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One afternoon in the rainy high school in November , I was bored and groaned in the dusty corner of the dish shop. I bored this town. After entering, there is a dazzling array of hardcover garbage. The self-righteous boss kept recommending the latest blockbusters to you with a self-righteous expression. I had no choice but to go to the corner that was ignored by ordinary people, because many times, if you look at the old pirated movies, you can also find that they are not. Less boutique too!
Scanning the title at a rate of three frames per second, my eyes suddenly freeze on a seemingly familiar font-"Falling Water Dog", and I searched for memory. By the way, I seem to have seen the introduction on "Watching a Movie". I took it out and looked at the cover carefully. It was obviously a pirated version. The picture is tattered and the bull's head is not right. After hesitating, I rented it out, with limited resources and no choice. When giving it to the boss, he glanced at me with a slightly surprised look, and then muttered, "I don't know if it's still there. This kind of film...
okay, it's."
This is my first encounter with "Falling Water Dog", and it happens to be a dialectical inevitability. I don’t know how many times I have seen Quentin Tarantino’s name, which is a bit slurred and strange, through various media. The frequency of appearance has reached the point where I can no longer ignore it. At that time, I thought, maybe it seems that this is possible. It should be a great man. So, I deliberately wrote down the name and two of his most famous works: "Falling Water Dog" and "Pulp Fiction". For a long time after that, I believed that if you really like something, you will always meet it at some point and you will not miss it.
The first time I watched "Falling Water Dog", the feeling of chest tightness was strange and unprecedented. I had never felt this way before. The groan of death seems to be me gasping. A very simple story, but I was groggy and confused for the first tens of minutes. Slowly, with the unique charm of the film, I was naturally attracted and merged into it. A group of thieves planned to rob the jewelry store, but due to a series of unplanned mistakes and their chain effects, they panicked like falling dogs, lost their minds, and finally killed each other. An important clue interspersed with this was that there was a police undercover agent among them, but they did not know it, and there was a thief who had a very deep affection for him, which was the direct cause of all their deaths in the end.
It was such a simple story, which became very interesting and interesting under Quentin's hands. He is the kind of person who can perfectly combine gimmicks and violence. For the "play gimmicks" here, I later found a more professional term that highlights his style --- black humor. This kind of atmosphere is almost everywhere in "Falling Water Dog", not deliberately, but the kind of feeling contained in the bones. He named the six people who robbed them by colors, white, orange, gold, brown, and Mr. Pink sounded like a live-action version of Barbie. There is also the most famous beginning of the film, from a group of people chatting in a restaurant to all the characters appearing immediately, from Madonna’s song "Like a Virgin" to who will pay the tip, from nine people in black walking out of the restaurant to Slow motion pulling wind performance after rock music sounded. The movie scenes were originally set more or less for the plot, but Quentin overturned this rule with a seemingly redundant beginning. These scenes are not useless. He used these shots to establish a tone and a style. I think what he wants to say is: what he wants is this effect, so it looks cool, incredible, very fresh, very nonsensical and very Quentin. Are these not enough?
It turns out that it is really cool, at least I still think so after watching it 3 or 4 times.
If there was only this, he would never achieve what he is today. Quentin's greatest feature is his unconventional narrative structure and his label of violence. His segmented structure and habit of disrupting chronological order make the whole story confusing and confusing, and then he reveals it to you bit by bit, back to the beginning, when you understand the cause of the incident, that shocking The abrupt ending happened again without you being prepared. This kind of intense sudden change experience is unprecedented in other movies, and it is also unprecedented. Even Quentin's flashy things in "Falling Water Dog" are incomparable to the carefully polished "Pulp Fiction". Generally speaking, the confrontation scene can best highlight the tension in the limited space. The ending scene of "Falling Water Dog" takes it to the extreme. The six people pointed their guns at each other. There was the friendship of brotherhood, the protection of father and son, and the drive of profit. But with the fuse of a gunshot, a dignified stalemate detonated, and then all of this Disillusioned with death. In the end, Quentin didn't forget to play a gimmick again. The dying undercover Mr. Orange told him that he had been protecting himself at all times, so he would fight against his brother, Mr. Bai, who was actually a policeman. Then the alarm bell rang, the film ended, and stopped abruptly, but the heart was not finished, and it was still beating fiercely. This is the end? It seems that all the dramatic deaths are finished, the main theme is not upright, innocent, heroism, nothing, but it makes me crazy with excitement, this is Quentin.
