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Movie! Movie!
Fans who don't want to be screenwriters are not good directors.
"Watching a movie in a movie" has always been a lot of fun, especially for people who love movies. The "movie" plays a very important role in this story. From the character setting of the protagonist - a senior movie fan, to the important activities throughout the whole play - making a movie; the movie is an important clue to connect the overall plot and the relationship between the characters.
According to statistics, this film pays tribute to at least 42 classic films. From "Citizen Kane" to "Taxi Driver", from "Vertigo" to "A Clockwork Orange"... These fleeting "leader remakes" of classic movies not only make his own image more distinct, but also It's like a small gift from the director to all fans.
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It's an escape and a style.
The style of the whole movie is very unique, and the audience can obviously feel those places with a strong personal style, but at the same time these places are easy to make people play.
The biggest problem with the film is the pacing of the story. This movie is more like a display of the inner world of the hero Greg, plus Greg's character setting is an "escape-type social phobia", so that the relationship between the hero and everyone else is not particularly close, even Earl and "dying girl" Rachel, who appear in the title of the movie, also don't have many roles.
The plot lacked interaction for a long time, the tones with low saturation, coupled with the world-weary and frustrated self-monologue of the male protagonist, the too long foreshadowing when shaping the characters, the wonderful but short story climax, and the lengthy recovery period after the foreshadowing was revealed... ... these are the parts that are extremely easy to get bored of the audience.
But at the same time, there are a lot of interesting things in this movie.
The most effective part of the first half of the movie to get rid of boredom is when the director uses clay stop motion animation to show Greg's inner activity when he meets a beautiful girl. In addition to the protagonist, the exaggerated and inexplicable performances of other characters are used to support the comedy atmosphere in the story.
The most worth mentioning is the photography part of the film. Many of the shots in the film are full of imagination and make people remember. Push-pull shots used to show the emotions of the characters; partial close-ups with fast left and right shaking shots; and the photographer would suddenly flip the picture 90° to shoot... It seems inexplicable, but in the movie, it does not violate at all And, even with some brain-opening joy.
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Has a false name? True to its name?
The script of the film was once hailed as the blacklist of scripts in 2012 .
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What is a "screenplay blacklist"?
The "Black List of Hollywood Scripts" is a "small circle publication" that is distributed to industry insiders once a year.
The list was judged by 150 producers and senior assistants. The list includes some of Hollywood's hottest scripts that were bought by studios in the year but couldn't be made in the year. Generally, this list contains the most popular movies in the industry that most of the general public haven't heard of. These films generally haven't made headlines because most of them haven't started production.
Perhaps because of cultural differences, many of the burdens in the film are not easy to understand at once, including the ambiguous emotions of the male and female protagonists-the blurred boundary between friendship and love, which is a bit confusing.
But we can also find some commonalities and gain some emotional resonance. The confusion of adolescence, the fragile heart but still trying to be brave, wanting to express concern but always being mean... All the little emotions and little anxiety will slowly leave with the heat of summer dissipating.
Like all youth movies, after a series of events, Greg finally began to change, began to try things that he once resisted, and learned to face up to all kinds of escapes in the past.
Maybe we've all felt that we're not good enough, but there must be someone who will tell you, "You're actually really good." And then show you the sparkle of yourself in his eyes.
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