Summary of the film: In
Berlin, Germany, Romani called his girlfriend Laura, and Manny told Laura that he had lost 100,000 marks. After 20 minutes, if the 100,000 mark is not returned, he will be executed by the underworld boss.
In order to get 100,000 marks and rescue Manny, Laura ran desperately within 20 minutes. At the same time, Manny kept calling and borrowing money in the phone booth.
The film shows the three processes and three results of Lola running, Lola looking for money to rescue Manny.
First run: Lola did not borrow money, Lola and Manny rob the supermarket, Lola was killed by the police.
Second run: Laura grabs money from the bank. Manny was hit and killed by an ambulance.
The third run: Laura wins at the casino and Manny retrieves the lost money. Laura and Manny became rich.
(1) Why choose "Run Lola Run":
There are three reasons:
1. "Run Lola Run" is a commercially successful movie.
In 1999, "Lola Run" achieved commercial success all over the world. Outside of Germany and Europe, in the United States, there were two films with low capital investment but outstanding box office revenue in 1999. One was the American film "Blair the Witch" and the other was the German film "Lola Run".
In Asia, Japan, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, "Rola Run" has a good box office.
I once asked a German friend: Have you watched "Lola Run"? He told me: He has watched "Run Lola Run" 60 times in Germany. (Of course I watch film, not VCD). A movie can be watched by a young German man 60 times! This example excites me.
First of all, a film can be watched by one person 60 times, and there must be an important reason for it. We can consider this issue from another angle. A movie, even if its scene is magnificent, its plot is tortuous, its story is revived, its actors perform well, can it be the reason for us to watch it 60 times? ! A report on the "IMDB website" made me seem to have found the answer. The report introduced the screening of "Lola Run" in American movie theaters: "The movie theater seems to have become a'disco venue'. The new generation of American children, they are not sitting in their seats, but standing in front of them. They "resonate" with "Lola Run" in the swift images and violently turbulent music." Please pay attention to the two words "disco" and "resonance".
2. "Lola Run" is a brand new movie.
Today, we have entered the 21st century. In the new century, everything in the world is changing. So, how does the movie change? In other words: what will movies in the 21st century look like? We can’t say what the 21st century movie will be like. However, Tom Tykway's "Running Laura" seems to make us smell the breath of the new era, and it seems to make us see the embryonic form of 21st century movies.
① Film art itself:
Among various art styles, only film and technology have such a close relationship. First of all, movies were born out of technology. After that, the film developed with the advancement of technology. In other words: every bit of advancement in modern technology provides new means and possibilities for film art. It can be asserted: Today, the world's highly developed computer technology will inevitably lead to profound changes in film production.
② Film and era: A
new era has arrived. The changes in human life in the new century are profound. "Art is a reflection of life". The new era is bound to produce new movies. Maybe "Lola Run" still has its immaturity, but "Lola Run" is shining with the glory of the times! "One can make all kinds of mistakes, but not the mistakes of the times."
3. "Lola Run" is a well-made movie.
"Lola Run" is exceptionally good in production. To use an analogy: "Lola Run" is a very beautiful and dizzying hand-washed card. Only such cards are worth dismantling. At the same time, we will be full of interest and fun in the process of dismantling. Of course, the purpose of dismantling is: through dismantling, we can better understand the movie, and even in the future we can shuffle such beautiful cards ourselves.
(2) About the director:
Tom Tykway is a movie wizard. He started making short films at the age of 11. Formally entered the film industry at the age of 13. In 1993, 28-year-old Tom Tykway made his debut film "Maria with a Deadly Face". After that, he also filmed the film "Unexpected Winter" and so on. "Lola Run" is a 1998 work by Tom Tykway. At the time, he was only 34 years old.
After the release of "Lola Run", he has won many awards. Not long ago, on the "IMDB website", the audience voted for the 250 best movies of all time in the world, including "Rora Run" and ranked 111th.
Some people predict that Tom Tykway will become a world-class director in Hollywood after the famous French director Luc Besson (director of "The Fifth Element"). However, it is said that Tom Tykway himself disagrees with filming in Hollywood. On the surface, Tom Tykway is a movie prodigy. He made short films when he was 11 years old, and made his debut in his 20s. His works started around the world when he was in his 30s. In fact, Tom Tykway is not only a movie prodigy, but more importantly: Tom Tykway is a product of our special era-the "audiovisual age". This is how Tom Tykway was introduced on the website. Tom Tykway has been in front of TV sets and computers all day since he was young. What makes Tom Tykway most proud of is not his movies, but his playing computer games. He is a well-known computer game master in the "computer game industry", and he can play from the first level to the last level of the "Star Wars" computer game. It is said that if you praise him for making a good movie, he will disagree. However, if you praise him for playing computer games well, he will be very proud and even invite you to dinner.
Western sociologists regard the 1960s as a "generation" watershed in sociology. They call people born before the 1960s the "literal generation", and those born after the 1960s the "audiovisual generation." (China should be after the 1980s).
The main characteristic of the "word generation" is that the source of their knowledge and information is mainly written.
The main characteristic of the "audiovisual generation" is that their sources of information and knowledge are mainly televisions and computers.
In fact, for the "audiovisual generation", television and computers are not only their sources of information and knowledge, they also have a profound impact on their thoughts and lives. According to statistics, an American child born after the 1960s spends an average of 5 or 6 hours a day in front of the TV and computer. Their knowledge of society and the world originated from television and computers, and television and computers affected their words, deeds and even thinking. Therefore, there is even such a saying that the parents of the "audiovisual generation" are not the physical parents who brought them life. Their parents are computers and televisions.
Tom Tykway was born in Germany in the mid-1960s and belongs to the typical "audiovisual generation". He grew up in TV, computer, game console and MTV.
