Some thoughts, movie language and logic and IQ

Clifton 2021-12-20 08:01:14

Read "Battleship Potemkin" again. Comparing my thoughts and film reviews, something unexpected happened.

The three famous stone lions, because of their lazy expressions, turned out to be regarded as a symbol of the weakness of the reactionaries. What's more, I didn't see what the boiling water behaved.
However, the Odessa Staircase has to be carefully read many times, and it is very suitable for textbooks.
The impression is:

If the audience is distracted when editing, "The director is here to tell us that the anger of the masses is like this water", then it must be unsuccessful.

The trick of movie language is that it will affect your non-logical subconscious area (some people say this is the emotional area) with an unusual influence with the language of the lens, because your logical IQ does not work in that area. . If a certain movie fragment affects your logical area, then your IQ will have a defensive reaction.

No one's "IQ" (let us take it as the subject) wants the "IQ" of others to be superior to one's own.
My enlightenment is that if in the movie, when the mood is not enough, add the director’s own suggestion that he hopes to make the audience have a logical association, such as "a piece of blood is on the ground, I want to use him to express despair (but the previous shots are not The audience is not left in a mood of despair... What will happen? The audience will find it inexplicable...)". The superficial film semiotic theory is a kind of misunderstanding.

When giving hints to the audience, be careful to use the lens to bring the audience into the area of ​​rational thinking. This is already a layer of caution. It is futile to expect the audience to treat your shots with "rational thinking" and to identify with you in this way. Use hints, not tells.

The following sentence is my personal opinion: Don't let the audience feel that they are watching a "movie", let him experience time and space, and try not to let them notice the form of expression. Otherwise, the film will lose its general entertainment and become a change and manipulation of the format itself (this sentence is not derogatory, because it has to be admitted that many humans like this. This is not wrong. For example, Rubik's Cube is a format toy) . It’s just contradictory to mass entertainment, here generally refers to many people who don’t understand movies.)

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Extended Reading
  • Destini 2022-04-24 07:01:14

    2019.10.12 read it. The fast and fierce montage editing, the chaotic and tense Odessa stairs, and the wonderful and skillful group play scheduling together create a revolutionary hero story in a classical tragedy. SE is still soft-hearted. In reality, the Potemkin uprising ended in failure, and it also used blood to show the eternal truth: the stubbornness and brutality of vested interest groups determine that the use of force in the process of confronting public power is not only necessary but also noble. In addition, I will mention the reason why I hate the military and police. They are really just doing their job, but they can't and won't think about whether it's the right job or not. They are more tools than people, and many of them even take pride in being tools ("A soldier's duty is to obey orders"). I cannot applaud such dehumanization. Some people say that the military and police will also protect the people, but in fact they fail to see the essence through the phenomenon. Violent organs will always maintain only the interests of the regime, and protecting the people is only to consolidate the rule, which is purely a by-product. Just as war can objectively promote scientific and technological progress, can it be said that the purpose of war is to develop science? The logic of inversion of cause and effect is unacceptable.

  • Aryanna 2022-04-24 07:01:14

    I always felt that the use of camera and music in the last chapter was better than the montage that was blown away by the gods.

Battleship Potemkin quotes

  • Title Card: The spirit of revolution soared over the Russian land. A tremendous, mysterious process was taking place in countless hearts. The individual personality, having hardly had time to become conscious of itself, dissolved in the mass, and the mass itself became dissolved in the revolutionary élan.

  • Grigory Vakulinchuk: We, the sailors of 'Potemkin,' must support the workers, our brothers, and stand among the front lines of the revolution!