Chapter 261, The Clothed Beast

was said to be a playboy by the American media, if it was known by the Hong Kong media, plus the photos of two men and two women, I don't know what it would be distorted into.

Putting down the newspaper and about to take another copy, Wu Long knocked on the door and came in, "Mr. Mo, Miss Catherine Birog is here." ”

"Oh, please let her in." Mo Fei answered, put aside the newspaper he had just picked up, and said, "The lawyer has also arrived, you can prepare the contract first, and wait for Bruce Willis to come and bring him in." ”

A moment later, Catherine entered Mo Fei's office, and Wu Long in the back had a cup of coffee in his hand, put it down and went out to wait for Bruce Willis and the lawyer.

Mo Fei asked Catherine to sit down and said, "I'm really sorry, because I rarely have a company in the United States, so I don't have a secretary, and some things are done by assistants." ”

"Oh, it's okay, a lot of people do." Catherine took a sip of her coffee as she spoke, put down her cup and made a surprised expression, saying, "He's very good at his craft." ”

After finishing speaking, he looked at the newspaper on Mo Fei's table, and also took out a newspaper from his bag and handed it to Mo Fei, and said with a smile: "I also have a review here about watching "The Silence of the Lambs", and it is a good signal, I think you should need it." ”

"Thank you!" Mo Fei took the newspaper and opened the film review page about "The Silence of the Lambs", which is not a film critic's article, but a professional from the film industry, who has been nominated and won various film awards many times, winner of the Academy Award for Best Cinematography in seven or eight years, and one of the most famous cinematographers in Hollywood, Vilmos Siegmund.

In fact, this can no longer be regarded as a film review, strictly speaking it should be a professional analysis article, in the review of the film "The Silence of the Lambs" cinematography gave his own understanding and opinion: "I only look at it from my own professional point of view, and come to some conclusions that the director, cinematography and lighting of this film are undoubtedly first-class.

The first shot of the film begins with a forest of trees with many fallen leaves, and then the shot starts from a height and descends, and the protagonist runs from the long shot to the close-up, a long shot. Such a slow-paced shot plays a great role in creating the atmosphere, making the empty and cold forest feel very unsettling, and driving the atmosphere of the film from beginning to end.

In the Behavioral Science Department of the police station, the photographer is supposed to use a long shot followed by Steadicam, and the sweaty protagonist is wearing a police academy uniform, constantly passing by high-ranking officers in suits and leather shoes and police officers in regular police uniforms. This shot visually highlights the identity of the protagonist through the difference in clothing and status, and sets the stage for the protagonist's next meeting with the terrifying 'Hannibal', and the strong visual can easily create a sense of tension and depression.

As a relatively important scene in this film - Hannibal's cell. When the protagonist first enters, the photographer uses a subjective lens that rotates in place at almost 360 degrees. The shot begins with three monitors, showing Hannibal's cage, the psychiatric hospital doctor walking up the stairs, the aisle outside the cage, and then the guard examining his firearm, and finally a staff member admonishing the protagonist to take precautions......

The film also has a very clever use of light. Anyone with photography knowledge will know that in the film, light must not only provide sufficient lighting, but also play just right and have a certain connotation. A clever lighting artist, sometimes just relying on the lighting in his hand, can reflect a character's surname, and even play a role in setting off the atmosphere and narrative.

When Hannibal meets with the parliamentarians at the airport, the film consciously uses the lights flashing from the police car lights to imprint the faces of the parliamentarians and Hannibal, which sets off Hannibal's extreme depression and the psychology of the parliamentarians who want to show their authority and majesty; The flickering red and blue lights continue to appear and disappear, but they reflect the restlessness of the councillors......

All in all, this is a great movie, the plot and the actors' performances are excellent, I believe many people will give it a high score, I won't go into too much detail here. With only what I personally excel at, from a cinematography point of view, this is an impeccable good film. ”

This review can be said to give "The Silence of the Lambs" a pretty high score, if it weren't for the fact that he had great confidence in this movie because of his understanding of his previous life, even he would have wondered if someone had given Siegmund money, and then this review would have been concocted.

Siegmund's comment is indeed a good signal, at least that this completely Chinese-made film has received a high degree of recognition, and if Siegmund can see it this way, there must be many other filmmakers who will feel the same way. With this review, Mo Fei feels that even if the movie doesn't win any awards, it is completely worth all the effort.

"Thank you so much, Miss Catherine!" Mo Fei thanked Catherine again and said, "Your newspaper is undoubtedly the most wonderful thing for me and my film team so far, thank you!" As a token of my gratitude, I would like to agree that I will treat you to a hearty lunch today. ”

The boss invited him to dinner, and Catherine, of course, would not refuse. Not to mention that this boss is indeed very willing to approach, now that he is a member of Phoenix culture, it is too normal for his subordinates to have a working meal together; It's just to get more support from the company in the future, and to have a good relationship with the boss, isn't it?

After the two continued to talk for a while, Wu Long knocked on the door and came in to say that the lawyer had arrived, and Catherine went to sign the contract with Wu Long. As long as he signs the contract at the end, Wu Long can easily handle the rest without him participating.

