To Qifeng said in an interview with the media: "In today's society, the relationship between the government and the media has become an inseparable part. This is the case in Hong Kong and the whole world. The idea of "Big Event" comes from such a general trend." In other words, the good-looking of police and gangster films is mainly reflected in the battle of wits and courage between the police and the gangsters representing the forces of justice and evil. The form of expression is nothing more than two points: battle of wits, tense negotiations; battle of courage, fierce gunfights. "The Big Event" is no exception to this stereotype. Nevertheless, we cannot deny To Qifeng's courage and the innovation of the screenwriter, which is reflected in the film's grasp of this emerging element of media communication as the key and main line, thus making the entire original ordinary police and gangster film flash more modern. The trendy atmosphere and indirect reflection of humanistic care. It is also a gun battle. The usual method is to achieve a fierce battle effect through the handover editing of the good and evil parties with guns shooting each other. "The Big Event" begins with a nearly seven-minute long shot to show the environment and document the complete shootout, from start to finish, which is a major consideration for the audience's patience - although this long shot is now regarded as A classic in Hong Kong film history. The long shot has always been a shooting technique that directors dare not try easily, because it is very prone to the side effect of dryness and dullness, and the dullness of the picture will directly cause the audience to fall asleep. Not to mention how difficult and complicated the seven-minute scene scheduling and filming process is, especially since it was put at the beginning, director To Qifeng is also commendable for his courage. On the other hand, from the perspective of communication, the seven-minute long shot here perfectly reflects its documentary effect, that is, it shows the real environment of reality, which is different from what we saw later in the "mimic environment". The content of the "show" is different. The shootout in the real environment is an unreserved and omnipotent perspective. While eliciting the beginning and the main characters, it also explains the reason for the incident, that is, a reporter appears - a policeman was captured. Images of raised hands in surrender have sparked a media war. Fang Jiexia is the image of a capable boss. Her first line in the whole film is: "Image is very important, we have to do a good-looking show, and we will give it back. This is the information age. Win it back." This seems to have established her status as the heroine, and only different eyes can dissect major events and control major events. From here, the most important point has been explained, that is, the "media" is the leader of the "big event", and the "media" is also the main thread that runs through the whole film. Winning the "media" is the real victory. Through the live broadcast of a police-robber fight by the media, the power of the media is so closely linked to the story of the movie , "The Big Event" may not be the last, but it is definitely unprecedented in the vast Hong Kong film. Hadrow Lasswell is one of the founders of American behaviorist politics. He used Freud's psychoanalysis to analyze and study political phenomena, and believed that "the vitality of various political movements comes from private feelings poured into public purposes", which means that the growth and development of various political movements is the result of participating in these political movements. People in the movement channel their deep-seated personal feelings to the results of public channels. Lasswell entered communication studies from the perspective of studying political communication and propaganda, and he is also one of the four founders of communication studies. Lasswell put forward five important "W" theories in the history of communication research, and the five elements constituted the five basic contents of later communication research, namely control research, content analysis, media research, audience research and effect research. Judging from Lasswell's five "Ws", that is, content analysis, The Big Event is disseminated by the police led by Chen Huixian, the robbers led by Ren Xianqi, and media workers, namely reporters. , Opposing each other, the ultimate goal and the ultimate audience are still TV viewers, that is, Hong Kong citizens. From this point of view, "The Big Incident" is not a simple war between police and bandits. It pays attention to the power of the media and focuses on media communication. Their purpose is as Superintendent Yang said: "It is to restore All the reputation that the police force has lost is to tell everyone that the Hong Kong police are capable of bringing the culprits to justice. The picture will be sent to all the citizens of Hong Kong at the first time, so that the citizens have more confidence in the police force!” Deputy Police Force Chang Ye said: "Whether the gangster is in the unit or not, we have to act. At least we have to show our skills in front of the media once. This time we not only have to deal with the gangster, but also make a show facing 6 million citizens." So In the hands of the police, the communicator of the media has become a channel for their purpose of ensuring the safety of the citizens, and it is the robbers on the opposite side who seek to protect themselves by creating panic. The subtlety and ingenuity of the relationship is here, which also contributes to a major attraction of the film. From this "big event", aside from dramatic plots and conflicts, we can roughly see the shortcomings of Lasswell's model, mainly in four aspects: 1. The model regards communication as a persuasive process , that communication is the intention of the communicator to influence the recipient, and can always achieve a certain effect - but this is understood because Lasswell entered communication from the perspective of studying political communication and propaganda; from the film we see When the police tried to persuade the gangster, they were turned against the first army. If it weren't for the bloody love scene - that is, the gangster fell in love with the policeman, Fang Jiexia would have died in any situation. 2. This mode ignores the 3. This model ignores the influence of the external environment during the propagation process; 4. Divides the propagation into 5 parts, ignoring the complexity of the propagation behavior. Kurt Luin, one of the four founders of Communication Studies. When he introduced the experimental method of psychology into sociological research, he actually provided an effective means for communication research, because the human behavior field theory and group dynamics he studied belonged to both psychology and sociology. It also involves some basic issues in communication studies. In this sense, Luin was one of the first psychologists to study communication. His research on people's behavior and groups gave an important message to the effect research in communication: when studying the influence of mass media on individuals, full attention should be paid to the role of the social environment and the groups to which individuals belong. He proposed the famous concept of "gatekeeper", which provides a satisfactory explanation for the complexity of information flow and so on. Lu Yin pointed out that there is always a "gate area" for the dissemination of information, that is, the position of the gatekeeper. There, gatekeepers will decide whether information can enter the communication channel, or whether it can continue to circulate through the communication channel. In fact, in the information cycle of the entire society, everyone acts as a gatekeeper, consciously or unintentionally. The essence of the gatekeeping process is the embodiment of the position and policy of the media organization. Disseminators will inevitably screen and filter information from their own standpoint and perspective. This kind of screening and filtering of information is the gatekeeper. The person who spreads this behavior is the gatekeeper. In "The Big Event", we can see that Fang Jiexia is not only the creator of the virtual environment of online media, but also the gatekeeper of the entire information processing and screening. After she gathered news from all over the country from the standpoint of the police, she cut out the news reports that were unfavorable to the police, and only released some news reports to the media that would help save the police's face. This exposed her position as a gatekeeper without reservation. Officer Yang has a line in the play: "Information is developed, there are good and bad!" Just as the event was not that big, it is precisely because of the media's communication function that it has become a "big event". However, no matter how developed the information is, because of the "gatekeeper" and the complexity of each step, as well as the complexity of the characters themselves and the environment, we can never see the whole truth of the whole incident. But after all, movies are different from real life. From a certain point of view, the director is not a "gatekeeper". He can only see what he wants to show the audience. As for the script, the unbeatable Zhang Jiahui, the free and easy and handsome Ren Xianqi, the cool and calm Chen Huixian, the absolute victory of the police, the heroine's will not die, the second male lead will become a hero... Some things are commonplace and uninnovated. The ending after Ren Xianqi's death was not too bad. Even if the police won "victory" and won the media, the crime continued. For their loyalty, they also took over the spirit of the young and the bewildered.
To sum up, we can see that the "big event" is very consistent with the characteristics of these communication theories. Looking back at the life around us through movies, in this new media era, we receive a lot of information, and they are all too superficial and one-sided. It is difficult for us to grasp the truth, the reality is hidden, and this is living in a world controlled by the media.
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