Love Billy to death. . .

Leann 2021-12-22 08:01:04

A large number of classic video works emerged in Hollywood in the 1930s and 1940s, and these works only portray all kinds of life in black and white. Perhaps, today, more than half a century later, when we encounter the low ebb in life and want to feel the true feelings in the world, watching a classic old movie has become the best choice. And Billy Wilder's works can undoubtedly be included in the best choice.
Billy Wilder is of authentic Jewish descent. He was born on June 22, 1906 in Vienna, the capital of Austria. His mother had lived in the United States for seven years. According to Hollywood legends that she liked the United States, she called her son "Billy" because it sounds very American. His father ran coffee shops and hotels, but he changed jobs frequently and had financial problems. When Billy was a teenager, he loved to play billiards and pay attention to the dynamics of guests in hotels and cafes. At this time, he became very interested in Ernst Lubitsch's films. After that, Billy spent seven years at the University of Vienna. He quickly decided to pursue a career in journalism, and he soon succeeded in getting a job as a journalist. In 1926, Billy moved to Berlin, Germany, where he worked as a newspaper reporter and worked as a screenwriter.
In 1933, Hitler launched a war. As a Jew, Billy fled to Paris to avoid persecution by the Nazis. He had some good scripts and got a Hollywood contract. So Billy left Europe, and he lost contact with his relatives until the second time. Until the end of the world war (and later learned that his family had died in a concentration camp), the war affected their destiny.
When he first arrived in Hollywood, Billy only knew a little English and a small amount of money. He didn't even have a home. He even lived in the female bathroom of the hotel. No matter what, he finally got a job with the help of actor Peter Lorre. One job is to write scripts at Paramount Pictures. His capable work performance made him highly regarded, and at Paramount, Billy worked with Charles Brackett to write the script. Later, he started his own career as a director. "Adults and Children"[1] (The Major and the Minor) (1942) was Billy's debut as a director. Since then, Billy has directed more than 20 films and achieved great success. Billy’s early successful films include: "Double Indemnity" [2] (Double Indemnity) in 1942, "The Lost Weekend" (The Lost Weekend) in 1945, "Double Indemnity" is a classic noir film, content It is the story of the heroine Barbara Stanwyck (Barbara Stanwyck) and the insurance agent McMurray (Fred MacMurray) murdering her husband to obtain insurance money. Later, "Lost Weekend" (see section 4) made the 38-year-old Billy a master in the film industry. Ray Milland was appointed as the protagonist of the film-an alcoholic. The film enabled Billy to win his first two Oscar awards, including: best director and best writing, screenplay, best picture and best actor (Ray Millen). After "Lost Weekend", he had two films that were even influenced by his experience in Germany, A Foreign Affair (1948), which is a comedy on the surface, set in the romantic triangle relationship in Berlin, although it won the Oscar nomination for the most The film script, but the film itself was criticized as vulgar and banter until 1953, Billy filmed "Stalag 17" (Stalag 17), which was played by William Holden as a German prisoner of war. The film was once again nominated for an Oscar, this time for best director. In 1950, Billy and Charles co-wrote "Sunset Boulevard" (Sunset Boulevard), which is recognized as a very successful immortal masterpiece. The film is directed by Billy. This film describes the Hollywood film industry. The main characters are: The silent film actress Norma (Norma Desmond was created by veteran actor Gloria Swanson Gloria starring), her lover William Holden acted as a young and unscrupulous screenwriter. The story is carried out in a flashback mode, starting with William Holden watching his corpse in the swimming pool. Billy satirizes Hollywood in the film. The dark side of the actor fills the actor's life. (See Section 4) The great success of "Sunset Boulevard" made it nominated for 11 Oscars, including Billy's best Oscar for writing, story, and screenplay. The peak of Billy's creation of popular films was in the 1950s. After the success of "Sunset Boulevard", there was also the romantic drama "Sabrina" (1954), starred by big-name stars Audrey Hepburn and Bogart. The same style of romantic comedy and "Love In The Afternoon" (1957) was also starred by Audrey Hepburn, this time she was replaced by Gary Cooper (see section 2). Other comedies include: "Seven Years Itch" (Seven Years Itch) (1955), the classic scene of Marilyn Monroe's skirt being blown up from this. There is also "Some Like It Hot" in 1959, which created a classic pair of gears: Tony (Tony Curtis) and Jack Lemmon (Jack Lemmon). The classic scene of Monroe's skirt being blown up comes from this. There is also "Some Like It Hot" in 1959, which created a classic pair of gears: Tony (Tony Curtis) and Jack Lemmon (Jack Lemmon). The classic scene of Monroe's skirt being blown up comes from this. There is also "Some Like It Hot" in 1959, which created a classic pair of gears: Tony (Tony Curtis) and Jack Lemmon (Jack Lemmon).
