Watched Nebraska and Life with a Glass of Wine again and again on and off. The outstanding feeling is: the film and the novel have a lot in common in the way of narration, and they can learn from each other. In terms of these similarities, the director of the two films, Alexander Payne, an American born in Nebraska in 1961, is of the same type as I in terms of narrative preferences. This expression in Chinese may seem outrageous, but that's what it means anyway. Obviously, I can't be compared with him at all, but there is a certain overlap in some aspects. I think there are similarities in the framing and performance of static images. Payne is a director who pays great attention to form and details. This time, I was quite impressed by a scene: Woody's two sons proposed to see the ancestral house where he grew up. went. When he was in his parents' room, he walked to the window and said to himself, "The barn is still there." Through this sentence, he switched the picture from indoor to outdoor. The barn here mainly plays the role of scene transition, and the exterior scene is in After staying on the barn for a moment, it panned to the backs of the father and son who were standing not far from the barn and looking into the distance. In contrast to watching President Hill at the beginning of the film, it was the younger son who proposed to leave at this time, probably because he was worried that his mother and brother would be impatient, and it was Woody who was reluctant to revisit the old place. After that, there is a dispensable dialogue. I think the main purpose is actually to show that Woody still can't watch enough even under the urging of his son. Until the end of this clip, he is standing still and facing the distance, watching. Those he said were "just broken wood and weeds". This is a meaningful and implicit expression, so bland on the surface that the audience who only pays attention to the content of the plot can pass it at a glance. This difference is mainly due to the habit of appreciation. I once defended my mother like this. Their generation of literature lovers is used to the plot-based mode of classical novels, and they do not know enough about the development and expression of modern literature. There is no distinction between Chinese and foreign, only classical and modern.
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