What we want to point out in particular is: the movie "Lola Run" is a work of the "audiovisual generation".
① Laura:
Everyone who likes to play computer games knows: Laura, the heroine in "Lola Run", is now the most famous computer game character in the world. Not long ago, the United States produced a computer game movie. The protagonist's name is also Lola. The name of the world’s number one computer imitation news host on the Internet is Lola.
②. Computer game: The
movie "Run Lola" is actually a computer game for Lola to break through the barriers. We can completely imagine: in Western cinemas, many movie audiences (many of them are computer game masters like Tom Tykway), so many like-minded computer game players from all walks of life, gathered in a festive manner. In a common place, they run fast with Laura, they "resonate" with Laura, and they "break through the barriers" together with Laura!
In short, from Tom Tykway's films, we can feel the huge difference between him and the majority of the mainstream filmmakers in the world today, including Spielberg, and feel the distinctive imprint of the audio-visual era. Tom Tykway’s movies make us smell a new era and new breath of new movies.
3. About the film:
how to evaluate and treat the film "Lola Run"?
The most important point is: this is a brand new movie.
On the surface, the theme of "Lola Run" is an unusually "old" love theme: Laura runs desperately to save her lover. However, the core and spiritual essence of the film are brand new.
1. Feminism is
also the rescue of love. In the past, the movie showed rescue, usually men rescued women, that is, the so-called "hero saves the beauty". In "Lola Run", "the hero saves the beauty" becomes "the beauty saves the'hero'". This is an important point of the film. It clearly shows us: Times have changed, and the positions of traditional male and female roles in society have undergone fundamental changes.
In fact, "Lola Run" shows more than just "beauties save'heroes'", but women are saving the world. In the same 20 minutes, the woman (Lola) is moving, the woman is running, and the woman is running, but the man (Manny) is quiet, and the man makes endless calls in the phone booth, borrowing pitifully everywhere. money. The world has entered today, men cannot change everything, men can only wait for the doom to come. On the contrary, women are doing their best to constantly and unyieldingly fight against fate. Women are trying to change everything, and women have even reversed "time and space" several times.
It should be said that the misplacement and change of the male and female protagonists' behavior towards fate in "Run Lola Run" reflects the tremendous changes in the positions of men and women in the world as the world has developed to today.
2. Regarding the truth. In
"Lola Run", there are three processes and three results for Lola to rescue Manny.
First run: Lola did not borrow money, Lola and Manny rob the supermarket, Lola was killed by the police.
The second run: Lola shot money in the bank. Manny was hit and killed by an ambulance.
The third run: Laura wins at the casino and Manny retrieves the lost money. Laura and Manny became rich.
For human beings who only live in the "present ongoing tense", the three processes and the three results are impossible and "unreal". However, the film is not showing the truth of the event. In other words, the producer does not bother to show the reality of certain specific events and specific characters as usual movies.
The director is actually ambitious. He is not showing the "little reality" of a specific event. The protagonist of the film is our entire class. What he wants to express is the overall feelings of the entire mankind in the current world, and he wants to express the "great reality" of human beings facing the unpredictable world of today's dazed and uncontrollable mentality.
Regardless of whether the event itself occurs or not, it expresses the common feelings of human beings, and expresses "reality" through deformation and distortion. This is a higher level of "reality" and a higher realm of artistic creation.
3. The theme of the
film The superficial theme of the film is to write about love. Laura ran desperately to rescue her lover.
The deep theme of the film is to write about the unknowability of the world, and the helplessness and despair of mankind towards the world.
4. The exploration movie
"Lola Run" is an exploration movie.
At the beginning of the film there is the following subtitle:
"We will not give up exploration. The end of exploration will be its starting point. Let us re-recognize exploration."
——Aitliu
("After the game is before the game.")
"After the game." That is before the game."
—S·Horberg
"Lola Run" is an exploratory movie. However, unlike many explorer movies with poor visibility, "Lola Run" is very "good-looking". It is a "good-looking" (highly visible) exploration movie. This requires our attention and research.
I think: "Lola Run" is "good-looking" mainly due to the following points:
①, the theme of
love Love is always a panacea for the movie to attract audiences. (Discussed later)
② Rolla and the computer game
Rolla is the most famous computer game character in the world. The movie "Lola Run" is a computer game for Lola to break through.
③. Fast-paced The pace of
our lives today is fast-paced. Art is a reflection of life. The fast pace of the film is in sync with the fast pace of people's lives today.
④. Theme resonance
The deep theme of the film "Unable to grasp the destiny and the world" has aroused strong resonance among people. (Discussed later)
⑤. Brand-new art form
In "Run Lola Run", the application of a large number of brand-new movie techniques (computer means) is dizzying. The life of art lies in innovation. The film’s novel art forms and expression techniques make the audience feel unusually fresh and excited. Especially like to stimulate "a visual
behalf."
(4) Film interpretation:
1. Characters:
Laura, Manny, father, mother, Uncle Meyer, tramp, woman pushing cart, boy stealing car, female staff, guard, blind woman:
2. Structure:
plate式结构。 Type structure.
The block structure is the modern drama structure in the movie drama structure, and it is an "unconventional drama structure" that is different from the "conventional drama structure" of ordinary movies
.
Full film time: 75 minutes.
Start: 1 point-10 points.
The first run: 10 points-30 points.
Second run: 33 points-53 points.
First run: 55 points-75 points.
The structure of the film shows:
at the beginning (10 points) Manny lost money.
Run for the first time (20 points. Normal) The supermarket grabs money. Lola died.
Underworld (3 points)
second run (20 points. Delayed) bank grab money. Manny died.
Underworld (2 points)
runs for the third time (20 points. Early) Casino wins. Become rich.
3. Paragraph reading:
beginning: (1 point-10 points).