As for Catherine's treatment in Phoenix Culture, it is likely that she has been very lenient. The company guarantees that it will provide Catherine with a film shooting opportunity at least every two years, and give Catherine a minimum of 5% and a maximum of 20% according to the amount of investment in the film and the most popular box office revenue; If Catherine herself has a good book, the company will also support her, and will also make a certain percentage of the share according to the investment and box office revenue. Such a contract is remarkable in today's film industry, and Catherine has no reason to disagree.

Couldn't it be that he stayed in the office and continued to read the newspaper and find some news he wanted to see, but it couldn't all be lace-based news. Sure enough, in the next newspaper, there was a professional film review of "The Silence of the Lambs".

Here's what a critic called 'Clark of Clark' said after watching the film: "First of all, I want to say for sure that 'The Silence of the Lambs' is quite a great film, and I've heard a lot of talk before that, and I'm going to talk about the 'Lamb' in the film.

When it comes to lambs, many people's first reaction is that the women who were killed in the film belong to this category, and their uncontrollable surnames over their own fate make them play this role; But in the later story, interspersed with scenes of the heroine reminiscing about the death of her father in her childhood, and her adoption by relatives who run a slaughterhouse, you will find that she also has no control over her own fate. Well, she was also included in the category of lambs.

Where there is a lamb, there must be a butcher, and the butcher should be a strong man. Although Hannibal is imprisoned, but he can control his own future and achieve his own goals by controlling others, then he should be a butcher, right? The perverted killer bison, fierce and insidious, wantonly harvesting other people's lives, is also a living butcher, right?

Unfortunately, these speculations are wrong. In the final part of the film, the heroine and the bison encounter in the dark basement, the bison wears night vision goggles, fully enjoying the sense of banter before killing the protagonist, but is finally killed by the protagonist first, and the murderous bison is also a lamb.

Whether it is Hannibal, the heroine, or us in reality, there is only one enemy to face, and that is ourselves. Clever and powerful enough for Hannibal to choose to escape when faced with such a situation, he let evil erode and distort his mind little by little; There must be a person like him, to observe and ponder, in order to free himself from the nightmare. Although the heroine chooses to face it and move towards justice under the sun, she also needs a counterexample to explain and overcome the incomprehension in her heart and the evil that slowly breeds.

So I want to say that all people are lambs, no one can escape the control and teasing of fate, in the face of a powerful fate, we are like the heroine who wants to save the lamb in the warehouse, but in the end can only be taken away, helpless against fate. This is what I saw in this movie, something that I didn't understand in the original book before.

In the end, I hope that "The Silence of the Lambs" can be a big hit and win a beautiful box office, so that it can be worthy of such a good movie. ”

This film review should have been written by a film critic, and it is the real feeling after watching the movie. And the next one made Mo Fei see a hint of the Siegmund review that Catherine brought before.

Unlike Zygmund's comments on photography and lighting, this one talks about the performance of the actor Yongjiang: "What kind of actor can play a bad guy well? Do you want to have a horizontal face or do you want to write 'perverted' directly on your face? In fact, this kind of character who looks like a bad guy at a glance does not bring too many surprises and highlights. Just like you, as an ordinary person, when you see a fierce-looking strong man appear in front of you, you will definitely think of a detour and walk away. But if you meet someone like Anthony Boggins in "Psycho", who doesn't look like a bad guy at all, doesn't look like a psychopath, or even a very handsome person, will anyone take a detour and walk away?

Unfortunately, we have found another such person, the perverted demon 'Hannibal' in "The Silence of the Lambs", a man who will smile at you when he talks, like a philanthropic elder, and when he is really 'bad', you will never be able to guard against it......"

Although there is no direct signature, and I don't know who the film critic is, this review is more agreeable and more direct to the point than Siegmund's.

In Mo Fei's opinion, a successful actor is to turn a kind and sincere face into a heinous bastard, and a beautiful and gentle face into a femme fatale that is better than ten thousand arrows piercing the heart, not just to act like something, but to engrave every image into the hearts of the audience, so that the audience can't tell who you are.

Among the actors in Hong Kong and even in China, as far as they know, the only one who can play the bad guy to the bone is mainland actor Chen Daoming, especially the "Black Hole" in his previous life, which is simply a classic, and Nie Mingyu played by Chen Daoming in it is simply scum.

Now there is another one, Yongjiang who showed his acting skills through "The Silence of the Lambs". In his previous life, Yongjiang was confined to the strange circle of the gangster godfather and couldn't get out, but now he has a broader platform to finally break free from the shackles and give full play to his strength, infinitely close to the results of Anthony Hopkins, the actor of the original film.

And this is also what Mo Fei is most willing to see, and what he wants to see the most, with such a Yongjiang, there will be no need to worry about the negative actor in many movies in the future, what he wants is such a "well-dressed beast".

(It's all classmates scattered all over the world, and it's hard to get together, and I'm going to mix it up today, and the update may be late, but it will definitely not be less.) )