Chapter 41: The True Face of the Angel
A bright starry sky, in an unknowable place where no one can go, a huge bright light flickers regularly.
When it flashes, there are subtitles at the bottom of the screen.
Subtitle: In God's voice, a good man's time is almost up, and he sends an apprentice angel to take him back to heaven.
In Caesar's previous life, this passage from the original version was dubbed to God with English vocals...... Of course, the Chinese version is dubbed in Chinese.
Interestingly, God speaks fluent English, and the angels can't speak, but can only pronounce monosyllabic sangs.
This is a very strange setting, how did the original director and screenwriter learn that God speaks English in his own territory?
If God has appeared to an English-speaking human, it is understandable to say a few words of English, but the problem is that there is a sense of absurdity in how God speaks English to an angel who can't speak, even though this film is a light comedy, it also feels out of tune.
So Caesar directly changed it to replace God's voice with a flash of bright light, with subtitles and monosyllables of angels are enough to express it.
Therefore, the angels follow God's instructions and prepare to enter the mortal world through the guò energy tunnel.
Although God and angels did not show up in the previous paragraph, they explained the cause of the whole thing very succinctly, paving the way for the later fruits, and the picture of the cosmic starry sky is super beautiful, which is Kubrick's strength.
The occasional admiration in the audience is an affirmation and praise of Kubrick's space aesthetics.
As soon as the camera turned, at the engagement banquet held on a rainy night, people were forced to squeeze into the house, and the male protagonist who was his fiancé appeared.
From the lens language and character lines, people can clearly understand what kind of person the fiancée, that is, the parents of the supporting actress.
Impetuous, philistine, can do anything to succeed, and even pulls the hero's father to hype up his success. and threatened that he hoped that the actor would give up his dream of being a composer and join his own company, so that he could become a master at a faster speed.
In fact, no one in the United States in 2015 would disagree with this statement, but no one would think that this idea was wrong.
If it were in China in 2015, most people would have a positive attitude. Living a well-off life first and then pursuing their dreams became the consensus of most people at that time. Talking about dreams on a hungry stomach is just a shameful laugh.
However, in the 80s, whether in the United States or China, there was no market for this kind of money supremacy theory, even if at this time many people actually agreed with the supremacy of money in their hearts, but those who spoke out boldly would be disliked by the people around them.
Because mainstream society in the United States will always deny the supremacy of money, mainstream literature, theater, film, television and games will never promote the supremacy of money, and the media will also vigorously deny it, although most people think so and do it......
In such an atmosphere, the audience's perception of the supporting actress's family is very complicated.
On the surface, they spurn this kind of person, but in their hearts they faintly agree with this argument. Especially as a parent, no one wants their daughter to marry a would-be composer who is in danger, do they?
The actor is playing the harmonica in the rain, facing the supporting actress who came out to find him, the audience can understand from the dialogue that the male protagonist does not want to give up his dream, and the relationship between him and the supporting actress is not only not close to the point of needing to get engaged, but even the two have huge differences and deep rifts.
Then the hero's friends appeared on the stage, using a "terrorist hostage-taking scene", holding a prop gun to "kidnap" the protagonist, disrupting the engagement ceremony, and finally freeing the protagonist from the sea of suffering.
Ignoring the angry father-in-law, the protagonist ends up drunk on the carpet at home after a night of partying with his friends.
At this time, the heroine who is an angel began to come out after a long time, she was originally going to use the energy channel to enter the mortal world in the way of penetrating the void (high-dimensional life entering the low-dimensional space is called penetrating the void), but she didn't want to pass out of the channel, and was scratched by the artificial satellite flying around the earth, and had to fall to the earth in a scream.
This scene of a car accident-like space accident made the audience laugh and look forward to the development of this kind of god that is different from traditional religious stories.
Caesar chose this story, in addition to the goddess complex and childhood feelings, a large part is because the background setting of this story is particularly two-dimensional.
God sent an angel on a mission.,An accident occurred in the process.,And then there was an intersection with all kinds of people.,In the end, the angel's behavior touched God.,And then the angel got a promotion and a vacation.,In the world, the hero and the hero have lived a life without shame.。 When the male protagonist dies and the angel ends his vacation, she directly leads his soul, and the two return to heaven together......
A large stack of "A Family with a Fairy Wife"-style American drama script is in Caesar's head, and if the movie box office and word-of-mouth meet expectations, Caesar will start the production of the American drama version.
The angel came down to earth with a mission, so when she fell, the place she chose in a panic was naturally the target's residence.
The angel falls into the pool, and the water gushes out of the pool pours into the protagonist's house through the crack in the door, and the icy water awakens the protagonist.
In the pool, he finds the unconscious angel.
It was only at this time that the angel officially showed his face to the audience for the first time.
The lights in the pool, the soft light played by the gaffer, the ambient light and the white fog effect created by the dry ice machine, Kubrick's "pool encounter" is even more holy than the original.
When the actor helped the angel turn around and hold her body to observe carefully, the sound of the audience in the entire theater gasping in unison was as if it had been rehearsed, so neatly and uniformly.
Then there are four or five seconds of absolute silence, and the picture on the screen seems to match the audience's mood and rhythm, and these four or five seconds are always a close-up of Bea, and there is no sound in the whole process.
Then there are all kinds of exclamations from the audience, and the camera also happens to cut to the stunned and fascinated face of the male protagonist.
It can be said that between these less than ten seconds of camera switching, Kubrick completely captured the audience's viewing heart.
When the audience in front of the screen will breathe in the cool air, when they will be so amazed that they will lose their voice, and when they will break away from the shock and enter the mode of admiration, all of them are in Kubrick's calculations.
In the face of this paragraph, Caesar, who has a contrast with the original, only worships in his heart.
What is Master?
The appearance of a simple beauty made Kubrick shoot as if a real angel had descended.
At this moment, this angelic figure of Bea is truly immortal compared to the version of the previous life.
Because Bea, who has undergone the transformation of Caesar's beauty energy, it is not too much to describe it as a complete makeover.
If the perfect score is 10, the angel image of Bea in the previous life is given a maximum of 8 points, and the image of Bea in this life can be given 12 points.
In the whispers that many viewers can't help but say, "How can such perfect purity and beauty be an angel played by an actor, this woman is clearly a real angel." ”
In particular, Kubrick, who sat in the first row as a director, was like an ordinary audience, and when Bea appeared for the first time, he drew a cross on his chest, and his face was full of solemnity to Bea on the screen.
Why did he take on this light comedy in the first place, just because he saw divinity in Bea's makeup photos.
Therefore, when this great director watched the films he directed, he religiously believed that the angels on the screen were real, just like ordinary audiences. Even if this angel was filmed by him......
Is it such an exaggeration?
You must know that the moment the angel in the film opened his eyes for the first time, Caesar even shivered.
Because in a trance, Caesar also discovered the familiar "divinity".
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