2. In "Substitute", the director explores the illusion of substitute in film and reality, and this film discusses the illusion of sound in film and reality. The director not only deliberately imitated Hitchcock, but Anthony Oni's masterpiece "Blow Up" is also the source of inspiration for the director.
3. In the passage where Terry went out to collect sounds, the lens constantly changed perspectives. Terry himself, the sound equipment, the surrounding environment, and the objects (humans and animals) whose sounds were collected, formed a similar relationship between these matters. Edited on the "Food Chain" footage. While collecting animal sound specimens, the director also added his usual screen segmentation technique. Different screen segmentation techniques are reflected in this film, direct, indirect, near and far, and so on.
In addition to the screen division, the director's signature techniques have been embodied many times in this film, including long shots and top shots.
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The director asked Terry to collect some wind noise material. During the collection process, he inadvertently collected the sound of a car accident. The car fell into the river and Terry rescued a woman in the car, Sally. Later in the hospital he learned that the other person in the car was Governor Mike Lyon who might be elected the next president. The governor’s assistant asked him to conceal the fact that he saw this girl because Sally was a prostitute and they tried their best to cover up the scandal. Terry checked the recording carefully, and distinguished by voice that he felt that this was not an accident, but a murder. A photographer Kapoor also took a set of photos of the accident and sold it to a magazine at a high price. Terry bought the magazine, cut the photos one by one and converted them into film format and added the sound material to make the accident "repeat". He was surprised to find that there was a gunshot in the photo when the tire was blown out. .
It turned out that Sally was appointed by another candidate to let the professional killer wait for the opportunity to do some tricks on the car, and then ask Kapoor to take a picture of the governor and the prostitute together. Unfortunately, the killer mistakenly killed the governor.
Terry cooperated with Sally to obtain the original film of Kapoor, hoping to be broadcast on the TV station through the hands of the TV reporter Frank. But was eavesdropped by a shrewd assassin, the assassin disguised as Frank and Sally trading tape and film, Terry put a monitor on Sally, and he could get insight into all of Sally's transaction at any time. But when Terry foretells that this is a killer and is about to attack Sally, he can only pitifully distinguish the position by his voice. Finally, when the bell rang for the American people to celebrate Independence Day, Sally was brutally killed by the killer. Terry came one step later to kill the killer.
4. When the killer commits the crime in the film, including the killer in the previous "play in play", the subjective shots of the killer are used many times to commit the crime, so that the audience can understand the crime process more clearly.
5. At one hour of the movie, in the editing room, the director used a continuous rotation of 9 360-degree shots. The direction of the male protagonist in each motion shot was variable, which showed the complicated editing process. The director also used rotating lenses in many films, but at most it was one circle, and this time it took nine full circles.
6. The top shots appearing in the film are all high-positioned, even the cameras in the city are high-positioned. The highest one was when the protagonist drove a car to search for the position of the sound, and shot the car across a tall building from the top of the sky. The height of this top shot is reminiscent of the hero in Hitchcock's "Northwest by Northwest" who escaped from the United Nations headquarters.
7. Terry drove to find the location of the sound. For the close shot of Terry driving, the director used the synthetic effect of the fake exterior scene of the car rear window in Hitchcock movies and other old movies of the 1950s and 1960s. Hitchcock can shoot real scenes in his posthumous work "Family Conspiracy", but he is still keen on the old film mode. De Palma also followed this approach, using this fake location in the later "Stand-in".
8. After Sally died, Terry could only miss the people through Sally's voice material. Sally's screams before her death were used as the voice for the "play in play" bathroom murder at the beginning of the movie, and this dubbing was perfect. But Sally's cry has been lingering in Taili's mind, and it has become Taili's permanent pain.
9. The actor, John Travolta, showed his best performance since the movie (I personally think so) in the film. Instead of attracting the audience with his fiery dance, he perfectly presented the pessimistic character who is struggling to find the truth on the screen through a delicate performance. He also worked with the director on "Carrie" before.
The film can be said to be a pure Brian de Palma film, except for the director’s signature techniques to be fully displayed in the film. Most of the cast and crew are also the director’s old partners. His wife, Nancy Allen, is back in the battle again. They have worked with "Witch Carrie", "Home Movies" (Home Movies), "Razor's Edge" (Dressed to Kill), this is their last cooperation, and the two divorced two years later. /John Lithgow, who plays the killer, worked with the director in "Obsession" before, and later played the protagonist and multiple roles in "Raising Cain" (Raising Cain). /Dennis Franz, who plays Kapoor, is even better. He has worked with the director on "The Fury", "Razor's Edge" and later "Stand-in". /Producer George Litto (George Litto) is also the producer of "Fantasy" and "Razor's Edge". /Pino Don Aggio, the famous Italian soundtrack, is also the queen scorer of Brian de Parma.
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