At 2 minutes and 52 seconds, after overhearing that Loscudo entrusted the maid to protect his hat with his life, a middle-aged waiter in a red suit took out a bill and asked the maid to hand Loscudo's hat to him, and the film started. The first contradiction
At 5 minutes and 18 seconds, a hat flew to Loscudo's table, and after beating up the troublemaker, Tony pretended to clean up the thief who stole the hat, and got involved with the big man. The conflict was resolved.
In just 3 minutes, grab the audience's attention with a fight, and then untie the rope buckle that was tied by yourself. It perfectly explains Tony's character, a slick, sophisticated, and extremely smart market elite, who is not afraid to interact with the upper class even though he has been struggling for many years at the bottom.
At the end, the director played the same trick again
At 1 hour and 46 minutes, with the strange eyes of the black people in the bar, the two walked to the bar, and Don took out a lot of money and ordered the bar's specialties. Tony's eyes moved as the camera's focus switched from money to two malicious black men. Then the next scene is immediately like the two of them eating
At 1 hour and 51 minutes, the two came out of the bar. Tony saw two figures hiding behind the car, took out a gun from behind and fired two shots in the air, scaring away the two malicious black people.
In the middle 5 minutes, the director used Don's cheerful performance to divert the audience's attention, trying to make the audience forget the two small shots just now, until two gunshots cut through the sky. Tony's market elite image is reinforced once again
These two tricks, one after the other, are exactly the director's ability to shape characters. During the plot, the director reinforces this image of Tony over and over again
Won $50 over eating hot dogs with a fat guy; played cards with people on his knees, laughing with his dirty knees and said he never lost playing cards and dice; the only time he was caught throwing jade and asked to change it back , smashing the pile of jade with your hands makes people think that it has been replaced, but it is still in your hand...
Behind this cleverness is his ability to deal with problems
When I hear the boss's arrangement to check the piano's brand, I immediately put the sandwich in my mouth and write the piano's brand on the note; I encounter a slap in the face from a savage cleaner and slap him until he is obedient and immediately change the piano; the police come to ask for trouble "Donated" a suit to each of two police officers
The way the director shapes Tony is exactly the way Tony gets along with the world, using his cleverness and tricks to deceive the audience in order to achieve the small purpose that he is not evil
The shaping of Don is completely different, just like Don himself, more upright, honest and unreserved
At 1 hour and 18 minutes, Don was drinking alone in front of the mirror in the hotel. He was already facing the mirror, and the director placed a small mirror next to the big mirror. There are 3 Dons in the whole picture - himself, him in the big mirror, and him in the small mirror. The mirror is the best externalization of identity anxiety, and at this moment Don suspects in the triple image that, as he himself said, he is not white enough, not black enough, and not man enough. And the only person who can accompany him is the unstoppable Cutty sark
Although it doesn't say so in the video, I think Don has trouble falling asleep every night. Drinking alone may be his way of hypnotizing himself and dispelling loneliness.
After eating delicious KFC fried chicken, he also revealed a really fragrant smile without concealing it.
The pair of ivory cuddling in his room is his lonely heart
He's not as good at resolving problems and emotions as Tony is, he can only drink cup after cup, respond with a smile to other people's discrimination, and then walk out straight with his chest up.
These two shaping methods are exactly the two ways people face life. The first type of people is used to blindfolding, diverting people's attention to what they want the other person to see, and finally giving a reversal, and the audience becomes more persuasive after being surprised. The second kind of people go straight and straight, they never play metering, but are used to drinking sadness and helplessness, night and alcohol into their stomachs.
I think this is what attracts me most about Green Book, aside from the subject of political correctness
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