Dreams and Movies

Nigel 2022-01-26 08:10:59

Mainstream commercial films and Hollywood films do not have smooth editing and smooth narration as the basic characteristics, as people usually explain or understand, that is, through the selection of story editing points and the rhythm of video narration, they can successfully grasp and control the audience's emotions. Attention, the audience is always immersed in the tension of the story; on the contrary, the narrative of mainstream commercial films is actually broken and full of fractures (so the evaluation of beauty is used to deny beauty and destroy beauty). The two kinds of images and narrative mechanisms alternately constitute the narrative body of mainstream commercial films. First, it is a narrative video sequence, which successfully creates a certain illusion of space-time continuity and captures the audience's intense attention to the plot. He always takes the actions and adventures of male protagonists and heroes as his objects of expression; second, It is a spectacle unit and image, which is usually a beautiful and magical female image, especially some parts of the body. Narrative images pursue the so-called "Renaissance-style space" - a three-dimensional central perspective space, and seek to create the illusion of depth in the third dimension in the two-dimensional flat space of the screen. Sexual images not only break the temporal and spatial continuity of the film narrative, but also deliberately highlight the two-dimensional and planar features of the picture. The female images cut for close-up shots are exaggerated into some kind of alien images, which become the objects of aesthetic viewing or desire viewing. main body. Mainstream commercial films, it is precisely with the alternate appearance of these different image compositions, successfully induces the audience's double viewing and identification.

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