The film begins, and the audience in the screening room falls silent, all eyes glued to the big screen in front of them, their ears catching the soundtrack.

At the beginning, the sound of the snare drum came from far and near from the dust and smoke of the war with a firm and sonorous image, and the military trumpet with very bright metal colors replaced the classical trumpet usually used in symphonies, and hummed with a low voice, with words of great gratitude and remembrance, like the morning light gradually brightening in the mist, flowing through the heart without a trace, gradually passionate and magnificent, and gradually whispering softly.

The dim Star-Spangled Banner is facing the wind, and the sound of the wind music is also drifting, and the film opens its opening screen little by little under this fixed shot.

When the old man walked quickly in front of the camera and walked to the cemetery step by step, a timely shot took a close-up of the old man's eyes, so the past buried in the memory slowly unfolded, and the window of the soul slowly became brighter.

"Where's the opening battle?" Kunites frowned and muttered in a low voice, "Didn't you say that the beginning was a landing battle?" Why, it's not like Duke's style! ”

"That's right." Alan and Jones chimed in.

However, as it turned out next, the film did not disappoint them!

In the sound of the huge waves, a large number of Allied landing craft rushed towards the beach, and many soldiers were lying on the side of the ship vomiting. Wind and waves on the landing craft.

The camera pans to the inside of the landing craft, the officer's trembling hands show the psychological pressure of the moment, the soldier does not see death as home, or indifference or fear or prayer, and no one knows whether he will live to make it to that fateful beach.

At the moment when the front flap of the landing craft opened, the battle broke out without any warning, without foreshadowing. There were no shouts, just merciless bullets and fallen corpses.

The war was tragic and bloody, and people seemed so fragile at that time, with bullets piercing through helmets and tearing apart bodies; Soldiers search for their stumps and severed arms on the beach; After the explosion, only half of the wounded dragged by Captain Miller remained...... The restoration of war scenes achieves a rare reality.

"This ...... It's brutal! ”

Kunites heard a voice next to him and turned his head to look over. It was a guy named Owen who had just spoken to him, and he covered his mouth, "Is this the real battlefield?" Isn't there a Rambo that can't be beaten? ”

"There are no heroes in war who can't be killed!"

Although he said this, Kunites had to sigh that this war scene was really cruel and terrifying!

Tom sitting in the front row? Hanks, having seen the film a few times, focused more on Duke's production methods, especially since he was involved in almost all the filming, and he is also an experienced person in this circle. Combined with the scene when shooting on set, there is always some analysis.

"It's clear that Duke has used a completely different way of editing in post-production."

Tom? Hanks confirms this, and in the opening battle, Duke clearly uses a set of continuous shots to convey the effect, and uses different shots - such as medium and close - to show the war scenes.

Among them, in order to highlight the struggle of the soldiers on the battlefield and the bloody nature of the war. He painstakingly used close-ups to achieve realistic visuals.

For example, on the beach and in the sea, the fighters are desperately moving forward. The soldier who was advancing bravely in the water was shot by a bullet fired frantically, and at this time, the close-up shot made people witness this tragic scene more intuitively, only to see the bright red blood flowing from the soldier's body, and immediately dyed the sea water around him red, and the soldier fell down and was submerged by the sea.

Subsequently, the camera screen was gradually enlarged. In the form of a small panorama, people witnessed the bright red and tragic scene on the sea.

War is cruel and unforgiving, and life becomes small, fragile, and even vulnerable in the face of war.

Even the most sluggish viewers can appreciate this from the opening battle, Todd, a veteran film critic? McCarthy is certainly not an exception. His face is not very good-looking, although the film is only the beginning, it is enough for him to judge that this is a completely different Duke from the past? Rosenberg films.

Remembering that when the film was massively promoted, film critics ridiculed it in their columns as an alien version of World War II, and his face darkened even more if he couldn't see anything but the explosion.

The film does have a lot of explosions, and they are continuous explosions, but these explosions are not explosions for the sake of explosions, such a large-scale beach-grabbing landing battle, if there is no explosion, it is a joke, and the most important thing is that these explosions completely abandon the very exaggerated way of "Independence Day" and "Brave Island", while retaining a certain visual impact, it seems extremely real.

In contrast, Kenneth, who sat next to him? Turan has less prejudice in his eyes and is able to look at what he has seen from a more fair perspective.

