The plot structure of "The Matrix" is actually very simple, nothing more than a time-traveling story, plus a post-apocalyptic setting and various mysterious elements. Its original work, in the eyes of most Chinese, may be a variety of POSS shots to play cool and handsome.

However, its essence still has the viewpoint of Western philosophical idealism, and Chen Tiandu's understanding of the original work has become more and more profound during the filming process. He found that this was not another learning process.

Chen Tiandu has never been a materialist, although he has been instilled with the theory that "the world is material, and the material world can be known" by the domestic education system for many years, he still believes that the universe is vast and strange, and there are many things that cannot be explained by the materialistic viewpoint; And the mind, sometimes, can even transcend the physical body and accomplish some actions that ordinary people can't do.

The unreserved critiques of the world of consciousness in middle school textbooks, but judging from his current knowledge, many of them are very far-fetched. For example, the teacher of the political department must have told you that the phrase "the mind is calm and naturally cool" is wrong, because it has fallen into the category of idealism; But in real life, peace of mind can indeed make the body temperature drop, the body is cool, and the hot summer effect is more obvious.

From "the mind is calm and naturally cool" to "I think, therefore I am", it is the advancement of consciousness.

The former only emphasizes that consciousness can affect the body, while the latter completely denies the idea that the body determines consciousness, and believes that the human mind is the basis of a substance, and the body without thought is a walking dead and has no meaning.

In reality, there are often some tests on the soul, and many people who are on the verge of death have the experience of being out of the body; The mysterious reincarnated spirit child also seems to confirm the idea that the soul is immortal and the body is reincarnated; But the boldest assumption comes in The Matrix, don't think it's just a dazzling high-tech movie, and many of its lines have a lot of depth.

For example, Murphis trains Neo Kung Fu, and he says, "Don't you realize that you don't need to breathe in this space...... I want you to forget about yourself. Compared with the Chinese martial arts' "unity of man and sword", Murphis's realm is undoubtedly higher, people are people are swords and swords, he is directly no one without a sword, completely forgetful, the implication is to forget the shackles of the body, with infinite expansion of consciousness to defeat the opponent, this is "absolute consciousness".

Chen Tiandu had not studied Western philosophy deeply before, and he did not have much feeling. But in the past two years in the United States, I have also been exposed to more Western culture. I feel even more deeply about this.

On top of this, he added a lot of lens language.

For example, in one of the passages, Neo went to the Prophet and saw a cute boy who resembled a little Tibetan Buddha teaching Neo how to bend the spoon with his telekinesis, and he said, "Don't try to break the spoon, that's impossible." The soup spoon does not have zài, it is not the soup spoon that changes, but your heart.

Seeing this, Chen Tian couldn't help but smile. Because he thought of the famous "wind moving flags" in a public case of Buddhism: it is said that a bunch of monks have eaten a full meal and rested at the temple gate, and the flags on the flagpole at the door are flying, and a monk says: "The wind moves"; A monk said: "The flag moves"; The third monk said in depth: "That is, it is not the wind that moves, nor the flag moves, but the human heart is automatic."

Buddhists say that the realm of this third person is not ordinarily high, he has risen simple natural phenomena to the realm of consciousness, recognized the extraordinary role of consciousness, and also recognized that greed, hatred, and obsession are all from the indefinite heart, and he has been fully enlightened.

In the movie, Neo can change his heart and bend the spoon through guò, but he is not enlightened, but he takes the first step to become a savior; This may be the different understandings of consciousnessism in the East and the West: the East advocates self-cultivation to achieve self-salvation, while the West uses self-cultivation to save the world.

In these aspects, Chen Tiandu's lines are very interesting.

The language of Western philosophy, which is similar to the esoteric one, was changed to the esoteric Zen and Taoist culture of the East.

"I think, therefore I am."

"Know me, understand me, only to forget me, there is no trick to win!"

"The wind moves, the flag moves, or neither the wind moves nor the flag moves, but the human heart is automatic."

I don't know if the American audience can accept this kind of line with obvious oriental cultural characteristics, but he can't control it, he thinks it's fun and does it.

