As a classic film in the old Hollywood period, this film of course contains many eye-catching elements: gunfights, gangsters, drugs. As a well-known film, it reflects the economic state of the times and expresses the spiritual state of society.
With the story of the growth of a Cuban immigrant Tony, it tells the situation of political discrimination and suppression, economic downturn, drug rampant, and gangs in the United States at that time, and expresses the immigrant's pursuit and sinking of the American dream and become the United States. The victim of dreams.
Admittedly, this is a film with some literary connotations. Using the growth of a small person to present the spirit of the times, satirize the times and values, and use the small to see the big is a method that is used and not annoying in both old and new Hollywood and movies of any film era. Of course, this method is the most reliable and practical.
The most influential are the following:
First, Pacino's performance.
Pacino and De Niro are the most representative and influential movie stars in New Hollywood after Marlon Brando. This movie is the first work of Pacino's strength. In the film, Pacino truly shows a man who longs for wealth and pursues ideals but is enslaved by reality. In the end, the tree falls apart, friends and relatives die, and he is also enslaved by his partners. kill.
Second, small people show reality and satirize reality.
Third, the film segment is a classic.
The first scene is Tony's first trip to deal cocaine, where he and his friends are tied up and forced to tell where the money is. The director is very clever here, and it has fully adjusted the curiosity and panic of the audience.
He did it with a special effect composite long shot.
This long shot from the house where Tony was tied up, around the TV with the gunfight, around the window, and into another relaxed world - Tony's While his friend Sonny is waiting for Tony in the car, he's hooking up with a hot bikini woman, and there's lighthearted music and jokes. Can the audience be curious about the comparison between the two sides?
When I went back, it was another long shot, and I went back around the same way! Back to the original noisy environment. At this time, Sonny outside was rejected by the beauty, and he thought of Tony and began to look inside. The shootout begins.
The second is the jump cut of the documentary footage at the beginning.
These pictures immediately elevate the film's expression to a level of satire.
The third is the paragraph in which Tony was assassinated by the former boss's subordinates.
Tony's ambition made him leave the previous boss. In the bar, he saw his sister Gina hooking up with a man. The sister was frivolous, and he was annoyed that her sister had become like this. He hit the man, got into a conflict with his sister and hit his sister. He went back to his bar seat, in a deep trance.
The camera, first swept across the crowd, and then we saw two people who were affectionately wrong.
The camera looks at Tony again, still drinking.
At this moment, the camera swept along the upper body of the two people to the table below, and there was actually a gun.
The camera jumps at this time, cuts into a personal shot of Tony's mirror medium shot, and moves laterally, showing Tony's nervousness and anesthesia.
The shot is a close-up of the gun
and then a few medium and close shots of the two.
This passage not only expresses Tony's mental confusion and confusion through the actions and mirror images of the characters, but also expresses terror and suspense.
Fourth, the props and lines in the film are highly directional, expressing the character and ideological expression of the characters.
Fifth, it has the obvious characteristics of the times, it is unsupportive, and it focuses on contradictions.
The film mainly revolves around the rise of Tony, so how did Tony rise?
One is the drug
and the other is the shootout
. Tony's cooperation with foreigners is a clue.
The shootout with domestic gangsters is another
thing that is the most representative of the times, and it is also the content of the entertainment and gimmicks of this film.
Sixth, the characters are comprehensively shaped, with obvious characters and tragic fate.
It involves Tony's career, family, love, and death. (The law of Hollywood narrative is fully reflected here. The beginning—nothing, the climax—the career and family love is all good, the contradictions are revealed, and the final ending—the career, family and love are shattered one by one.)
In the end, the career is ruined and killed by the partner.
broken family
love
The content of this film is old-fashioned, the performance is perfect, the skills are full, and the ideas are acceptable.
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