1. Talk about why the director wanted to make this movie.
Before talking about this topic, you must first know who the director of "Boyhood" is. The director of the film, Richard Linklater, is a well-known independent director in the American film industry. Of course, he has also made commercial comedies. The highest box office is "Rock Campus", which is literary and funny, suitable for all ages. But as an independent director, his enthusiasm and talent are more concentrated in the "Love in the Trilogy" that is talked about by young literary and art youths. This trilogy spans 18 years before and after, but the protagonist of the story is the same man and woman. The first is "Love Before Dawn" in 1995, which talks about the first encounter and love between the two; the second is "Love at Sunset" in 2004, which tells the reunion of the two after 9 years; The third part of 2013's "Love Before Midnight" talked about the changes brought to the two by nine years of marriage.
So why did Linklater shoot "Boyhood"? It started in the late 1990s, when Linklater was nearly 40 years old and was a father. He felt he had something to say, but he couldn't find a suitable movie. "I couldn't make a 7-year-old child grow into a 14-year-old boy in an instant, so this matter slowly let go. In 2001, I started writing something similar to an experimental novel, just At this moment, I figured it out—if I shoot a short section every year—then I can put all my thoughts into it!” This is the "Boyhood" filmed later.
2. Talk about the difficulty of shooting such a movie
The first is how to persuade the producer to pay. Who wants to pay for a movie that spans 12 years? The producer is not a philanthropist, let alone how much the return can be recovered after 12 years, there are so many variables in 12 years that no one wants to pay. In the end, IFC, which has collaborated with Linklater on the two films "Sweet Rape Me" and "Half Awakening Life", chose this extremely risky investment. "They have a long-term vision, but the budget they give is very low. I even sometimes hope that they abandon this project halfway so I can find other investments. Of course, they never gave me this opportunity. It is really a miracle with a very small probability that money makes such a movie!" The
second difficulty is how to find actors. In the United States, it is illegal to sign any contract with a statute of more than 7 years, so there is no way to sign a 12-year contract. Every actor can only give the director a promise. In other words, if someone changes their mind or hangs up in the past 12 years, the movie may not be what it is now. The director even told Ethan Hawke, who played the child's father (also the hero of the "Love in Trilogy"), that even if I die, you have to continue acting.
Lorelai, who plays the elder sister in the film, is Linklater's relatives. When she was 6 years old, the little girl still loved acting, but after the third or fourth year of filming, she felt tired and hoped that her role would disappear. She once asked her dad: "Will my character die?" "This is not that kind of movie." The director's dad replied.
It was the hardest to find Mason, the protagonist of the movie. Ella Coltrane was selected in the end. He attracted Linklater the most because of many interesting ideas. "He was only 6 years old and illiterate, but he can think, he is still such a young man, mysterious and spiritual." Ella's father is a musician, and his mother is a dancer. "A 6 The 12-year-old boy can’t afford the 12-year commitment, so it’s important to get family support.” In order not to disturb Ella’s life, the shooting was done during the summer vacation.
3. Talk about the theme of the movie
When people talk about what the film is about, you can say the following sentence indifferently: "Time is the core role of the film." This sentence is what Linklater said when he talked about "Boyhood." . In "Love in the Trilogy", the audience felt Linklater's preference for time. In "Boyhood", the director condensed 12 years of time into one movie. Unlike other time-span films, "Boyhood" is really a film made over 12 years. It presents to the audience the life of a teenager named Mason from 6 to 18 years old. In the past 12 years, the world has changed unconsciously. The boy who turned people cute back then has grown into an 18 with stubble chin. -Year-old boy; his sister changed from a lively little girl who sang Blaine with her belly to a rebellious girl listening to LADYGAGA; his mother changed three unconscious husbands in 12 years; his biological father also changed from one The guy who pulled the wind from Tiac GTO turned into a family man driving a Dodge MPV.
Although "time is the core role of the film", it is different from the movie "Forrest Gump" that deliberately emphasizes the sense of the times. The time in "Boyhood" is ambiguous, and the audience does not know the specific story on the screen. one year. Because Linklater wanted to create a feeling of lightness and lightness, "I want to use a camera to record a memory of growing up, so that the audience can remember their own past when they see the movie. That is a feeling of lightness and lightness. In fact, I don’t want to say anything specific, but a tone. The shaping of a person by time is also an understanding of time."
Some people might think that "Boyhood" is a boring film, because in 166 minutes, There is no dramatic plot, it's all a plain life, the only conflict scene is a drunkard, throwing a cup and dragging a car. But as Linklater said: "This is closer to real life, the world we perceive and the way we see the world. The plot is just a tool for attracting audiences and narrative. I always think that as long as the structure of the movie is correct, is there any Story movies can be established.”
Finally, I will share with you an easter egg. Remember the birthday gift that the father played by Ethan Hawke in the film gave Mason? The Beatles Black Album, it is said that this album is a birthday gift given by Beatles fan Ethan to his daughter in life. The download address of the songs in this album is as follows:http://pan.baidu.com/s/1pJJou7L
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