Fat man may not exist, and may exist, but I prefer to have this statement
. Barton really met Fat man when he first met him, and We talked to him a lot. At first, Patton was very indifferent to this fat man. Later, he regarded Fatty as a confidant and talked about his creative ideals. However, because Patton interrupted Fatty several times, Fatty felt very unhappy, so Fatty Left unhappy.
Patton was a man of imagination, and he knew this information from the picture of the beach girl when he first came to the residence. Of course, no one without imagination can be a writer.
Therefore, due to his unfamiliar life in Hollywood, he tried hard to find a sustenance that he could rely on. After Patton vented his feelings to Fatty, he also decided that Fatty was his support. (He wasn't sure about it himself, but it didn't really matter, because Patton was in urgent need of reliance, so it didn't matter whether the reliance was truly trustworthy or not.)
After that, all the episodes about the fat man were all about Patton's imagination. The reason It's because whenever Fat Man appears, he must be in the hotel with Barton (most of the time in Barton's room), and the hotel is where Barton wrote his own script, which means that Fat Man may have been made out of thin air by Barton. (It's just character, background, etc., because Fatty's previous image has been seen by Barton)
The following plot is the conversation between Barton and Fatty, which confirms my idea
. After the female assistant
1, Fatty said that he should invite Barton to his own room, but because his room was too messy, he did not do so, because he imagined that Fatty was not a real fatty, and Barton had been plumping up this character, so he made it up The idea of "the house is too messy, you won't be allowed in"
2. The fat man showed Barton naked women, but it was actually Barton who had a good impression of the writer's assistant.
3. The fat man said to Barton that women were so vicious. The uncertainty of the Hollywood environment is caused by acquired factors
4. The fat man said that there is only me, myself, and my shadow in our family. Barton didn't explain too much about the background of the fat man, because he didn't need a too complicated image
. 5. The fat man said that he was very experienced with women. Barton wanted to use the fat man to paralyze himself, because he already had a good impression of the assistant, but he had no experience with women, so he added this attribute to the fat man to be a template
6 for himself. The fat man said that he was a poor man, But he took out a photo of a white suit in a car, which shows that Barton didn't pay too much attention to logical and reasonable problems while he was imagining himself. The content can explain Barton's vision for Hollywood, is his future like this? Barton was thinking
7. Barton said he envied Fatty's unchanging life, but said that his life was complicated, profound and painful. In fact, he was struggling. Dream life - simple and accessible to all kinds of people. Later, Barton asked Fatty if he felt bored because he also lacked confidence in his own life. After all, he was worrying about the script
8. Fatty said that he wanted to teach Barton to wrestle, but Barton hesitated and thought about it for a while before talking to Fatty. They did a very, very simple wrestling move together, which showed that Patton was imagining the wrestling move, but he really lacked the imagination in this area, and finally racked his brains to come up with such a move, so he imagined himself being Fatty fell heavily and was injured. He couldn't continue, so he let Fatty leave. During this process, Barton said something interesting, "I'm fine, really, it's actually quite useful." This shows that he is borrowing the fat man to enrich his creation
. 9. After the fat man left, Barton glanced at it. Beach girl, it means he's having a blast, why? Because he has successfully created the image of a fat man, the
third time Barton met the fat man was after he had eaten with the alcoholic and his assistant. At this time, Barton had regarded the assistant as his second sustenance.
10. The first sentence of the fat man was that today was really a bad day, but he didn't say how bad it was. Obviously, Barton felt that today was really bad.
11. The fat man was talking about how bad it was today, and suddenly changed the subject, saying how cruel people are, especially the housewife. In Barton's mind, the assistant took care of him like a housewife to the alcoholic, and what the fat man said The housewife naturally refers to the assistant
12. The fat man said that he was too fat, and the housewife looked down on him. The concept of the fat man is definitely the concept of the thin man, and Barton is much less famous than the alcoholic, so Barton regards the fat man as a fat man. The
skinny guy that everyone loves is the alcoholic, which means that he is not sure whether he can really attract the assistant You know, Fatty didn't answer this question, but instead said, "What do you know? I can see what they're doing, brother, I want to try it too." Note, this is a very key sentence in the movie, because this sentence It has been exposed that the fat man is the character in Barton's imagination! Barton longed for love, so he used the fat man's mouth to look forward to his own thoughts.
