I don’t know if it’s because of the origin of the TV script. Aaron Sorkin’s script always attaches great importance to rhythm and efficiency. Begging to attract the attention of the audience. But there is no self-righteous show off, no tricky tricks. If you think of watching a movie as an encounter, the one with the background of Sorkin's script is a very pleasant conversation partner-a master storyteller: knows when to describe the details and when to avoid the cumbersome; the emotional intelligence is first-rate Bandang: Not overly emotional, just right sense of humor. It is not easy to trigger the turmoil of "love at first sight" because of the lack of venting enthusiasm, and there are no hints that need to be cared about in the words and outside the words, just tell a story very comfortably, but it must not be annoying.
Regardless of whether it is the most popular sport in the United States, compared to other ball games, baseball’s slightly more complicated rules and the corresponding super-complex strategic skills are certainly not known to everyone-in France It can be said that few people know. Even if I was nurtured by Anda since I was a child, my sister knew at best that three is good and four are bad, hitting and running bases. Occasionally, watching major league games on espn is still confused from time to time.
It is a risky thing not to introduce any background knowledge to the audience at all, because the critical battle of 20 consecutive victories is the climax of the film, and if you want this tide to rise high enough, you must let the audience live. At least for the time of this movie, becoming fans of the "Auckland Athletes", and only when we become fans will we be fully concerned in these ten minutes.
And this one is not even a battle that determines life or death, but just a game of the nature of "achievement will break the record"-having said that, instead of the last battle, using this "record war" as the climax point is itself. A decision not to take the usual path. When the scoreboard on the screen became evenly divided, even though I suspect that most of the audience in the live movie did not understand the turning point in the game just now, there was indeed a lady who murmured oh merde, which is for fans. Tone.
This is the result of the excellent work of Bennett Miller. If you want to turn the audience into fans, the easiest and most direct way is to ask Ira to be temporarily confused by someone on the team-in this movie, this "fascinating" task falls on the male protagonist Billy Beans. Although the role played by Brad Pitt seems to have the advantage in appearance, let’s consider Xiao Pi’s age, some time ago, Hollywood’s criticism of his “not paying attention to maintenance”, and the fashionable and tender aesthetics of the past few years. Tendency, this advantage is not so reliable. Not only to let the audience know, but also to allow us to recognize and identify with this role, until we can achieve self-projection, and can not even focus on its appearance, but need to create moments, sisters call it "moements", so that it can be with the audience Establish an emotional connection.
These connections, very wonderfully, are established when the film is silent inadvertently. Bonnett allowed, even deliberately, to empty at a certain point, no movement, no sound, no plot in progress, just like that, in the scene where Billy and his chubby assistant called to exchange players, he picked up Report a name by phone, ask Xiaopang for review, and take another phone call to report another name. You don't actually know what he is doing, you only know that it is very important to know that it will not happen. Until the call was over, when the next call would determine the success or failure of the matter, they suddenly stopped and Billy and Xiao Pang looked at each other. This empty window gave time to settle what had just happened and gave the audience a chance to react. When the audience reacted, we became nervous. Just when we were nervous, Billy suddenly burst out, "Why is there no one in tmd? Call", he has become our nervous spokesperson anyway. When, the bridge between the character and the audience is built. A conductor who can control the rhythm like this, when we meet it, we will call it mastero
The film keeps the audience at this distance from Billy Beans. He wears a wedding ring on his hand-although there is no story to give a close-up, but the angle of the lens is determined to make you pay attention to this existence, but the wife is not seen at home, and the family is not mentioned in the conversation with other managers. It seems to be a "Outsider" is an indifferent person who does not like to disturb personal affairs at work, as he said, "does not like to have personal relationships with players."
Then inadvertently, we met his daughter. When he met his ex-wife, it was a silent cuteness again. The polite talks between both sides were over, and it was unsustainable and embarrassing. Approximately everyone has experienced this situation. It's hard not to have sympathy and empathy for Billy.
Inadvertently, we caught a glimpse of the entanglement between him and baseball. The once promising rookie, with superb indicators, gave up the Stanford scholarship to become a professional golfer. But because of the inability to adapt to the professional arena and gradually disappeared.
Just like Sorkin's script, this is a mature, clear goal, not easy to show emotions, and a good sense of humor. Disdain to use sweet words or bloody words to ask for attention and sympathy-the only time I saw him crying, the camera forced the audience to stay here with Xiao Pang, and he was only allowed to watch this scene indirectly and indirectly with a black and white monitor. He didn't care about those baseballs. Fans, when talking about losing their jobs, they have a clear face, only a little bit of inadvertently leaked between words, just a little bit of passion inside. Wipe, this is the standard configuration in romance novels for the mature market (I am reading Evening recently).
Whether he likes it or not, when he is presented like this under the lens of BM, it will never be annoying.
So when his daughter made a special call to urge him back to the game, and he finally watched his team game for the first time after becoming a professional manager, you never want to see him disappointed and sad. At this moment, you must stand on the side of Oakland to cheer for it, because their manager is so funny, straightforward, and true, and he loves the sport and has put in a lot of effort to change the sport, hoping to make up for it when he was a teenager. Wrong decisions made. You can project yourself from any period onto this character. The last song "dady you are a loser, just enjoy the show" touched the memory of an unknown number of people-once we thought that we were different and had a bright future, and then we were swallowed by reality. Dreams, hopes can still change something... No one wants to see the broken dreams on the screen. A director who can master humanity in this way, we also have to call mastero when we see it. It
sounds like a strong combination, and it looks like a great movie, but just like Billy, Xiaopi , a producer, did not follow Hollywood. "Big star, big production, big publicity" model. Except for himself (my sister extremely suspects that he is starring in the film to save money), there is no star-blind name in the whole film, but all these actors have perfectly interpreted their roles-they may not be super/first-class The actor (PS Hoffman is a super first-class actor, the question is who he plays like who is not like his own amazing power, star effect is not enough for an entertainment film), but enough, just like a baseball game— —What you spend money on is not players/actors, but victories/excellent movies.
Choose blueprints, screenwriters and directors wisely, just like Billy chose James’ theory, the chubby assistant, and... well, the coach does. It's too bad or not to be plugged). While enjoying the movie very much, the sister stunned herself with the eyes of the girl's generation. C still insists that "fascination with Pitt is the representative of the Three Seculars", but there are a few chances in a person's life to fall in love at first sight because of a fluttering blond hair. After more than ten years, he finds that the person on the other side of the ocean is really the same as himself. His aesthetics is really the same when watching a movie, not only when choosing a script as an actor, but also when choosing the subject matter and building a team as a producer. What a blessing...
PS: Actually Xiaopi didn't think he looked like Redford when he was young. He looks so special at this age!
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