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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  • Charles Lederer: Sorry. Somebody told me Mankiewicz was in here.

    Joe Mankiewicz: He is. I'm the promising brother, Joe.

    Charles Lederer: I didn't know Herman had a brother.

    Joe Mankiewicz: Neither does anyone else. Let me guess. "There are millions to be made, and your only competition is idiots," stop.

    Charles Lederer: How did you know?

    Joe Mankiewicz: I hate to tell you, anyone who can rub three words together and make a sentence gets one.

  • Title Card: In 1940, at the tender age of 24, Orson Wells was lured to Hollywood by a struggling RKO Pictures with a contract befitting his formidable storytelling talents. He was given absolute creative autonomy, would suffer no oversight, and could make any movie, about any subject, with any collaborator he wished...