The title of the film, "The New York Story" (Metropolis Legend), is intended to emphasize the strange and unusual things that happened in this magical and legendary city of New York, but in this city it seems unusually harmonious. "The Lesson of Life" tells the story of the entanglement between a famous painter and a young female painter who lives together. Based on the diary of Russian writer Tostoyevsky's lover describing their relationship. However, the director made a complete audio-visual adaptation, filling it with a large number of rock records and colorful pictures, which fully reflects the large number of commercial film techniques that director Martin Scorsese learned in Hollywood to perfect the rhythm of the audio-visual picture. . These techniques are discussed in detail below.
First of all, at the beginning of the film, two sets of close-up shots were used to create a sense of design for the appearance of the characters. Both sets of shots used three repeated partial close-ups to describe the characteristics of the characters. Mottled, the second group uses a panning camera to highlight the characters' actions and actions, giving people a feeling of being cramped and sloppy, and then pushing forward from a dusty wine glass, following the protagonist's face, and looking down at the character's eyes It was a piece of paint, and the protagonist stepped on it with inexplicable force, causing a pile of paint to be sprayed on the wall. Has a metaphor for venting. This set of opening shots from objects, to parts, to the whole body, makes the protagonist's appearance full of design and mystery, making people unpredictable and expecting his character. As the bell rang, the painter threw his shoes, and finally the painter's whole body appeared in a black circle, giving people a concentrated emphasis on the feeling of insignificance and helplessness. After that, the black circle expanded, and the character environment finally appeared. The studio, gray and white tones, and the soundtrack of slow rock also have a breakthrough depression. At this point, the appearance of the characters is completed, and the three sets of shots show the symbolic characteristics of the characters, which not only have a sense of form, but also explain the characters in a textbook-like appearance.
Then in the pick-up scene, I started to use a lot of slow-speed upgrade shots, and I shot the painter's face and smoking close-up, giving people a sense of oppression, reflecting the artist's strength and mental anxiety, until the heroine appeared, the music ended, and the hero started from He returned to reality in his imagination, but the lover in his dream responded to him with just a foul language, which contrasted with the soothing music and expectant eyes before, forming a second conflict, the conflict with the previous painter and manager, which made the painter out of tune with the people around him. The confrontation is manifested, and then a dialogue explains the characters and relationship of the two people, which explains the contradictory background. The appearance of the heroine in this episode is also very special, so that the heroine is still elegant and perfect in the appearance of irritability, and also the most important in the film. The contradictions are clearly and concisely reflected. The two simple scenes clearly explain the main contradictions of the main characters, and the sense of rhythm and design is outstanding, giving the audience expectations, reflecting the director's skillful use of camera language and the unique way of designing characters to appear.
In the 45-minute short film, the director used a large number of rock records to pave the way to externalize the psychology of the characters and influence the characters in the scene, expressing the painter's strong suppressing influence on the scene all the time. , used a lot of fast language to invade the other party. On the surface, he said that he loved the other party wholeheartedly, but when he was irritable, he betrayed his purpose in the women's football team. It was only the desire for sex, the irritability when creating, and the desire for others. The unrestrained impulse, the unrestricted impulses, and the turbid and oppressive paintings all reflect the painter's unique character, his painting talent and contradictory heart, the enjoyment of fame and fortune brought to him by painting, and the rudeness to his troubles. Handling, a strong desire to possess and ignore his assistant, all reflect that he is a very contradictory person.
The director uses a lot of soundtracks and dialogues to shape the characters, but there are also many action metaphors to supplement the voice, so that the characters are extremely full, the motivation is sufficient, and the action lines of the characters have always been closely linked to the clues, and it is very comfortable and beautiful to watch. It's all the director's excellent handling of sound and painting, and it's also a place to learn. The end result is an absurd and plausible New York story that will repeat itself.
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