This is a world that is constantly divided. Look at the first half of 2020, class, gender, ethnic group, and region, at every level, there is no tolerance and kindness.
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If you want to get a goodwill, you have to be hostile. Isn't this a paradox?
So in this year, don't mention the word "sage", just mention "you start."
But there is such a movie, and I want to say something different at such a moment. It wants to use the holy light of the last century to try to illuminate the mentally impoverished and mentally impoverished people of this century.
This is "A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood" .
On this "day", the top 20th-century American saint named Fred Rogers made a fool of himself in the show, exposed his distress in front of reporters, and even whispered in the ears of a dying person. Ask for" blessings.
At the same time, he also showed his spirit once.
01Be good, take it slowly and faster
There is such an unbelievable scene in "A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood". The protagonist Fred Rogers in a Chinese restaurant said to reporter Royd Vogel, who came to pierce his "saint halo", "Please make me something. Matter, take a moment to think about the people who still love us."
In an instant, the diners stopped their knives and forks, and the waiter stopped. The restaurant was like a still lake. The camera stared at Rogers's face for 30 seconds.
In Rogers’s closing remarks of “Thank you for doing this with me”, the restaurant once again returned to the noise.
The audience seemed to be praying in a movie theater. At this time, you will find that reporter Lloyd Vogel has a tear on his left cheek at some point.
Just listen to this description, you would say, this old guy is a master of hypnosis, right?
Fred Rogers is indeed a master.
He was a master television host in the United States in the last century. He became famous in 1968 and remained active until the turn of the century.
He hosted a children's show, and his status was equivalent to a combination of two generations of "Uncle Dong Hao" . In the United States, both you and your children can say "I grew up watching your show."
Fred Rogers speaks slowly, with a cloud in his mouth when he speaks. When communicating with him, there is an illusion that the time-based unit is elongated.
He used dolls to cooperate with the performances. He has worked for more than 30 years and has never changed roles, even if they are really shabby.
He stopped the show for three years. At that time, his relationship with his son was very bad, and he was at a loss.
At the beginning of the story, reporter Lloyd Vogel couldn't figure out where Fred Rogers ' motive, determination and energy for good came from ?
It's like asking, God, why do you grow up like this? Why are you doing this?
In the movie, Rogers can play with a boy who needs to take an oxygen tank with him to go out for half an hour, and a program is more than half an hour.
Immediately afterwards, he was going to show how to prop up the tent. There was a disaster. He was so tired after tossing for a long time, but the tent still couldn't be opened.
Then Rogers actually said to give up in front of the camera, "This tent must be set up by two people"...
These scenes stunned the staff and reporter Lloyd.
The ingenuity of the film is that, in order to allow you to enter the normal movie-watching sequence, it allows a reporter to break into Rogers' pure good world with a destructive perspective .
Because of goodwill, most will hit a wall.
Just like meditation in a Chinese restaurant, you will feel that Rogers's show is too procrastinated and dull, and that he sometimes causes ridiculous accidents.
In the real education concept, failure is the normal state that people face all the time. If one cannot open the tent, this matter cannot be concealed.
In the same way, sadness is also true. Each of us needs sadness, just as the most critical character in "Mind Agents" is not Lele, but worry. Sadness lets the protagonist know the meaning of happiness.
No one does not yearn for kindness. What everyone is afraid of is that the cultivation of kindness takes too long and sacrifices too much.
So kindness is usually slow. For example, helping the elderly to cross the road, such as adopting a stray cat. For example, "A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood."
Only with an understanding of the desire for good can you enter the rhythm of this movie .
Tom Hanks himself also said that the most difficult part of this performance is to learn Rogers to slow down his speech. Before each filming, Hanks needs to relax + meditate , otherwise, it will be difficult for him to live in this century. The law shifted to the last century. Even if he really experienced the last century, he still needed continuous high-speed pats + angrily drinking coffee to wake himself up during filming breaks.
Although Hanks was considered by Rogers’ widow to be the best candidate for her husband, Hanks was obviously still a mortal compared to Rogers.
Of course, "Neighborhood" is not our regular biopic filming method. It selects reporters to report the real stories of the predecessors, but in the story, the saint is in an old state.
Because old is a kind of slowness.
Many people later rumored that Fred Rogers fought the Vietnam War, and it was the war that made him see the legacy of goodness. But in fact, Rogers was a pastor in the first place. This has nothing to do with godlessness. It has something to do with mentality. He must be good and eager to listen .
The most interesting thing is that compared to reporter Lloyd Vogel’s desire to dig into the dark side of Rogers’s heart, in fact, the people around Rogers have long been bored with him. Look at the members of those column groups, especially the younger ones, who often dislike him. His grinding.
Based on the theory of "goodness" and "slowness", director Mariel Heller filmed the scene in the Chinese restaurant.
That scene, which is like the second coming of God, is just a sentence in the script, and it says, "At this moment Rogers is staring at the reporter." But the director asked Hanks to lengthen the performance of "Staring". The slower the better, and the longer the better. When the audience has an illusion, it feels that Rogers is not watching reporters, he is watching the audience.
Rogers was looking at everyone who looked at him.