It is divided into three parts:
1. Introduction: (2 minutes).
Subtitles: The text clearly indicates: This film is a game, an exploratory film.
After subtitles, the camera moves to the clock, and then enters the space-time tunnel from the clock.
Entering the space-time tunnel:
How to enter the space-time tunnel:
① The props of the clock:
First of all, the clock is a sign of time.
Second, the maker made the clock a little monster with sharp teeth. It not only expresses the ruthless years, but also the devouring of human life by time; it also reflects the producer's pursuit of visual stimulation, the pursuit of lively and "fun" "game mentality".
②. Push forward and raise the lens.
The lens gradually moved closer to the pendulum of the clock, and finally it was the special feature of the pendulum of the clock.
Then, the lens rises along the metal rod on which the watch hangs, and first rises to the dial of the watch. At this time, the hands of the watch rotate rapidly at an abnormal speed. The rapid rotation of the hands shows the non-objectivity of the film's time and the non-documentary nature of the film.
The lens continues to rise from the clock dial, and finally rises to the little monster above the dial. The mob opened its mouth for the first time, revealing its fangs. The camera was pushed in from the little monster's mouth. The image is completely black and enters the space-time tunnel.
Inside the space-time tunnel:
how to express the scene in the space-time tunnel:
① Crossroads.
The location is chosen at the crossroads, which is mainly the symbolic meaning of the crossroads.
② Many people.
In the lens, a large number of people are suppressed, showing the population expansion and the purposelessness of people.
③ Degradation (fast shot):
Degradation causes many people to surging mechanically like puppets. People walk in a hurry, like the hurried passers-by in the world. People are expressionless, like lifeless "walking corpses."
In short, the space-time tunnel here shows the chaos of the world in the eyes of the producer, the aimlessness of human beings, and the ridiculous absurdity of the whole life.
Amidst the surging crowd at the crossroads, several minor characters in the film appeared one after another: female staff, woman pushing cart, boy stealing car, Uncle Meyer... Speculative narration: "Who are we? Where are we? To? What is the person?"
Bank guard: The
camera speed gradually normalized, and the camera finally stopped on the bank guard. Although the bank guard does not appear in the movie for much time, he is a bystander to the entire movie, and he supervises the entire "game" (movie). The bank guard kicked a football, (interesting), and announced the start of the game (movie). The football rises high, and pedestrians hurrying at the intersection below form the title and subtitles of the film (computer-completed words). The football falls, and the football falls into the time and space tunnel created by the animation.
2. Title: (Animation, 2 minutes).
In the fast-paced music, the animated Lola (red hair, blue top, green pants) runs through the space-time tunnel full of teeth. The rhythm and speed continue to increase, the teeth begin to rotate, and the rollers begin to rotate. The teeth and Lola turned faster and faster. In the end, Lola was swallowed by the time tunnel. Subtitles for the names of the main creators have been released one after another.
3. The story begins:
Continuing the rapid landing of the football in front, the camera falls into a city, into a building, and into a room-Lola's room. The phone rang quickly in Laura's room, and the real Laura (not the animated Laura) rushed into her room.
Quick shot:
Laura answers the phone in the room. The next shot is the street. The shot is like a flying bullet, swiftly pushing toward the phone booth on the street. Manny called in the phone booth. The speed of the camera is amazing. The speed of the lens is the speed of Lola's thoughts.
Partial Hue:
Here, the red-haired Roller holds the red telephone handset in her hand. On the other side of the phone, Manny stood in the street phone booth making a call. Manny in the black shirt held the black microphone in his hand. He cried and told Laura: He lost his money, and it was a tramp who picked up the money.
The happiness of the tramp:
This passage uses a set of quick jump cuts to express the joy and behavior of the tramp Manny imagined after he picked up 100,000 marks: freeze frame jump cut: the plane lifts off and the train speeds. The Statue of Liberty in New York, the Eiffel Tower in Paris, the blue sea, white beaches, green palm trees, delicious food, and fat women with voluptuous sensuality...
This is a set of TV commercials and MTV commonly used viewers. It is almost impossible to see the freeze-frame jump cut of the subject clearly. Let the audience see clearly the subject and content of the shot, which is one of the "iron laws" that regular movies must follow. Here, Tom Tykway did not fail to achieve, or failed to complete this "iron law". On the contrary, Tom Tykway did not want the audience to see the subject clearly. The film just gives the audience a general state and feelings. It reflects the difference in film production concepts between Tom Tykway and regular filmmakers.
Hush:
When Manny was crying, Laura made a soft "hush—" to Manny on the phone like a mother coaxed a baby. (Feminism)
yelled for the first time:
Manny told Laura: If you don't pay the money within 20 minutes, you will die. Manny begged Laura to save herself, and Manny even ridiculed Laura: "You said that love can solve everything." Laura asked Manny to wait for herself. Laura "yelled for the first time." When Lola yelled, Lola's shout shook the sky, and at the same time, the glassware in the house shattered. The sound and image express the power and magic of Rolla. After Lola yelled, the camera was silent, and a tortoise was crawling slowly. Use silence and slowness to set off the violent yelling in front of him.
Hue:
The color tones in this paragraph are divided into two parts : color film and black and white film. The color film shows reality, and the black and white film shows Manny's memory of losing money. The alternate appearance of color films and black and white films is mainly for clear narrative and to distinguish between memories and reality for the audience.
The first run: (10 points-30 points).
1. Laura's room: Laura searches for the borrower in her mind:
Thoughts turn into concrete images:
First, an animated character opens the door of memory (Edit: stroke). Then, Lola's body began to rotate, and while rotating, the photos of Lola's relatives and friends were constantly frozen. The speed of the photo jumps from fast to slow, and the characters on the photo go from chaotic to clear. It shows the process of people's thoughts from being confusing and confusing to being clear and concentrated. At the same time, the rotation speed of Laura's body also changed from fast to slow. The photo finally stopped at the father. The freeze frame changed to a normal speed, and his father shook his head, indicating that Laura's process of asking for money was difficult.
