Once at an event, the organizer said humorously in his speech: "Please everyone present, 'Entertainment', do more publicity for us." As soon as he finished speaking, several accompanying reporters immediately protested loudly - we are Cultural reporters, please don't call us "Entertainment"! Hehe, it seems that the word "Entertainment" is a derogatory term that they can't avoid even in their own ears.
Needless to say, a word that is more "derogatory" than "Entertainment", of course, "paparazzi". According to the data, the term comes from the Italian paparazzi (homonym for "papa garbage"), which originally referred to a buzzing annoying bug. Masduani, the male protagonist in the famous Italian director Fellini's "La Dolce Vita", is called "paparoz-zo", the photojournalist who specializes in filming the private lives of stars. The same is also true in another film "Eight and a Half". identity person. Since then, the plural form of the term has been used to refer to tabloid photojournalists who upset celebrities, and the official translation should be "following the camera crew."
The term "paparazzi", which is now well known to women and children, also has its origins. Plainclothes criminal investigators in Hong Kong are good at solving cases by tracking and eavesdropping, commonly known as "Puppy Squad" - "Stalking" starring Ren Dahua tells this kind of story - and then tabloid reporters who are good at tracking the privacy of celebrities will continue to use it. "Carry forward", "paparazzi", which is both vivid and vivid, came into being and continued and spread to this day, and it has a tendency to intensify. The title of "paparazzi", on the one hand, vividly points out the absolutely sensitive sense of smell of such people, and on the other hand, it reflects everyone's disgust for such people. Today, stars and "paparazzi" have become two groups that are incompatible.
The 2004 Hollywood film "Paparazzi" was a life-and-death contest between stars and "paparazzi".
Since the movie star Bourne (Cole Hauser) became an instant hit, he has become the target of various tabloids. The unscrupulous photos of four unscrupulous "paparazzi" not only disturb Bourne. The normal life of the family even led to a terrible car accident. His wife died and his son was seriously injured in a coma. The car accident scene in the film is naturally reminiscent of Princess Diana, who suffered the same incident and died. The unbearable Bourne finally fought back, took abnormal revenge methods, set up a series of traps, and eventually killed the "paparazzi" who caused the accident. The story is extreme, but the description of "paparazzi" can find the prototype from reality.
In the film, the cameo appearances of big-name star Mel Gibson and others are not many, but they are quite eye-catching. In a change from the image of a righteous and awe-inspiring hero in the past, Gibson sat outside the clinic with a gloomy face. The content of the psychological treatment he was waiting to receive was actually "anger control", and the line "What a revenge movie" is really funny. It is said that the film originated from the complaints and hatred of the ubiquitous "paparazzi" by Mel Gibson and other Hollywood bigwigs, and he was also one of the investors of the film. It's no wonder that for the ending that ended in death in the film, everyone's faces showed an unconcealed expression of hilarity. Emotions are the best way to end their hatred.
However, the four unscrupulous "paparazzi" who are chasing after them are indeed disgusting. They not only use various means to concoct a lot of so-called celebrity privacy and insider information, but even intensify their efforts, and they are completely hooligans and rogues. Although director Paul Abasca is a first-time director, he can firmly position the tone of the whole film between hurt and revenge with his years of experience in Hollywood, supplemented by suspenseful plot clues. , tense and exciting, step by step.
Bourne, the once-famous protagonist, just started to enjoy the fame, fortune and superiority brought by his star halo. At the same time, he was inevitably faced with the swarms of paparazzi, and his personal privacy was repeatedly violated. Maybe this is the price you have to pay for being famous? Seeing that the warm and peaceful family life is constantly being violated, until the sweet wife and beloved son suffer misfortune, because there is not enough evidence, the "paparazzi" who caused the accident went away in a grand manner, and the uncontrollable anger prompted him to decide to use his own way. The power of retaliation, fighting violence with violence, let these four "paparazzi" get the punishment they deserve.
The most intriguing scene in the film is that Bourne designed one of the "paparazzi" to fall to his death on a motorcycle. One of his signature pens was left at the scene of the crime. The pen was returned to him, and he was noncommittal about Byrne's intentional fabrication. Only then did the remaining three "paparazzi" lose their lives one after another, while Byrne, who created the death, was exempt from legal prosecution.
Obviously, starting from the screenwriter, the whole film is strengthening the harm of the "paparazzi". Byrne has to take revenge to protect his family. The four "paparazzi" in the film are also deliberately portrayed as deserved. 's fate. However, this can only be said that the stars in reality represented by the protagonist are a very means to resolve the increasingly tense and complicated conflicts and contradictions between the "paparazzi" and the "paparazzi". The revenge of the "paparazzi" will not only end the pervasiveness of the "paparazzi", creating something out of nothing, making trouble out of nothing and even lawlessness, but to a certain extent, it will blur the boundaries between good and evil and obliterate the dignity of the law.
Fortunately, this is just a movie, although the means of revenge are too cruel. Thinking of the current situation of gossip and scandals related to the entertainment industry, if it can give some warning to the "paparazzi" who hide in the dark and spy on the stars' privacy all day long, it can be regarded as "Paparazzi" as an entertainment film. the true meaning of it.
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