Although there is nothing wrong with translating Intolerance into "Party and Diversity", it is almost meaningless. This translation led me to think it was a palace spectacle. In fact, the theme is quite profound. Human beings are fighting to the death to divide their identities for the sake of interests. Stories from several different eras point to a common historical proposition - very "Cloud Atlas". "Cloud Atlas" allows the same actor to play multiple roles, interspersed with different eras, ages, races and languages, which can further sublimate the theme, which is also more modern technology.
Various compositions, from round, square, rectangular or even wantang senbei, are used to guide the eye - circle the key points. Regarding the aesthetics and narrative of this composition, it should be less active than "Pan Jinlian". When it comes to composition, I think of the close-ups of various occlusions in the opening scene of "Golden Swallow".
The palace and war scenes are beyond imagination, and there are also special effects makeup, pyrotechnics, and miniature models, which basically set the tone for the next hundred years of big productions.
In the scene scheduling, attention should be paid to the front and rear scenic spots. In this way, photography is indeed a loyal inheritance of classical painting. When static photography develops to the stage where it can be synthesized, then dynamic is not far away. Reproduces three-dimensional space on a flat surface. The invention of film is based on human's understanding of their own vision, and understanding is the premise of breakthrough.
The entire film is almost still shot, but when Cutie learns that her husband has been sentenced to death, there is a shot that pushes her frustrated face, which is particularly striking.
It was not seen in the plot that the girl in the village and the cute girl fell asleep. On the contrary, the ancient girl had a more rebellious character, and finally drove a carriage to report her death in battle (I don't know who played it). Little Cutie is a family ethics film. The young mother is the target of the upper class aunt, who deprives her mother of power in the name of the child's interests, and the upper class men then exploit the entire family. The last-minute rescue was established based on the confession of Mrs. Fu, which is also a cliché of this type of drama, but it gives a very fast car chasing train scene. The executioner cutting the rope is also an interesting spectacle.
Because I read the editing book before, it was said that Mrs. Fu climbed the window and killed her husband in a close-up. This kind of bold leap may be to avoid the stuntman, and I thought it was the real body, so I felt that the conclusion was far-fetched.
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