2. Mother's room: Mother is talking on the phone while watching TV.
3. Stairs: Lola goes downstairs, the dog barks, and the evil man does not trip Lola (animation).
Transition:
Mother's room to the stairs. From the cartoon played on the TV in the mother's room, it turns to the next scene staircase. The content of the cartoon is what happens in the next scene: Lola goes downstairs. The transition is coherent and interesting.
Time decision point:
This paragraph is the key point of the film's narrative time clues. The speed of the moment Laura goes downstairs determines the changes in everything that follows. The first time Laura went downstairs, the time was basically normal.
4. Street: Lola collided with the woman in the cart.
Time Tunnel: The child stolen by the woman is confiscated. The woman stole the child again. (Frozen frame jump cut).
The performance of the time tunnel:
A. The jumping of scenes and characters. B. Fast switching on the clip.
It expresses the instability, unclearness, and specious state of the space-time tunnel.
5. Bank: Laura's father is with his lover. The lover wants to marry Laura's father.
6. Street: The boy who steals the car sells bicycles to Laura. (Lola passes through the black nun).
Time tunnel: The boy was caught and beaten. The boy met the female nurse in the hospital and got married. (Frozen frame jump cut).
7. Street: Lola ran past Uncle Meyer's black car. The black car did not hit Lola. The black car collided with the front of the white car.
8. Phone booth: Manny called around in the phone booth to borrow money for help. The blind woman (black hat, black glasses) left.
9. Street: Lola ran past the tramp.
10. Bank: Father is with lover. The lover told his father: I am pregnant with a child. Laura came to the bank to borrow money from her father. Father did not borrow the money, Lola "yelled for the second time" (the voice was violent, the glass dial exploded.)
Time Tunnel: A female bank employee was disabled in a car accident and then committed suicide. (Freeze frame jump cut)
11. Street: The old lady tells Laura the time. The old lady came to remind the time. She is a time sign.
12. Crossroads: the red emergency vehicle braked, and the emergency vehicle did not hit the glass.
13. Outside the supermarket: Laura arrived one second late.
Two shots:
The two shots in the film are intriguing.
Shot 1:
Three small frames in the picture:
Manny, Rolla
Clock
(The composition is interesting, and the content that will take three times to be expressed separately will be expressed at the same time in one time, which speeds up the rhythm of the film.)
Shot 2:
Two small frames in the picture:
(This is a pair of reverse shots. In this pair of reverse shots, there are two characters, Laura and Manny, in each frame. The lens is novel and peculiar. This kind of situation where two identical characters appear on the image at the same time is really rare in the movie. The direct consequence of this approach is that when the audience is watching the film, they will be ignorant of the confusion due to the narrative of the film. It shows the boldness and "unruly and unconstrained" of the producer in the production technique.)
14, in the supermarket : Manny enters the supermarket to grab money. Lola took the security gun, and Lola shot for the first time.
15. Street: Lola runs away. Write the "Joy of Victory" after Lola took the money with the silent singing and the girl's lyrical singing. The police's gun went off, and Lola was shot dead (upgraded, silent), expressing great sorrow with promotion and silent.
Underworld: (3 minutes, red)
Entering the underworld:
① The camera moves from the middle shot of Lola's face to the close-up of Lola's eyes.
② The color changes from normal color to pure red.
The performance of the underworld:
① Laura and Manny are naked. This is how the two were born.
②, simple red light, (the color of amniotic fluid in the uterus).
③ The lighting of yin and yang: the red light comes from the left and right directions (hard light). The light makes the faces of the two people clear the yin and yang. ("Yin-Yang Face")
In the first underworld, before Laura leaves the world, what she finally wants to prove and ask is:-love. Laura asks Manny if he loves herself? After getting an affirmative answer, Laura was unwilling to die, she was determined to turn back the clock.
Out of the underworld:
①, the camera is pulled out from the close-up of Laura's eyes.
② The color gradually changes from pure red to normal color.
Back in time:
① Connect the lens:
A. Action connection: The action connection of the same object landing, the current red wallet landing on the street is connected to the landing of the red telephone microphone in the Rolla room 20 minutes ago.
B. Color connection: the same color connection. The red wallet is connected to the red telephone microphone.
② Frequent skipping and cutting: The red purse and red telephone handset frequently skipping and cutting.
③, upgrade. The shots at both locations are upgraded shots.
To be continued... The
second run: (33 points-53 points).
1. Laura's room: The red telephone handset drops (normal speed). Laura started running again.
2. Mother's room: Mother is talking on the phone and talking with others (the content of the conversation remains unchanged).
3. Stairs: Lola goes downstairs, the dog barks, the villain trips Lola, (animation). Transitions. Time determines the point: the time for Laura to run is delayed from this moment.
4. Street: Lola collided with the woman in the cart.
Time Tunnel: A woman wins the lottery and becomes a rich man. The front page of the newspaper: a group photo of the woman's family with the villa and the "Da Ben". (Frozen frame jump cut). Laura was a few seconds behind the woman who hit the cart last time. As a result, just a few seconds later, the number of the lottery ticket bought by the woman happened to hit the jackpot.
5. Street: The boy who steals the car sells bicycles to Laura. (Lola passes through the black nun).
Time Tunnel: The boy was impoverished on the street in his later years. (Frozen frame jump cut).
