An industrial technical production and creation that breaks away from pure art! Technology overshadows artistic expression.

Doug 2022-01-03 08:01:40

A very interesting work, top production, fast switching shots, dense lines, found a certain balance between the details and the whole, so that it has neither become an art nor a business. It lies between the two and is a new form of traditional American film being modernized and innovated. Of course, the use of black-and-white images is not particularly necessary, exposing great problems at the image level. First, the color tone is not pure black-and-white film aesthetics. It is more modern, and to some extent it is a product that is too technical. The second is that the texture of the image is very weak, which relatively weakens the fusion of the film’s carefully designed scenes and group dramas. I actually don’t I like this black-and-white feeling, which is much worse than the image quality of the Cold War, not to mention the more artistic digital images of the contemporary era. I think Vinci may not be so sensitive to the color of the image, so he made this kind of low-level but fatal mistake. Especially for a movie fan like me who uses images as the basis of movies, I may dislike its tone and lack of black and white artistic sense. The abuse of technology brings the image as a whole and was sentenced to death from the basic level. I think Hollywood It is necessary to be alert to this error. As far as the script is concerned, I like the middle and the latter part. I think there is still room for simplification in the front. This script is not as good as social networks because it tries to carry too many opinions, but the film is not deliberately pursuing the art of expressing opinions. What is its core? I think what I see from this work is a kind of balance, trying to balance too many things to form a main line of view. I don’t think it is wrong, but I think Vinci’s strengths are just being played relatively, in fact Lost a focus. It is this work that is dispersed and balanced without being concentrated. In the final analysis, the script production level has deliberately realized this kind of cinematic rather than artistic design. The color tone of the image is adjusted to a gorgeous color effect. Generally speaking, Vinci's strength is still in it, that is, he has made too many low-level mistakes that should not be made!

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  • Garrick 2022-04-23 07:03:00

    Very self biopic, subjective color and self expression. Strange structure... The dialogue is too informative, leaving only the charm of the image

  • Meaghan 2022-04-22 07:01:39

    Finch gave up a lot of efficient camera language for his father's script, which is also his most distinctive directing style and advantage; many editing and camera design provide significantly less information than most of his films, and the sound is old but not It's a little weird to look old at the picture (black and white doesn't count). The quality of the script itself can't match the gimmicks. Without "Citizen Kane" and the big bosses, producers, and stars of the golden age, the structure of the story (before Act 3) is not logical enough, and the narrative is not efficient enough. There is nothing else that shines.

Mank quotes

  • Irving Thalberg: When I come to work, I don't consider it slumming. I don't use humor to keep myself above the fray. And I go to the mat for what I believe in. I haven't the time to do otherwise. But you, sir, how formidable people like you might be if they actually gave at the office.

  • Herman Mankiewicz: As Pascal once said, "If only I'd had more time, I would have written a shorter letter."