When interviewed by the media, Brother Xiaoben once quoted John Ford as saying that "90% of a director's job is to select and direct actors", and the low-key but powerful actor cast is in the same line as the movie's low-key and pretending to be X. Except for the little brother himself, none of the other actors in the film are from the list of Hollywood first-line stars, but their strength should not be underestimated: Bryan Cranston is the "old white uncle" who has won the Emmy Award for the best actor, John Gu Deman is the royal actor of the Coen brothers, Alan Arkin is a veteran actor who has been in Hollywood for many years, and even the actors who play hostages have rich acting experience. Such a cast not only stops the audience from spending their energy on "seeing the uncle" and "counting the stars", but also effectively ensures that "everyone has a play" in the movie, while adding a sense of authenticity to the film and saving filming The cost is really worth it. Little Ben's lines in the film are so succinct, and there is no sense of grabbing the scene at all, which makes the whole film very coordinated on the performance level, with an obvious new school historical film style.
If we were to retell the story, it would be nothing more than a perfect "I come, I see, I conquer" task without much drama. Therefore, how to turn corruption into magic and turn such a simple story into a wonderful movie has become a touchstone to test the director's ability. Brother Xiaoben mainly uses three methods to achieve this goal in the film. One is to downplay the ideological level of judgment and focus on the contradiction between the common feelings of mankind and the alienation of people by politics. The film not only depicts the homesickness and fear of the six hostages, but also expresses Tony Mendes' longing for his wife and children, the compassion of the Iranian housekeeper in the Canadian embassy, and even the Iranians' interest in movies. Corresponding to it is the killing and revenge between people caused by political conflicts, distrust and indifference to life. A line from the CIA's decision to cancel Operation "Argo" brings the theme to the fore. "Six Americans being executed by mob dragged from Canadian diplomats' mansions would cause world outrage, but if six Americans pretend to make movies and one When the CIA personnel were executed at the airport by them, it would be a national ugly.” When I saw this, I couldn’t help but think of the “Doomsday” that Xiao Ben played in that year. In that film, a gang of American drillers (and don't forget, they're drilling for oil in the South China Sea) can surpass the tech elites of other countries and play the role of world saviors, while in Escape from Tehran. ", it is the United States itself that puts Americans in danger. From "Americans save the world" to "Americans, Canadians, and Iranians work together to save Americans, and the US government is causing trouble", such a change is obviously more suitable for contemporary audiences. values.
Such complaints will not only not irritate Hollywood, but will become a talking point in the film circle.
Little Ben's second tactic is to use Hollywood as a flavor-enhancing ingredient. In fact, the Argo mission has less to do with Hollywood after Tony went into Iran alone, but the mission is only just getting into the main part at this point. In order to increase the dramatic effect and interest of the film, Little Ben has greatly increased his role in Hollywood, taking the film "Argo" as a very important clue in the film, from inviting a director to negotiating the right to adapt the script, from "Argo f* From the birth of the slogan "*K yourself" to the end of the film, Liszt and John were blocked by the filming site outside the sixth studio. These bridges integrate the filmmakers' restoration and reflection of the Hollywood model into the film, which is not only serious It's a neat touch to add a lighthearted touch to political themes and to please nostalgic critics. The film crew's scene with the lines is particularly classic. In fact, this scene has little to do with the task of rescuing the hostages, but it becomes the finishing touch to highlight the theme of the film. The director approached the scene with a parallel montage approach, interweaving the crew, the Canadian embassy, the Iranian people and the CIA with smooth editing. It fully embodies the sharp conflict between the Americans demanding the hostages go home and the Iranians demanding a fair ruling, and expresses the director's thinking on politics and history through the lines of "Argo", which is similar to the novel "Madame Bovary". The passage of the agricultural exposition that shook the past and the present has the same purpose, and it can be said to be a classic passage that can be loaded into a movie textbook.
The third method is the grasp of fiction and reality, which is also the most controversial part of the film. In fact, changing the facts is an inescapable issue for all historical films. If you want the film to be exciting, it must be changed, but each change will give the audience one more reason to criticize the film. Therefore, instead of making changes in a stealthy way, it is better to make open-minded changes to gain the understanding of the audience. Brother Xiaoben used Hollywood's most classic "last minute rescue" model in the film, so that the audience knew that the facts would not be as nervous as the movie, but they couldn't help but follow the rhythm of the movie and hold their breath. When the audience breathed a sigh of relief, the director immediately used the method of comparing historical pictures with movie clips to present the "real" in front of the audience to make up for the changes to the historical reality in the film. The invisible techniques are unrestrained and extraordinary, revealing the self-confidence and ambition of the younger brother to become a master.
Although "Once Upon a Time in America" is an epic gangster epic, it cannot shake the stable status of "The Godfather" in the history of gangster movies; although "The Shawshank Redemption" has stimulated the audience in the years after 1995, and has become a second-class youth to literary youth The introductory required course for entering, but in the Oscar competition that year, he lost to "Forrest Gump", which seemed to be stupid but was domineering in his gestures. Therefore, those young people who pretend to be "X" all day should pay attention. The difference between X and X is that the former is a high-profile show off and the latter is a natural reveal. If you can't reach the "X" The level of X is longing for it, then at least learn to make the X be low-key, after all, low-key is a high-end X-install.
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