On the humanity thinking in "The Player Behind the Scenes" and Hollywood's commercial production.

The Chinese name of "The Player" is translated into "The Player Behind the Scenes" or "The Super Player". I think the name "The Player" can handle this movie better! Because this film is a movie about movies. Or it can be said to be a tribute to every movie lover and film and television worker! The protagonist of the film is named Griffin, a producer for a Hollywood production company. He needs to listen to many stories every day and then select a handful of good scripts to make a movie, which will naturally offend some playwrights. The beginning of the film is an iconic shot of director Robert Altman and a tribute to the film master Orson Welles' "Gone with the Calamity". As a master of group play, Robert Altman used group play at the beginning. The busy, chaotic and lively movie studios, there are people working here, playwrights who are excited but mostly disappointed, and foreign guests who visit and study from far away from Japan. There are too many people who are in love with each other. One word for you, one word for me. Make the panorama of the film more authentic and lifelike. This makes the audience feel as if they are seeing it in real life. The opening soundtrack of the film also fully and indirectly tells the audience the development behind the story and what type of film the film is. The opening soundtrack starts with a suspense thriller movie and is accompanied by a panoramic view of the busyness of a seemingly normal film production company when it starts to work in the morning on weekdays. This makes us feel a sense of mystery again. We can see from the lines and the subsequent development of the story that from the beginning, the director explained the various ugliness and human complexity of Hollywood, as well as the ruthless criticism and ridicule of the era of great money worship.
Well, the opening long shot is over. The story officially begins, and the actor can be regarded as a tall, rich and handsome man. Love and career are both proud, but Gao Fushuai will have bad luck. Recently, his position has become more and more unstable, and he has been receiving intimidating celebrities from unknown screenwriters. This makes him feel that there is a problem with work pressure and life safety. Hajime Griffin fell into a dilemma of anger, injustice, and helplessness. At first he chose to ignore it and ignore it. But anonymous screenwriters are getting more and more rampant! He kept sending him threatening celebrity films, and even dropped directly from the sky and put them on his desk! This makes Griffin always ashamed! So he chose to resist and act! He began to look through the transaction records he had with the screenwriter, and finally he chose a screenwriter, thinking that the screenwriter was the one who sent him the star film. Then he went to his home. This is a typical literary style for playwrights, with a painter's wife who is inherently known as the Queen of Iceland. But the relationship between husband and wife is not harmonious. It can be said that there was a failed marriage. When Griffin went to his house, he was still watching a movie in the theater, so Griffin hurriedly went to the theater where he was, and went into the theater of the movie he was watching. The screened is exactly the pioneering work "The Bike Thief" by the well-known neo-realist director Vittorio de Sica. From here we can also see the attention and evaluation of foreign films in the United States, which are basically not The public is optimistic about it. People of that era may only recognize Hollywood commercial films that are popular entertainment and have a so-called happy ending. The protagonist Griffin finally found him, and then made sweet words to the poor screenwriter who had offended him in the past. However, the literary and artistic screenwriter did not accept his apology. Instead, he attacked Griffin's life with great precision, which made Griffin. Falling into extreme anger, Griffin became impulsive! He beat the screenwriter violently and killed him by mistake. Ugh! Unlucky Griffin! But the bad luck is not over yet! Instead, it's just the beginning! I think Griffin has been insane since then, but he always pretends to be calm. One is the arrival of a competitor, the other is the murder of the police and the police started investigating him, and the third is that the celebrity movie continued, and a snake was even placed in his car later. He began to do some insane things, he began to have an affair with the wife of the screenwriter who was killed, which caused him to break up with his girlfriend Bonnie. And the police have been following him all the time. Griffin's affair with the slain screenwriter's wife must not be because he fell in love with the screenwriter's wife, but because he wanted to atone for the crime. Griffin wanted a kind of salvation. This is a point that human nature must possess. It also proves that Griffin still has a heart like going forward, and he is also a person of good character. But the screenwriter’s wife is a worship The golden girl and the relationship between her and her husband are not good. So they both got better soon. The characterization of the murdered screenwriter’s wife feels like her paintings. A blue-and-white painting that seems pure but with a hint of melancholy. I think, in a nutshell, many of the characters in this movie are metaphors and symbols of the thoughts and desires of the upper class and ordinary people in Hollywood in that money-worshiping era. It was a weird age! People still have a kind and innocent side, but they don't show it because of fear and their timidity. People also have a weak side, just like the hero Griffin is unwilling to tell the truth to the public, people also have a weak and strong material heart. The actor is afraid of being arrested and sentenced, which will affect his career.
In the middle and late stages of the film, Griffin went to a movie with his wife who was killed by the screenwriter. In it, I think Griffin’s speech is also the director Robert Altman’s interpretation and understanding of what he thinks of a movie: a movie is a kind of Art! Movies have always existed as valuable art in our society, but many people think that movies are mostly mass entertainment rather than serious art. This is wrong! We are all eager to see Orson Wells, a great film of the Hitchcock type! The film industry needs to be responsible to the public! Need to maintain the art of film! Take this as the most basic mission of the film industry!

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