Maybe it's because I just thought it was an adventure hahahaha
I watched "Hugo" on the movie channel many years ago, and I didn't know much about movies at the time. What remains in my memory is that image, so rich that it looks like indissolvable cough syrup. The little girl and Xiao Zhengtai are very interesting, the camera is rushing around in the tunnel of the station, and there are kakaka machine dolls. The most impressive thing is that inexplicable old grandfather, the little girl's father George, or the film master George Merrier. I remember Dad George having a happy ending.
Now, many years later, I finally met this old man. Carefully read "Journey to the Moon" in "Hugo" that I ignored. This is a film adapted from Verne's novel. Hugo said that he liked Verne's novel, which may be a foreshadowing. Merrier is said to have pioneered the earliest editing - the montage technique in the form of stop-and-take. The picture of the movie is still in the center, like a stage play. But the composition of the picture is exquisite and delicate. What's surprising is his layout, the teacher really surprised me when the teacher said that the film was shot in studio, because although the background looks very artificial, it feels like the layout of the space is very large, so it doesn't make me think it is Studio shot. The actor's performance has a deep imprint of the silent film era, and the action is very exaggerated.
Merrier used many novel techniques, so there were comets with long tails in the sky, as well as the Big Dipper and the gods in the constellations. More than a hundred years ago, the Qing Dynasty had not even subjugated the country, and scientific knowledge was not as deep as it is now. Merrier relies on words to imagine those pictures on the moon, so fantastic and beautiful. Maybe for him, that studio is his whole life.
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