14. The fat man said that you must be fine with writing movies, at least your head is on your head. Barton thinks that he has found a real support, that is, a realistic assistant. He seems to have developed so much confidence in himself.
15. Fatty said that he would go on a business trip and leave for a few days. In fact, this means that Barton has no need for Fatty. He already has an assistant, and the meaning of the fat man is gone. Patton introduced his family to Fatty. On the one hand, he has regarded the character he created as a friend or relative who guides him in reality. On the other hand, I think this is his "so to Fatty" to himself these days. take care of" compensation
After meeting Fatty for the second time, Barton called his assistant because he couldn't do anything about the script, but when he talked to her, he found out that the assistant was the ghostwriter of the drunkard. As a result, he hated alcoholics more and more, so when the assistant and Patton lay down on the bed, the camera turned to other places, and the director was hinting to us, because we didn't know what Patton was going to do next. What did you do, just heard Yiyi's screams. My personal thought is that after he and his assistant Yun Yu, because of his hatred for alcoholics, Patton consciously regarded his assistant as an alcoholic and killed him. He already knew that the assistant couldn't wake up. The reason why he screamed loudly was that he didn't expect the assistant's death to be so tragic and bloody, which he didn't expect.
It was the third time that Patton met Fatty. This situation was very interesting. Fatty said he was going on a business trip, but he showed up. Why? Because this fat man is a real fat man! After the real fat man heard the cry, he immediately came to ask what happened to Barton. In panic, Barton just responded a few words and closed the door.
At this time, Barton was very scared, because he didn't expect what to do after the murder when he killed him, so he came up with a way - to summon the virtual fat man again! At this time, it is not important to be logical or not, because the protagonist needs a fat man. This is the fourth meeting between Fatty and the protagonist.
16. Fatty vomited as soon as he saw the body, and then asked Barton what we should do. In fact, Barton had not considered Fatty's idea of being an objective person. What he thought was, what should I do.
17. The fat man told Barton what to do. In fact, this was exactly what Barton thought
. 18. Barton fainted because he was too frightened, and was woken up by the fat man. The fat man said, "Barton, she is dead!" That is, Barton continued. An excuse to stay awake, and then, Barton continued to think about how to deal with this problem
Then, Barton found that the time he agreed to deliver the manuscript had come, so he had to suspend the processing of the body and rush to fool the boss. In the process, Patton has been in a state of wandering, maybe he has thought of something in the process.
Then, Patton went home, and then it was the fifth meeting between Patton and the fat man.
19. When Patton was staring at the blood on the bed in a daze, the fat man came in with a box and told Patton that he had to go out to avoid the limelight, and told Patton to hold on, Patton had collapsed at this time, he didn’t know What should be done, because no matter how hard the virtual fat man tries, he does not exist, and the murderer is himself, which cannot be washed away no matter what.
20. Barton didn't want the fat man to go, very unwilling, and the fat man was reluctant to leave. At this time, an impressive scene appeared - Barton was snuggling in the fat man's arms, just like a child, the fat man's body It completely covers Patton, which proves that the fat man is the image that Patton is very dependent on.
21. The fat man said, I believe in you Barton. It is Barton who is giving himself a booster
. 22. The fat man asked Barton to keep a box. The fat man said that this box has something that he wants to keep in his life. It can help you stimulate your imagination and write the script. , and let Patton treat Fatty himself as a wrestler. The fat man left again, which means that Barton can no longer let the fat man he imagined take on too many things at this time. He is ashamed of this virtual fat man. He wants him to leave himself, but he does not want him to leave without reservation. So he imagined a box, and, as well, made wrestlers fat.
Then, the fat man left, leaving Barton alone.
