art in film

Watch Godard's "Pierro the Madman" (spoiler involved, not watching carefully) The director Godard needs no introduction. If you don't know who he is, don't say that you like the movie. You can dislike it, but It is impossible not to learn about the benchmarks of the French New Wave. Leading actor: Belmondo is one of my favorite French stars. He has cooperated with well-known directors at that time many times. The first film I came into contact with him was the old image of some tough-guy police and gangster movies from the 7-80s. Only a few years in Melville, Chabrol, Godard, Truffaut, De. He is seen in some films of masters such as Sika and Louis Mahler. His play is very broad, and he is proficient in all kinds of martial arts, such as literary and martial arts, tragedy and comedy. It has been popular for decades and is an evergreen tree on the screen. He was once called "the ugliest handsome man in France". Actress: Anna Karina In 1961, during the filming of "Women Are Women", she married Godard. The marriage lasted seven years. For seven years, she was almost Godard's only heroine. With "The Soldier", "As You Want", "Outlaws", "Alva City" and "Pierro the Madman", Ana Karina's face has become an important label of the New Wave. After watching her "Do whatever you want", I feel that she is the most beautiful goddess in my heart. Movie experience I watched this movie on DVD. In order to better understand the movie, I watched it three times in a row. After watching this movie, the question I thought in my mind was, what does this movie want to express? Everyone has a different opinion on film because everyone has a different journey to success. Some movies touch your heart in a casual place through the story, and some movies use the lens to interpret artistic thinking. More than 40 years ago, Godard filmed "Pierro the Madman" is the latter. "I won't make films that meet the public taste" is a slogan of Godard, and "Pierro the Madman" is indeed what he said, using his unique lens to convey a fresh artistic context. The work expresses a kind of sharpness in the absurd, reveals a tension in the poetic dialogue, and the messy editing has a unique beauty. Even if the main line of this movie is a simple male and female thief story. You can also browse Picasso's "Girl in the Mirror", Renoir's "Little Girl with Flowers", Modigliani's "Woman with a Black Tie", and master masterpieces such as Matisse and Chagall. . You can analyze the bold and exaggerated colors of expressionism in the film; you can think about the exploration of cultural meaning by structuralism in the film; you can appreciate the disordered beauty of surrealism in the film; you can listen to the poetry in the film You can enjoy the charm of classical music in the film; you can also find bridges borrowed from predecessors in the film; you can also explore the boundaries of love and deception in the film; but you can't use today's Hollywood's Mode to watch this film, otherwise you will get disappointed and dull. The film has a strong connection to the painting and pop art of the time, and shadows can be found in the film from Picasso to the pop art master Rosenberg. Film Analysis The film begins with Belmondo reading a book of Ariver's art theory in the bathtub, beginning with a poetic comment on the painting master Velázquez, through the protagonist's mouth, expounding that the film is based on modernism and modernism. Clash of Classics This is also Godard's theory. Godard also used Velázquez to illustrate that he had to fight even if he was surrounded by criticism (making his own film). The protagonist told a little girl a profound artistic theory, as if humoring the understanding of his movie audience. Belmondo mentioned that Nicholas Ray's "Desert Strangers" happened to be the same movie I had seen, and Nicholas Ray's film implied some kind of force that ignores and controls the country's legal system - McCarthyism. Pushing women into the social conflict zone of the West, it was a feminist film. Through this, it can be seen that Godard is alluding to the violent tendencies of the heroine. There is also reference to Balzac, the father of the modern French novel, and to Balzac's famous book The Rise and Fall of Cecha Pirodot, a novel about a pollen dealer who seems ordinary in every way, because With ludicrous ambitions, he swerved from the heights of prosperity, and turned into a ruined pauper; but the virtue of "extreme honesty" and his efforts to atone for his sins gave his suffering some martyrdom. The golden age was the beginning of his misfortune, and when the final victory came, his life also came to an end. This also precisely hints at the ending of the male protagonist. Some people say that Godard is the first disobedient in the history of film. He not only subverted the traditional film language, but also made fun of the popular culture of the time. The traditional context is broken through the form of dialogue and "advertising". A mockery of the pop art "hip civilization" of the time. Today's movies treat the audience as fools and don't let the audience think, so that the current audience won't think about those artistic films. Red, green and blue make up the scene of the party, which begins with the characteristics of situationism and ends in the form of farce. The monochromatic filter technique was first used in early expressionist films. Unlike expressionist films, which emphasized the use of exaggerated lighting and composition to express strong visual tension, Godard fixed a static camera and combined it through dialogue. With the effect of the filter, Godard well explained what he wanted to express through the editing and dialogue of the picture, to reflect the superficiality and emptiness of the upper class. The time when the filter is used is also different. It starts with red, which represents power and blood. Under the red filter, people talk about products peacefully on the surface, but it actually contains the contention of ambition and desire. Blue represents here. Betrayal and conspiracy, these two filters have a relatively long time. Green traditionally represents hope, art and love. The green filter is extremely short, just a moment before Belmondo leaves. Although this tactic is commonplace today, few can use it more closely than Godard, not just technically. In the middle there is a mirror that excites veteran fans First, the "third-line godfather" Samuel Fuller appeared, (American B-movie, film noir, independent film) Godard has always regarded him as an idol. At this point the color returns to normal. "You look lonely" the actor is