been looking for that neck a day or two. And the knife won’t be practiced once or twice.

Of course, the 19-year-old girlfriend went into the house to look for the toilet and broke the deadlock at once. The three immediately cleaned up the tablecloths. This is very advanced and interesting drama. In this drama, the girlfriend used the technique when he appeared, and the son used the internal driving force to swing the knife: it's called cool.

2. Better story

1. Greater progress (music)

Before the picture came out, "The Last Rose" began to sing, and then the song basically didn't stop. This is mainly due to the fool policeman, because he is the only one who does not leave the headset. The billboard is not moving, the daughter is dead, the earphones are mobile, and the music is alive.

Because he was wearing headphones, the old sheriff missed everything he taught him, so he hit the black and white until he was out of work; because he was wearing headphones, the fool could not hear the ringing of the phone, so he was read by the letter. While moving, the Molotov cocktail was infected and disfigured; because he was wearing headphones, the fool pretended to listen to the "legend" of the veteran without hearing anything, and then took the initiative to be beaten.

Every progress made by the reverse fool is passive and sudden. Obviously, like music, progress is not reversed. The idiot finally took off his headphones and drove on the road, and the song rang again. No need to narrate, no need to say anything from mother, we all understand-he has improved.

2. More details (rhythm)

The 19-year-old girlfriend had to go to the bathroom and saved her mother once; the same she had to eat dinner and saved her father once.

The little people want to pursue their mothers, they talk; the little people don't want to pursue their mothers, they talk.

The black sheriff appeared at the door of the police station, pushed in and removed the fool; the black sheriff waited in the room, waited for the fool to push in.

The advertising boss and his attendants were extremely unskilled in cooperating for the first, second, and third time.

The black advertisers install the adverts to the police → knock on the door and ask mother → install the billboard again.

These contrasts, correspondences, and counterpoints will feel loose and fragmented if you use a computer to play them. In the cinema, they are part of the rhythm in line with the ups and downs of the main story line.

3. A more burning flame (scene)

If movies don't need a sense of ritual, then novels don't need punctuation.

The three billboards must be in a place where there are not many people but must pass. This is cheap and effective.

Advertisers just throw them down from the second floor with punches and kicks. In this way, people will not be dead and relieved.

The memory segment is to appear at the most familiar, relaxing and warmest moment. Only in this way can I remember deeply and even drive the new plot.

Burning the billboard is to be on the night of the most panic, confusion, and uncertainty. Only in this way will we be desperate, lost, and helpless to the end.

Otherwise, the hope behind cannot be achieved. This is the scene.

As a movie where people who have sex are dead, and those who don't have sex are alive and aggrieved. "Three Billboards" not only laughed at the pastor who always likes to find trouble, but also laughed at himself fiercely in its own way-why all be better must start after they are dead?

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Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri quotes

  • Mildred Hayes: [Upon discovering Denise got arrested] Rat bastards.

    [Mildred then enters the police station house]

    Mildred Hayes: Hey fuckhead!

    Dixon: What?

    Desk Sergeant: Don't say "what", Dixon, when she comes in calling you a fuckhead, and don't you come in here...

    Mildred Hayes: Shut up!

    Mildred Hayes: [to Dixon] You, get over here.

    Dixon: No! You, get over here.

    Mildred Hayes: Alright.

    Desk Sergeant: What? Don't, Dixon!

    Dixon: What? I'm...

    Desk Sergeant: You do not allow a member of the public to call you a fuckhead in the station house!

    Dixon: That's what I'm doing, I'm taking care of it in my own way, actually. Now get out of my ass! Mrs. Hayes, have a seat! What is it I can do for you today?

    Mildred Hayes: Where's Denise Watson?

    Dixon: Denise Watson's in the clank.

    Mildred Hayes: On what charge?

    Dixon: Possession.

    Mildred Hayes: Of what?

    Dixon: Two marijuana cigarettes. Big ones.

    Mildred Hayes: When's the bail hearing?

    Dixon: I asked the judge not to give her bail on account of her previous marijuana violations and the judge said sure.

    Mildred Hayes: You fucking prick!

    Dixon: You do not call an officer of the law a fucking prick in his own station-house, Mrs. Hayes. Or anywhere, actually.

    Mildred Hayes: What's with the new attitude, Dixon? Your momma been coaching ya?

    Dixon: No. My momma didn't do that.

    Dixon: [as Mildred leaves the police station house] Take 'em down, you hear me?

    Desk Sergeant: You did good, Dixon.

    Dixon: Yeah, I know I did.

  • Dixon: What the hell is this?... Hey, you. What the fuck is this?

    Jerome: What the fuck is what?

    Dixon: This! This

    [pointing at the billboard]

    Dixon: .

    Jerome: Advertising, I guess.

    Dixon: Advertising what?

    Jerome: Something obscure?

    Dixon: I'll say. Yeah.

    Jerome: Don't I know your face from some place?

    Dixon: I don't know, do you?

    Jerome: Yeah. Yeah, I do

    [spits on the ground]

    Jerome: .

    Dixon: I could arrest you right now...

    Jerome: For what?

    Dixon: For emptying your bucket... That's being bad against the environment laws.

    Jerome: Well, before you do that, Officer Dixon, how about you have a look at that first billboard over there? And then we can have ourself a conversation about the motherfucking environment... How about that?