Ben Stiller fought a turnaround for the SNL camp. Adam Sandler’s grown-up series instantly faded. Steve Carell didn’t want to make a movie anymore, and Comrade Seth Curry should contact the producer immediately. Fang, and burned all the "film negatives" he was shooting, if he really had them.
The story is delicate and sensitive, and the contradictory points still focus on mediocrity and transcendence. The more ordinary, the more daydreaming, the more extraordinary, the less daydreaming. It subtly tells the audience that the distance between daydreaming and boring life is only to do or not to do. , Watmiti's journey is just a step by step realization of his daydream. It’s worth noting that the plot points in the movie are set up. I don’t think Ben Stiller has done better than any SNL faction in this regard. I broke up, I like her, she compounded again and I no longer play, she did not compound me to take advantage of it", Adam Sandler's "Single Parent Resort" and Paul Rudd's "How Do You Know" are simply reprints. This also shows that Stiller did not jump out of SNL's creative instinct, he just found the needs of the viewers faster and more accurately than the others.
It’s hard to ignore Ben Stiller’s talent in images. He has an intuitive understanding of the relationship between characters and space. The rhythmic sound of timing in the opening background separates time, which is a direct and hard cut from Stiller’s toughness. Complementing each other, the action scheduling in several scenes is also very addictive, which shows that Stiller has a deep understanding of the viewer's psychology. But I have to doubt whether he used all his talents in the first few minutes of the game. Although the story of the movie is still not bad in the story, Stiller obviously gave up on the camera when he opened the game. Requested. If we simply take out the images of the later stages of the film to discuss, we will find that Stiller’s film view is not different from the traditional SNL school movies, and they rely on their familiar language characteristics to create jokes, and when they are in the film One of the characteristics of SNL has the upper hand, and other characteristics can only condescend to give in. This may be the comfort zone of the SNL creators, and it is also the problem in their films.
Another much criticized treatment of the film stems from Stiller's unfamiliarity with the film. In the scene where Water is distracted, Stiller has no intention of separating it from reality, but just a mere vain shot. We are not sure whether movies have the right to interpret imagination, but we are quite sure that imagination is not reality anyway, and Stiller allows imagination to become a phenomenon in movies, which is a contradiction in itself. If these scenes actually appear in Walt's real time and space, then daydreams will no longer be daydreams. If daydreams are only Walter's fantasy, how to explain that these scenes are naturally consistent with reality before? Although the right to interpret the imagination of movies is still a question, movies do have the ability to re-enact the imaginary world. Here, the imaginary world has become a theatrical stage in the world of the screen. It is not isolated from us, it is embedded in it. In the world of cinema, the sense of cinema is the footlight in the world of the screen. There must be an inherent contradiction in non-realistic descriptions lacking a sense of cinema. This contradiction comes from a sense of absurdity, a rigid separation. In "Day Dreamer", viewers can only relieve the discomfort caused by this contradiction through laughter and jokes.
Some people may argue that such a setting is for plot and connotation considerations, making people feel that Walt’s life is indistinguishable, and therefore full of infinite possibilities. There is also a saying that movies rely on the establishment of scenes and use the audience’s psychology to create footlights. Yes, this can also be regarded as the instinctive intention of Ben Stiller as a director of sitcom origin. I do not oppose these two statements, but this question is not a question of the story or the way of expression, it is a question of film grammar, and it is necessary to explore and think about it. In any case, as an actor from a sitcom, Ben Stiller's content at the beginning of the film is enough to make us interested in him.
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