Maybe Steck’s future relationship with the movie "Shining Demeanor" was arranged in the dark, so he stopped at a concert, spurred on the unknown passion of exploration, and paid for his sincerity, and had a relationship with Australia. A more private tour after the encounter of pianist David Howggart. If so, it can be seen that "Shining Demeanor" is a biographical film, which honestly and somewhat cunningly records most of David Howggart's life.
Putting aside the movie first, if this is a book, your bookmarks will roll out this timeline:
David Howggart comes from a Polish Jewish family and was born in Melbourne, Australia in 1947. His family is not well-off, his father It is his music teacher, among his brothers and sisters, he is the closest to his sister Margaret.
When he was 5 years old, he showed his talent for piano performance and participated in various competitions in the local area to win various awards. The name of a child prodigy followed. When he was 14 years old, he got the opportunity to study in the United States, but was destroyed by his father and forced him to stay at home. The pianist prodigy pianist has reached its apex, and his spirit has been repaired alone in the collapse.
At the age of 19, he resolutely left home and went to the Royal Academy of Music for further study. After three years of study, he broke through himself again and became famous. During this period, most of David's study expenses were funded by outside groups or individuals. Among them was a year-long mentor who made him linger-Australian writer Catherine Susanna Prichard.
In 1970, when David was 24 years old, his schizophrenia completely overwhelmed him. He left the UK and returned to Perth, Australia. His father, who broke with him, refused to take him in. He found his own way. Later, he met a kind old woman who had a short marriage. After the divorce, David was sent to a mental hospital in Perth. Another ten years passed. In 1983, David's brother found him in a bar in Perth. David was taken in by the bar owner, where he asked for a living like a wandering entertainer, but lived happily.
In 1984, David met the astrologer Gillian, and the two got married. David's life took a turn for the better, and his second playing career was in the ascendant. Mention of Horowitz’s name together, professionals gave David Howggart uncompromising praise, and David’s legendary life was written smoothly.
And close the book, click the play button, and you will find "Shining Style". In addition to telling such a story, its more unique appeal comes from Scott's film language. He has used all traditional shooting concepts to achieve success. Different personalized images. Just like telling a joke, the speaker’s skills and sense of humor are different, and the effect will be different. The same is true for movies. Biopics about real people and facts can test the director's skill, boring or agile, and can be directly felt from the narrative and editing techniques.
The big player Tim Robbins gave his opinion that a good story must have a good beginning that catches the eye, because no one will murder the "peerless script" that the author thinks is the only "peerless script" in the script library piled into trash. Great time. The movie is relatively lucky, someone will watch it when it is shot, but it has a palatable good beginning, and its role cannot be ignored.
"Shining Demeanor" has a very special opening, shady, narration, "first call", and then use the traditional positioning lens to slowly pull out the close-up of the protagonist David, the entire screen is only half-faced portrait, there is no time, place, this is deliberately fitting The theme of the film creates a two-way "sense of loss", a hint of the protagonist's locked inner world, and a reflection of the unknown movie story explored by the viewer. The protagonist murmured hurriedly but softly, forcing people to feel the discomfort of rolling the rut back and forth, and coupled with the content of the words, lightly outlines David's abnormal spiritual world. He said that he may be a weak kitten who needs to be appeased and encouraged... The audience thinks from here that if he starts again, David's life path may not have so many mottled scars. What do you think?
Speaking of the narrative language of the entire movie, Scott uses parallel montage and inverted montage. When editing, there are two timelines, pursuing the so-called parallel design of the past and the present, and then in the main design, once again disrupt the structure of the story, first introduce the status quo, go back to the "previous", intersperse the "present tense" in the period, and finally return to it. To reality.
For example, at the beginning of the movie, David was running on a rainy night, standing outside the bar and looking inward. At the end of the movie, this set of shots was reused in the plot, and came forward and backward. The excessive "time tunnel" is a long shot of David running. Unconventionally in the silent picture, using the front and back shot mode to connect David with the world in his eyes. Then, "Rain Scenery" was used to enrich the emotions of the characters in the painting. Throughout the film, you will find that Scott’s "rain" symbolizes the auspicious sign of the transfer of "David", because his father refused to take him in and escaped the "yoke"; he entered the bar on a rainy night, and from there he started a new life .
