I've always been averse to films with a lot of special effects, especially when the special effects are out of touch with the content and completely overshadow the story itself. (Except, of course, the fusion of special effects and story, like "Avatar" and "Frozen.") This is advertising. A lot of handsome guys, a lot of beauties, a lot of buildings, slow motion, dozens of edits, and finally just want to sell a toothpaste. A Christmas Carol is just that. Due to the flatness of the characters, the thinness of the story, and the gentleness of the plot, I couldn't make up an hour and a half, and had to rely on the apparently too long high-altitude motion shots and street chase shots again and again. Especially high-altitude sports long shots, at least four times. No matter how gorgeous, there is no climax. The climax is by no means piled up with colorful elements. When the male protagonist in "This Man From Earth" is in a dark room, he is hesitant to speak, and when he responds to the crowd with silence, in the still picture, I see the most shattering. 's climax. However, the reason why I want to mention the "A Christmas Carol" I watched today is not to cite negative cases; on the contrary, from another less-obvious point of view, this film has achieved something very special. Perhaps, it is also due to the setting of the original novel, but I have not read the original, so I can only talk about what I can see so far, which is: it clearly shows the "viewer's situation". "Wuthering Heights" shows the "reader's situation". The whole novel begins with the appearance of the "stranger" Lockwood. In the development of the story later, we will find that this "stranger" plays an unusual role. The story about the protagonists Heathcliff and Catherine was told by Nellie, so Nellie is equivalent to the role of the "author". Who should she tell it to? It's Lockwood, so Lockwood is the "reader". At first, before Nelly speaks, Lockwood shows Wuthering Heights and its characters from his own perspective, and feels confused; just as we readers turn the first page of the book and suddenly break into an unknown world, no Understand what happened; until the "author" speaks slowly. Here is one of the "reader's situation": the motive comes from the drive of curiosity, the urge to decipher. Lockwood has been trying to make sense of what Heathcliff is seeing, but Heathcliff is just doing something that confuses us even more with a series of "furious, pounding his forehead," "but why is far from me. understandable". Here is the second part of the "reader's situation": attempts to explain the characters using observation and reason are in vain; we cannot fully understand the characters. Halfway through Nellie's presentation to Lockwood, she offered to skip three years, to which Lockwood reacted violently, saying, "No, no, I won't allow this! Are you familiar with the mood: if you Sitting alone and the cat licking its kitten on the rug in front of you, and you watch the action so intently that one ear forgets to lick it, it upsets you." Here's "The Reader's Situation "Third: Too concentrated or nervous to miss a tiny detail. There are many other aspects, which are not detailed here. Similarly, we can analyze the "viewer's situation" in A Christmas Carol. For some reason that I can't think of, the protagonist Sculridge suddenly got such an excellent opportunity. In some way, he can wake up and reinvent himself, from a big miser to a big philanthropist, put down his money, and stand on the ground. become a Buddha. That way is watching movies. Produced by the ghost of his friend Maggie, the film is divided into three chapters, led by three cinematographers – the ghost of the past, the ghost of the present, and the ghost of the future – to complete the filming. The viewer—that is, Sculridge—is in front of the big screen with the facilitator, watching the story unfold in front of his eyes, crying, laughing, and frightening, but the people in the story don’t feel his presence. One of the "viewer's situation": the viewer passively accepts the film and has only the right to watch, but not the right to participate. What is the most common framing method used by Sculridge and the photographers? As mentioned earlier, high-altitude aerial photography. What kind of framing method is this? Omniscient perspective. You can see every tree, every building, every person's expression, and see what they can't see beside and behind the characters inside. The second "viewer's situation": the content known is greater than the character itself, can surpass the individual, can be comprehensively observed, and a more objective evaluation can be obtained. Where is the most special point? It was the protagonist of the movie Sculridge was watching, none other than himself. "The Viewer's Situation" No. 3: I am often surprised to find that it is myself that the film describes; we are the protagonists. What makes the ending of A Christmas Carol so unrealistic is that it idealizes "the situation of the viewer." Like Scully, we watch movies that tell the story of our own experience, and feel moved and infected. In the theater, the world is just a small dark room, and we feel that the whole world has changed, and our whole body and soul have changed. change. But in reality, after we walked out of the theater, had dinner, bought some clothes, and laughed with friends, it was all forgotten. Viewers don't reinvent themselves like Sculridge. Even the most moving movies of all time, those movies that claim to change your life, honestly, have they really changed you? Maybe, just a week. Most of the time, send a few sighs, turn off the computer, what should I do. And those three ghosts actually symbolize the three categories of movies. Ghosts of the Past: About Childhood. Ghosts of the Present: The Status Quo of Survival. Ghosts of the Future: Future Situations. The first is responsible for arousing the viewer's memory and longing for innocence; the second is to remind the viewer to cherish what they have; the third is to reflect and wake up. But they all have one common and actually the biggest role: entertaining the public. Sculridge is the most idealized spectator of all time, and we are nothing more than entertainers. But if one day, I'm thinking, we can also have such an opportunity to watch the real performance of our real self, whether we can really be reborn. Sculridge is the most idealized spectator of all time, and we are nothing more than entertainers. But if one day, I am thinking, we can also have such an opportunity to watch the real performance of our real self, whether we can truly be reborn. Sculridge is the most idealized spectator of all time, and we are nothing more than entertainers. But if one day, I am thinking, we can also have such an opportunity to watch the real performance of our real self, whether we can truly be reborn.
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