But this film suffered Waterloo at the Oscars that year. The reason is that it met the Oscar winner "Ben-Hur" [1] (Ben-Hur). Forty years later, the American Film Institute (AFI) chose this film as the opening one of the most hilarious comedy. It is also a comedy but somewhat tragic "The Apartment" (1960). Billy once again used love to match Jack Lemmon with character actress Shirley MacLaine. Jack Limon plays the humble office worker. He lent his apartment to his boss and his lover Sally McLean as a rendezvous place for the elevator lady, but he loved her afterwards. Apartment Chunguang was very popular after it was released. Although once again boldly wrote an appalling subject, it also proved Billy’s ability. With this film, he won the Oscar for Best Director, Best Picture and Best Screenplay (cooperating with IAL Diamon). Work) Three awards, in addition to the best original book.
From the 1960s to the 1970s, Billy made more than seven films, but none of them can surpass his previous successes, including: One Two Three (1961), Irma La Douce (1963) (again with Sally McLean and Jack Lemmon), The Fortune Cookie (1966), The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970), The Front Page (1974) and his last directed film, Buddy Buddy in 1981, he firmly denied this film It is not a successful commercial film. Although he has retired, he continues to discuss the new ideas of the film with his long-term collaborator, IAL Diamond, but no film exceeds the development process beyond the discussion. In 1996, Billy confessed to the New York Times that the only thing that made him "excited" in recent years was the film "Forrest Gump"[1] (Forrest Gump).
Billy has written, directed, acted and produced more than 60 works throughout his life. His film career spanned from the 1920s to the early 1980s. He was nominated for 21 Oscars and won 6 Golden Awards. He won 8 in total. Nominated for a gold director for the second time, it was a remarkable achievement. Until March 23, 2000, Billy died of pneumonia at his home in Beverly Hills at the age of 95.
It's hard to find a personal mark in Billy's movies. He shoots various types of movies. If there are any similar elements in these movies, the cynicism may be barely counted. Some people say that he is the "Rasputin Grigority of the film industry"[2]. We can evaluate movies like Sunset Boulevard and Battlefield Army Soul in this way. But when it comes to such warm themes as "Dragon and Phoenix" and "Evening Love", Billy's skill in dealing with love scenes makes people feel as happy as a warm river singing in his heart. Therefore, it is difficult for us to give any attribution to this Hollywood geek. Moreover, there are relatively few of his movies that can be seen in China, so even if the attributive is given, it may be biased. The following categories are only for several of his comedy films that can be found in China: warm comedy, realistic satirical comedy, and black comedy.
2. The form of comedy
(1) The unexpected in the cliché: Billy's warm comedy
Billy's warm comedy is always naturalized to the greatest extent. Lemmon, who has worked with Billy many times, said: "No word of Billy's lines makes me uncomfortable in acting." [3] Billy himself also said, "The best director does not make you feel him." Existing."[1] Therefore, his comedies often do not have spectacles, thrills, accidents, etc. to construct the plot, but the handling and use of small props are superb. Wine glasses, olive bottles, hats, umbrellas, etc. all affect the development of the plot. And echoing each other makes the film detailed and rigorous. The use of the song "Life in the Rose" in the film "Dragon and Phoenix" is impeccable, and it always appears in the key plot, which strongly touches the hearts of the audience. The same dance party, the same tennis court, and the same song, only the time has changed, the characters will change into different love when they mature, and it is natural, which makes us more admire the director's talent. After watching it, some viewers often clap their knees and say: "I knew it would be like this." In this kind of unremarkable love movie, the audience clearly sees that he is designing the plot, which adds up to the drama, but voluntarily takes the bait and sinks step by step. The deeper it gets, the more it becomes fun in the end. Each of his "valleys" will make the audience desperate, but in the romantic comedy, they will always bring everyone back to the "peak". Even audiences who are well versed in the rules are no exception. Slowly we discovered that Wilder's accidents and flashes are always in the process.
