Shoot the Piano Player Comments

  • Janis 2022-03-19 09:01:10

    I especially like the scene where Charlie goes to the company to talk about the contract. From the moment he went up the stairs, he could hear the loud violin playing, and when he hesitated whether to ring the doorbell, a listless girl walked out and passed him. At this time, there was a special divine arrangement. The camera that had been following Charlie decisively abandoned our protagonist and started following this girl! After the girl walked a few steps, Charlie's piano suddenly sounded,...

  • Oswaldo 2022-03-18 09:01:10

    The mirror movement of the silent film and the bizarre voice-over self-narration create a good perspective of substitution. The small clips such as the unspoken wife, the long-term lover, the sly shopkeeper and the unqualified brothers are all very good, but they can't be put together. To be a good story -- one climax after another, but incoherent, just a collection of trivial short...

  • Selmer 2022-03-18 09:01:10

    A creation of a movie fanatic complex, which combines Truffaut's good Hollywood movie narration with his personal joke style. The beginning is in the style of film noir, and the whole is a variation of a gangster film. The pianist's inner monologue and the collision of reality are very interesting. The snow scene is very similar to the later Coen Brothers' "Frozen". The beginning and the end of the piano music It forms a closed narrative and leaves a suspense about the new waiter. Truffaut is...

  • Garland 2022-03-17 09:01:10

    The French New Wave is free-spirited, the plot and rhythm are like the blues, not mournful, absolutely uncompromising, not rigid, not hesitant, always a little conceited, cute, and the pace is like a big boy, but often He hesitated before romance. In fact, he was talking about what he couldn't get in daily life. It was a little bit, but it didn't make people feel sorry or regretful. If it is so hearty, life is already...

  • Makenzie 2022-03-17 09:01:10

    The clips are very imaginative! I kept using the same action scenes shot many times to cut into the action of the main narration, especially when I entered the heroine's room and flashed back to that scene. The chase scene is still full of Truffaut's style, running around in Paris. The version I watched was probably a castrated sex scene that was handled in a mess. The ending was too rushed and strange, but it still couldn't cover this amazing film/Women who expect their love to become famous...

  • Jaime 2022-03-16 09:01:09

    Still so reckless, under the guise of a crime movie, it is actually a painful personal history of the pianist: from being ashes to love, to rekindling enthusiasm but being beaten back into the abyss; at first turning a blind eye to the stare of the waitress, and finally looking at it again. Self-doubt swayed by the other waitress; Truffaut's handling of delicate feelings was still as deft and...

  • Name 2022-03-15 09:01:11

    Very interesting film, not boring, of course, if you watch it as a suspense film or something with the idea of ​​watching Hitchcock, you will be disappointed ~ I watched a little related things before, so I have a certain psychological preparation, or the film Much better than I imagined~As expected of the master of the new...

  • Theo 2022-03-14 14:12:31

    Truffaut's best is not just a genre film. There seems to be some kind of relay between the characters. The open plot makes every encounter and accident bloom into a colorful little story. It only needs to frame two strangers. Magic can be generated in one shot, and the two streams of motion follow-up shots and storytelling monologues show the meaning of time and the tension of characters...

  • Damaris 2022-03-12 08:01:02

    Truffaut's "Made in America", American film-style "inner monologue" and genre films such as "Pursuit", "Double Identity" and "Back to the Origin Structure" are widely used in "Shoot", even adding French Impressionist superposition. But these formalizations are still based on the skeleton of Bazin's "real movies." A fast-paced, themeless rendition of reality. Absurd motive. Murder has become the least important...

  • Johnny 2022-03-12 08:01:02

    Truffaut's second feature film. 1. Full of existentialism, parody and deconstruction of American B-level crime films, very Godard. 2. No theme, showing spontaneity and improvisation, as well as the impermanence and absurdity of life. 3. The kidnapper who made jokes in the car was a reference for Cohen [Frozen Blood], and the meaningless chatter was inherited by Quentin. 4. The off-screen monologue (intention) and the image (action) are contradictory. 5. The gangster swore to fall into the...

Extended Reading
  • Bernita 2022-03-12 08:01:02

    Who is better, Woody Allen or Francois Truffaut

    Who is better, Woody Allen or François Truffaut? Maybe they shouldn't be compared together.
    I watched "Shooting the Pianist" today. I had never heard of this film until I bought it last night. Narratively speaking, though, both of them are equally invincible, and I think Truffaut should be better...."

  • Sabrina 2022-03-12 08:01:02

    Childish Truffaut with his own sorrows

    If it is an American noir film, it will never be so scattered and trivial, and it will not be so scattered and trivial that a clue will suddenly follow a certain character. Only in Truffaut's film world can it be so unrestrained and break through all the shackles of convention. Unlike a...

Shoot the Piano Player quotes

  • Charlie Kohler: [Talking to himself] Come on, come on, get your mind on something else. Think of Art Tatum. Has he got talent? And Erroll Garner? Yes, Erroll Garner *has* talent.

  • Clarisse: You still sleep in the raw?

    Charlie Kohler: Yes. It's healthier.