Robert Downey Jr. starred in "Gravity."

This is indeed what Lan Li did not imagine, Sandra Bullock's version of "gravity" in the previous life, to a certain extent, limited Lan Li's imagination, and all ideas and thoughts were taken for granted from the perspective of an actress, but he ignored that in the preparation stage of the film, everything is possible, and the essence of artistic creation is to break the restrictions and frameworks.

For example, "Agent Sauter", the original protagonist was Tom Cruise, and later he resigned, and after negotiations, the crew chose Angelina Jolie and completely changed the role;

Situations like this are not uncommon in Hollywood.

What's more, only thirty seconds ago, when he learned that Sandra Bullock had joined the "Big Dreamers", he had just realized that the butterfly effect had begun to affect the reality and future of Hollywood in all aspects, and the fixed perception of the previous life had to learn to be flexible. However, he still made the mistake of empiricism just now, and some took it for granted.

Now after opening his mind, Lan Li couldn't help but seriously think about what if Robert Downey Jr. played "Gravity...... In "Iron Man 3", Tony Stark was once trapped in armor and desperate to survive, so will "gravity" become an extended version of that clip?

Just imagining it in his mind, Lan Li couldn't help but laugh a little. This is not an offense or disparage for Robert Downey Jr., but the finished style of "gravity" is indeed far from Robert's.

In 2008, after the comeback with "Iron Man", Robert replaced Johnny Depp and became the first person in Hollywood.

After that, however, Robert began to become lazy.

After an image or a character is successful, it naturally begins to follow the same routine, giving up more exploration and pursuit, which can be said to be Robert's choice or the advice of the agent. Tom Cruise, Will Smith, Johnny Depp in his prime, all of them.

After 2011, Robert starred in a total of six productions, five of which were Iron Man Tony Stark.

The only exception was "Judge Dad" in 2014. But it's a pity that the word-of-mouth is a mess, the media comprehensive evaluation is only forty-eight points, and the box office performance is terrible, after that, Robert is even more "focused", except for Iron Man, there is almost no other character image on the big screen.

So, to make up for it, Tony Stark's image overlaps with Ryan Stone of "gravity", and the strong sense of disobedience is really incomprehensible.

"If it's a male character, how are you going to tell this story?" Lan Li straightened his posture and humbly asked for advice.

Faced with such a question, Alfonso not only did not get nervous, but became more and more concentrated, propped his hands on the round table, and explained endlessly with gestures to match his words, "In traditional religion and philosophy, women often represent gentleness and rebirth, while men often represent strength and primitiveness. ”

Lan Li put down the knife and fork for the time being, and completely eliminated the "gravity" of the previous life in his mind, cleared his mind, and started from scratch to re-understand the work of "gravity" little by little.

This is not easy, because the "gravity" of the previous life is a work that Lan Li personally likes very much, but now it needs to be completely overturned and restarted, or even extract the core idea of the story. The changes are so big that they exceed any of Lan Li's works so far.

"If we tell the story from a female perspective, we focus on the hope that nurtures life and breaks through the ground, but when we interpret the whole story from a male perspective, our narrative focuses on the survival of the fittest. ”

Philosophy and reflection are always ethereal, and Alfonso's words are too abstract to concretize, let alone relate to the characters. Lan Li did not rush to start thinking, but listened carefully, absorbing and digesting little by little. For now, it's still in the clouds.

In desperation, he thought of his wife, his own children, and even his parents, and the deep fear in his heart was amplified little by little, especially in the lonely environment of outer space, the softness and fragility that were diametrically opposed to the traditional concept became the shadow that devoured the vitality. ”

Alfonso's explanation is still abstract, but Lan Li has vaguely captured some inspiration, "Either choose to be tied down and die completely, or rise up and seize the glimmer of life." Even if there is no hope of survival in outer space, they rely on their own hands to create a way to survive. ”

In a real desperate situation, in fact, men and women are the same, and the desire to survive is everyone's instinct/ability.

The only difference is that women symbolize the conception of life, in a gentle and tenacious way, breaking out of the cocoon, so in the previous life's "gravity", there is a picture composition of Sandra curled up as a baby, floating in the space station, simulating the state of the child/palace.