"Twilight Love" should actually be the most unacceptable subject, as Hepburn's father said in the film "illegal love" (see section 5). However, Billy's handling and casting make the story feel guilt-free. Hepburn's innocent appearance has been given a mushroom head in makeup. A typical image of a silly girl, but her words and deeds are never discounted by her silly appearance. When Billy woke up to find shoes for Hepburn during the filming of this movie, he was not satisfied with the beginning of the filming. So he waited for Cooper to fall asleep and was awakened to shoot, and finally got satisfactory results. [2] Billy has always been truthful, as can be seen from this studio story.
The script of "Enthusiasm" was not really completed until four days before the end of filming. When filming "Apartment Spring", the lines of the last scene were not printed out, but photocopied. After 15 minutes, the two protagonists started filming. In this way, Billy should be Wong Kar Wai's predecessor. In fact, the two shooting methods are not the same. Billy himself said the truth: "It seems that we don't know what we will do, but otherwise, we always know the end of the story, but we don't know the middle process. This can only be decided at the time." [3] This may be the attraction of Billy's movies, with small flashes and surprises in the clichéd story.
When the filming of "Enthusiasm" started, Billy's friends were not optimistic about the film, which made him quite discouraged. The reason was that Billy used two elements that are unusual in comedy: violence and cross-talk. The filmmaker David O. Selznick said bluntly: "Blood and laughter cannot be mixed." [4] However, this film was a huge success. The story tells that in the 1920s, cellist Tony (Tony Curtis) and Jack Lemmon (Jack Lemmon) witnessed a massacre by a mob. In order to avoid the underworld, they had to pretend to be women and hide around. Later, they came across a group of travelers. The girl band joined them. They met the string singer Marilyn Monroe, so Tony Curtis pretended to be a wealthy gentleman and pursued her. On the other hand, a stupid millionaire was pursuing Lemmon. (He in women's clothing) ……. The final line of the film is really a big highlight:
"But we can't get married"
"Why not?"
"I'm not blonde" The audience must have laughed after seeing this scene,
"It's okay"
"I smoke a lot"
"I don't care." "
"My past is not good"
"I played with saxophone"
"I forgive you"
"I can't have children"
"We can adopt"
"You don't understand, Osgood"
"I am a man!"
"No one is perfect"

This line was copied between two black men in "Miss So White" [1] The dialogue is also a male disguised as a woman. The last sentence is: "Are you not white?!"
(2) The seemingly complete dissatisfaction: Billy's reality satire
comedy The name reality comedy is really inappropriate, because even these are full of realistic irony In the movie, Billy still arranged a happy ending. This can be described as unrealistic. However, there is a slight dissatisfaction among these reunions. These dissatisfaction brought us back to reality. "Soul of the Battlefield" ended with the triumphant escape of Don Taylor and William Holden, but the protagonist was not respected by others when he left. Only one of them said: "Sorry, brother, we all misunderstood you." And Horton didn't seem to care, just said: "Forget it." He helped Taylor, who had a family hatred with him before the war, escape the concentration camp. It was a happy ending, but Bi used: "If we meet again in the United States, don't pretend to be my old friend." Once the audience is brought back to reality, who can not remember the past? This is just human nature. Watching Billy's movies is always hopeful and disappointed.
