Last week, I learned that CCTV6 would put "Once upon a time in America" in a good film contract, so I became interested in watching it. This movie has been downloaded for some time, but I'm too lazy to watch it. It's too long, nearly four hours. Of course, I won't go to the dubbing version, which is simply a contempt for my listening level. But I still want to watch Chinese subtitles.
Why should I watch this movie? Recently, I watched many video tutorials of Grandpa Zhou Chuanji's film theory, so I also want to find a classic film to analyze. Below, I will analyze several typical lens fragments of this film.
1.30s？ Noodles? Is the smoke lamp (round) in China Tobacco Museum big? The scene lights (round) after the three brothers were killed by the police. This place is very suitable for grandpa Zhou? Round and round? Lens assembly theory is based on.
2. What are the old eyes looking at in the hole in the toilet wall of the fat shop? The girl Deborah is dancing? Teenage noodles are peeping through that hole.
3. Da et al. watched noodles go to prison? Epitaph? Your youngest and strongest will fall by the sword. Old face is looking at the above sentence.
There is a key hanging on the wall of the cemetery room? This key is opening a safe.
Old noodle was walking in the street with a box of money just taken out, when suddenly a frisbee was thrown at him. After he dodged, he grabbed it with one hand? The young McDonald's grabbed the suitcase from the young man who had just been released from prison.
6. Xiao mian and his companions drove the car into the river together? A burnt car salvaged from the river is playing on TV (1968).
7. What are the two blood-red headlights after the old man Mai Da committed suicide by jumping into the garbage shredder? Two white headlights approach, and this car is carrying carnival young people.
I still don't understand some aspects of the plot. For example, Young Mai da planned to rob a bank. After the noodle tipped off the police, Maida and others were killed on the spot by a truck, which was full of wine and broken bottles. There are many comments about this film on the Internet, and some of them are in-depth analysis. I'm tired of watching this film, so I won't write much.
Review of past American movies II. I saw this classic in an article. Did you order it? Want to see it? After that, I got the support of my friends and neighbors for the first time.
Yesterday at noon, on a beautiful weekend, I watched Don't Read by Dalden for a long time. At noon, I ordered Chinese hamburger and rice skin downstairs and began to appreciate this masterpiece. I just wanted to watch it in the middle, but I didn't stop. I didn't feel very moved except watching the little guy cry after eating cream cake. Surprisingly, I couldn't read the book after reading it, and I was anxious. I cried inexplicably on the quilt after using Weibo's various coquetry to comfort me, but I still felt that there were thousands of stones in my heart. A wonderful weekend was ruined like this.
Lying in bed with eyes closed at night, my mind kept flashing fragments of focal plane. It was a naked female corpse with her legs forcibly separated, begging robbers to rape her. What I can't forget most is the breast under the gun, which is so crystal-clear and beautiful that it can be broken with a flick of a finger. I felt its trembling fear outside the screen. Yes, its beauty is so fragile under the weapon of gun. I was scared by it. Perhaps for centuries, before there was no country, women came like this, trying to find a poor shelter in violence, blood, war, killing and panic. The fear, pain and tears hidden in the body of countless ancestors were all shouted out by the film.
Perhaps it is unwise to guess the director's opinion. What matters is our own position. If violence can also be called beauty, I see that both men and women lose. The film shows this life naked, constantly satisfying one's desires with violence, and constantly falling into the mire.
I saw someone say that the heroine was selfish and indifferent. I mean, even if a woman doesn't plan to grow old with a man now, can't she accept his invitation to dinner? After all, the other person is also the person you like. We can't completely accept all the people we like. Even if she refuses the other party, can it be a legitimate reason for the other party to rape herself? Violence is violence, rape is rape. The same person you like, doing the same action, love is the integration of body and mind, but violence only feels dirty. I don't know how many men are doing simple piston movements in women in the name of love. They just masturbate, imaginary goddesses. The living woman in front of me is just an inflatable doll with a body temperature.
So is individual violence, so is collective violence, and so is violence between countries. Once violence finds any high-sounding reason, it will spread endlessly and eventually destroy itself.
Some people say that it is not good for the heroine to have a plan. I want to say that these words are inherently neutral, and there is no distinction between nobility and inferiority. Aren't we all making plans now? Why can't women of that era have their own dreams? Good love means that two people together are getting better and better. Sacrifice, sacrifice, compromise and perfect love are never beautiful or appreciated.
I feel sorry for these boys, too They can't choose the time of birth and family, and at the same time try to maintain their sensitive and fragile self-esteem, and even covet such a perfect love. I admire those girls and women who are really bold. I don't want to explore whether the girls at the bottom of that era had a better lifestyle. There is no single standard for good or bad. They are bohemian and read by countless people. They regard sexual intercourse as drinking tea and eating in public. At least they accept who they really are and support themselves by their own labor. The prostitute who met the actor who just got out of prison in the car laughed and left. Who can say that there is no sadness under that kind of laughter? If you can't choose a noble identity and a living method, you can at least choose a arrogant attitude to face the world.
