"If anyone doesn't like Hawkes, he doesn't like movies at all." - Rohmer
Completely proficient and highly accomplished classic, the script structure echoes, the plot is slender, and the rhythm is neat. It feels more than ten years ahead of the time, and it is no different from watching the 1942 "North Africa Spy".
The motives and characterizations of the characters are delicate and charming: waving, winking, igniting the police badge, playing matches, teaching the secretary to make calls, depicting the warmth of the ruffian; the three-dimensional supporting roles enrich the protagonist and deep meaning.
The plot is blended into the stunning video design, making the video full of form and expressive power at the same time. From the opening scene, the long mirror moves horizontally from outside to inside, the sound is far to near, the gang talks to build a world view, the screen shadows assassinate, and the scene is completed in one go.
The name of the house is smashed, and the power of expression is alternated with violence.
Flip the calendar and stack the guns.
Valentine's Day, Wall Shadow Shootout; Scarface X Beam.
Long Mirror Silhouette Assassination, Bowling The Last Bottle Shakes Down.
The bodyguard and vigilance show the power and equanimity of the scar face.
The hostess of the coffee shop chooses whom to fire, and the seasoning can as a gun expresses her powerless anger and exposes the subsequent assassination.
Calling the woman to find the younger brother for help, cleverly brought out the younger brother's romance.
The phone conspiracy caught the betrayal of the boss, the close-up of the scarred eyes, the calm and unstoppable intimidation and domineering, the death whistle, no less than the godfather, stronger than Hannibal and Kubrick.
Interlude the younger sister of the whole line, showing the younger brother's superficial loyalty and Scar's execution in the face of betrayal, and more subtly revealing the incoherence of the brother-sister relationship through his desire for control.
In the end, "The world is yours" sublimated the fate and purpose of the character.
In the image, Chengde is represented, and the film noir of the 1940s and 1950s is the next; the foreground is over-framed and the composition is unstable, expressing the oppression and separation of the characters; soft focus; lighting and heavy shadows.
The chasing gunfight is hot, the assassination is shocking, and the movie is completely unaware at the moment, there is no blood and gun flashes, it can be seen that the tension of the picture, rhythm, sound and so on is mastered. But beating people is very weak, as if afraid of actually beating people to death; while the expressive power of literary and opera images is weak.
Gangs started, and there were "Little Caesar" and "Enemy of the People" in the same period. The prototype is Al Capone, the Chicago black owl, and the people call him a hero in troubled times, almost a demigod.
The tragedy created by the film aroused public sympathy and fear, and the status of the negative hero was elevated, so that the Hays Code made it clear that the sympathy and care of the audience could not be given to crime, evil and original sin. Since then, gangster movies have lost their purest black.
There is a classic that does not need to be excused for lack of technology. Even if it has been imitated and copied thousands of times by the latter, the original classic can still be known at a glance.
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