At this time, there was a very interesting scene. Barton read the Bible, but saw the beginning of his script - he had regarded himself as the creator of the world. At this time, the camera was fixed on Barton's exhausted face, and then , the phone rang, and the paragraph where he went downstairs to meet the police happened.
The reason why the director handles this scene like this is because the following plots are all imagined by Barton - the two cops are fake, the fat man is a psycho killer is fake, everything is fake, because these are all imagined by Barton Out, in other words, Patton was sitting in front of the typewriter completely motionless.
Why does Barton do this? On the one hand, Barton's mental pressure is too great, he can't bear it anymore, but since the virtual fat man has left, Barton feels less guilt, so he simply pushes everything down On Fatty, Fatty is the murderer, and he doesn't know anything, but obviously, this idea can't stand scrutiny. Fatty doesn't know the assistant, and since the assistant sleeps next to Barton, how can Fatty not be noticed by Barton What about killing an assistant? Obviously, Patton is the murderer of the assistant, and the fat man is just taking the blame for Patton.
"After returning to the room", Patton picked up the box, shook it, and found that it was a human head, so he put the box on the table, put the picture of the fat man next to the beach girl, thinking like a spring, combining with what happened in the past few days things, and wrote a story of "wrestling with the mind".
I don't think it matters what is in the box, nor does it matter how Patton handles the box, what matters is that Patton finally got his inspiration in this box, and the dead good assistant and the cruel murderer Fatty have been A symbol was completely formed, and Barton realized a real sense of dependence, so Barton quickly finished writing the script.
After the script was written, it was time to end it, and Patton decided to write a full stop for the fat man, the cops, and the whole story.
After Barton danced back, he found two police officers in his room and questioned him about the case.
Next, the most illogical series of scenes in the whole play happened, and the fat man appeared in front of Barton for the sixth time. And he killed two policemen with a shotgun. During this process, wherever the fat man went, he burned wherever he went. Why did Barton imagine this plot? Because many details in the whole movie are talking about how the room is hot, mosquitoes, wallpapers, vests, appear again and again, so Barton decided to thoroughly sublime these annoying heat at the end of the story, just as hot as you want Completely, in his imagination, the entire 3rd floor of the hotel turned into a purgatory, and the hotel that brought him too many painful memories was burned to ashes.
Then, Barton and the fat man started a dialogue
23. Patton told the fat man that others called him crazy, and the fat man said that even though that was the case, he was not crazy to anyone, he just wanted to help people, he sympathized with them, he hoped to relieve them, but the same, the fat man said he also hoped Others did this to him—obviously, it was Patton's self-confession. Button felt that he might be a lunatic in the eyes of others, but he felt that these people couldn't understand him, and he wanted to write a script to let others understand him.
24, Button asked the fat man why it was me, and the fat man suddenly shouted "because you don't." Be obedient!" Then he said, "You are just a tourist with a typewriter, and I live here, and you complain that I am too loud!" - Tourists with a typewriter, this is the voice of Patton's heart, and this is also the whole The most ironic line of dialogue in the film. Barton didn't want to know more about Fatty, but he wanted to get inspiration from Fatty, so he created a virtual Fatty, but because he didn't know him, he could only misinterpret this Fatty infinitely, from a small employee selling insurance to unexpectedly Twisted into a murderer, yes, he is just a tourist with a typewriter. He once said that he wanted to create a script for the commoners, but in fact he is more like a bastard. He has almost no understanding of the stories of these commoners, so he dares to be arrogant. To conclude, to stray from his ideal - to want people to understand themselves through the script, but not interested in understanding others, this is the sad part of Button Fink
25, finally, Button knew that the fat man's story was coming to an end, so he Remembering the address he gave to his uncle and aunt, he asked Fatty to explain it.
26. The fat man told Barton that the box was not his. That is, the box is Barton's. After that, all the conversations between Barton and Fatty ended, and Fatty said goodbye to Barton. Fatty's story finally ended.
Fatty opened the door of his house and walked in, while Barton took all his luggage and left the hotel.
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