asking Fuller. In fact, this is what Godard is asking himself. Every successful director is lonely, but they are not lonely because they all have their own films to accompany them. Godard inherited the film technique pursued by Fuller, that is, with low cost and small production, through the simple and symbolic pictures, and through the dialogue in the film to carry out social and political criticism and reflection on human nature. This is also a metaphor for the French New Wave originating from American cinema. "What is the essence of film?" "Film is like a battlefield, love, hatred, violence, death. One word summed up, emotion". This is Fuller's answer, and the subject of Godard's film. There are also elements of structuralism. "The eyes I use to see, the ears I use to hear, and the mouth I use to speak, feel uncoordinated and unable to work properly. People should feel like an individual, and I feel like many individuals." The words explain the structural principles of film, pointing out that film is to be seen with the eyes, heard with the ears, and expressed with the sound. Then a clip of the protagonist throwing cakes and fireworks creates an explosive humorous effect. The two had a conversation in the car, and the car was obviously not moving. It seems relatively fake, maybe this is Godard's negligence. Here Godard abandoned the commonly used Hollywood counter-attack shots, allowing the audience to experience the emotional changes of the protagonist themselves. The color tonality fluctuates between blue and red, creating a virtual poetry in the trance, which is similar to the atmosphere in Chu Yuan's Gu Long movie. There are differences in use. In addition, Godard's films are always related to current events. Through the radio broadcast, the troubles of the Vietnam War were extended. "My name is not Pierrot, I am Ferdinand" is an important line throughout the film. "Piero the Madman" was a criminal, a very famous criminal, so Belmondo always said that my name was not Piero, but Ferdinand. In fact, the protagonist's name is not Ferdinand, just like the heroine hopes that he is Pierrot, Ferdinand is the object that the hero aspires to be. Marianne's residence is messy, but there are famous paintings such as Picasso's "Girl in the Mirror" and Modigliani's "Woman with a Black Tie", expressing Godard's view of the supremacy of art. As for the male protagonist's bedside post, the print of Picasso's famous painting "Lovers" subtly reveals the subtle psychology of the hero and heroine, Godard has a tendency to cruel realism. Characters are often brought into stills. Movies also often fail to explicitly explain the subject. The dialogue here seems to be poetry related to the picture, a context that other directors rarely try. At the same time, some incoherent pictures are used to give the film an irregular structure style. The film images are like modern art paintings in terms of composition and color. For example, the bottles and cans on the refrigerator are like Morandi's still life paintings. Scenes such as gas stations are full of innuendo to advertising, as well as to American movies. As if telling us that this is a dark light comedy. The film also refers to American writer Fitzgerald's novel "The Night is Tender". The book analyzes the process of the protagonist Dick's character mutation from the perspective of socio-historical and spiritual aesthetics, and looks at the emptiness and disillusionment of the post-war bourgeois world. And the repression and distortion of human nature. It expresses that the fate of the protagonist in the book is also the fate of the protagonist of the movie. Therefore, it is often very tiring to read the works of the masters, because you must have a certain level of knowledge in order to understand some of the intentions of the masters. Wandering between cartoon and culture. The appearance of expressionist colors regardless of cost seems to adjust the visual habits of the audience. "It must be real, this is not a movie" Is it obviously a movie, Godard's ridicule to Hollywood. Makes you feel that this is a film from 40 years ago. Different from the time dislocation in Nolan's "Memento", there is no Nolan's regularity, and the theme of the film-words and things is completely represented by the protagonist's diary. He doesn't follow the old movie rules at all. There are also scenes in the movie that pay homage to John Ford's "Iron Gold". The scene of two people crossing the river is also beautiful, and Belmondo's book is also reflected, Godard's emphasis on culture. It also implied the future fate of the two. The framing in the second half of the film begins to give vitality, and we can feel the shadows of masters such as Van Gogh, Matisse, and Picasso on the screen. Picasso's paintings are the most appropriate symbol of this violent art that breaks the rules. There is also a scene where people walk under a huge tree and disappear at the bottom of the screen. This image is a tribute to Nicholas Ray's "Wind Across the Everglades" movie which contains reflections on the Vietnam War. The effect of exploding with matches can be compared with Coppola. The Molotov cocktails of Apocalypse Now have the same effect. The lens language is very direct from a photographic point of view. The characters are always moving within the lens. Godard often refuses to accept the reverse shot editing. Traditionally, the most commonly used reverse shot in Hollywood is to observe the reflection of another character from one character. . Godard always used dramatic short shots to embody violence. Not an obvious long shot, but it gives the effect of a long shot. I'm very interested in the line "To make a little money, we beg from tourists." I thought it could be changed to "To make a little money, we beg from audiences." Not just for Hollywood, but also for today's movies In the same way, the current director's idiot behavior has led to the idiots of some audiences, and the high-tech garbage fills the screen. pollutes our eyes. Belmondo's face is covered in Klein blue paint at the end, I wonder if it's a totem that symbolizes the ancient Irish warriors going to battle, like "Braveheart". The ending of the movie was unexpected, and I left a little space for suspense and imagination. Originally this is a movie with a very simple plot. It can be made into a police and gangster movie, and a suspense movie can also be made into a horror movie, but Godard made him into an art movie. This is what excites me and also makes me painful. , When will there be people in China who use movies to express art!

View more about Pierrot le Fou reviews