When two people are facing each other, the camera will switch between the characters. This front-to-back shot mode is usually used in character conversations in indoor scenes. This technique is used frequently and extremely frequently in "Shining Demeanor". Scott has his own way of grasping the rhythm. He uses front and back shots, as well as inside shots, and outside shots. From panoramic to close-up, he pushes the slow-paced long shots to the fast short shots. What impressed me the most was when David returned home and faced his father after he received the admission letter from the Royal Conservatory of Music. The focus of the lens is set on David's father, and the panoramic shots—medium shots—close shots—close-up shots are taken in different ranges, suggesting David's father's status as the head of the family. When David was violently beaten to the ground by his father, the upside-down and upside-down shots of David and his father showed the relationship between the father and the son. The eyes that David and his father rarely met strengthened the relationship between them. Divide, in short, David is a chicken and his father is an eagle, and the strong can have a clear view of the control and oppression of the weak.
I think that in "Shining Demeanor", Scott prefers to follow the logic of exploring the protagonist's inner purpose. In this way, he can break the barriers of time and space, and he needs more details to ensure a logical transition. In the play, you can see scenes of "glasses", "smoke", "David's hand", "rain", "shoes", "jumping grid", "red gloves" and so on many times. The rain is an important prop for conveying emotions in this film. In order to maintain the continuity of the story and present the continuity of unity in the broken editing, Scott borrows the background of "rain" to make it the glue of the seams. keeping it. For example, in the play, David is deduced from a mental breakdown. When he returns to Perth, he first uses the "telephone ringing" to switch scenes, cutting away the "picture of the hospital", and then David appears in the phone booth. Later, Scott cleverly used "rain" and "phone dialogue" to break the dimension of time and space. It serves as a footnote to the story, interprets the mood of David and his father, and unifies the two people in the same place-Perth.
After the death of the female writer Catherine, he mailed the last relic to David. Scott completed this episode in one minute and 10 seconds. These unusually calm details are all summaries of David's loss of "spiritual encouragement". The first 20 seconds are particularly interesting, easily establishing a sense of logical inevitability. The first is a close-up shot, the package in the mailbox, David's hand. Then, with a small panorama, cut into Mrs. Bogans who came downstairs. Later, in the close shot, the picture returned to David's expression, and he asked Mrs. Bogans "Good morning". Cut again, in the middle and close shots, Mrs. Bogans's front face, embarrassed and bored expression, did not answer David's question, and looked very rude. At this time, when taking in Mrs. Bogans, an internal reversal lens was used, which gave the viewers a space of "doubt" for exploration. Then, quickly cut out, and Mrs. Bogans's back came out of the camera. Cut back to the close-up shot again, David comforted himself disapprovingly, and his action was to shrug his shoulders and curl his lips. Then, a longer positioning lens shot upwards, and David went upstairs. (According to the results, David didn’t wear pants and was naked, implying David’s personality disorder. On the other hand, he showed his kindness and politeness, living in his own world.)
Of course, the editing method of the dislocation of the sound and the picture is "Shining One of the main features of "The Demeanor" is that the core of the whole play is the performance of the pianist. When playing the three, the picture becomes a magnificent background, and the sound is like a wonderful celestial phenomenon. This most exciting segment is fully presented without any discount. This is due to Scott's appreciation of music.
When the film's prototype David is playing, he always mutters something in his mouth. This is not deliberately expressed in the film, but it doesn't matter. Mainly, Jeffrey Rush’s impeccable acting skills completely amazed me, hard work is rewarded, and the honor of the Golden Globe Oscar winner must make him feel gratified. And Noah Taylor, although young, is not inferior. Suddenly, my mind was wrong, and I thought of the advertisement for the screen version of "The Simpsons" "Look at my family, you will love your own home more." As far as the students are concerned, I am a little bit "putting the cart before the horse" to focus on the important points, maybe I can understand. In an interview with Southern Weekend, David and his wife said, "As parents, don't force your children and don't destroy the good feeling of music in their hearts." And "forced" this is often the most popular equipment on the road to success.
Finally, put a few detailed pictures to end. The exquisite and repeatedly used props and details are the psychoanalysis of the protagonist, and the pictures are also used to explain the plot directly.
A. Wearing the wrong shoes, it appears once in the play, and the end of the play subtly responds.
B. "Breast attack", David shows his love to the woman he loves. In his world, everything is done as he pleases, and there is no one else. In this way, there is no insignificant meaning, and the childishness of "childishness" is part of David's personality disorder.
C. A lot of close-ups of glasses. Here are two signs of "broken" in particular. After the death of the female writer Catherine returned to David, the glass diaphragm in the frame shattered, and one of the most important relationships in David's life ended. Later, David’s father’s broken glasses lens, when the father and son finally met in the plot, showed that the abnormal father-son relationship between them ended and David had the courage to think independently. On the other hand, this strengthened the character of David's father, the paranoid and cowardly father, whose life was persecuted by the Nazis, unknowingly he used the shadow as a sharp weapon to harm his family, and David was the biggest victim. In fact, David is a genius, perhaps he is destined to be so crazy and magical in his life.
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