Starting with a B-grade film
The story takes place in New York in 1941. The protagonist Patton is a playwright. After a work was well received in his hometown, he was recommended to a B-level film studio in Hollywood for script creation. Let’s first explain what has been mentioned in the movie. What B-movies meant in Hollywood in the 1940s.
In the 1930s, the Great Depression broke out in the United States, and in the face of the economic depression, Hollywood began to implement a "two-film system" to ensure box office and revenue. The so-called "dual-film system" means "one A and one B, with no loss of profit". While releasing a high-cost and refined A-grade film, a low-cost, crudely-produced B-grade film is "bonded". , in order to reduce the investment risk of A-grade films. One ticket can watch one low-cost movie and one feature film. The low-cost movie that is shown before the feature movie is called a B-level movie. The duration is shorter than the feature movie (about 70 minutes), and the cost is only 10% of the regular movie. For one, the quality is not guaranteed . The plot is formulaic, the characters are labelled, and the production style is short and flat. In this way, B-level films have entered the stage of world cinema.
It's not easy to understand this movie. I found two keys, one is the character's name metaphor, and the other is the Bible that was in Patton's desk.
name and destiny
Barton Fink (male protagonist): Barton is a man who lives in a barley field, and Fink is a scumbag.
charlie (chubby): strong, upright, honest, impermanent, Meadows meadow, pasture.
W·P mayhew: P stands for phony (fake) Mayhew.
Taylor (Secretary): Tailor, tailor, represents the writer of plagiarism collage.
Jack Lipnick, Mr. lip is so small, so tight that Barton is about to suffocate.
Dream and Reality from the King's Dream
Barton had just checked into the hotel. There was a hotel post-it note in the room with a day or a lifetime written on it. There was a Jewish Bible in his drawer. The content of this section of the king's dream in the book of Daniel , the king's dream is about the king Nebuchadnezzar had a dream and asked the people around him to explain it, but the king forgot what he dreamed, and he saw nothing. If people can talk to them, they will say to them irritably, "It takes a thousand days to support me. Today you see my old nun feeling uncomfortable. Why don't you use your skills? I tell you, if you can't use my dreams and The interpretation of the dream told me that I would separate your hands and feet from you, and then set fire to your house. It is also the embodiment of the interweaving of dreams and reality, which is like Charlie who loves to dismember and aggravate fire. I think Charlie may be a fictional character from Patton who exists within him and represents a subconscious confrontation with reality.
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The story in reality may be very simple. A popular playwright was persuaded by the people around him that he should go to Hollywood to make a fortune while he was still hot. After he went, he saw that the writer he admired used to be a secretary to write ghostwriting, and he saw more drama than an actor. The savage producer and boss, seeing the undignified employees at the helm, and being knocked down by simple-minded soldiers at the dance, all gave him a great thrill.
So in his imaginary world, or in his dreams, he deformed reality and created the strong little people he was used to creating to fight against . Charlie packed up the writer and writer secretary he looked down on, and killed the writer who wanted to The police who came to catch them, in the fantasy, the boss showed great respect to the creator and would kneel down to lick his shoes, and finally the fictional character developed dissatisfaction and resistance to himself, and Charlie said "Look at it. This shabby place, you're just a passerby with a typewriter. Patton, I live here, do you understand? You broke into my house. Instead, you complained that I was too loud", indicating that Barton himself realized that during this time, as a recorder, he was engulfed in the noise and forgot his mission, and he began to despise himself.
The Coen Brothers' Warning to Himself and All Creators
In the scene of the film's successful curtain call, Patton faced the spotlight, the admiring eyes of the audience and the actors, and applauded warmly, like a panicked boat. He was pushed to Hollywood by this heat wave of applause, but the streams in the great desert will eventually dry up in the harsh evaporation to death, and his boat has no way to go. Mosquitoes can only be found in dry places, and places with serious routines that are not creative and beautiful are full of mosquitoes. Mosquitoes are mini-vampires, symbolizing the creativity that is sucked up a little at a fast pace.
The Coen brothers spoke of the creator's situation through Barton, "You know, Charlie, I actually envy you, you're so busy all day... You know what to do, you know what people want you to do. And my job, says In a big word, it is to probe the depths, to dig out some inner things, some real things. I should tell you that there is no ready-made map for you to find a ready-made path in spiritual life. Go to the realm of spiritual life. Exploring can be a pain. It’s a pain that most people don’t even know about.”
For Patton and all creators, avoid getting yourself into that situation and go back to the fishmongers in the market, as he said to a friend in a bar before going to Hollywood, "No, Garende, you don't get it yet. I don't want this kind of success, I don't want unanimous praise from the critics, and it's enough for a show boss like Derek to make enough money. No, I want real success, the one we've always dreamed of To succeed is to create a novel and vivid drama that depicts, serves, and belongs to the common people! If I go to Hollywood, of course I will make money, I will make an appearance at the party, and I will meet some big people, but this It will be the root of my success, out of touch with those ordinary people."
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