In this war scene, Duke? Rosenberg clearly abandoned the usual mode of filming, and used documentary footage to show the war for the first time in history—using a hand-held camera to capture the landing scene, waist-high follow-up angles, wobble images, personalized close-ups of faces, fast- and slow-motion combinations, and the use of montage techniques to overlap and edit fragments of snap-up shots......

One qiē and one qiē constitute a terrifying scene on the horror battlefield, and also create a unique lens expression in the film.

The extensive use of hand-held camera lenses makes the angle of the film lens in a parallel state, or presents a 45-degree angle relative to the subject of the film, which is close to the angle of human observation of the object, making the people, objects and events on the screen more real and credible.

Anna, a graduate of New York University's film production program and an assistant director in Hollywood for a while, feels the same way.

With an almost soldier-like perspective, audiences like her and Erin were taken by director Duke? Rosenberg is placed on the Omaha beachhead in an immersive way, feeling the deterrence of bullets and bullets, and experiencing the cruelty and bloodshed of war!

"It's not like a Duke movie!"

Despite watching the trailer, Irene? Lauder was mentally prepared, but now she couldn't help but be surprised.

There are no beautiful wide-angle shots, no oversized scenes, no dazzling action shots, no sharp editing styles, no explosive special effects explosions......

If not quite sure that the director is Duke? Rosenberg, Erin would definitely think it was someone else's work.

However, she was not disappointed, and the film was as wonderful and beautiful as ever, even if it was a little disgusting in blood.

"Erin, you should be happy for him!"

Hearing her friend's words, Erin was puzzled, "For whom?" ”

"Duke? Rosenberg: Ah. Anna lowered her voice, "Aren't you friends?" In my opinion, the first step in his style shift was very successful, and maybe this film will become his masterpiece. ”

This is Anna's true opinion, just this opening battle is enough to create the epic style of the film, as long as the narrative does not collapse, this film will inevitably become a classic in war films, even the most classic.

Just when Anna and Erin took advantage of the end of the war drama to whisper a few words, Kenneth? Turan is still analyzing the film.

It's hard to say Duke? In the Rosenberg format of the film, the shift in style is indeed obvious.

Obviously, Duke? Rosenberg didn't think the big scenes could convey the horror of the war very well, so he didn't use many wide-angle shots to show the full battlefield, but strictly said a panorama at the end of the war - the camera pans from the soldiers who have seized the beachhead, to the beach full of vehicles, boats and corpses, and finally freezes on a corpse with the word "Ryan" printed on it.

In addition, the film uses more medium shots, as well as medium and close-up shots, such as Captain Miller's trembling hands and the soldier's nervous and frightened face, etc., and then Duke? Rosenberg put these close-ups and close-ups on the screen and in front of the audience's eyes, making the death in the war so real that it was shocking and unacceptable.

Here, death comes so suddenly, so quickly, there is no unrealistic fluke, there is no hero who is still alive after being shot, there is no dying counterattack before death, the amplification of these death passages can make people feel the fragility of life, and convey the fear, misery and decline of human nature in war.

Using the tragedy of war to express anti-war thoughts, although the method is not new, but Duke? Rosenberg did an excellent job.

Even if it's Todd next to him? McCarthy, too, has to admit that Duke? Rosenberg has made a significant change, and this opening scene alone can be considered a successful change.

The most typical is the length of the film's shots, Todd? McCarthy clearly remembers that the average shot length of Duke's first three films was no more than 2.5 seconds, and long shots can only be described as extremely rare.

In this scene, he made extensive use of realistic long shots, estimating that the average shot length should be more than 7 seconds, although this does not have the sense of sharpness brought by the rapid switching of short shots, but it can continuously show the process of war, making people unconsciously integrate into the lens and into the film.

To Todd? McCarthy is also different in editing, the young director has obviously abandoned the previous editing method that does not follow any logic, and returned to the ranks of logical editing, and the film scene is not deliberately designed to maintain the length of the shot, but follows the principle of logical editing, which is to edit when an event ends or explains another set of interesting scenes.

Even if you're biased, Todd? McCarthy also doesn't feel forced to accept the image from the cuts, which are natural and fluid.

Even if to Duke? Rosenberg's senses are terrible to the extreme, Todd? McCarthy also had to admit in his heart that the young director had made great progress, and his directing level had even made a qualitative leap, especially in the next shots, Duke? Rosenberg's approach to the weakest expression of emotion is simply impressive. (To be continued......) R1292