This strong British style has successfully made a black crime film involving robbery and murder very humorous. The Coen brothers remade it in 2004. The classic of the original film, no one can compare to the United Kingdom in terms of serious humor. The aristocratic fan in your bones always asks: even if you are performing a comedy, you should make you shout "Fuck you can even pretend to be forceful". Their pedanticness can be seen in "The Bridge on the River Kwai". Even if they try to build bridges for the enemy, the quality cannot be deviated. Perhaps it is because every British person lives in the heart of a super-long standby Her Majesty.
The faces of the criminals reflected under the skewed lens subtly express their personalities: cunning, vicious, stupid, timid...
A group of criminals who planned to rob a cash truck planned to rent a room of an elderly widow who lived alone to facilitate future operations. When a few boxes of money were successfully transported to the railway station, the criminals tricked the elderly widow into helping to transport them home, but they were unexpectedly arrested. The old lady discovered the secret. The old lady had a fierce disagreement about whether the five people saved or not, and the more bizarre ending is yet to come...
It is this kind of arrogant "unhappy" that makes this film ridiculous: it's obviously a vicious criminal gang, but in the face of a helpless old lady, they shirk each and every one of them, so that they turn against each other and the dog bites the dog's hair. Just imagine whether it is a Korean crime movie or an American B-level movie, if someone dares to obstruct their purpose, they have always met a god to kill a god and a Buddha to kill a Buddha. And the five of us who "can rob and beat the police, and dare to throw corpses and kill accomplices", have become helpless children with stubborn elders when facing the weak and weak old lady. Although the indoor scenes are narrow, the highlights are constant, and the outdoor scenes are still thrilling although the location rarely changes.
The old lady who didn't know she was helping criminals with money was surrounded by black seats, and the sinister situation was evident
The most successful part of the film is that it can become a textbook example of a black comedy, and what I like most is its exquisite composition: the building around the old lady is normal from the beginning, when the criminals disguised as professors come. At that time, the camera gave a close-up of the crooked hut: the foundation subsided due to the war bomb, the interior of the hut was crooked, and the crooked doors, walls, and paintings first gave the audience a signal: the visitor is not good. When the five criminals gathered in the hut, the doors and walls in the background were crooked because of the sinking, just like the grotesque performance of the distortion in "Dr. Caligara's Cabin" in 1920. The twisted background of the criminals and the regular background of the old lady form a clear collision of good and evil. And the male protagonist disguised as a professor is pale and his eyes are deep in his cheeks, thin and dark circles under his eyes.
The location of the hut is also quite interesting. Two rows of houses are tightly packed against this horizontal hut. Behind the hut is a roaring railway. There are always trains coming and going with thick smoke. When the crisis comes, the road is the only way to survive.
The contrast between a group of unarmed old ladies after a criminal disguised as a musician commits a crime is quite attractive. The old lady's chattering mouth is both funny and worrying. It can be said that the whole film is in this kind of tangled In joy, I don't know if I should expect a long-planned murder, or the old lady to rule the gangster with her bare hands. It is to help catch parrots and calculate the time to transport money. This must be the most difficult robber in history.
The film's opening scene shows the criminals appearing in seven perfect scenes: the first scene is when the old lady in the store asks if her rent revelation is answered, a dark shadow is reflected on the glass covered with revelation, indicating danger Coming; the second shot is when the old lady leaves the store, a black back is watching her quietly, indicating danger; the third shot is the old lady slowly returning home, and a daytime is also dark as thick ink. The man follows behind him unhurriedly. Although these steps are unpleasant, they are extremely disturbing. In the fourth shot, a dark shadow is reflected on the window outside the living room where there is no one. The man inspecting the environment looks like a devil. The fifth shot The dark shadow of the man in the house is reflected on the kitchen window, and the old lady who doesn't know anything in the house is skillfully hitting the water pipe with a wooden stick and then accurately using the kettle to catch the water. The rhythm that is both funny and scary is torture; In the camera, the man walked to the door, and a hand in the shadow slowly stretched out to the doorbell. When the doorbell rang, the good show was finally staged. At this time, I felt that the people watching were going to be perverted. It is going forward; the seventh shot is the most interesting, the hair of a white-haired parrot called the general is slowly exploding, and the director reminds the audience with the animal's sense of crisis that the devil has entered the door, and the hell mode is about to start.
At the end of the film, the process of rebelling in the den of the criminals is also gradually reaching a climax. The scene of the rumbling train covering the sky with thick smoke is definitely a trick worth learning from crime films. Who will be the next dead man? After watching the ending, I believe that everyone will automatically make up the classic animation of the Yangtze in their minds, "Good and evil will eventually be rewarded, and the way of heaven is reincarnated. If you don't believe it, look up, who will the heaven forgive?"
Even the car is crooked!
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