Searching for Sugar Man. 13-year Oscar best long record. One afternoon in July 18th, when Bi Shi had just been killed for opening the topic, I wailed to Master Z on the phone, sighing the injustice of the heavens. Master Z on the phone shouted at me to calm down, and at the same time gave me a list of films for me to find narrative inspiration. The first of these is to look for the sugar man.
Spring goes and autumn comes. I owed a bunch of books and didn't read it, but in a blink of an eye I didn't study anymore. Finally, on the eve of becoming the screw of society, in the afternoon when a film project was rendered and could not be opened for a long time, I had a whim to turn this film out and watch it. When I first watched the beginning and the first half of the first act, I thought "It was ruined. It turned out to be a suspense documentary with a dramatic irony structure." For South Africa, which was shrouded in apartheid in the 1970s and 1980s, In other words, Rodriguez and his song became an icon of South African awareness of freedom and resistance. A man with shades, Rodriguez's classic sunglasses image and his "I wonder" took root on the land of South Africa, igniting the fire in people's hearts.
So I thought: "Hum, that's also very good. It's a story that inspired the South Africans to fight for human rights under the coincidence of a little-known song phone in the United States. Then let's see how the director explained the causes and consequences of his suicide in the narrative. ."
As a result, when I saw the climax of the second act, reality slapped my face. When I saw that the old fan who had been looking for Rodriguez for many years received R's overseas call at one o'clock in the morning, I instantly admired the director. It turns out that this is a suspense structure, and most importantly, it is a neatly structured but climax narrative model! ! Sure enough, I was really moved when Rodriguez was on stage accepting a concert cheered by thousands of people at the climax of the third act. Many of the ultimate skills of plot structure in McGee’s story have been verified in the past few days: "Breaking the gap between the ideal and reality of the character to form a turning point" (the climax of the three acts are handled in this way), and "Work hard on the protagonist." "Creating irony" (the treatment of the climax of the film: He is rich in many ways, but material), and "The ending can explain the influence of the protagonist's choice on the surroundings and society" (daughter and South African husband tied the knot). When I was reading McGee, I closed the book more than once and asked, "I know all these things, but they are too idealistic, right? Would anyone really write the script so climax and fascinating?" Just use its existence to tell me literally that the best films can follow this kind of narrative. And even for documentary films with weaker subjective factors at the creative stage, masterpieces can be as narratively as the drama, and the waves will rise again and again. This is the style of academy awards.
I'm almost finished writing my impressions, and I wrote so many words accidentally. In the past three weeks, I have watched a lot of books, dramas, and movies. The output is relatively small, and there is not much writing. It has been more than two years since I first heard about the title of this film. And I also accidentally discovered when looking through the phone album many years later that this film was already listed on the film list by the teacher in the first class of the junior documentary creation class. Sometimes when I look back at the undergraduate class, I’m really embarrassed. I didn’t have any pens and books in the class. The days when the important ppts were taken directly on the big screen on the phone were gone forever. I often wondered if I could earnestly listen to the class, would I gain more. But I realized that after losing it, I realized that the cherished memories were meaningless. Only when there are regrets can there be memories, and when there are memories, we can deepen the cherishment. Life is so long, I regret that it's nothing. Come on, let's go.
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