At the end of "Apartment Spring", when the boss asked Lemon, who had fallen in love with Sally McLean, to give him the keys of the apartment and threatened him with work, Lemon dropped the keys to the boss. Seeing this, the audience was completely disappointed. Did Wilder give everyone the worst ending? No love without awakening? At this time, anyone must check the watch. How long will the movie end, and is it enough to perform the ending of the group members? ―――Okay, it turned out to be the key to the toilet in charge of Shirjuk. The last sentence is very classic: "I don't need this key anymore, because I have washed it from head to toe..." (I don't need it any more. because I have been washed throughout here) The lines have a strong irony. In fact, from the bottom of my heart, the person in charge of the bathroom really needs a wash. And this right way to liberate can only be to leave. Lemon left, the next five minutes later, when Sally McLean heard of Lemon's actions from the boss, she smiled knowingly, and left the boss in the same way. In the apartment, two people sat facing each other, and Lemon said: "I love you, Miss Kubrick" Fran, played by Sally McLean, ignored him and started playing cards: "12" The helpless Lemon had to repeat "Did you hear what I said? Miss Kubrick, I absolutely love you." Sally McLean replied: "Shut up and deal" as the end of the film. The deal in this sentence is very meaningful, because deal not only refers to the deal, but also has the meaning of association. It's quite a sign of letting go. It is true that lovers eventually become married, but both protagonists have lost their jobs. This reservation of human nature undoubtedly used material comfort as a price. Billy tells the helplessness of the metropolis while telling the romantic comedy.
Speaking of helplessness, "The Seven Year Itch" is the most intuitive and concrete portrayal of a middle-aged man. The high-paying and high-profile actor in the play is imaginative about the girl played by Monroe, thinking of her as a lady for a while and then thinking of her as a spreader of street rumors. In fact, the girl and the male protagonist played by Monroe are not of the same class at all, so their interests and hobbies are different. Therefore, the dialogue between them is like talking between a chicken and a duck. But why is the actor still enjoying it? What Billy explained to us is just a truth that everyone understands: what's new is good. It's not lasting.
(3) Guess who will be the protagonist in this film: Billy's black comedy
"Lost Weekend" is the first Hollywood portrayal of alcoholism. Billy added dumbfounding elements to this detective novel. The neurotic male nurse in the alcohol retreat and the expressions on the protagonist's face when they walked more than a dozen blocks make people want to laugh but feel nervous and even feel scared. In Wilder's films, alcoholics behave like the devil. However, the movie does not give people who are intoxicated by alcohol an answer. It just ended on the same wine bottle hanging outside the window as the film began. The dangling wine bottle is as uncertain as the future. Everything seems to be back to the beginning. Perhaps the design of this ending has a lot to do with Billy's childhood memories. "When I was young, there was always the sound of water from the toilet next door. It took a long time for me to imagine that sound as the sound of a waterfall. But many years later, when I was in front of the waterfall, what I really wanted in my heart was It's the sound of the toilet when I was a kid. [1] "Remander won the title of best actor for this movie, and he is often recognized in pubs. In fact, Lei's temperament itself is a bit neurotic, and his expression often makes the audience shiver. Billy's casting ability is really amazing. Many actors agreed to act after Billy gave the general plot of the movie. They trust him. This also reflects Billy's directorial talent from another aspect.
