This is the latest of the 20 movies I've watched. To be honest, there is nothing in the movie itself that I liked or moved too much, but if you are a true movie lover, after watching this movie, you can't forget the story in this story. Spoiler here, this is a film in which the great director Martin Scorsese pays homage to the film predecessor Georges Mérieux. I'm not too interested in the main story of the film, but at the end, when Merieux's identity was revealed and he recounted his own life, the story was so embarrassing. Just as predecessors created the stave, later composers used it to interpret music to the extreme; the Tang people created the words, and the Song people carried it forward; if Edison shaped the body of the film, then Mérieux endowed the film with the soul.
He was the manager of a theater in Paris and a theater and magician. The video recording tool invented by Edison was brought to France by the Lumiere brothers to broadcast their documentary "The Arrival of the Train". Merieux saw this magical The machine later realized that it could do more than Lumiere and Edison could have imagined. So he spent a lot of money to buy a piece of equipment, and organized people to start shooting "movies". He recorded and screened the performances of stage plays in "films", and created many photography, lighting and editing techniques that are still used today. There are introductions in these films, which I read before in the book "108 Masters of Cinema". With the outbreak of the First World War, Mérieux's film road began to be bumpy and difficult. Later, he failed to manage his business, the film company went bankrupt, and he was so poor that he had to run a humble toy store in the Paris train station. Ugh. When the movie finished telling this story, my heart was heavy. Georges Mérieux is really a master who made a huge contribution to the film. Without his insight back then, the movie might just be an ordinary DV. However, the old state of the master is so decadent, it is inevitable that it is sad. Think about it, maybe this is the case in life. Heroes may not always end up with glory. Yue Fei, Yu Qian, Napoleon Bonaparte...too many.
The most impressive shot: When the little robot drew a face-like moon on the blueprint, I couldn't help but exclaimed: "Journey to the Moon"!
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