Section 294 Art Design
In the original Untouchable, the white man wrote the story with some charity mentality, so the image of the black man in it, although it has all kinds of positive characteristics, cannot get rid of some white people's inherent prejudices against black people, and in Levy's film, he does not want these prejudices.
In the movie, in addition to not discriminating against whites, another requirement of black people is to lead him to open his heart and accept his relatives.
In the original story, although the black caregiver is also a very humorous, funny, and helpful person, because the story is written from a white perspective, some of his black problems, such as drag racing, lust, and aggressiveness, are reflected. When Levy was shooting, he tried to deal with these issues from a more objective and peaceful perspective, rather than condescendingly commenting on the lives of black people as the original work.
Admittedly, black culture is not mainstream, and there must have been some problems with this black man who has been in prison himself. He has no culture, and it is impossible for him to give all kinds of esoteric explanations to white people, but in this story, there should be no distinction between him and the white rich man - the white rich man treats him as a friend because the other party does not see him as a disabled person, and if he sees black people as non-mainstream all the time, how can black people treat him as a friend?
Friendship is always mutual, and it must be reflected here.
In fact, many of their stories reflect this mutual friendship. The art case is a case in point: black people's questioning of white culture has changed the way white people think about the concept of culture, and that's a shift. The white man, under the influence of the black, has also changed, but he himself is not aware of it.
And now, Levy is going to strengthen all of that. Some of the things that blacks do to whites, such as dealing with him and his daughter, and the people he communicates with. Levy has also done some enhancements. In this way, it is more obvious that two people help each other.
The white rich man is disabled, and the black care worker is a freed prisoner, and in a way, both are the type that the mainstream of society loaths. And this story should also be a story of them helping each other and getting rid of the psychological shadow together.
The white rich man is rich and conforms to the taste of the mainstream culture, but his disability has caused him a certain psychological trauma, and the problems that are not good in dealing with emotional problems have been further divided and amplified. Sensitive and vulnerable, he compensates for his psychological problems with the help of blacks; Black care workers are poor and have experienced arrests and incarcerations, which do not match the demands of mainstream society. But under the tolerance and indulgence of the white rich, they also opened their hearts and began to face society in a better way - in this story, it should not be one person, but two people who will be redeemed.
The original movie did not reflect this. And now Levy wants to show it.
Untouchable is a very warm movie, but in terms of racial discrimination, it does deal with some issues. Compared to the American movie driving Miss Daisy, the thinking in this regard is slightly worse. That's why. Levy made a large number of changes.
In his story, he changed the original intention of the black man in the original story to find a job, and the image he created, although he lived in poverty. There are a lot of problems, but at least he is an optimistic person. Only such a person can save each other with the white man. Achieve friendship.
Moreover, it is only in this way that it is easier for blacks to accept: living at the bottom is not an option, but working hard is a choice that blacks can make.
"Let's go on, the movie is already good. I'm very happy with your performances, and if you work harder, we can make a better movie, and we need to be serious, because our movie is going to be released in September, and now time is running out. ”
On the set, Levy clapped his hands again and spoke to a few people again.
It's May now, and the movie is finished, so it has to be June. Although he said that he would try to catch up with the release in September, Levy was not particularly confident in this. Although there are not many post-productions of this play, Levy also wants to be exquisite, and he doesn't know if it can really be done on time.
The time spent on this movie has actually run out of time. Compared to his original idea, this movie can be said to have taken too much effort.
These efforts are mainly used in preliminary preparations.
This time, when making a movie, Levy put forward some new requirements for the filming of the film. Compared with previous films, which pay more attention to the breath of life, this time, Levy's films pay more attention to artistic taste and life grade.
This kind of set is a bit difficult to arrange, and in order to match this set, the film as a whole needs to be adjusted in terms of lighting and tone. Otherwise, the scenery has a classical beauty, but the light and tone always reflect a modern sense, that is, it makes people play.
Therefore, this shooting, Levy made a lot of shooting adjustments when shooting the movie. If you want to make a difference, you always have to try it many times.
