Forget where you see it, it is said that WA fans wait for him for one movie a year. The nature is like Columbus Day in North America. It is a warm and cautious carnival of a small group of people, and with the "political correctness" The stronger the wind, the more controversial the carnival.
In my opinion, 2016 is the second decade of WA's 2016 year: Master Vittorio Storaro shot Cafe Society for him, the art setting is top-notch, the investment budget is blockbuster, and more importantly, this is WA It was the first time to use digital filming (under the persuasion of master Vittorio Storaro, otherwise the old man would probably die with film), although the storyline is still the one that no one wants to love at the end of a love triangle and a four-cornered love, but technically speaking, it is simply It can be called wa's Avatar; in addition, I was caught off guard on a six-episode short drama on Amazon. Although I said that I regretted signing the contract, but after all, I was in a fashion and used Amazon's money to film a quotation from Chairman Mao. The movie that was flying all over the sky was then split into six episodes, euphemistically called "Six Dangerous Events". The most important thing is that the old man finally appeared on the screen, and he played the intellectual who was best at him who was afraid of death. This kind of role can be said to be The tacit understanding that wa and the audience have reached for many years, as long as he stutters at the beginning, we know that a farce is going to happen.
But in 2017, luck wasn't so good. It is shown on imdb that "Ferris Wheel" has invested 25 million yuan, and the net profit is only more than one million yuan. The score is on the same level as "The Unreasonable Man" and "Magic Moonlight" in recent years. 2019's hits "Midnight in Paris" and "Blue Jasmine"). The box office and word of mouth are not really what wa cares about, but when the movie was released, it happened to meet the vigorous #METOO. I didn't expect Fei Wen to come out at the right moment and say that he regretted making this movie. Ellen Page said that he participated in wa in 2012. The "Love in Rome" is "the worst choice in my career", even Mira Sorvino, the actress of "Non-Aphrodisiac" in the 1990s, couldn't stop after exposing weinsten, and she wrote in person that she would never talk to wa again. cooperate. Then Amazon canceled the theatrical release of the new film "A Rainy Day in New York", which is said to only be broadcast on the Internet. All of a sudden, WA seems to have become the second weinsten that everyone shouts and beats. Celebrities have to express "regret", "regret" and "angry" for political correctness.
Describing this crusade as "the wall is pushed down by the crowd" may be a bit extreme, but snobbery is the number one symptom of Hollywood. There was no new evidence in 2017 to confirm that wa did sexually assault his adopted daughter dylan farrow, but riding the #METOO ride, this accusation that the adoptive father sexually assaulted his adopted daughter broke out in the divorce battle in 1992 and was updated in 2014 Got fired again. In 2014, when dylan wrote a letter to the "New York Times" to accuse wa, he also questioned Cate Blanchett, who was filming "Blue Jasmine" at the time, "how can I turn a blind eye to such an act", guess what, Cate really turned a blind eye. But Boom, Harvey Weinstein, Kevin Spacey, Dylan Farrow appeared on TV in 2017, and asked Why has the #MeToo revolution spared Woody Allen, public opinion suddenly turned around, as if "justice will not be absent but only late. "Similarly, Fei Wen, who collaborated with wa in 2016, after being baptized by the #MeToo and Timesup movements, firmly stood on the opposite side of wa at the end of 2017, completely ignoring that the "Ferris Wheel" starring him was being released, and When the film was filmed, she kept saying that wa was a male director with "a woman in her heart".
I myself can't remove the fan filter to watch "Ferris Wheel", I can only compare this film with wa's works in the same series: a half-old milf with an artistic dream tried to change her fate through an extramarital affair but failed, and made it the most exciting It should be "Purple Rose of Cairo" in the 1980s. At that time, wa's muse Mia Farrow played a housewife obsessed with movies during the Great Famine, with the explorer hero who jumped out of the cinema screen (literally jumped out). She started to drag, but was cut off by the real-life actor who played the male lead, and suddenly fell into a love triangle where the soul wears flesh and wears at the same time. In the end, the actor left her and returned to Hollywood to continue filming, and the male lead also Jumping back to the screen to continue her adventure story, only Mia Farrow continued to dream foolishly in the theater. "Purple Rose of Cairo" should be the most popular one among wa's works by critics. After all, in the 1980s, the stalk that was worn in and out of the play was quite novel at the time (it's completely unconventional now!), And Mia Farrow's performance of being true and false is indeed unique among all wa's crazy heroines. Compared with Mia Farrow, Fat Wen's performance in "Ferris Wheel" is less heartbreaking. The same as the housewife, the top heroine of wa is standard with thin and prominent cheekbones (see Diane Keaton, Mia Farrow and the latest Blanchett), while Fat Wen's thicker body and sensual face make her richer The color of the mother earth, but it is difficult to express the rush and nervousness of small animals that are common in heroines in wa movies. The eyes, lips, chest and buttocks full of desire make her closer to Blanche in "A Streetcar Named Desire". However, hormones It's not wa's business card, it's the fear of death. Although Fei Wen has done his best to perform the whole process of a middle-aged woman struggling in love (there are even comments that she supported the whole play by herself), she has to say that in the last scene she faced When my lover left and returned to the ordinary housewife's life, what filled my heart was not "the dream is broken without a trace" but "she can't die anyway".
Although the story structure of "Ferris Wheel" is not bad (compared with most commercial films on the market today), it is also one of the typical examples of wa's repeated babble of his own voice. Even the laudable background setting of this film (amusementpark in Coney island during 1950s) is a nostalgic trick that wa has used many times. After all, Brooklyn in the 1930s and Manhattan in the 1970s were photographed by the old man as the theme, and Coney island It is the birthplace of the most popular "Annie Hall" male protagonist alvy singer. When I was giving the scene for "Annie Hall", I saw Thunderbolt (now called Thunderbolt) in the Coney Island amusement park. Roller coaster such as "Tani Wood You Long"), so decided to set the childhood of alvy singer here. From this point of view, it is also possible to say that the son of the heroine who set fire to trouble in "Ferris Wheel" grew up to be an alvy singer who fell in love with sweetheart Anne Hall in the 1970s.
You see, if a famous director has made too many films, it is inevitable that they will be linked to each other, and there will be rumors as time goes on. wa can be said to be the pinnacle of these two points, even the "Village Voice"
At 83 years old, he can still make the critics show such a strong interest in his love life, wa should be regarded as the first person in Hollywood, but does he care? Judging from his work efficiency with a movie released every year for half a century, he should have no time to take into account the eyes of the world. After all, he still has to go to the club to play the clarinet, to watch the Knicks ball game, to run, and to use a typewriter. Hum hum hum wrote the never-exhausted idea and pasted it into the script, and most importantly, always be afraid of death, always ask his audience with this fear, why do you want to live, why is it meaningless to live, but I am so afraid die. After all, it was himself, not reputation and sex scandal, that separated him from greatness.
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