In fact, the deepest feeling of watching this movie comes from his real violence. It is not a naked presentation. The film does not have a few direct violent scenes. Every time the scene flashes at the beginning, it is truly shocking. In Lu Xun's words, he just couldn't bear to look. Inside, Mr. Orange was shot in the abdomen from the beginning, and then the blood began to spread on his white shirt, and his painful moan also began to spread in my mind. It was an unbearable groan. If it weren't for making a movie, I would really doubt that he was shot and died. Tim Roth's pale face and riffraff look in this film left me so deeply impressed that when his affectionate section appeared in "The Pianist on the Sea", I could hardly connect with him. Good actors are all The tension is endless. Then there is Mr. Jin who looks a little nervous and makes people feel terrible. In the music, stepping in rhythmic dance steps, step by step approaching the trapped policeman, no matter how much panic or begging appeared in his innocent eyes, Mr. Jin still---cut off his ears. This section is the most unforgettable part of me. The chilling atmosphere brewed to the moment he started to explode. Although the shot was not demonstrated directly, for the first time, I had a strong impulse to prevent things from happening on the screen because I didn’t. I have consciously placed myself in it. I feel the pain of the policeman, and I feel unable to bear it!
Maybe just because of that moment, I am destined to never forget this man and this movie.
Later, I heard that Quentin's film attracted him attention at the Sundance Film Festival. Three years later, "Pulp Fiction" made him famous. I'm not surprised at all. Later, I heard that the plot of Quentin's "Falling Water Dog" was an imitation of "Dragon and Tiger" starring Lin Lingdong's director Chow Yun-fat, and Quentin himself admitted. This aroused me a lot of interest. I heard that Quentin was deeply influenced by Hong Kong movies, but he hadn't really analyzed the film, so I have been paying attention to this movie.
Yesterday, I finally finished watching the original work I was looking forward to. I was a little disappointed. It may be that I expected too much. After all, this is an excellent work, but it belongs more to that passionate era, more to the video period, and more to people's beautiful memories. Brother Fa is an undercover agent, and Li Xiuxian is a thief. They are brothers of the same type, but they are enemies in different ways. Even if they vote again, the different identities of good and evil will eventually lead to a tragic ending. In fact, Quentin just borrowed the frame of one of its stories, and the tragic fraternal plot in it has long been diluted by his own style, leaving only a few shadows. The differences between Eastern and Western cultures can also be seen here.
"Longhu Fengyun" reminds me of all the previous ones. It can be said that "Luo Shui Dog" is the enlightenment teacher who made me like similar movies, professionally called CULT movies. I forgot its specific and cumbersome explanation. My personal understanding is that it has a different style of narrative structure, a strong personal touch, with a strong black humor, and it is generally based on the themes of gangsters. In the UK, there is a director named Guy Ritchie. He is another outstanding representative of similar movies. He has seen his movies deeply influenced by Quentin. Both "Two Smoke Guns" and "The Plunder" are sought after by fans. Boutique. All the works of the Coen brothers are the best CULT films in my opinion. Although they may not belong to this category, I am really impressed by their perfect walk and trade-off between art and commerce. Others, like the three endings in "Lola Run", the apocalyptic atmosphere in "Twelve Monkeys", and the ending of challenging the moral bottom line in "Born Murderer". All brought me great pleasure in the process of my pursuit.
After the holiday, I have been immersed in a kind of melancholy of petty bourgeoisie. I watched Quentin’s "Real Romance" that day. It was full of the familiar atmosphere of the CULT film. The ending of the confrontation between people made me feel even more impressed. kind. After reading it, I suddenly felt more enjoyable than ever before.
Suddenly I remembered Bergman. I have been looking up at his old man. Some people say that he has been exploring all his life, like the doubts about life and death in "The Seventh Seal", the doubts about God, and the doubt about the existence of life. . Compared with the weight of this genius, Quentin and the others are not so much ghosts as they are more like children. They want to overturn the rules. They pursue a kind of excitement, a kind of excitement that feels wonderful after reading it.
The world needs a master like Bergman, who pains their lives to explore.
However, it is so fun to subvert the rules from time to time, and sometimes believe in Quentin! why not?
---2005.8.5
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