very good climbing film

Hillary 2022-09-29 00:23:17

168 hours, 7 days. It took 17 minutes to reach the top, and the remaining 89 minutes to talk about the downhill part. - Proportion matters!
The previous scene reproduction is very conventional, narration, reproduction narration. Starting from the broken leg, the weight of the film has increased, and it is necessary to express the inner activity and the audio-visual at that time. At this time, it was still a conventional film technique, and there was no emphasis on audiovisual.
The most exciting audio-visual part is the part about the time when the hallucination is shown. What I like the most is the use of that piece of music, not just the music, but the volume and the effects all come into play. It doesn't matter what the music is, volume and sound effects are more expressive.
Choose the scene, choose the dilemma, choose the character, the dilemma and the character interaction, what is the focus of the story? !
In the interview with the director and the prototype, the prototype's words are very interesting -
Joe Simpson: I am the worst person to comment on this film, because it tells my story, and my perspective is different from yours. I love this movie, but it's not real, it's like listening to your own voice, you recognize it, but it doesn't sound real. The movie describes it well, but I know what the real situation is like. The things that used to make me sad, the film took a way that doesn't affect you. But I didn't like the Ice Crack scene and the finale scene, not that I thought they were wrong, just because the emotions and memories they evoked weren't what I wanted.
What is the director trying to express? What did the original author want? It's an interesting question...what exactly the film is trying to convey, you need to think very clearly. This will determine proportions and focus.

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Touching the Void quotes

  • Simon Yates: rather than just sit here, feeling sorry for myself or whatever, I'll get on with it and I'll die on the way down.

  • [first lines]

    Joe Simpson: We climb cause it's fun.