6. Street: Lola leaped over the roof of Uncle Meyer's black car. The black car collided with the rear of the white car.
7. Street: Lola collided with a tramp.
8. Bank: Father and lover together. Laura came to the bank to borrow money from her father. Laura arrived one step later than last time, and her lover told her father that the child she was carrying might be someone else's. The father quarreled with his lover. Father did not borrow money from Laura. The bank guard joked to Lola: "Today is not your good day." Lola resolutely grabbed the gun from the guard's waist. Lola grabbed the money, and Lola shot twice.
Time tunnel: female staff and male staff have fornication. (Frozen frame jump cut).
At the female staff's home, the naked male staff put on a halter on their heads, put a bit on their mouths, and a leather case on their bodies. They were driven away like horses by the female staff. (Feminism)
Lola's insurance for firing a gun:
travel through time and space. Originally, the boundaries of the three sections and three space-times of the film were strict. The three time and space are not related to each other. Here, the director and the audience made a joke of Ma Sanli's "teasing you" style. The boundaries of time and space in the film are not absolute, and they are sometimes interlinked. This is the mystery of the film. It is consistent with the style of the entire film.
9. Street: The old lady tells Laura the time.
10. Crossroads: The red emergency vehicle smashed the glass.
11. Street outside the supermarket: Lola arrived one second early, and Lola stopped Manny, but Manny didn't grab the supermarket.
There are three small panels in the picture:
Manny, Laura
Watch
Manny was hit: in his
euphoria, Manny was hit and killed by a red ambulance. (The first run, the red emergency vehicle passes behind Manny) The same thing as the first run of Rolla's death: the film uses silence and upgrade. The difference is that the upgrade lens here is not the upgrade of Manny who was hit, but the upgrade of Rolla that was not hit (the money bag slowly falls from Rolla's hand).
According to the normal film narrative, here undoubtedly should be used to promote the shot of Manny who was hit to emphasize and render Manny's death. Here, Tom Tykway did not do this. The film adopts the upgrade of Lola, because the point of view of the film is Lola and the protagonist is Lola. For the sake of the overall picture of the film, the local rendering is sacrificed. Reflects Tom Tykway's atmosphere and maturity.
Underworld: (2 minutes, red)
Entering the underworld:
① The camera moves from the middle shot of Manny's face to the close-up of Manny's eyes.
② The color changes from normal color to pure red.
The performance of the underworld:
① Laura and Manny are naked. This is how the two were born.
②, simple red light, (the color of amniotic fluid in the uterus).
③ The lighting of yin and yang: the red light comes from the left and right directions (hard light). The light makes the faces of the two people brighten the yin and yang. ("Yin-Yang Face") In the
second underworld, he is also facing death. Before Manny leaves the world, his last question is:-After I die, will you fall in love with others?
In the same underworld, Laura and Manny are in a completely different state. The first time Lola asked Manny whether Manny loved herself. The last thing Lola wants to prove is love. The second time Manny asked Laura not about her love for herself, but about whether she would like other men after her death. After Manny died, he had to put on a blanket. To this, Lola's answer was very simple: "Don't tell me, you are not dead yet." Lola turned back time again.
Out of the underworld:
①, the camera is pulled out from the close-up of Manny's eyes.
② The color gradually changes from pure red to normal color.
Back in time:
① Connect the lens:
Action connection : Action connection when the same object falls, the current landing of an empty wallet on the street, and the landing connection of the phone microphone in Rolla's room 40 minutes ago.
② Frequent skipping cuts: wallets and telephone handsets frequently skipped cuts.
③, upgrade. The shots at both locations are upgraded shots.
The third run: (53 points-73 points).
1. Laura's Room: The red telephone handset drops (normal speed). Laura started running for the third time.
2. Mother's room: Mother is talking on the phone and talking with others (the content of the mother's conversation remains the same. In the film, the only thing that is constant is the mother's phone call, and even the amount of water in the mother's water glass has not changed).
3. Stairs: Lola went downstairs, and Lola jumped over the heads of the evil dog and the evil man. (Animation). Transitions. Time determines the point: the time for Laura to run is advanced from this moment forward.
4. Street: Lola meets the woman in the stroller (didn't hit the woman).
Time Tunnel: The woman converted to religion. (Frozen frame jump cut)
5. Street: The boy who steals the car sells bicycles to Laura. (Lola runs past the black nun).
The boy meets a tramp, and the boy sells his bicycle to the tramp. The tramp said a classic line: "Being a human is really chemistry."
6. Street: Uncle Meyer brakes. Laura crouched on the roof of the black car. The black car did not collide with the white car. Uncle Meyer didn't delay time.
7. Street: The tramp rides on the street. (Lola did not meet the tramp).
8. Outside the bank: Laura comes to the bank to borrow money from his father. Dad was called away by Uncle Meyer.
Laura comes, father goes: two frames, two sets of sounds (Lola: music; father: sound).
Laura did not meet her father. Using clips to show the departure of the car is very novel.
The bank guard said to Laura: "Baby, you are late."
9. Outside the phone booth, the blind woman pointed out the tramp riding a bicycle for Manny.
10. Street: Manny is chasing the tramp, Uncle Meyer’s black car collided with the white car. (Fate).
11. Street: Lola begged God to help herself while running (jumping the axle).
Begging God:
① Silent: The world has stopped. In the whole world, only Laura is running silently.
② Upgrade: time has been stretched. Laura ran "slowly", and the objective world had disappeared. All that is left is Lola's subjective world.
③ Monologue: While running, Lola's inner monologue: "God, I beg you. Do you want me to keep running?" God heard Lola's voice. God sent a big truck. The truck stopped Lola, and the truck made Lola see the casino.
12. Casino: Laura "yells for the third time." After Lola "yelled", Lola won over 100,000 marks with a bet of 99.2 yuan.
Acura Victory:
①, upgrade: upgrade of the rotating turntable and upgrade of the rotating ball.
② The rolling sound of the ball: all the sounds in the casino disappear, and only the soft rolling sound of the wooden ball spinning on the turntable is "bang, boom".