The elderly customers in the Chinese restaurant are all guest-played by real characters such as Rogers’ widow, the column producer of the year, and the company’s CEO.
This is a tribute to the deceased, it is very kind.
This kindness was understood at that moment by reporters who were struggling to find hypocrisy .
02 Innocent, be an adult like a child
Because Fred Rogers has a national status, it is generally difficult for him to arrange an interview.
But the fundamental reason is that every time an interview is arranged for Rogers , it is not Rogers himself, but the reporter who is interviewed in the end.
Because Rogers is more curious about the people who come to interview him, so his interview work will be very large, because he instinctively understands the visitor.
In the end, Rogers got to know many friends from journalists, and Lloyd Vogel was the most important one.
There is a very interesting counterpoint in the movie. Lloyd has a very poor relationship with his father, and at the same time he is becoming a father himself, but he doesn't know how to be a father, and he doesn't want to ask his father, what is his father?
After three interviews, Rogers assumed the role of a father instead . Rogers asked Lloyd if he had any toys that he didn't give up when he was a child, and Lloyd replied boredly that there was such a rabbit.
In a sudden on stage, Lloyd fainted. "When he woke up," he found himself turned into a rabbit. In the children's show "A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood", he returned to the childhood he hated.
What's so good about childhood?
1. Someone takes care of you. 2. No responsibility.
Lloyd has not been fully cared for in the past, but now he has to take on the responsibility of a father.
There was more panic in his heart than resentment, and he was so panic that he couldn't even install a back seat baby chair.
What is the best way to become an adult, just like Mr. Rogers, grow up with children, constantly, again and again, and grow up with different children. For a moment, adults and children full of cars will sing the theme song of "A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood" for you.
This is the second scene of this movie after "slowly" -the child's perspective .
Director Mariel Heller is also an "old kid". She uses toy cars, roads and city models like TV program scenes to make empty shots in the real story of the movie, watching from the child's habitual field of vision this world.
This is very familiar to Mariel, because she “mixed” at the Alameda Children’s Music Theatre when she was a child. She once said, “That boy is just my boyfriend later, and my first love is acting.”
What has she played in the Children's Music Theater, such as Ruby the Rabbit in "Winnie the Pooh", Templeton the Mouse in "Charlotte's Net", and Polly, the girl next door in "The Wizard's Nephew" , The original work of this play is the first novel in the "Chronicles of Narnia" series that we are familiar with later.
Mariel starts from elementary school and has to act in four plays a year. She knows very well, a child, his mind when acting, and Rogers is the child who is not growing up. Is he all himself on TV shows? No, and his performance back to his childhood.
"Crossing" back to the past, so did Hanks.
In a scene in the movie "A Neighbor From Hell" (1989), Hanks's character Ray Peterson is watching an episode of "Mr. Rogers' Neighbor" (the original translation of "A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood"). More interestingly, 30 years later, Hanks’ son Colin Hanks also imitated Rogers in "A History of Drunkenness."
What's more real to the bizarre is that Tom Hanks himself is Fred Rogers' sixth-generation cousin.
Tom Hanks dubbed Woody the Cowboy in "Toy Story" and starred in the "Polar Express" in motion arrest, just like his cousin did.
Be an adult like a child.
03 The medium, the big explosion of information and the constant incomprehension
What is the reality? The archetype of journalist Royd Vogel did not fight with his father at his sister's wedding because his sister had never been married.
In 2003, Fred Rogers died of stomach cancer, and he has been suffering from the disease in his later years. Pay attention to Tom Hanks's performance at the end of the film. He has been leaning on or rubbing his back. In fact, it is a symbol of his suffering in his later years .
In fact, Tom Hanks knew about the movie project "A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood" ten years ago, and he even read a version of the script eight years ago.
If the movie were released ten years ago, what would it be like?
We just know that 17 years have passed since the year of the death of the predecessor, and no character like Rogers has appeared.
Because everyone is doing their best to express themselves, and expressing their premise is often accompanied by subverting authoritative cognition .
Speech explodes, individual consciousness explodes, in order to make self-view into the consensus of others, this process is violent, but we don't know it at all-please leave the stage as soon as the "saint" who has manifested his spirit.
They can define a war without knowing anything about history. They can also sum up the laws of everything without intensively studying science. The source of self-confidence is not introspection and self-discipline, but priority to destroy the one who knows the most but still People who are not perfect.
"A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood" was born in the TV media era. A ruthless reporter who won a news award came to try to pry the host’s spiritual gloom. All he could do was a contest of his own power.
Of course, there will not be more people who understand Rogers’ fragility. Every time he takes pictures, he tries to remember this person. The four words "I know him" are like promises of overdrawn life in the eyes of others, but For Rogers, he was happy because he always laughed at the moment after taking a picture, as if he had gotten a treasure.
If you still want to find some easy-to-understand truths that have been forgotten for a long time, the film "A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood" is the most suitable film . It will be released nationwide on September 18 .
Pay attention to the last three minutes of the movie, when the studio is off work, Rogers, who walks slowly towards the piano, chiseled the piano three times with his fist, telling us that he is not a saint in consensus.
However, just when he was "satisfying you", he bounced melodiously again, and the audience was only himself.
No, there is you too.
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