However, the casting is not easy for Wilder. In "Sunset Boulevard" he hit a lot of nails. When Billy Wild was still discussing the script with Charles Black, he had secretly determined the candidate for the actress-May West, but after the 55-year-old May West got the news , But acted very surprised, even a little angry, she refused to play this outdated Hollywood actress who was similar to her own age. Also angry is in Bora's cabinet, she also refused to play for the same reason. Mary Pickford happily accepted the role, but requested that the role of Norma be drastically modified. Finally, George Cook thought of Gloria Swanson. When choosing an actor, Billy Wild’s initial candidate was Montgomery Clift, but Clift said through his agent that he could not fall in love with someone twice his age in the show. Woman. Fried Mark Murray was Billy Wilder's second suitable candidate, but he also declined the invitation because he felt that the acting required for the role exceeded his abilities. And Gurney Kelly also failed to play this role due to contract issues. In the end, the role of Joe Gillis fell to the lesser-known Paramount actor William Holden. This has something to do with the content of "Sunset Boulevard" being too sharp. This is a too sad comedy. Therefore, the best time to watch the "Sunset Boulevard" movie is at night when I am overly excited. When it makes you laugh, you want to laugh but feel sad. When it is sad, although it does not make people cry, it wants to cry and cannot cry. Sorrowful, sorrowful, Xiao Sha. This is a movie that actresses all over the world dare not watch, or a movie that all people who are now successful dare not watch. Norma Desmond stood at the door of Paramount and said that without her, there would be no such film company. The two actors are Eric von Stolheim and Gloria Swanson. No one is more suitable for these two roles than them, because in a sense, they are playing Own. Stourheim has been a director. If the film company allows him to play freely, he will definitely be able to make an epoch-making great movie. It is a pity that his talents cannot be used. His works are rarely shown in cinemas. Even if they appear, they are only fragments, but they are still great. "Queen Kelly" is such a movie. The heroine is also played by Gloria Swanson. She was the most expensive star in Hollywood at the time. The young screenwriter in "Sunset Boulevard", Joe Gillis, was in Nomadie. The film watched in Simmond’s villa is a fragment from "Queen Kelly". Ironically, the film was created by the butler Marco In reality, it was this film that was screened by S. Torheim and ended his career as a directing director in Hollywood. For Gloria Swanson, after "Queen Carey", her life in Hollywood seems to have expired. When Wilder approached her to film "Sunset Boulevard," she was just an ordinary staff member of a New York TV station and had been forgotten for a long time. The face of Gloria Swanson was born to perform this comedy tragedy. When I first saw it, I always felt funny. At the end of the play, she looked at the camera proudly with her nostrils and said: "Well, Mr. De Mili, we can start taking my close-ups", no one will feel sad.
2. The charm of narration.
Many of the above movies started with the protagonist's or sub-protagonist's statement. What they stated must be the background of the film's story. This method will grab the audience at once. In "Evening Love", Hepburn’s father, a private detective in London, published a Parisian talk about the grievances of Parisians’ love relationship:
This is the capital of Paris, like other big cities, London, New York la, la, like tokyo,
(Paris picture, the camera slowly zooms [1])
but there are two things it is very special:
First, Second, Parisian Parisians good food good love
(zooming lens appear that painting Post People of,
no matter how far the camera is, there are kissing men and women on the street)
Oh, maybe they are not good at it, but at least it is commonplace
(the sprinkler that drives over wets the kisser, but they continue)
Anytime, anywhere
( The sprinkler drove over, the camera shifted to the Sana River) the
left bank,
(a couple, the camera quickly moved to the opposite bank), the
right bank,
(the couple kissing on the bank) the
same in the middle of the river
(changed to the boat, still kissing Couple)
Day or night
(the couple in the daytime next to the fountain, the same posture, the sky suddenly darkened)
or the butcher or the baker
(there were different professional kissing scenes) and the
friendly funeral owner
(the funeral was over, the funeral) The owner of the instrument lifted the widow’s black veil, and the two kissed)
in motion
(the biker kissed in the car, and there was a police car behind)
in motion
(Sculpture of sex, with a gatekeeper reading a newspaper next to it)
Poodles are like this
(two dogs kiss each other) so are
tourists
(visitors kiss at tourist attractions) so are
generals
(visiting generals kiss each other) and
even existentialists
( At the dinner person, the girl’s face is completely covered by hair, and
the boy opposite pulls her hair away and kisses)
There are childhood sweethearts
(a child gives his little girlfriend a bouquet of flowers and kisses)
and there are old-age loves
(the old man) Give his old girlfriend a bouquet of flowers and kisses)
Husband and wife love
(wedding photo scene)
and unlawful love. This is what I want to say
(the camera is pulled to a high tower, this is the narrator just now--- -A detective)
This is one of the most beloved movie openings. Each set of pictures corresponds to each other, and the narrator’s lines are also opposite. Gives a great sense of rhythm. At the same time full of humor. The eloquent words of the elderly add to the comedy atmosphere.