Levy knew that maybe the audience wouldn't understand the lighting, the color palette, the setting, but they could see if a movie was right. These things are misplaced, and in the eyes of people, it seems that the taste of the movie is just wrong. It's like the characters in the movie who appear in ancient costumes, but they have to say a few words on the Internet, although they can't be said to be wrong, but they always make people feel awkward - and a movie that makes people awkward in this way is definitely not a good movie.
Cinema is art, and the characteristic of art is that it seems to not exist at all, but it is manifested everywhere.
In order to make the overall layout of the film more classical, the color arrangement is naturally thicker, and in order to make the black people break into the world, there is an adaptation, and the light here is more bright. The arrangement of these things took a lot of time and slowed down the shooting.
As a result, it will be more difficult for the film to be completed in September. But fortunately, this is a literary film, and it is not something that can sell at the box office, and if it is released at the end of September, it will be nothing if it is missed and thrown to December to be released.
If it was not famous in the past, this would have made the issuing company unhappy, but now Levy is doing it. There is no need to worry about anything at all.
It's just that he doesn't intend to say this to the actors: Let them work harder, there's nothing wrong with it.
Several people who returned to their work positions again, did not make any more mistakes, and this time, their shooting quickly passed.
"Good, good job this time." After the filming was completed, Levi also walked over and congratulated several people, "After this part of the filming is finished. And then to the back, there is the part where Liszt dances to the music. That part can be said to be the climax of the movie, Cuba, play it well. ”
Levy told him again, little Cuba. Godin raised his hand and gave Levy a thumbs up, squeezing his eyes to signal that everything was ready.
"Rest assured, absolutely no problem. As long as there is music. I can dance, whether it's classical music or modern music, it makes no difference to me. ”
Levy also stretched out his hand to give him a thumbs up for his statement. Didn't say much.
He knew that little Cuba. Godin's self-confidence can still be believed. He comes from a musical family and is no stranger to music and dance, although it is unrealistic to expect him to dance particularly well. But to fulfill the requirements in the movie, he can still do it.
After filming this segment, the next thing to shoot is to shoot. It was a part of Philip's birthday party where Liszt danced to the music. In this paragraph, the combination of classical music and black dance can be said to be the biggest climax of the movie, which is also what Levy deliberately needs to express.
Thinking of this, looking at the memo in his hand, and looking at the names of the long list of songs that had been prepared here, Levy nodded with satisfaction again - he believed that with this, he could perform this scene well enough.
This time the shooting, obviously it has been so slow, and he can still be so leisurely and not in a hurry, in fact, it is because of these.
In the past filmmaking, Levy has always learned from the problem of making his own films. And after shooting his own film this time, he also began to sum up some problems: he found that he had always paid little attention to the artistic design of the film, as well as the soundtrack and interludes of the film.
Although he has always been willing to spend a lot of money to find famous soundtracks to score music, and there is no shortage of hiring some artists to design for films, but because he does not have a deep grasp of art and lack of enough understanding of music, he has not been very good in this regard. He has made so many films, but the only thing that really impresses people is the beautiful picture and music of Angel Love - Latin-style tones, Karajan's famous works, which have been praised, but other than that, there are not many good music applications in Levy's films. Although Infernal Affairs' unique coldness is also a style, it is much worse than Angel Amelie.
The reason is because he is deeply impressed by Angel Amelie, almost restoring the original, and he does not dig too deep into the cold style of Infernal Affairs, and the movie is inferior in this regard.
At the end of the day, it's because he doesn't pay enough attention to tonal composition and music. Therefore, this is also the problem that Levy focused on solving when he made the film this time. It is precisely because of this that he put so much effort into this movie.
A good movie can't do without enough supporting art design, and it obviously can't work without good enough music interludes. This time, this is also a problem that Levy wanted to correct, and he did not hesitate to choose this film that uses artistic design to show strong contrasts, and the main focus is partly song and dance, which is why he came from.
For Levy, his current filming is more about pursuing his own ability improvement, so as to shoot his own good movies. Now that he knows what his problems are, he will naturally pay more attention to the practice in these aspects. He believes that after such practice, his level will be further improved. (To be continued......)