③, close-up: close-up of the ball. Use close-ups to exaggerate and render the ball.
④ Movement: The moving camera following the shift rolls forward with the rotating ball. At this moment, Laura's heart and our heart are also moving forward with the ball. The ball finally stopped at the number "20" Laura bet. Lola finally won more than 100,000 marks. The whole world seemed to have frozen, and everyone in the casino stared at Laura.
13. Street: Manny catches up with the tramp. Manny took out the gun and shouted: "Gun!" The tramp immediately "slopped" and returned the 100,000 marks he had picked up. At this time, the homeless man once again fulfilled the line he had just said: "Being a human is really chemistry."
14. Crossroads: The red emergency car braked and did not hit the glass.
Lola got into the car, and Lola rescued the patient who was about to die.
15. Street outside the supermarket: Laura and Manny meet. Manny has paid back the money.
Manny walks with Laura. Manny saw the money bag in Laura's hand, and he asked Laura, "What's in the bag?" When the music started, Laura smiled slightly.
(5). Summary
1. Structural
plate structure.
The structure of the film shows:
at the beginning (10 points) Manny lost money.
Run for the first time (20 points. Normal) The supermarket grabs money. Lola died.
Underworld (3 points)
second run (20 points. Delayed) bank grab money. Manny died.
Underworld (2 points)
runs for the third time (20 points. Early) Casino wins. Become rich.
Through the interpretation of the previous film, we can summarize the following characteristics:
① Section structure:
The structure of the film is obviously three major parts. The narratives of the three big blocks are independent of each other. The three big blocks have no narrative connection. It is not the narrative that connects the three big pieces into one, but the idea of the whole film and the theme of the work. This is a typical plate structure.
② The movie time is consistent with the actual time: In the
movie, Laura runs three times, and the length of the movie time for each run of these three runs is basically the same as the actual time in reality, both are 20 minutes. This is really rare in previous movies.
③. Underworld processing:
Use the underworld to transform in the middle of the three runs. In a film with a block structure, because of the narrative independence of each paragraph, this brings difficulties in the cohesion of paragraphs. The two underworld treatments in the middle of the three runs in "Lola Run" make the three paragraphs flow naturally.
In addition, in the underworld, Laura and Manny lie naked together, and the director envelops them with red tones. Some people say that this is a scene from Tom Tykway ridiculing the Swedish film event Ingmar Bergman's film "Shouts and Whispers". I think this view is quite far-fetched.
Second, the characters
1. The change and the same of the characters:
There are three runs in the film. In the three runs, the characters involved, whether in the "reality" or in the space-time tunnel, have changed: Laura, Manny, Father, Meyer Uncles, tramps, women pushing carts, boys stealing cars, female staff, bank guards. The changes of many characters express the theme of the film and the ever-changing and unpredictable world. In the three runs, only one character remained unchanged. She was the first person she met after Lola started running: Lola's mother. After the mother, even the evil man and the dog on the stairs have changed. how so? The mother's appearance is at the beginning of each run of Laura, and the mother's constant is to provide the audience with an objective and true narrative reference and coordinates. The mother’s invariance is precisely to show the subsequent changes, just like when we count from "0" to the back, the first number we count is "1" instead of "2", and then from "1" to the next. After that, it is "3, 5, 8, 9, 12, 15..." The changes we often say are relatively unchanged. Therefore, since we want to write about changes, we have to make the audience aware of the changes.
2. Men and women:
We talked about feminism earlier. Indeed, by watching the film, we will find that in the sequence of the characters in the film, the men are so ridiculous, even pitiful.
Man: Manny, we said before. Laura's father is even more useless, afraid of his wife at home and his lover at the company. When Laura used a gun to force him to withdraw money, his father was like a puff. The tramp was originally like a man. However, in the end, when Manny pointed the gun at him, he was "sloppy" immediately and returned the 100,000 marks with his hands that he had never gotten in a thousand years. In the tunnel of time and space, the male clerk was actually driven by a woman with a bridle on his head, a chew on his mouth, and a leather case on his body. The image of a dignified man has been so bad. The opposite of the male image is the female image.
Woman: Mother doesn't go to work during the day and talks on the phone. In the evening, my father went home and bullied his father. The stroller woman keeps stealing the child, and she steals again and again. The female bank staff drove the male staff away as horses. Not to mention the woman with bright eyes, it is the woman without eyes—the blind woman outside the phone booth, like a god, pointed out the tramp to the man with eyes (Manny). Finally, Manny's life was saved. As for the greatness of Rolla, many analyses have already been done. Laura is not only a "strong woman", Laura is also a magical girl. Rolla can reverse time and space. Laura can see the past and future of others in the space-time tunnel. In the casino, Laura yelled for the third time, winning more than 100,000 yuan with 99.2 yuan. Also, in the third run, in the ambulance, the first responder, the strong man sweating profusely, gave a dying patient artificial respiration. However, the patient went to death step by step. However, at this moment, Laura's hand was placed on the patient's hand... so a miracle happened again.
Women are so miraculous, and women are so powerful. The changes of the times, the changes in the status of men and women have turned upside down.
3. Film audiovisual processing
The theme of the film is conceptualized, showing people's uncontrollable feelings about the world today.
How to better express this theme and feelings, the director's processing is mainly as follows:
1. Editing:
①. The fast pace of editing.
The editing style of the film is generally fast-paced. The editing of many passages in the film, such as the time tunnel, etc., even adopts the editing style of TV commercials and MTV that makes it almost impossible to distinguish the subject.
A. The fast-paced editing shows the fast-paced, dynamic and chaotic sense of the world today.
B. This fast-paced editing style meets the requirements of the "audiovisual generation" in pursuit of exciting audiovisual enjoyment.
