Chapter 140: The Supporting Role of the Biggest Names in History
What was the first movie you watched?
Although many guys who pursue connotation, ideas, and art always like to devalue business as worthless, as if the disgusting smell of copper is the root of polluting art, but the first contact between everyone and the film cannot be an art film with profound connotation, because when you are ignorant, only the simple story, eye-catching picture, and the point when you are impressed are the root of your desire to dig and want to understand all this.
When a guy gets used to the impact of popcorn and wants to find something that can inspire thinking, they will fall into the ocean of art, and then spray those guys who are still in the visual sensory stage, as if their evolution is really high, and use heart-wrenching words to express their indignation at those directors who still embrace business, they have completely forgotten that if they were not moved by the initial amazement, they would not be where they are now.
What is the difference between this and 'picking up the rice bowl and eating meat, putting down the chopsticks and scolding the mother'?
Cole Niederham is not such a person, as a guy who will die if he doesn't watch a movie for a day, he understands better than anyone that only the commercial films that the public likes are more and more popular, and those who pursue art can get a bigger market, because there will always be some people who will grow, if there is no commercial film to lead the door, then there will be no habits and boredom in the future, and there will be no expanding art market, and real art will only gradually die out because of the decline of the number of people.
Because of this, after watching thousands of movies, in fact, Cole Nedham, who has long been able to break away from commercial films, will still watch commercial blockbusters every year, and he hopes to find a movie that can fascinate himself, the audience, and the world like the original "Jaws"!
And now, he felt like he had found ......
Although he is still the same person, this time, what he brought is not a deep-sea horror, but a landmark sci-fi movie!
If you have to delve into the highlights of "Jurassic Park", the ideas embedded in it are far less important than the glimpse of the dinosaurs at the beginning.
Since the advent of hit movies, I don't know how many fantasy movies have been made, but no matter how far or near they are, they can't stand scrutiny.
Take "King Kong" in '76 as an example, although it was given a close-up, the plastic feeling of the skin was too strong, but this technical defect did not stop people's fantasies, and the exciting thing is that there are a bunch of people who have been pondering these things - "Star Wars" Even if it was criticized for its simple plot and single character, it used up all the scientific and technological effects and imagination at the beginning, and all kinds of monsters with strange shapes gathered together in the bar, and fierce space battles, It is a reproduction of all the guys who have explored the universe; And "Jurassic Park", in fact, is replicating all this, it is selling people's curiosity about ancient creatures, it is selling the mystery of living on those unknown continents 10,000 years ago.
A future, a past, are piled up with people's fantasies and pursuits, and because of this, when the first act of the opening chapter turns into a heavy punch and gives people a thunderous blow, the next two hours can make people spend in anticipation.
Even if the story is stinky and long, even if it is inside, it is interspersed with preaching......
But none of that matters!
What's 'because there's an accident in the park, they need to call in for help', what's 'other companies are eyeing the dinosaurs in the park and want insiders to steal the living dinosaur embryos', what's the simple preaching, The male and female protagonists introduce dinosaur knowledge to the children', this kind of logical behavior that usually appears in science and education dramas, in order to increase the length of the film and have to water the process, for the guys who are not used to preaching in the past, it is all a beautiful foreshadowing, and when they waited for nearly twenty minutes, and finally saw the dinosaurs again during the day in the film, the lifelike brachiosaurus made their eyes widen and their mouths wide!
The guy who walks over the screen seems to be one with everything around him!
The embarrassment and disharmony of the past are now gone!
What excites them the most is that the forelimbs of Brachiosaurus are off the ground, the hind limbs are standing, and the action of pulling the canopy in a backward posture and chewing and eating is a complete long shot!
Daytime! Show the whole picture without reservation! Let the guests attending the premiere tingle their scalps!
"Oh my God...... It's not ...... night," Warner executives who were invited to the event exclaimed that they belonged to the investors.
"How is this done? Models? Wrong! Such a large model could not be built at all, let alone moved! "Film critics who want to emphasize storytelling and logic have lost their logic.
“Fuck! Fuck! Fuck! Fuck! Fuck! Those lucky fans who want to tell their inner excitement, but their culture is not high, shouted out the shock in their hearts in the simplest and most simple way!
"It's the image that the audience wants to see the most! The group of Industrial Light & Magic actually got the dinosaurs out! "The media people who write every day understand that the selling point of this movie in front of them is completely in line with the public's taste!
They also understand that the dinosaurs that appear generously on the screen and the vivid actions will open a new era for the movie!
Especially the shot of the dinosaur breaking out of the shell, when the little guy with bloodshot mucus on his body struggles hard in the eggshell, the trembling body is like the audience's heart, the feeling of witnessing history, makes them hold their breath!
