High-concept movies are a set of prescribed narratives developed by comic superhero movies to fit the film market. Although this type of movie has a narrative that breaks the sequence of time, it is essentially a cycle of a single type of narrative. For example, audiences all over the world will not be as familiar with the life and origins of each comic hero as the American public, so there are at least seven heroes who have independent story clues like "Avengers 4", as well as Iron Man, Captain America, Thor assumes the role of the important characters in the play. Naturally, audiences from other countries will be confused by the sudden appearance of the characters and memories. If an audience has not seen the two movies with Thor as the protagonist, it is the first time to watch "The Avengers" In the reminiscences of the encounter between Thor and his mother, girlfriend, and brother Loki in League 4, it is difficult to understand Thor's many emotional fluctuations, behaviors and attitudes.
So how to eliminate the understanding barriers caused by this huge narrative information to ordinary audiences? The most direct way is to weaken the narrative: reduce the character camp (because of the divergence caused by the goal of fighting for six gems), reduce the story motive (defeat the villain or save the universe), so the "Avengers 4" multi-time and space nested structure It seems that there is unlimited narrative potential, but the narrative mode is still repeated clichés such as competing for treasures and defeating villains. Therefore, Marvel movies had to change the audience’s boredom of a narrative mode from the industrial level, that is, the big special effects and the big The fragmented information created by data will continue to stimulate the sensory nerves of the audience in a short period of time. In the process of deleting important information, a lot of low-level fun (Thor degenerated into a beer belly game house, Iron Man laughs at Captain America’s American cockroach) will The audience’s barriers to understanding are shifted and they are viewed negatively. This high-concept film brainwashes fans all over the world into a successful paradigm crowded by Marvel, which means that the film industry will abandon the basic elements of traditional movies such as performance, scheduling, and drama. We no longer pay attention to the completeness of the film's narrative, and are only immersed in the sudden sensational passages and the intense scenes of bombardment, and we cancel serious thinking.
From the word of mouth, Ang Lee’s "Gemini Killer" is a failed case of pursuing high-concept movies. Although Ang Lee has fully captured the audience’s curiosity about the technological revolution in the era of big special effects and big data, regardless of the hotel shootout between the old killer and the cloned killer, Or the motorcycle chase on the street, there is a sense of dislocation that the audience frequently jumps between the cinema screen and playing video games. The streets on both sides of the motorcycle and the pedestrians can maintain clear details. Every panning movement is It's very stable, but it doesn't affect Cyclonus's speed shooting, as if the motorcycle is about to rush out of the screen in the next second. However, the fatal flaws caused by the weakening of the character setting and the narrative theme are fully exposed. The reason is not that the audience no longer appreciates the outdated patriarchal theme of the core, nor is the content transition too flat and hastily unable to output serious thoughts about the existence of human cloning. It is the amount of information that is not overloaded in the narrative to force the audience to give up understanding and thinking, and directly pursue the illusion and feelings such as fantasy scenes and novel concepts.
Since "understanding and feeling" is mentioned at the end of the previous paragraph, you must either enter the text. As early as the release stage of "Interstellar", in the face of advanced physics knowledge and grand propositions that would make many ordinary audiences "brain-burning", Nolan told everyone not to understand but to feel. However, in fact, I still can't think of it. "Interstellar" such a warm narrative of commercial type package, there are any obstacles to understanding. Nolan is just a movie businessman. He chose the looping narrative of time and space that is more acceptable to the audience. He uses the high concept of time and space as a guise, and then comes up with an eternal love that can transcend time to explain everything. Without an innovative narrative, he will use spectacle Make up.
When it came to "Creed", he still chose a classic Hollywood-style drama structure: fold the passages arranged in time, and then return one layer by layer. For example, Kate sees the woman jumping into the sea on the yacht, and the terminal building. The special forces escaping in the warehouse, and the vehicles turning from rolling to driving, the film starts from the protagonist returning to the past when Kate was shot, and then experiencing the above paragraphs in reverse, which happens to form a closely connected loop structure; the protagonist performs every execution When the crisis of one task is resolved, it will enter the next task, encounter a new crisis, and finally enter the climax of parallel editing, forming a logically rigorous, rhythmic and relaxed overall structure, but essentially abandoning those instructions. Procrastinating for dialogue, the narrative is full of uninspiring 007 elements: recruiting agents, obtaining missions, approaching target characters, eavesdropping on villain plans, killing villains, saving the world and rescuing Bond girls threatened by villains. However, even if the 007 movie is used as a reference, the character setting is too serious, especially the villain controls the extremely advanced weapon of reversal time and space, but there is no more complicated concept to support his conspiracy and actions, just because he can't cure it. Illness brought the whole world to the funeral together. Compared with Thanos’ obsession to destroy his relatives in order to restore the ecological balance of the universe, his motives were so thin that there was nothing to say.
There are still ways to hide the clumsiness. Naturally, they are constantly piling up trivial and huge amounts of information to dazzle the audience, causing them to give up thinking about the amount of information that has no practical meaning, and devote their energy to the extraordinary excitement caused by the immersion of the video activity. Indeed, in terms of the visual experience of the scene, the scene of the theater hijacking was amazing. The clarity of the picture greatly increased the three-dimensional depth. The crowded seats under the stage collided with the howling bullets, and the unconscious audience who inhaled the gas stayed quietly. On the seat, I don’t know the dangerous situation of the bullet flying around, and the aircraft shots are also thrilling. The out-of-control plane crushed the surrounding electric poles, cars, and green belts and hit the waiting hall. Sparks, debris and debris splashed by the explosion of the aircraft engine The visual impact is greatly enhanced. In the final climax, the red and blue bomb disposal crews sometimes move forwards and sometimes backwards. The buildings destroyed by the rocket launchers are first destroyed from above, and then gradually restored from below. The original appearance is equivalent to slow-motion playback, so that you can intuitively feel the movement of each character in the picture, the flying bullets, smoke and other elements are moving forward or backward.
However, Nolan, who loves film and film, actually shot a Marvel series. Combined with Martin Scorsese's criticism of Marvel as a ``theme park movie,'' the author believes that the above-mentioned high-concept movies that reduce narrative and highlight novel scenes, their creators do like science and technology museums, amusement parks In order to enhance the immersion of video activities in other places, giant screen theaters, dome screens, dynamic or high frame rate technology are used to shock tourists with the help of technology to pose a fashionable posture, which greatly dilutes the texture of the movie, because the use of giant A large amount of material information arouses the audience’s topic and entertainment needs. It is actually a strategy of TV media. Film is a product of the combination of text language and audiovisual language. Whether technology serves narrative is an important condition for success. Although novel technology has grafted grand The proposition, but the core is thin, and the audience's reception of ideas is infinitely close to zero.
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