C. The fast pace of editing is also time to compress film performance. Each run of Lola must be completed within 20 minutes.
② Multiple editing skills.
The editing techniques of "Run Laura Run" are complicated and renovated. The multiple techniques of editing express the richness of today's consumer world. The colorful editing shows the colorful world. At the same time, the multiple techniques of editing greatly enhance the "excitement" of the film. Make the film more novel and beautiful.
③. Editing disrupts the normal axis relationship.
The editing of the film sometimes disrupts the normal axis relationship. This aspect shows the absurdity of the world and the theme of the film. At the same time, the disruption of this axis relationship reflects the subjectivity and non-documentary style of the work. In the film, the producer does not "reproduce" specific people and things in life, but "shows" the thoughts, subjective feelings and mental states of people who are invisible and intangible.
2. The
video of the whole movie is mainly based on dynamic shots.
① Camera movement:
Use the follow-up camera to express and disturb the running process of Rolla. The producer has arranged for Rolla to run under the bridge and in the tunnel many times. The foreground of the lens is a concrete pillar, and the depth of field is a roller. The living roller is running in the lifeless reinforced concrete city.
② The lens is unstable.
Many of the shots in the film were shot with non-brackets. Intentionally cause instability and shaking of the image. This is mainly to reflect the physical visual experience of Rolla after running.
③ Unconventional movement of the lens: In the
film, some lens movements are taken unconventionally. Used to express Laura's special abilities and her ability to travel through time and space.
Of course, the camera movement and lens instability in the film not only show Rolla's running and Rolla's feelings, but at the same time, it shows the dynamics of the world and the theme of the film.
3.
Sound①, subjective sound is the main theme
The core of the film sound program is subjective sound, that is, the film uses subjective music throughout. In the film, there are very few real sounds in the objective environment. This is consistent with the non-documentary style of the film.
Through the sound processing of "Lola Run", we can not only see Tom Tykway's love and obsession with modern music. At the same time, we should pay more attention to this: Tom Tykway does not seem to believe in the authenticity of the world that our human organs hear and see. The producer believes more in the subjective reality he feels in his heart. He tried to express this subjective, higher-level reality with his subjective voice.
What is a movie? Tom Tykway said: "Images plus music, this is a movie."
② Fast-paced music is
accompanied by Laura's running, and the film runs through with fast-paced music. Music not only enhances the atmosphere, but also speeds up the rhythm. Some of the music in the film is trendy music that is popular nowadays. The trendy music brings freshness and excitement to the audience.
③, the lyrical singing of girls.
When Laura gets the money to run, the film uses a female lyrical singing. The singing not only expresses Lola's joyful mood at this moment, but at the same time, the singing also strongly contrasts the great sorrow of Lola's death in the back.
4. Composition
There are many irregular compositions in the film. Irregular composition expresses the sense of fragmentation of the world.
5. In the angle
film, many upside-down shots are used to shoot Laura running, expressing praise for Laura.
6. Color:
Three colors are highlighted in the film: red, black, and white.
Red is a dazzling color, the color of love, the color of romance, and the color of Rolla.
Black and white are dull colors, the colors of the world, and the colors of men.
Black and white:
Manny's top (black) Manny's phone (black).
Father’s clothing (black and white)
Father’s lover’s clothing (black and white)
Mother’s clothing (white)
Nun’s clothing (black)
Bank guard’s clothing (black)
The wall clock (black and white) outside the supermarket, the
blind woman's glasses, and the hat (black).
In short, everyone outside of Rolla lives in a bleak, boring black and white world.
Contrary to everyone's black and white, the producer gave Rolla a bright and dazzling red.
Bright, dazzling red runs through the film.
Red:
Lola's hair: the color of the street background when
Lola's red phone is
running.
Among the various colors, red is the color that stimulates the human visual organs the most. At the same time, red is the color of blood, and red represents emotion and love. The use of red in the film is first reflected in the protagonist Lola.
In order to emphasize and praise Laura, the producer of the film, in order to highlight his beloved protagonist Laura from the many characters in the film, the use of red in the film has reached the extreme.
The producers of the film obviously felt that the red costumes and red props were not enough to express Laura. Therefore, they dyed Lola's hair red, the most eye-catching and prominent part of Lola.
Therefore, the red-haired Laura, for the sake of love, runs in the chaotic streets of the reinforced concrete city, among yellow, white, and black hairs.
Laura's red hair is like a red torch held high in the hands of an Olympic athlete. What burns in the torch is Laura's fiery love. At the same time, red also represents anxiety and crisis. The red phone, the red of the street in the background when Laura was running, the red clothes of the boy stealing the car, the red emergency car that broke the glass and killed Manny, the red clothes of the lifeguard on the emergency car, and so on. A series of reds express the sense of instability and crisis in the world.
4. Others
1. Shouting In
"Lola Run", Lola once "yelled" three times. Three times, the sound was harsh and harsh, and all produced magical effects. The glassware in the environment burst.
If it is said that in the underworld, Laura and Manny are lying naked in the red light, and it is Tom Tykway who pays tribute to the Swedish film master Ingmar Bergman. "It is obviously derived from the classic "scream" of the protagonist Oscar in the film "Tin Drum" by German film master Schrondorf. Oscar's "scream" is a helpless and weak child fighting against the hypocritical and ugly adult society and fascist clowns. Here, Lola's "yelling" is to reverse her own destiny that seems to have been arranged by the heavens. Oscar's "scream" and Laura's "scream" are in the same line from expression to spiritual connotation.
"Screaming" is a kind of resistance, a kind of resistance to the real world. "Screaming" is a kind of helplessness. It is a magical, romantic and beautiful wish and imagination of people that cannot be realized in reality.
