But I think that these seemingly inspiration-driven activities actually have a set of fixed working methods and rules. By relying on these methods, creativity can be continuously generated, so that artists who are not inspired can also push forward their work. In other words, these inspiration-driven "brain activities" actually have a way to become "physical labor".
The characterization of The Hangover is, in my opinion, the result of a little creativity and a fixed approach. This fixed method (golden rule) of shaping the character image is to create contrast.
We say that the driving force of drama is conflict. When creating a character image, if the image can be contrasted with the fixed impression in the audience's mind, conflict will occur before the plot occurs, and the drama will naturally have an internal driving force.
Let's look at the three main characters in this film (the groom is actually a soy sauce man): a teacher, a dentist and a fat man.
In the hearts of Chinese people, teachers have always been a moral benchmark. Due to the professional requirements of being a teacher, more moral self-discipline is what we would expect. And the teacher in "The Hangover" looks like a bohemian guy at first glance - hates his students, and will be stunned after class, and in this lascivious trip to Las Vegas, there are obviously four hooligans 's head. What's even more outrageous is that the teacher who participated in the "Bachelor" party turned out to be a married guy and has children. Although the other three have fiancées and girlfriends, the teacher is obviously a fiancee. The one farthest from the meaning of the title of "The Bachelor".
Dentists, an American dentist, have the impression of being a representative of a decent profession. Why should this profession be rigorous and dignified? The dentist's strict wives also seemed to fit his dignified image, as did his grandmother's ring, a symbol of the classical view of marriage. But fate - especially the fate of Hollywood screenwriters - is so absurd, you will get whatever you are afraid of, and all the rules of his girlfriend will be violated first. When I was a child, I was especially afraid of rules like the "Primary School Student Code". If I got caught up with any one of them and was discovered by the teacher, I would have a flower in my ass. I thought it was harder to break all the rules than to follow all the rules, but the dentist did it! You see, the one who plays the most is him. Others play with strippers at most, and he directly married the dancer. What others lost was just one night's memory, and he also lost a front tooth after removing his memory! At most, other people want to indulge in indulgence, but this guy has completely given up.
If the fat man is only from the beginning to the end, then he is just a dead fat man like the wind - like the wind, you quickly forget him. The contrast of this image is that he is not a stupid fat man, not only is not stupid, he is simply smart - he is a gambling genius. There are always some gag characters in Hollywood movies, such as the hippo in Madagascar, such as the black chatter in Rush Hour, but their role often stops at being funny, and it is difficult to play a role in the main story. But this fat man played the role of twisting the plot. Seeing his resolute face and shrewd eyes at the gambling table, as well as his Marx-style strict beard, we were full of surprises in the midst of our mistakes.
Look at the supporting roles: Tyson, strippers, drug dealers.
Tyson, the boxer who bites his ears, his appearance was a surprise, and the pet he plays with fits his identity - a tiger (if he plays with birds, I guess it will be an owl), the contrast is that Tyson, who was both murderous and brain-dead in our stereotype, turned out to be an empathetic and delicate man, and very forgiving.
Strippers, tsk tsk, must be "victims of the rotten culture of the bourgeoisie", presumably living in a cramped room with dim light, with a chaotic life? Wrong, wrong, the apartment is clean, the temperament is sunny, and she is even a mother of a cute baby. If it wasn't for the fact that she showed a little professional habit when she was breastfeeding her child, you would not be able to discover her career at all. Moreover, she is very affectionate, reasonable, content, and not entangled. When she broke up with the dentist, she showed the best qualities of a girl. If I were that dentist, I would probably be wrong. What more could I ask for?
Drug dealers, naturally, are insidious and calculating? But this black buddy is confused, Zhang Guan Li Dai, not only is not bad, but also very cute.
Each character image has large or small contrasts. It is the setting of these contrasts that makes the characters come alive and full at once. Coupled with the creativity of the main line, a beautiful Hollywood commercial film has been achieved. .
Complying with "creating contrast" to create fictional characters is a basic method, and it is not enough to rely on it alone. It is like rice, which can satisfy basic hunger, but it is still far from the food gap. There is a famous Einstein saying, "Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% sweat", which is actually taken out of context. The second half of the sentence is: "But 1% inspiration is often more important. ". The basic method we are talking about is sweat. With sweat, we can become a qualified person or create a qualified movie, but the real masterpiece and genius, whose qualitative change from qualified to excellent, comes from great inspiration. Inspiration and effort, with a clear division of labor, each perform their own duties.
In our miraculous country, the government will introduce an example of the main theme (such as Lei Feng) after a while. They promote him in a simple and crude way. By monopolizing the right to speak, they unilaterally create an image that is too perfect. As everyone knows, Gao Daquan and Weiguang have long lost the market, and a perfect person always gives people a false feeling and lacks the texture of humanity. A more clever way is to create contrast, for example:
let a vicious killer adopt a stray cat, let a physics academician not tie his shoelaces, let a university president fall in love with cross stitch, let a city administrator fall in love with Simboska's poetry.
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