Bill Hader, who became famous in SNL , teamed up with H BO to launch a self-directed, written, self-acted "Barry" that spans two major TV categories: drama and comedy. Setting the story and "the killer will be difficult", but the overall tone and B ILL style of performance, but also has a strong M Artin McDonagh shadow.
How deep is Martin McDonagh ’s influence on Bill Hader , there may not be a definite answer to this question; but "Barre" is really hard not to let people think of the former’s "The Killer Has No Holiday" and "Seven Madness", so I thought Let me talk about this British director with a strong personal style.
Most of the audience ’s understanding of Martin McDonagh may be from the recent contribution of "Three Billboards" for Best Actress and Best Actor in Oscars, but this Hollywood work with strong colors and overly obvious competition intentions does not It is the best work of Martin who perfectly combines violence and humor .
No one has ever been able to integrate the Irish accent as an important film element into the filming so seriously and actively like Martin . It seems that this kind of accent that makes people doubt their English ability is naturally connected with the unique O FF attribute of Irish teenagers . .
The contrast brought about by the focus of their life thinking is never within the normal range understood by ordinary people, which is created and packaged by Martin to be extremely cute.
Regarding the funny nature of Ireland, a piece of "Juvenile Offenders" [also known as "Irish Social Shake"] can give you a general idea.
Kill hand is Martin favorite kind of character set. He even created a new killer image for the entire movie history: mentally retarded killer.
Each of his works always has one or two such characters. Some are protagonists, some are supporting characters, some are normal, and some are abnormal, but it seems that no matter what the setting is, under the lens of Martin , these are very different. The killer seems to have never taken care of his profession seriously.
Probably for Martin , the contrast brought by this seemingly brutal occupation after being involved in normal people's lives is inherently quite humorous. Ordinary people with mental retardation are at most the inconvenience of life.
In "The Killer Has No Holiday", the new killer played by Uncle Colin had a love relationship while confessing in the ancient Belgian city of Bruges . In "Seven Madness", the masked killer played by Sam Rockwell was actually meant to help him. The screenwriter’s friend (again, Uncle Colin) produced a little more writing material.
The reason I said so many about Martin 's films is that everyone can judge "Barry" from a more open and tolerant perspective and point of view. The potential, highlights and shortcomings of the work are too obvious.
I believe that "Barry" has this potential in the successful shooting of this kind of assassin's not doing his job properly, even with some intellectual disabilities and secondary two.
The life of Barry Berkman , the former soldier in Iraq and the current contract killer, is not easy. Don't think that he will have a glamorous life similar to 007 , where he can also pick up girls when he is ordered to kill. Even the industry that is as rare as a killer is divided into three, six or nine. Barry obviously belongs to the third and lower class. He can only pick up some sporadic work in a small town and from time to time. Use the excuse of picking up to stay in those fancy hotels for a few more days.
He doesn't have the P TSD that veterans often have ( at least not yet visible), nor does he have a big vision of saving the world and the country. He is just a killer who is confused about life, just like most of us.
Even so, his agent Fuches never thought that his killer's search for his own direction was to embark on the road of acting.
Seriously...
Obviously director Bill Hader does not intend to let "Barry" embark on the line of fake violence, real comics and pure comedy dressed in a violent cloak. Instead, he hopes to find a delicate balance between real violence and real humor. The field began a new type of (violent) comedy (for the combination of violence and funny, please refer to "Deadpool"), which provides a new possibility of belly laughter for those paralyzed by life comedy.
Those violent scenes and the increasing number of deaths from episode to episode can confirm this, not to mention the continuously expanding new roles and conflicts on the killer line, such as the gang disputes of the Chechens, the police line, and the fourth episode. The bald drinker of the ex-comrade in the play.
The whole drama stems not even smile on Barry of the conflict and contrast between the identity of the killer and performing arts apprentice alone to control facial expressions of B 0 A RRY being in a group show fine inside, there is enough comedy NS.
The reason why I think "Barre" has the core of the Martin Killer series (I made up myself) is because Bill Hader avoided the conventional "contrast of life trajectory mutation" and instead focused on strengthening the "mentally retarded killer". At the same time as the two lines of "the untalented performer", the two lines can be more naturally integrated into a large environment with the same style.
The killer’s change from his main business to his side business did not make Barry easier. The emergence of emergencies and the "God-assisted" agent will always keep him busy on the road to murder, which makes his new main business [ AKA Acting career], has been stagnant.
But in fact, the acting career that has been making no progress (even the performance level is often reversed) can not be blamed on the sideline of the killer. The complete lack of acting talent is the biggest obstacle to our cute Barry . This is from the mentor. When you roll your eyes to the sky from time to time, you can probably guess why.
In order to exercise their acting skills, the students in the acting class treat every little thing in their lives as a major event as important as life and death, in order to cause their own "deeper" mood swings to achieve a better one. Performance level.
But these actors have no concept of "life and death" at all. Being chased by customers counter-calculated, agents being grind their teeth, being forced to assassinate informants, these are life and death; experiencing these every day is supposed to arouse emotions The fluctuating Barry , instead, often looked confused on stage, becoming the worst student in the entire acting class.
This is a little bit dumbfounding.
This style and plot trend setting, coupled with the ineffective performance of the role, basically locks "Barry" above the 8- point line. But as mentioned earlier, the shortcomings of "Barre" are as obvious as its highlights. According to the quality of the current episodes, with 9 points, Bill Hader still has a long way to go.
The biggest problem now is that Bill Hader hasn't insisted on this style of his own.
It can be clearly seen that Bill worked very hard to create such a cute contrast from every detail. For example, when Barry answered the phone on the balcony, the indoor agent was almost beaten to death by the Chechen gang; the assassination text message was finally sent. "Thank you" with typo t hanks you ...
However, the scene where Sally was crying in the car by the future agent's unsuccessful unspoken rules makes people feel that the whole show is taking a warm route. Such an arrangement is incompatible with the character of the whole show and is slightly abrupt.
The director wants to take care of too many things, but it is very likely that the whole drama will be reduced to four different things.
Not only with the tone of a strong Martin style, this dual identity completely set and let people see the shadow of "Breaking Bad" and "Dexter", not to mention Bi LL long was really like Mi Chael C. Hall, especially not very easy to have time to kill De xter to feel chuanchang.
Here’s an extra praise for Noho Hank , played by Anthony Carrigan , which completely captures the second essence of the violent comedy. It has already made a stunning appearance in "Gotham" before. This time, in "Barry", it is really completely mentally retarded. The type of bully (thugh) has come for the show, what a lovely pervert!
Both the plot setting and the character creation can be pushed to the extreme, and the conflict between violence and intellectual disability can be combined more purely, and don't be pulled back to the so-called "normal" level by the tonality of life comedy.
Of course, this must be done under rigorous narrative logic, and no successful exaggeration and madness is built on illogical script logic. This is also the biggest misunderstanding of most domestic so-called comedies. I have only seen the unbelievable nature of successful comedy coats, but there is no way to identify the rigorous script structure and logical relationship between these publicity performances and the plot.
The most obvious example is "Almighty Detective Agency". Behind those exaggerated character settings and performances, the two-dimensional cross plot that is not necessary in the middle and the second, and the endless magical weapons, what is even more surprising and admirable is the screenwriter. That meticulous and solid storytelling skills.
This play is based on a novel adaptation, with the story framework of the original novel, but it is not a simple piece of cake to adapt the brainstorming plots in the original book into a TV series~~~~
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