Low-key value enhancement

"Michael Clayton": A director who is a low-key and value-enhancing screenwriter is generally more particular about stories and characters, unlike directors who have a background in photography or special effects, who always want to play tricks on the screen. Therefore, I always feel that directors who are screenwriters are more stable and capable. After watching this film, I think Tony Gilroy (Tony Gilroy) belongs to this type. Highlight the compactness of the story and highlight the low-key charm of the characters. These two outstanding ones are the style of his own works. As a Hollywood screenwriter, in fact, it is the same as the growth of various talents: at the beginning they are helping people to work, and then they are gradually able to create their own style, and then write and guide the best. As for the story itself, in fact, "Michael Clayton" (Michael Clayton) is the same as "The Bourne Series" (The Bourne Series). The basic framework is also quite simple. Shady". There is nothing to say about the shady law. It is basically a "left-leaning" Hollywood assumption: the profession of lawyers, at least the super-large law firms, are dark hotbeds and shelters for evil. It's just that Hollywood also pays attention to keeping up with the times. Since environmental problems have been hot in recent years, let the agricultural biochemical products companies that damage the environment and endanger health play the devil. The film's revealing of the "shadow", both in content and in the process of revealing, are relatively general and nothing particularly shocking. It's just the tactics used by the choreographer. In fact, according to the process and results, it may be better to use "funny mystery", but because the word has now become a derogatory meaning, and the mystery in "Mike Clayton" is more comfortable to play with. The mystery of the film, to a large extent, also uses the unfamiliarity of ordinary audiences with legal affairs, which makes people feel very mysterious. The protagonist played by George Clooney is not a defense lawyer in the traditional sense. He is not standing in court and squandering saliva, but is responsible for all the "unconventional" operations before the state-of-the-art paperwork; So, he is a doer who builds legal loopholes; for clients, he is a "Huang Daxian" who can turn black incidents into white areas through gray operations. In short, he is a god of freedom who wanders in the middle ground of the law, quite a bit of the Merrow pattern in The Matrix.

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