The male symbolizes the opening of the heavens and the earth, tempered by fire in a tough and decisive way, and reborn in Nirvana. Correspondingly, it is also possible to simulate the state of the son/palace in the movie, but it requires the actor to be tougher and stronger, just like Pangu, splitting the chaos and giving birth to the world.

The same moral is that under the difference between genders, the actors give different philosophical meanings to the movie pictures with subtle and delicate performance differences, but in the final analysis, the core ideas reflected are still the same-

"Yes, that's what it means!" Alfonso nodded in affirmation, and the words continued.

In a hopeless situation, Ryan calmed down, tore through all the problems with his bare hands, defeated the impossible, defeated nature, and defeated the laws of the universe, and forcibly opened up a life. It not only completes self-redemption, but also represents that human beings have regained their grasp of gravity and quietly born a new life in the cruel living environment of the universe. ”

Gradually, Lan Li sketched a vague outline in his mind, still not very clear, just a few fragments of inspiration, but free from the influence of Sandra Bullock's version of "gravity", and scribbled out the male character's version of "gravity". He needed more embodied symbols.

"Have you ever watched this year's Oscar nomination 'The Tree of Life'?" Lan Li's question made Alfonso stunned for a moment, and his thoughts didn't seem to keep up, so Lan Li went on to explain, "In this movie, the first third of the images are very worth pondering. The director juxtaposes life on earth with human life. ”

"On the one hand, there is the birth of the earth, from the Big Bang to the Cambrian and Jurassic periods, from nothing to life, from single cells to complex humans, and the changes of nature and the earth, all the way to the extinction of the dinosaurs, and the birth of humans; In fact, the origin of the earth and the birth of human beings are connected. ”

"The Tree of Life" is a very esoteric film, and the audience must have a certain understanding of science, philosophy, religion, biology, astronomy and other related fields before watching the movie, otherwise, the metaphors and hints of those pictures cannot be truly felt.

As far as Lan Li is concerned, he doesn't like this kind of work, because it is more like the self-interpretation of faith, religion, and life in the American conservative Catholic style, and lacks a truly tolerant and inclusive mentality, but from an artistic point of view, the picture, composition, photography, and plot setting are indeed worth studying.

"It is where the branches of the tree of life stretch out that we see unsearchable light, vast nebulae, moving stars, pre-formed planets, the sun and moon blocked by black storms, life-giving lightning, bubbling primeval lakes, prehistoric flora and fauna, slowly dancing jellyfish, hammerhead sharks, dinosaurs perched on the banks of rivers, the eyes of a fetus, and most importantly, the newborn child. ”

This is not Lan Li's own words, but the beginning of the "Tree of Life", poetic prose, with a few strokes, outlining the origin of the earth and the birth of life, as well as the changes of nature.

"I mean, when we stand on the surface of the earth and look up at the tree of life, we see the vastness of the universe, but when we are in outer space and look down at the earth and life, what should we see? The river of life flows, the volcano of life erupts, or the vastness of time, we are like a drop in the ocean, small but great. ”

Undoubtedly, Lan Li went a step further than Alfonso, standing on a higher, broader and deeper perspective, giving "gravity" a more esoteric meaning. It even gets rid of the shackles of gender, blurs the differences between living beings, and simply refers to "life".

Alfonso savored some of the mysteries, "So, how should we present it?"

"If you are an actress, the picture may be a child/palace, suggesting the birth of life, while if you are an actress, the picture is a void, or a chaos, and then like the big bang at the beginning of the universe, bang, life begins, time begins. Originally, there was no glimmer of life, but he cut and chiseled and opened up a ray of hope. Lan Li gradually concretized his thoughts, and the image outline of the character and the context of the performance slowly began to become clear.

"Aha! yes!" Alfonso snapped his fingers, but then fell into deep thought again, "No, it's still too simple. We should have gone a little deeper, wait, the script needs to be tweaked a bit......"

Thinking about it, Alfonso ignored Lan Li's existence and fell into his own thoughts.