In order to write the script for May 30, I have recently attacked some courtroom films, street demonstrations and conflicts that can be used for reference.
Director Liang Shan recommended "Assassination Stronghold", and after watching it, I got some small gains.
As a genre film, the content of the story is actually nothing new: at the anti-terrorist rally, the terrorist organization first shot and killed the substitute president, created a big explosion to attract the attention of the police, and then kidnapped the real president. The President's bodyguards are urgently looking for the murderer.
The terrorist took his younger brother as a hostage and threatened the special forces to commit a crime. After escaping the infighting, the bodyguard found out that his companion was a ghost in the process of chasing the murderer. In the end, the terrorists killed each other, the car crashed and the people were killed, and the president was rescued.
No matter how clever the criminal is, the sky is always wide and sloppy in the end, the lonely American hero always wins in the end, and the finale of a beautiful girlfriend or a loving wife and daughter Obtained personal safety.
As a big investment commercial genre film, the basic elements are essential: stars, mass gatherings in big scenes, chaotic and exciting speed car chases on the street, cold-blooded killers shooting a lot of hapless guards to death.
The extraordinary part of this film is that the story is told through the visuals of TV show producers, tourists, presidential bodyguards, presidents, inner ghosts, etc.
One of the suspense left to the audience by the producers of the show through what they saw on camera was who did all this? Is the president dead? How do terrorists do all this? In the end, how did you get caught?
In fact, the following narrative can generally stand out like this:
1 Using the omniscient vision, the vision of God, tell the story from beginning to end.
2 Catch the criminal, narrated by the criminal's vision.
3 This matter is only the beginning, the crime is continuing, the police officers gradually gain insight into the truth in the process of stopping the crime, and the police officers reason and confess the criminals.
The biggest highlight of this film is that it is considered to have adopted the narrative method of "Rashomon". In fact, this is only formal, and the learning is fur.
The biggest contribution of Rashomon is to reveal the eternal shortcomings of human nature: for the sake of personal dignity, when telling a story, all people will unconsciously maintain their own image, exaggerate their importance, and cover up for themselves. Or find a seemingly very good reason to excuse yourself.
That is to say, when people communicate with others, they are full of personality, they all look at problems from their own standpoint, and they all wear tinted glasses. In this sense, lying or half-lying is human nature and instinct, that is, protecting one's own dignity is human's selfish instinct.
In order to create a positive hero image, genre films always need to purify the characters and remove some of the natural instincts of human beings, thereby creating a moral hero. In fact, the biggest danger in shaping a moral hero is the shallowness and emptiness that are easily glorified and faked.
In fact, what really touches people's hearts are those who have the same human nature as us: a fault, but also countless advantages!
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