The material world and the conscious world are irreconcilable contradictions, and people live in this combination. In fact, everyone has always been in balance, just like the final ending of the movie, only by living in peace can the whole world be balanced.

It's the same with matter and consciousness, don't say who decides whom, you should balance these two aspects so that people can recognize things!

In fact, the plot of the movie that crosses into the virtual matrix world from the consciousness of reality and the two opposing and contradictory worlds is not very novel, and at this point, "Truman's World" expresses the world in a TV more thoroughly.

Chen Tiandu's last "Sixth Sense" also has a similar setting, which is a contradictory problem between "thinking you know" and "actually not knowing".

The plot of this movie 'The Matrix' is strictly speaking simpler than 'The Sixth Sense'.

Compared with some of the pure handsome and cool actions of the original work, Chen Tiandu obviously has a deeper understanding of kung fu. He stands on the shoulders of giants, and it stands to reason that he has to do a better job than the original.

When Chen Tiandu was making this movie, he regretted more than once that the original director was not prepared at that time, and he was too ostentatious in his technique, which made the various characters seem more far-fetched when expressing the profound truth.

Chen Tiandu's new version of "The Matrix" is naturally "inherited" the story framework and general context of Zào created by the original director, and then optimized from the details, mainly to increase the rhythm of the film.

When using kung fu to play cool, he did not forget to express the profundity of the essence of kung fu and make up for the flaws of the original work.

Just like the current scene, Morpheus is arrested, and the SWAT force him to confess and ask him to tell the Zion code. Neo and Trinity enter the rescue, and this fight is the climax of the whole film.

The plot shooting has entered here, which also means that the shots of the virtual matrix world of "The Matrix" have been almost filmed.

Dressed in black and with a row of guns, he went straight to the computer SWAT base. When the original work was fighting, it was too flaunting in slow motion, too flaunting the spraying shots of bullets and guns, and as a result, the bullets fell to the ground, but few people died. There are too many slow motions, and there is no guide when it should be fast.

However, when it came to Chen Tiandu, he communicated with Yuan Heping many times before and after coming up with a shooting method that was satisfactory to both parties to complete the shot of the bullets flying.

A "Action! The camera began to rotate.

Carrying the package through the security check, the beeping beeping non-stop. The security guard walked over and said, "Take out all the metal objects on you, keys, coins, ......" Neo lifted his trench coat, revealing a row of firearms inside.

"Oh, Shet."

Then he knocked the security guard away with a palm, and the gunshots rang out.

This set of shots starts from the feet and goes up, and the shots in the original film that beat the security guards away are all shown off in slow motion. This was directly rejected by Chen Tiandu, and he mostly used 0.5 seconds of footage to quickly switch edits. Later Hollywood studies have shown that 0.5 seconds of footage is the most suitable shot length, which is enough time for the audience to leave an impression on the camera without feeling too dragged. Therefore, in later Hollywood blockbusters, the most used is also 0.5 seconds of footage.

This point was tried by Chen Tiandu in advance in "The Matrix".

As a result, the entire fight scene is crisp and neat, which is full of destructiveness, and the characters are agile and clever.

The entrance was laid, and the two of them went straight to the top floor from the elevator room. Neo fired a shot at the cable, but it didn't break, and the elevator shuddered. He reached out and grabbed Trinity's waist and pondered, "The wind doesn't move, the flag doesn't move, it's my heart that moves." ”

"Bang~" shot out, the camera shot from bottom to top, and the elevator rope "swooped" to take the two to the top floor.

"Good, I have a strong sense of déjà vu, and I have taken all of them." Photographer Ayman said happily.

"Good!" The shooting went smoothly, and Chen Tiandu was also in a good mood, shouting: "Michael, are you ready for the bullet time shot on the top floor?" ”

"No problem, anytime."

"Alright then, try to complete all the internal shots of the virtual matrix within this week, and start moving into the studio to shoot the spaceship reality footage in three days."

Time goes by little by little, and in the blink of an eye, in March, the Oscars are coming, and the footage of "The Matrix" is coming to an end.

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