Duplicity (2009) (written by)
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first laid by Michael Clayton the year before last With the directorship of this great screenwriter, his second-time director's work naturally has high expectations.
Then I saw the first close-up of Julia, and I was flabbergasted. . . .. I'll talk about it later
- first predict the commercial performance of Duplicity, and then wait for the box office results in a month to compare:
This is a "Heist+Love story" that is very similar to Soderbergh's
For the director, the story of Heist is the most difficult shoe to wear. Why do you say that? Audiences have to be "happy deceived" to give you a high score for this movie - audiences have to be surprised by the unexpected ending while still feeling their own intelligence being respected. So I have to say that Tony Gilroy learned from Soderbergh, the most successful director in this field, "Ocean's eleven" to be smart. But he won't have Soderbergh's success.
The failure lies in the selection of materials - in today's world of the Great Depression, no one will particularly care who will win the espionage war between two companies engaged in marketing, and no one will think that any of these two companies is in the middle. There will be a huge secret that will change the face of the world.
Therefore, delegating the once life-threatening "espionage war" story to the common people (here, two companies), even using dark humorous innuendo to try to win the audience's imagination, still can't make the audience feel Worrying curiosity.
Tony Gilroy is so interested in this subject, which is still a sequel left by his previous film-specifically interested in the service functions of large companies, last time it was a lawyer who wiped his ass, this time it was an outsourcing company that stole information. But for the audience with a high IQ, these audiences understand that big companies are places where a bunch of rotten people mess up the world together, so what the company wants and what it is afraid of is none of my business.
Of course, most of the other half of the film will win over a broad audience: a love story that the audience cares about—and a "how can I trust you" love story. But the fatal wound of a love story is that it has to end in marriage. No matter how you make it up, or how you throw off the burden at the end, the audience knows that a film with the logo of a major Universal company will not be a discussion of human nature.
this way, Tony Gilroy can't complete the task of "cheating happily". Of course, with Clive Owen, a female magnet, women have passed the eye addiction and are not disappointed - male audience - even real men who like mature femininity, I hope you are mentally prepared.
Julia is visibly aging. It's not just her looks, but her eyes that tell you she knows she's aging, and she doesn't take it easy.
Based on the above analysis, and what I know about the scale of domestic film promotion in the United States, Duplicity must have lost everything. The film was shot in New York and 3 foreign locations, and the cost was not low. Only rely on overseas and DVD to recover the cost.
Of course I couldn't have predicted that Dark Knight would be so successful. Therefore, readers who are interested can refer to http://www.boxofficemojo.com/ to see if this is the case after a month .
but. . . . This is a movie worth watching. Oscar-winning photographer Robert Elswit creates a visual metaphor for the corporate world: an in-between state between the real and the abstract, and the opening two minutes of high-speed photography are eye-opening.
In addition to commercial contradictions, the script is completely the work of a master, especially the phrase "Give me the cream!" It makes people laugh.
Finally, my question is this: (The following content has serious spoilers, for your enjoyment experience, don't read the movie after watching it,)
At the end, let the protagonist be played, Chile was humiliated, and a certain enterprise succeeded - how do you feel?
A "I didn't expect it, um, good story." B. "I didn't expect it, it's a pity"
C. "I thought about it long ago" D. "I didn't expect it, what a bad story! The screenwriter is shit"
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