"Dragon and Phoenix" is an introduction to Lerobi's family background like a female narrator. In "Apartment Spring", the director made a mystery for a while at the beginning of the film, just to let you hear it first. Although he gave a lot of information, such as the population of New York, the salary of "my" position, etc., it seemed that there was no amount of information. We still don't know what kind of story it is. But there is no doubt that the audience smelled like a comedy. "The population of New York City has reached 8,042,783. If all people are connected head to tail, and each person is 5 feet 6 inches, this length can be connected from Times Square to the outskirts of Karachi, Pakistan." This is an explanation of the background, and it is also an explanation of the background. With the big bait from the director, the audience is drawn into the movie while getting a knowing smile, because this is the city where they live. Even people living in different countries blend into it because of the similar urban atmosphere.
The opening line of "War of the Army" is the personal statement of the prisoner Cookie. The name is the personal experience of the prisoner of war in Germany. Such a monologue adds a lot to the realism of the film.
"Seven Years Itch" was once again sold off. From the perspective of the indigenous people, it seems to have nothing to do with marriage, but it gradually reveals the full truth of the film. Although the audience must have already understood the plot of the movie after watching a passage about Native American Indians in the previous minute, the audience couldn’t help being hooked by Wilder because of the jokes:
Let’s see the opening of the movie first. This statement about Aboriginals and Manhattan.
Manhattan
( Manhattan on the map)
Manhattan's name comes from the local indigenous
(a group of indigenous
Indians ) Manhattan Indians. A peace-loving people has a custom of
setting traps, fishing, and hunting all day long
. Every July, the heat wave hits At that time
(the Indian men standing on the shore to send their wives away)
the climate on the island became unbearable.
They would send their wives and children to the cooler highlands upstream
(young Indian women walked)
if they could afford it. , They will go to the beach.
Of course, the husbands will stay on the terribly hot island
(the Indian husbands chased after her)
to continue trapping, fishing, and hunting.
In fact, our story is a bit like the Indians. There is no relationship.
This story happened 500 years later
(Manhattan Airport). The
reason we mention them is just to prove that even though the
world has not changed at all after so long , married men in Manhattan still send their wives and children to escape the summer heat.
And they still stay in the desperately hot city to work
trapping, fishing, and hunting
Now we go to see a typical Manhattan married men
(playing a leading role)
his family will leave for the summer, this is Mr.
This is his wife Helen, with her son Ricky
......
(one The young lady walked by, and the men followed her,
but our protagonist Richard Shaman shook his head soberly)
The image of the indigenous people in the front and the scene of the modern men sending their wives and sons aboard the boat, except for the background of the dress. , Almost exactly the same. People must have understood Billy's original intention. This is a film about how men who are tired of married life look for excitement. This subject matter is absolutely sensitive, but Billy chose Monroe as the protagonist to completely erase the guilt of the film. Who would get angry with an innocent girl like Monroe?
The movie "Sunset Boulevard" started with a corpse lying in a pond, and then the corpse began to tell about his life. It was an exciting movie. It is similar to "Double Compensation", in which the narrator is the dying Mike (Fred Macmurry). The dead man is the perfect first person pronoun in Hollywood movies because he knows the ending of the story. Billy Wilder knows that this kind of idea is the best film material. There is actually another version of this movie: it started in a morgue in Los Angeles, accompanied by an intimate dialogue between the coffin and the coffin, the corpse and the corpse. This scene achieved a very good expected effect during the trial screening, and it was a little too good, so that the audience could not concentrate on watching the next 104 minutes. Therefore, the deleted movie puts the narrator of the story-the corpse, in the pond. In this way, the source of the story fell on the head of the corpse floating in the pond, and he told about his life and his life in Hollywood.
The lines are recorded as follows:
Yes, this is Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, California.
(Police car, siren)
It is 5 o'clock in the morning. Just now it was a homicide report,
(the police car was passing by, the police car turning)
was done by police detectives and reporters. In a building on the 10,000th block...
(Stopping at the door of a mansion)
There was a murder. You will learn more about it in the follow-up report.
(The policeman runs into the mansion.)
You can listen to or watch on the radio or TV.
A dead star is involved in it-a former emperor superstar.
But before you hear the distorted or even distorted story, before the
Hollywood columnists get involved,
maybe you want to hear the real story, the truth of the matter.
If so, you are in the right place.
Look, the body of a young man has been found...