In short, I still feel that the small wound is gently torn and quietly solidified and healed. Maybe life is such a process. We fainted at the sight of a drop of blood from the beginning, and gradually got used to this kind of destruction and even began to enjoy the slightly abnormal pleasure of watching those wounds tear and heal.
I feel much better when I write, and I am not so depressed.
3 12 1 1 In the evening, the best film was arranged, and I watched the American gangster films "Once upon a time in America" and "Once upon a time in America" for four hours. I watched it again at seven o'clock the next morning. There are many jumping scenes in the movie. Time is also interspersed more frequently. Reading it once is often "incomprehensible".
The film tells the story of children from several poor families in the United States, from sneaking around, blackmailing, deceiving gangs to dominating underworld gangs. Mainly describes the friendship between a "good robber" and a "bad robber" and their grievances.
Noodles used to be the leader of young punk. Later, older and more cunning barley appeared, replacing the position of noodles. They went from helping another rogue gang leader, Bug, to setting up their own foundation. The five children decided to share weal and woe. Noodle was sentenced to 12 years in prison for killing bedbugs and injuring police officers in the crossfire with bedbugs. During his imprisonment, several partners of Noodles made a fortune by smuggling and selling bootleg liquor (prohibition of alcohol was promulgated in the 1920s), and opened bars, brothels and other industries.
After Noodles got out of prison, they joined in and continued their gangster career. They rob jewelry, kill people and steal goods. He also participated in political strikes, rescued Jimmy, a strike leader and politician, kidnapped the children of corrupt police chiefs who secretly helped capitalists, and intervened in labor disputes on strike.
Later, McDonald's was going to rob a federal bank. Everyone thinks they will die. McGrady is still doing it. Noodles told the police about their smuggling of wine in order to save their friends, lest everyone die. In the end, not only mcdonough, Parker and corns were killed, but also Eve, the prostitute who lived together with Noodle. Noodles are disheartened, change their names and surnames, and fly away. Thirty-five years later, noodles were invited back by an invitation letter. He found three of his friends buried in a luxurious cemetery built in his name. He also got a generous "next step" advance payment.
It turned out that the bloody killing thirty-five years ago was a conspiracy planned by Mai Da. He colluded with the police, called the police with noodles, cleaned the eyes of his accomplices Parker and rooster, and took their property. Mada is ambitious. After "bleaching" himself, he changed his name and surname, abandoned business and went into politics, and climbed to the high position of Minister of Commerce. Mai Da also used money to capture Di Bola, noodle's favorite childhood girlfriend, as a lover. Gave birth to a son.
McDonald's is still dishonest in politics. He colluded with oligarchs to smuggle illegally and became the target of the FBI. His associates, or high-level political needs, must sacrifice McDonald's. Knowing what would happen to him, Maida found his former friend Noodles in the name of "Brix" Minister. He would rather let noodles kill him than give the FBI a chance to assassinate him. Noodles that have experienced ups and downs, in the face of childhood and former partners, have robbed him of his position, swallowed his ticket, and robbed his wife of Mai Da, with tears in his eyes, but his heart is dying. When MacDonald took revenge on him, Noodles refused. He said that he once betrayed a friend for the sake of "great friendship", which caused them all to die. He didn't even call "mcdonough" all the time, and politely broke up with "Minister Brix".
Maida committed suicide by walking into the garbage shredder.
This is a very interesting blockbuster. The slightly gloomy tone sets off some helplessness in life.
The history spans 40 years, from 192 1 to 1968. Several childhood friends have interpreted different endings caused by different personalities. Noodles are simple and thick (love); Mai Da is cunning and pays attention to "career"; Debra is proud and important. This girl is the sacred goddess of noodles, and Debra has no feelings for noodles. When Noodle was released from prison, she once said to Noodle, "You are the only person I have paid attention to in my heart." They were never together.
Understand the beauty of the world and experience the vicissitudes of the world. Forty years of growth experience, forty years of unforgettable memories.
It should be mentioned that the original novel is called hooligan. Yes, noodles, McDonald's, Patrick and corns are gangsters of the underworld. Noodles did not agree to rob the jewelry and then kill the employer, but they still killed people. They are the cancer of society, but they are living people.
If some netizens are interested, you can look at the relevant film reviews first, which will be easier to understand. The film begins with the ecstasy of noodles at the China Theatre-the Great Tobacco Museum in the 1930s (he went to the Great Tobacco Museum after calling the police to save a friend), and the last scene returns to the end of noodles enjoying a smile at the Great Tobacco Museum in the 1930s. Is it to reveal that life is like a dream, or to interpret a drunken dream, or to express indifference to the world? I don't know.