At the beginning of the story, the Gothic environment was deliberately rendered. The ancient villa, the unfathomable fog, and the crumbling wooden bridge. Five detectives and their partners were invited to attend the dinner in the ancient house. No one knew what to wait. What they are going to be, this again applied the classic "Blizzard Mountain Villa Model" in detective novels, which drew the audience's appetites.
The next step is to check the characters. Although five world-famous detectives are invited in the movie, the audience will find that they have never heard the names of these characters. Of course, the film party specially changed their names, but this is difficult. Lovers of detective novels: Inspector Sidney Wang, who can't figure out English prepositions and definite articles, but always speaks Chinese maxims, is the incarnation of Chinese detective Charlie Chan, Dick and Dora couple (Dick and Dora Charleston) is based on the Nick and Nora Charles in the novel "Skinny". He likes good food and always speaks with a French accent, a mustache Mr. Pierre (Milo Perrier) spoofs It’s Hercule Poirot in Granny’s writing, and the foul-spoken and outspoken Sam Diamond alludes to the tough guy detective Sam Spade (Sam Spade), and Jessica Marbles is the horse in Granny’s writing. Miss Marple (Miss Marple).
I have to admire the screenwriter’s spoof ability. The character characteristics and experiences of those big detectives have been further teased and mocked along with the development of the plot. Wang Jian said that he has no biological children, only a Japanese adopted child. In fact, the early Hollywood film "Chen Chen" There are quite a lot of children of Charlie Chen in the "Charlie series" movies. It is estimated that they are the people with the most children in the history of detective novels. This is an obvious irony. Dick Charleston is an old-school English gentleman, well-educated, and he has a clear view of everything except his wife and his dog, which is the same as Nick and Nora in the original "Skinny". As a Belgian, Pierre was always mistaken for the same experience as a Frenchman and Poirot. Sam Diamond called his secretary "Angel", which is reminiscent of the name Spade in "The Maltese Eagle", and even his accent is imitating the famous actor Bogart. Miss Marble and her maid are as excited as children about having a case to reason about, which is also in line with the character of Miss Marple’s lovely old lady~
In reasoning, the rigorous and boring dogmatic reasoning is completely abandoned, and everyone is brainstorming. Various concepts and conflicts of interest have slowly emerged, and along with it, various jokes have also poured out, making people no longer feel horrified and suspenseful, and instead enjoy the film with a relaxed and humorous attitude. Traditional detective reasoning always adopts the most conventional narrative, always relying on touching, ups and downs plots to win. And this movie breaks this set of model constructions, and what supports the whole story is no longer a single reasoning, but the interweaving of the characteristics of various characters.
Finally, the five great detectives gave their own answers, and the reasons are also different (there are reasonable and absurd, but they are basically in line with the character's own background), but this time, they all lost, and all the detectives did not investigate. After revealing the final truth, he left with a kind of dissatisfaction after being fooled. At the end, I even borrowed Truman Capote’s words to say: "You have been so smart for a long time. You have forgotten your low-key and humbleness. Over the years, you have made fun of readers in various ways, and you have done something unreasonable in order to surprise others. The ending, and even in the last five pages of the book, you let new characters who have never appeared on the stage. As for you, you always hide clues to hide information, so that we can’t guess the murderer at all. Now it’s good, the situation is reversed. Millions of angry readers finally took a breath."
In the form of anti-detective, the film implicitly inquires about the existence of the detective novel world and the characters in it, thus showing its variability and diversity. The logic does not need to be particularly rigorous, and sometimes there is more than one answer, whether it is true. , Fictional, or reasonable, "no ending" is actually an ending in itself...
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