(the swimming pool appears with a corpse inside)
floating in the swimming pool of her mansion...
two shots in the back, one shot in the abdomen...
who is not Important, really.
(Reporters taking pictures, and police officers piled up in front of the swimming pool) is
just a writer who has written a few B-rated movies.
Poor guy, he always wanted a swimming pool. In the end, I got it...
but the price paid was a bit higher.
(Shooting the face of the corpse from the angle of the bottom of the swimming pool)
Let's go back to the day when the story began 6 months ago.
(Strong light, backtracking, screen blurring)
I live in an apartment on Franklin and Ewa Street,
(the lens gradually becomes clear, and there is a busy street)
The situation was terrible at that time. I had been in the studio for a long time. No work to do
(using a long lens to pull to an apartment)
I just sit there, mechanically making up two original stories every week.
(Zooming closer to one of the rooms) It’s
just that I don’t seem to feel anymore, maybe these stories are not new enough,
Maybe it’s too novel. In short, what I know is that they can’t buy it...
(From the faint shadow of the curtains, the male protagonist appears in front of the printer) The
three-minute overtones made the audience’s hearts tight. I caught it, just as Wilder said: "There are secrets in it, but they cannot be taught. To make the theme dramatic, it does require some kind of genius, but genius is not enough. You have to run the plot, like building a house. Yes, after the base is established, add up little by little. If within 20 minutes of the opening, the audience has started to buy popcorn, take the children to pee, etc., you are done. You must be close lovers together. I forgot to hold it. It's like something pinching the neck of the audience. They have to stare at the screen. Such a movie is a good movie." [1] And Billy seems to prefer to use a monologue to draw the audience into the plot of the movie. It makes the audience feel that these things are happening around us. Of course, Billy was quite successful in this regard.
Third, let’s ask who is the next generation
Billy created a movie world. The films he directed are more or less comedy, but they always laugh with tears. We can still see him in modern and contemporary American films. Reverberation. No matter which type of comedy, there are descendants to follow.
The two award-winning films "American Beauty" 2 and "Mu Holland Boulevard"[3], which have won awards in recent years, will remind us of Billy's "Sunset Boulevard". Needless to say, "American Beauty" in 1999, director Mendelssohn has said frankly: Without proportion, Wilder's "Sunset Boulevard" will not have my "American Beauty". "American Beauty" also arranged a dead person to talk about himself. The overall narrative of the story of "Sunset Boulevard" is roughly the same, and the comic effect of the film is also full of Billy's taste. "Sunset Boulevard" is Billy, who is in Hollywood, wrote Hollywood's blackness and erosion on the film. "American Beauty" is Mendelssohn, who is in the United States, brought all the problems of the American middle class to the table one by one. And David Lynch's 2001 "Moulin Holland Avenue" simply copied Le Billy's title, and its cutting edge is also directed at Hollywood. If Billy bemoans the decline of silent and black-and-white films, then Lynch is satirizing the indifference between commercialization and actors. Both directors faced the pain that the film industry could not avoid. "American Beauty" faces a wider range, it interprets the problems of American society. It seems to be satirizing a certain social reality, and using Billy's "Sunset Boulevard" as a model to ensure that it is correct. "Sunset Boulevard" won an Oscar and made a good start. Later imitators or borrowers will also receive numerous awards.
The "Miss So White" and "Enthusiasm Like Fire" released in 2004 are basically farce movies. "Miss So White" also copied the melodrama of "Enthusiasm as Fire". Two men dressed as women were also related to crime. Even when the men dressed as women, one cloned to chase the girl, but the other was caught by the same-sex tycoon. It's the same for being obsessed with. The final lines are equally dumbfounding.
The 1989 cozy comedy "When Harry Meets Sally"[4] and "The Apartment Spring Light" are the same. Billy Wilder has such a model: it must not distort human nature, let disappointment imply hope, and the ending is that the positive heart defeats the negative person. But one centimeter away from happiness. "Spring in the Apartment" is a story of small people seeking love, and there are too many rights and social pressures in it. And "When Sally Meets Harry" is against ordinary people's thoughts. It is also a romantic comedy, and the pursuit of humanity is the theme of these two films. There are similarities in some details, such as the chances of getting along with the hero and heroine are all given by one of the friends.
