Chapter 941: Cool
The premiere of "Infernal Affairs" is also very heavy, at least journalists from all over the world are waiting!
After all, Xu Qian's filming of "The Departed" is a thing that has attracted the attention of the world!
The red carpet stage is also eye-catching, not only Xu Qian and Taylor, but also international superstar Kobe!
Kobe Bryant also rarely finds time to come over, and I have to say that Kobe Bryant is also very righteous for the promotion of the film!
"Welcome everyone to support the premiere of "The Departed" today, I believe you will not be disappointed!"
I have to say that the media are indeed very satisfied, and "The Departed" is a great success!
At the beginning of the film, the protagonist Colin has an autobiographical narrative, and the camera leads to the number one American gangster character Castro, because Colin accepted the favor and baptism of the gang leader, he became the tool of the gang leader Castro, was admitted to the school, and became Costero's undercover agent in the police force. The background of the other protagonist, Bill, is more complicated, his uncle is a famous gangster, and his father is more upright, because he was killed by the underworld, he wants to take revenge by becoming a policeman, so he also entered the police academy to study.
The film uses a parallel montage to narrate the learning process of the two at the police academy. In the police academy, both of them are paired with a like-minded supporting role police academy classmates, Colin is matched with a classmate who invites him to dinner from the beginning, and Bill is matched with a black fat classmate. The appearance of these shots also paved the way for the final ending of the film. That is, these two classmates gathered people with things and people, and buried the two protagonists with the role of grouping.
After graduating from the police academy, Colin and Bill almost passed by and accepted the different fates of the last police officer. First, Colin receives the shot assigned to the police station, a long shot, and explains the characters in the entire room. Then a few sets of close-up dialogue shots, that is, some instructions and hopes given to Colin by the boss. Then a subjective shot of Bill was used to transition the frame. In other words, during Colin's interview, Bill was at the entrance of the interview looking down at his feet.
When Colin walked out of the sheriff's office to greet the secretary, Bill looked up and was greeted by the front desk. There's an ebb and fall here, on Bill, then the camera pans to Colin coming out of the open door, and then the camera moves with Colin, and puts Bill in the frame to create a contrasting effect. Then when Bill enters, it's the same panoramic shot, followed by several sets of dialogue shots. The whole editing is smooth and smooth, without too much rendering and decoration, but more to show the difference between the two fates through shots and montages, that is, the time difference between the two people is only a few minutes before and after, which causes the different futures of the two people.
Then, Colin steps into his newly assigned apartment, in front of which is the church where he was once baptized, and in his self-talk, the camera slowly pans to the leisurely shot of Colin standing quietly on the balcony, while Bill accepts the officer's new salary and account, and goes to the tavern with his relatives' thugs to drink, discuss the violence in the neighborhood, and accept the provocations of the neighborhood gangsters, in order to get close to Castro in order to gain his trust. Since then, the editing of the film has almost always used the technique of contrast montage to describe the whereabouts of the two people, and through the performance of contrast montage, it narrates how the two rose step by step to get the promotion and trust of their respective bosses. In addition, the comparison shots also tell about the secret battle between two people for the same thing.
In the film, for the sake of narrative brevity, the heroine becomes a psychiatrist, and becomes a life-and-death confrontation between Colin and Bill that they never really know each other until the end, and this narrative style highlights the inconsistencies and accidents of their fates.
The film creates a rich cast of characters. Colin is a careful, suspicious, and ruthless character. Through some detailed shots, he reflects his cautiousness in doing things.
He can be an FBI informant in his own right, which is why he can get away with it. Therefore, this character is more domineering and brutal. And Bill's heart is kind and simple.
The personalities of the two people just complement each other, one is flamboyant and the other is calm. Therefore, when Cheng Wen was killed, Zhang Yang was also killed in the end.
In addition, the film's handling of violent scenes is also straightforward and bloody, without a little cover-up or sensationalism. What it presents to us is a world where there is no distinction between black and white, and the law of the jungle is the strong. The gangsters are ruthless, the police are also rough and ferocious, and everything is subject to the law of survival that the strong is king.
Whether it is the use of color and lighting, or the scheduling of editing, they are deliberately low-key, low-key to the point of not being eye-catching at all. The editing also adopts the contrast in parallel, with parallel shadows in the contrast, using the most plain perspective and recording method, neither deliberately exaggerated and intense, nor intentionally creating elegance.
Others watched it with relish, but Xu Qian looked a little awkward!
For example, the death of Huang Sir, the most touching in the original version!
The original touching mainly depends on four points!
Charming eyes: Tony Leung faced the death of Huang Sir and once again showed us the melancholy eyes that can kill countless and countless little girls
Background music: Background music loses no time in remembering, and time is very timely
Slow motion: Pay attention to the slow motion between the police and the bandits, with the sad background music, which is very sensational
Black and white memories: all kinds of fragments of Huang Sir, the watch for the 25th birthday, etc.!
Let's take a look at the American version of Huang Sir's death: there are no deep and melancholy eyes, no theme song that happens to be timely, no slow motion, no black-and-white film memories, and no stupid qiang (the American version of silly qiang died on the bench a little laterγγγγγγ Only the protagonist reads vigorously: fuck, fuck, fuck γγγγγγ
-Tony Leung's death-
The second very sensational part of the Hong Kong version is the death of Tony Leung at the end of the film.
Note four features
slow motion
The camera of the three people is switched, and each person comes to the picture once and the picture changes from color to black and white
The theme song of Yurou reminds me again
The elevator door opened and closed and hit Tony Leung's leg
After all kinds of twists and turns, Tony Leung finally caught the undercover agent, the audience should have been comfortable at this time, but Liang died, this expectation and the realistic ending formed a huge contrast, and then the above 4 skills were used together, and another very ~ very sensational scene appeared.
The American version, like Huang Sir's death, is still nothing, no slow motion, no technique of changing the picture from color to black and white, and no theme song to remember. Yes, the American version of Andy Lau took the gun and shot the head of the police officer next to him, very crisply.
Whether it's expressions or dialogues, I feel that Lao Mei is not good at acting cool. This feeling is not only in movies, but also in animations and games. For example, here's a sentence,
Simon blew the snow, not snow, but blood.
This sentence is enough, and the "cool" energy of this person is immediately portrayed, and even such a scene can be immediately created in my mind: "The ancient town, the small shop, the sunset, a sword dripping with blood (close-up), a person in white standing motionless, the hem of the clothes fluttering slightly under the wind"γγγγγγ Sword God, what a cool word.
Lao Mei, if they don't come to "Ximen blows snow and blows not snow, but blood", it can be like this-
You glare at him, and then he says, "fuck you!"
Officially, such a different form of expression, although it is a movie made by himself, Xu Qian still feels very awkward!
In fact, he has tried his best to unify the styles of the East and the West, but he has not done it perfectly!
But the audience was clearly satisfied!
When "The Departed" was released, everyone stood up and gave high praise!
The applause continued!
"Beautiful!"
"Cool!"
"It's so pretty!"
"Classic!"
"This is the best movie I've seen in the past few days!"
"It's beautiful, I want to see it again!"
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Xu Qian was also very happy to see such a scene!
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