Dreams and Movies

Carolyne 2022-04-19 09:01:30

Mainstream commercial films and Hollywood films do not have smooth editing and smooth narration as the basic characteristics, as people usually explain or understand, that is, through the selection of story editing points and the rhythm of video narration, they can successfully grasp and control the audience's emotions. Attention, the audience is always immersed in the tension of the story; on the contrary, the narrative of mainstream commercial films is actually broken and full of fractures (so the evaluation of beauty is used to deny beauty and destroy beauty). The two kinds of images and narrative mechanisms alternately constitute the narrative body of mainstream commercial films. First, it is a narrative video sequence, which successfully creates a certain illusion of space-time continuity and captures the audience's intense attention to the plot. He always takes the actions and adventures of male protagonists and heroes as his objects of expression; second, It is a spectacle unit and image, which is usually a beautiful and magical female image, especially some parts of the body. Narrative images pursue the so-called "Renaissance-style space" - a three-dimensional central perspective space, and seek to create the illusion of depth in the third dimension in the two-dimensional flat space of the screen. Sexual images not only break the temporal and spatial continuity of the film narrative, but also deliberately highlight the two-dimensional and planar features of the picture. The female images cut for close-up shots are exaggerated into some kind of alien images, which become the objects of aesthetic viewing or desire viewing. main body. Mainstream commercial films, it is precisely with the alternate appearance of these different image compositions, successfully induces the audience's double viewing and identification.

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Extended Reading
  • Elmer 2022-03-23 09:01:29

    I'll see you in another life when we are both cats.

  • Hester 2022-04-24 07:01:04

    A film about dreams and dream interpretation, tender and delicate, sad and romantic. A large number of flashbacks and dreams cut off the natural narrative, blur the truth of reality, and give the audience a variety of possibilities to interpret the story. But whether it is the love between men and women or the psychological changes of the protagonist, they are not depicted deeply enough, and they mainly rely on lighting and scenery to render the atmosphere. However, when Tom, Penelope, and Diaz appeared in this film, they were all at the peak of their appearance, which increased the viewing value of the film more than a little. PS Dai Jinhua's "Film Criticism" Chapter 4, the analysis of this film is very thorough, the angle is sharp, it is worth reading again and again.

Vanilla Sky quotes

  • [David receives his facial prosthetic]

    Dr. Pomeranz: It's a helpful unit.

    David: Good. Because for a minute there, I thought we were talking about

    [shouts]

    David: a fucking mask!

    Dr. Pomeranz: It's only a mask... if you treat it that way.

    David: Oh, no. It's great. This completely takes care of Hallowe'en. But what about the other 364 days of the year?

  • Julie: I'm so afraid of how powerful this is!