The highly regarded "Merry Doctor and Pretty Nurse"[1] actually had the 1953 "Soul of the Army" as a guide. In "The Soul of the Army" Billy creates a concentration camp, where officials are not like officials, and prisoners are not like prisoners. The Nazis did not seem to be very cruel, and the prisoners also enjoyed a "easy life" away from the battlefield baptized by war. From the thirst for that magical egg, to the helplessness when it turned into an omelette; from the arrival of the Soviet female soldiers, to the prisoners trying their best to watch them take a bath. They are all full of Billy-style humor, unimaginable happening in that era and that prisoner of war camp. Inadvertently catching traitors and a less thorough escape plan and succeeding, it also shows that the theme of this movie is not rescue, but a portrayal of a different American life. Americans of all colors can be found in the film, but one thing is the same. These people all have an American spirit—the desire for freedom and the worship of individual heroism.
"The Merry Doctor and Pretty Nurse" is a group performance. We can understand it as a group of William Horton in "The Soul of the Battlefield". The doctors in "The Merry Doctor and Pretty Nurses" also lead a deviant life: from putting the voice of female officers having sex on the radio, to the most brilliant tricks to punish Japanese officers, they are full of jokes. In the eyes of normal people, these people are lunatics. However, what they do has its own truth in those specific occasions. Whenever they succeed, the audience will rejoice. When the audience watched, they liberated the evil in their own body, and made trouble with this group of military doctors, which produced a sense of joy. In addition, the structure of the film is also very peculiar. The film is composed of several short stories. The same character, the same place, a short story that happened at a specific time—the protagonist struggles with the values ​​they oppose. Each short story ends with a gong. Hawkeye, John, and the Duke can barely be regarded as the three protagonists in "The Merry Doctor and Pretty Nurse". They dismissed normal values, deep in the barracks and hospitals, but made anti-hero behaviors everywhere. The two themes of this film are exactly the same as Wilder's "Soul of the Army in the Field", except that the story relationship of "Soul of the Army in the Field" is more connected, which is a one-line development context. And "The Merry Doctor and Pretty Nurse" is a casual narrative style.
Fourth, the rest
Although Billy once made extremely sharp views of Hollywood in modern and contemporary Hollywood, modern Hollywood still respects him very much. Many famous directors paid tribute to him in their films. His movies always describe the lives of ordinary people, and there are always unexpected flashes in the little things. This is also related to his own character.
Billy came to the United States as an immigrant and created numerous film works for film lovers in the United States and around the world, or let the audience play with a wry smile, or hide the wry smile behind the funny. However, he is always humble with himself. He never uses "film" to refer to his works, but "picture". He placed himself among ordinary little people. Someone asked Billy Wilder why he wanted to be a director. He blinked and said half-seriously: "I became a director because of my scripts, and I want to protect them." A minute later, he seemed to think of something important. The matter, added: "Of course, there is no perfect screenwriter, and there is no perfect director. The advantage of being both a screenwriter and a director is that it is much easier to make changes on the spot, and he can make his own decisions without procrastination." He is both a screenwriter and a director. Be the director. Despite his great success, he never considered his work to be perfect. Now the film master has been dead for more than 6 years. Many people in China have never paid attention to him. But his work is really addictive. In the world of black and white light and shadow, this little old man is always thinking.















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  • Marcellus 2022-04-21 09:02:28

    The point of making wine was plagiarized by the Great Escape. Fatty is so happy~

  • Francisca 2022-03-26 09:01:07

    Liked the ensemble. Reminded me of The Martian

Stalag 17 quotes

  • Shapiro: I'm tellin' ya, Animal, these Nazis ain't kosher.

    Animal: Ya can say that again!

    Shapiro: I'm tellin' ya, Animal, these Nazis ain't kosher!

    Animal: I said ya can say it again, that doesn't mean ya hafta repeat it!

  • [after an angry inmate throws something at him]

    Sefton: Give that man a Kewpie doll.