Edgar may be more famous than another President Hoover to a certain extent. As the founder of the American fbi, one of the most powerful people in the world's first gdp country, he served in the most powerful institution in this country for life ( cia is mainly external).
Such a celebrity who combines mystery, power, politics, history, and confrontation with multiple business elements, the director is undoubtedly screwed up.
There are three ways of expressing biography: time, events, and people;
The director uses a novel technique, interspersed with reminiscences, which is the worst form of visual expression. The characters are constantly flashing back in youth and old age, and events are constantly interspersed in various written descriptions, memories, and oral examinations, fragmented.
Hoover ruled the FBI for more than 30 years, until Nixon's death in the 1970s, and a two-hour movie obviously had to be a choice.
If it is expressed in terms of time, then the characters will not be outstanding. It must be based on the historical situation, focusing on the youth, creating the fbi period, and choosing some important time milestones to express.
If expressed in the way of events, then several important cases will be highlighted, and finally sublimated to the individual and the system.
If it is expressed in the way of characters, then several most important character labels need to be selected, such as wrist, iron blood, cunning, smart, etc.
If it doesn't work, just avoid such a long span, choose an event, or express it for a period of time. For example, Beautiful Mind mainly intercepts before and after college.
The director of this film is very ambitious, and the result is that nothing is clearly expressed.
In terms of time, it has been analyzed earlier, and it is fragmented. It is difficult for the audience to effectively organize a complete timeline at the end of the film to express Hoover's long life.
From the perspective of events, except for the pilot's case, which is slightly written, all other events have been rushed over. Even creating an event as big as the FBI is nothing more than fast-forwarding with humorous conversations in the attorney general's office. There are countless major historical events that Hoover has participated in, and they are hardly mentioned in the movie. His game with the president is also perfunctory. This is the United States.
From the character's point of view, because the events are lackluster, it is inevitable that the character design will be difficult to establish. It's as if he proposed to the secretary, and people said directly, we don't know each other well, why are you like this? . .
The same goes for his gay second-in-command, who fell in love at first sight. . . If it weren't for the movie constraints, the first interview would have sparked in the office with a man holding another man's handkerchief, oh heh.
The whole movie is Hoover basically ranting, ranting, 24-year-old young investigation chief, that's all? Smart didn't see it, the only detail was that the former attorney general was bombed. He went to check the flyers on the ground for the first time, and then he was beaten in the face by his assistants and members of Congress again and again. Lord Hoover, you are nothing. . .
You must know that in American action movies, the fbi has been synonymous with mental retardation for a long time since its establishment. This is apparently due to some people's cheese being moved.
As for Hoover's best method, he controls them by mastering the intelligence of celebrities and celebrities, including the president, Martin Luther, etc., which are also hastily. You must know that these methods of his have been used in the press today...
A pity for such a character.
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