2. In the gun
movie, the metaphorical meaning of the male gender of the gun is no longer exhausted. The gun is a symbol of male sexual organs and a symbol of male gender roles. In modern western rock bands, the name of many boy bands is "Gun". Such as the famous "Gun and Rose". In traditional movies, guns often represent male courage, fearlessness, and male dominance and aggressiveness. We will never forget those American western cowboys wearing cowboy hats, wearing jeans, and holding a gun in their hands.
However, time is up to today, and the same gun is in the hands of Manny, supermarket guards, and bank guards. It is just a tool for men to use it to frighten people bluffingly. On the contrary, Laura, a woman, swiftly dropped the man's lifeblood-the "gun" from the man's waist (the bank guard) so neatly. Then, Laura shot cleanly.
In the film, Lola has shot three times. But the men (supermarket guards, bank guards, Lola's father) just stared in amazement. In the end, Laura threw the gun to the ground like a toy she was tired of.
We talked about feminism above. Indeed, men in modern society have become embarrassing. It should be said that the decline in the status of men is not in women, but in men themselves. After matrilineal society, men really shouldn’t pretend to be a strong and upright image.
From a physiological point of view: male is an extremely vulnerable sex. The mortality rate of male infants is much higher than that of female infants. Women work all their lives and give birth to offspring. Life expectancy should not be as good as that of men. However, on the contrary, the average life expectancy of women is much higher than that of men. According to medical science statistics: because of the comfort of living conditions and the deterioration of natural conditions caused by environmental pollution, the degree of degeneration of male species has greatly exceeded that of females. For example, at the end of this century, the sperm count of adult men was 40% less than that of adult men at the beginning of this century. The degree of reduction exceeds the degree of sperm reduction in men from primitive people to the beginning of this century. Therefore, some scientists have pointed out that if mankind perishes one day, the cause of mankind’s extinction is not the atomic bomb, nor the invasion of aliens. The reason for the demise of mankind is the reduction and reduction of the quality of male sperm, so that human beings will not be able to reproduce offspring in the future. The crisis of the panda species is mainly that the fertility of male giant pandas has almost been lost. Scientists pointed out: The future continuation of human beings may be women solving problems by themselves, cloning technology, and asexual reproduction.
3. "20-Minute Rescue"
We know that from the perspective of film play: a film attracts the audience and relies on the strict layout of the film structure. This is the so-called structural transition, and the plot line setting and plot point series of the film.
"Lola Run" does not have the strict layout of the conventional feature film, or it has lost all the advantages of the conventional film drama layout. This will greatly affect people's interest in viewing.
However, the film is very good-looking and has achieved an unexpected commercial success. What's the reason?
In my opinion, it is useless to analyze the commercial success of "Lola Run" from the conventional play method. Although there is no so-called structural transition, plot line setting, and plot point series of the film in the drama, the producer is playing with a magic stone.
Magic stone is magic stone, and its effect is magical and unreasonable.
This magic stone is "20 Minute Rescue".
Laura's time is only 20 minutes, and one second late is death.
The audience held their breath, and watched Laura's every minute with horror. Everyone is praying silently: pray that Lola can arrive at the last minute.
"20 Minutes Rescue" is like a magical magic stone, firmly grasping the nerves of the audience. This is the core of the whole film. It has replaced the strict layout of the play,
so it is said that the play (conventional) is the summary of experience. However, it is not the only way for the commercial success of the film.
4. In
front of the theme of love, we pointed out the "20-minute rescue". But why did Lola rescue, why did Lola grab money, why did Lola gamble, why did Lola run? In short, whether these behaviors of Laura can resonate with people.
Therefore, in connection with the "20 Minutes Rescue", the love theme of the film is another important factor that attracts audiences in "Lola Run".
Lola does not run for herself, Lola does not run for selfish desire, Lola does not run for money. Laura ran desperately to save her lover. Lola is running for others, Lola is running for love. No wonder many girls shed tears at Lola's running while watching "Lola Run".
The theme of love is always a panacea for movies to attract audiences.
5. "Lola Run" and "Night Sea Journey"
Humans always want to conquer the world, and humans always want to master the world. Mankind always wants to be the master of the world someday.
However, what is puzzling is that the more advanced the technology, the more people feel that the world is unknowable, and the more they feel that the world and destiny are uncontrollable. Just like Laura's running, 1 second early and 1 second late, the results will be so different.
In the dark, there is a hand that can manipulate everything about us so easily.
Today, despite the plastic artificial heart beating in our chest, despite the space shuttle flying in the universe. However, facing the world and destiny, mankind feels more vulnerable, more helpless and hopeless.
In his novel "Journey to the Night Sea", the American writer John Bass describes the process of a sperm traveling in the vast night sea (womb). When the sperm was moving forward, suddenly, the sperm stopped. The sperm began to think: Where do I come from, where do I go? Why am I going? Later, Sperm figured it out: I am only half a life now. My last brilliance is to combine with the egg so that we can become a whole life. After the sperm thought of this, the sperm thought that they could become a complete life in the future, the sperm began to go on the road happily.
As we walked, suddenly, the sperm stopped again. The sperm thought of the final result. The sperm thought: 300 million sperm are swimming towards the egg at this moment, and in the end, only one sperm can combine with the egg, that is to say: The probability of the final combination with the egg is only one in 300 million.
The sperm suddenly felt utterly cold.
The little sperm in "Journey to the Night Sea" feels like we are alone in the world. We are so tiny and so hopeless.
As a person, the process of life is a process of running. Each of us is like that little sperm rushing to the other side of success. However, the final success, the probability that we will eventually combine with the egg to become a new life is one in 300 million. Lola got 100,000 marks in 20 minutes, and the money delivered may also be one part of 300 million. Faced with this one part of 300 million, Laura's choice was to "run", to dye her hair like a burning red flame. She ran in the steel and cement city, running desperately.
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