A film that can't suppress the inner excitement, "Deception in Deception"
31 Suddenly I realized that writing a movie review is a very happy thing. I haven't talked to myself about movies for a long time. As soon as I hit the keyboard, I feel a little bit more excited. It feels like an old movie I watched last week. It is "Deception in Deception" directed by Hollywood director George Roy Hill in 1973, "Deception in Deception" is a Chinese name, the translation is too straightforward, and the English name is "The Sting". The storyline is clear and easy to understand. In order to avenge their friends and out of love, a group of very gentleman liars successfully defrauded a tycoon with gang power of $500,000 without realizing it. Although it is an old film from 1973, it is still charming now. First of all, I think the subject matter of the film is unique and interesting. From the beginning, it broke the inertial thinking of many audiences. The bad guy has a face that looks like a bad guy. The protagonists of the film are two liars, but there is no bad guy. They are handsome guys, and they are surrounded by a bunch of liars who are very gentlemen, and they are all righteous. Punish a tycoon to avenge a friend. This is an act of righteousness. The audience is naturally very fond of the protagonist. And, how do liars do it? This is a relatively hidden thing in real life. When it is put on the big screen, it can naturally stimulate the curiosity of many audiences. In this regard, it has a wonderful co-worker with "The Godfather". Secondly, the narrative of the film is calm and vigorous, step by step, and there will be shocks at the turning point. In the past, the author always told the story very convoluted. Now I understand that the key to storytelling lies in being easy to understand, and at the same time the story itself is not simple. The film director George Roy Hill's first feature film was adapted from a stage play, which shows that the director has a lot of research on drama. "Deception in Deception" is a typical film narrated in the form of a three-act drama. The film is fascinating, and the events have always been on the bright side, but it is still gripping, always worrying about the fate of the protagonist. The willows are dark and flowers are bright in another village. After safely escaping the catastrophe, a reversal plot is added to ensure that the audience is easy to understand, and at the same time, they all nod and praise the wonderful story. Now I am more convinced that the three-act narrative method is effective, and it is the crystallization of the long-term experience of many industry predecessors. Although the time points of the three-act drama of the film are somewhat different today, they are similar. The most impressive thing about the film is the lens design. In the video, the male protagonist walks past a car, and the camera follows the male protagonist. When he reaches the window, the male protagonist has already walked out of the frame. The camera falls on the steering wheel of the car, with a hand wearing black leather gloves on it.
The content of this shot does not explain the identity of the characters, but it brings some questions to the audience. The second time it appears, the camera is pulled from a close-up view of the male protagonist and the waitress (the female killer) sleeping on the bed, to the opposite floor, through the window to the house, and the one with the Hands in black gloves, turn off the lamp beside the bed.
The lights were already on at this time, and this person had been squatting for a long time. At this time, it will be overwhelming speculation to the audience, full of curiosity about the character's identity and the purpose of the character's actions. In addition, the male protagonist's friend was killed, and he also had to escape the police's arrest. During the process of escaping, the male protagonist climbed over the wooden fence, and in the background, the police could be seen arriving one after another.
There was another time when two killers wanted to kill the male protagonist. The male protagonist fled to the street. The camera followed the male protagonist. The male protagonist ran out of the screen. go through. The male protagonist passed by grabbing the handrail of the door of the sprinkler car. The audience could see the male protagonist, but the two killers did not see it because the car body blocked it.
The small clips listed can all be shot with cut shots, but why are they shot with long shots? The author believes that some are to enhance the drama of the plot; some are to continue a certain emotion in the film; some are to reflect the real performance of the actors, so that the audience can empathize with the emotions of the characters at this time. The biggest gain for the author is: in the processing of the lens, when the emotion is felt, the picture also arrives. The fate of the characters in the story has experienced hardships, and more often than not, the author should breathe with the fate of the characters, and the lens design should be naturally "revealed" and should not be deliberately rejected. To "go with the flow".
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