Drum was told that it was a very absurd film when I saw it recommended by a friend before. Then when I watched it, I felt that the picture had the style of "Black Shop Rhapsody".
Start with grandma's place first. Basically, many shots of the soldiers chasing "Grandpa" are downgraded shots. This shot is common in Chaplin's films. It's funny.
Then the protagonist Oscar remembers the first light when he was born. This is impossible for the average person. The narration of the heroine of the film and the objective absurdity of telling a story with the cognition of a child. In fact, the film has not always been narrated from the perspective of the protagonist, at least there is a big gap with the subjectivity ratio of "A Christmas Story". The former has 30% and the latter at least 60%.
Summarize the absurd style. What Black Shop Rhapsody and Tin Drum have in common.
1 building new. Even the oldest buildings have to look like new and old. At least fairy tales are not really dark. It's a bit like Cos' style.
2 characters are few. Characters can be enriched. But the protagonist is the protagonist. Villagers are villagers. A passerby is a passerby. There can be no unrelated idle people in reality. Otherwise it will feel like realism rather than fairy tales.
3 The sound is simple
4 The closedness of the composition. For this style alone, the composition of a single frame is not very particular. After all, a movie can’t just talk about the composition of a single painting. But I can't help but admire the splendid feeling that Shunji Iwai brings to the composition of a single painting. But in this style, the overall composition should reduce the open content. Like the sky, like the endless streets. etc.
These four points are actually set in accordance with the simplicity of fairy tales. The three must be combined. Make the screen feel closed. It's another closed, unreal world. Another subjective world.
5 colors. Color can determine the main tone of a film. The twilight staleness of The Tin Drum is a style. The excessive glamour of "The Next Wife Story" does not mean positive. So the use of color is very attractive.
The application of subjective telling.
Facts do not develop according to usual logic. To respect the subjective independence of the protagonist. For example, the subversion of some conventional values can be carried out naturally in this way. The selection of subjective viewpoints and the related soundtrack must respect the independence of the protagonist.
You can also add some imaginary content. Objectivity does not have to be followed. For example, Oscar in the Tin Drum disrupts Hitler's rally, for example, in "A Christmas Story", the protagonist imagines using BBgun to kill the robber who commits the crime.
Videos can disrespect conventions. But it's better to use this tool to make a sharper point.
metaphors and symbols. It can be used to metaphor and symbolize some values of the ordinary world from a very human perspective. Absurd to absurd.
character. You can design everyone's character to be similar to the protagonist's character. For example, the grandmother at the beginning of the Tin Drum is like a replica of Oscar later.
Or, match everyone's character design with the protagonist. The protagonist is the protagonist of his own world. So everyone else has to be supporting roles.
It is generally used from the perspective of those who are not fully developed in the spiritual world. Only by detaching from the real world or typifying the world can we see the world more clearly.
The Tin Drum's Doubt
1 symbolizes a strange sound throughout.
2 The meaning of the tin drum. The meaning of drumming. When Oscar finally knocked on his mother's door, he knocked on the beat of the drums.
3 The meaning of Polish people playing the trumpet. I only understood and played the Internationale once. During the Nazi era.
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