At first I thought it was the work of a rookie director, but after watching it, I felt that the style was very familiar, and I found out that it was Edgar Wright's film. I have to praise this director I like very much.
This product can be said to be the British post-50s Danny Boyle ("28 Days", "Trainspotting", "Slumdog Millionaire") and the post-60s Guy Ritchie ("Smuggling", "Two Smoking Guns") ”) after one of my favorite post-70s British directors (Duncan Jones and Nolan’s American Hollywood style is more obvious), the film has a strong British style. Like all teenage genius directors (who directed or filmed films as a child or teenager because of family or hobbies) such as God Kubrick and Nolan, Edgar Wright's shooting style has a strong personal style, era. Branding and regional characteristics. After graduating from Bournemouth, the best art university in the UK, he has mastered audio-visual language play. Early works Zombie Sean, hot-blooded police detective, all of which are niche movies (well, Sean may not be niche). In recent years, it has had a happy voice, and many excellent works such as The Adventures of Tintin (director Edgar Wright, the main screenwriter of Spielberg), and it has also worked on the most difficult one in the early stage of the Marvel Cinematic Universe- Ant-Man, and at least it didn't (Marvel didn't pick the wrong person).
Hollywood and even American academics have deliberately downplayed a lot of traditional audio-visual language in recent years, and seem to be less encouraging of retro (after the big artists won awards, La La Land won almost all awards except best picture). And Wright's film can be said to escape from Hollywood, completely free himself. When I watched the film, I couldn't help but recall many of the past events of studying in the film school more than ten years ago, and the nostalgic feeling of returning to the classroom. A large number of classic textbook-style audio-visual language applications, such as classic isometric character composition, lane separation, tinnitus, etc. are too numerous to mention, meticulous sound and picture alignment, skilled camera rhythm and skirmish construction, not only let the layman see enough Lively, it also meets the needs of experts to watch the doorway. The only fly in the ointment is that there are too many classic audio-visual language elements and scenes used in the lens, but there is less personal stunning performance, which makes people feel a little deliberately dazzling. To say that Quentin watched thousands of B-grade films when he was a clerk made it possible to become a master of B-grade films without a teacher by relying only on classic elements. Ten thousand volumes, the writing is like a god”, with the accumulation of time, the more and more strong personal style and dedication to the story you want make it truly sublime to a master. This film brings us the joy that the director's personal original accumulation has been completed. It is one step away from the master. I hope Edgar Wright will eventually become a master of a generation and bring us more amazing works.
After all, it is not easy to stand and earn money. It requires both genius and execution. If you can win both the box office and the award, it's really what the director did.
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