"Jurassic Park" is a typical soft science fiction story, they will not describe every scientific idea as extremely reasonable, let alone wonder whether their fantasies will come true, what the author pursues is actually what kind of changes will be brought to society after the emergence of scientific inventions, and the reason why Spielberg took a fancy to this story was also because he was not hard! And in the construction of the script, the author's own ideas were integrated, so after the scene of the dinosaur breaking out of the shell appeared, the mathematician who played the author's prototype in the movie began to criticize the old professor in order to prevent the dinosaur from reproducing on its own, and modified the DNA of the dinosaur, and set the artificially hatched creatures as the bad behavior of females......
But this kind of ethical discussion that violates the laws of nature is actually a tool for the audience to promote the development of the plot......
To put it mildly, when you spend more than 200 yuan on Dayang, sitting in the cinema to watch "Avatar", do you care if the story of the little blue man mining is naïve? From the moment you buy a ticket, you know what you want to see, and as long as the movie portrays your needs in place, it won't be a loss, and if you feel amazing, it's a big profit!
This principle is also common to "Jurassic Park".
The core of humanism?
Please, don't beep, the guys who are here for the dinosaurs don't want to hear this noisy explanation at all!
They would rather stare at the dinosaurs for a day than listen to what the director is trying to tell us!
Because of this, after the glimpse of the night, the face-to-face portrayal during the day, and the high-definition close-up in the laboratory, the calming down of the plot and the disputes between the various characters in the movie are actually a respite for the vast majority of audiences, who are not interested in the ethics and morality that the movie characters argue about, or rather, the technological progress placed in front of them allows them to ignore the shortcomings of their parents on weekdays.
Of course, during the 'rest' time, everyone also found a problem.
"It's been more than thirty minutes since the movie was shown, why hasn't Roland Allen and the Olsen sisters come out yet?"
"Aren't they starring? Why, until now, there has not been a single shot? ”
"How long is this movie in total? Two hours? A quarter of the time they are not there, how can the character stand? ”
Listening to the whispered discussion from the backfield, Roland, who was sitting in front of him watching the movie, was deeply pleased.
Fortunately, this group of guys did not forget themselves because of the appearance of the dinosaur, and regarded him as a dispensable tool.
In fact, in all special effects blockbusters, the protagonist will always be the most embarrassing guy -
"Avatar", do you remember who the protagonist is?
Those who can directly report the name of the male protagonist are all wolf annihilation, and if it weren't for the fact that the female protagonist also has the two series of "Star Trek" and "Guardians of the Galaxy", and beat Star-Lord in "Avengers", who would remember who she is?
It's the same with "Transformers", who else can you think of besides Megan Fox?
Many actors don't want to make special effects films, because even if they show their arms and legs, they don't have the impression of those special effects.
And Roland and Olson sisters in "Jurassic Park" have the same role.
After the plot of "Dinosaurs Appear", "The Principle of the Resurrection of These Creatures", "Contradictions Caused by Clone and Recreation", Roland and Olsen sisters finally appeared on the stage - they first said hello to their grandfather, and then boarded the sightseeing tour bus in Jurassic Park with the male and female protagonists, and while walking around the park, they also met the injured triceratops for help, and after working together to deal with the wounds on each other's bodies, the cheeks poked lightly, and the tongue rubbed in response, It's like a lot of fairy tales, the spiritual creatures who know how to repay their kindness.
"It seems that the herbivorous dinosaurs are still relatively docile."
"Oh, the expected plot, the warm rhythm is Steven's forte."
"It seems that the whole movie focuses on introducing popular science? Then in a few scenes where stealing dinosaur embryos ended up straying into the dinosaur park and being punished by dinosaurs? While the narrative plot is good, it seems slightly boring? …… Well, this kind of picture is not boring anymore. ”
"The presence of Roland and Olsen sisters is so weak, they won't just come to show their faces, right?"
After the initial shock, with the appearance of a large number of dinosaur pictures, the audience at the premiere has gradually calmed down, especially when Roland and Olson sisters interact with dinosaurs, that kind of warm picture, so that they are shocked, but also show a knowing smile, after all, this kind of picture is indeed not scary.
While watching, the minds of everyone at the scene also began to come alive, and they hoped to see something more powerful.
seems to have heard the audience's voice, but in fact, it is the key to the Hollywood script routine process, when the audience gradually accepted the picture of the screen, the adrenaline hormones secreted before have now begun to subside, the plot of the movie suddenly flipped, the originally clear sky, suddenly dark clouds, with the coming of the storm, the engineer who wanted to steal dinosaur embryos and sell them for money immediately did a series of operations, he directly shut down the security system of the park, just to go to the laboratory to get embryos, and in order to retreat, He chose to shut down most of the power system in the park, so that he could ......
As the night fell, the feature film finally arrived.
Like the protagonists of other special effects blockbusters, the Roland and Olsen sisters are also the driving force behind the plot.
However, unlike those who push to die, after revising the script, they actually become food due to the change of perspective.
What does that mean?
In "Transformers", the Bo faction and the mad faction are the protagonists, and human beings are incidental; In the superhero movie, both sides have ability, and the one with a bad character is the one who is bad; "The Matrix" and "Men in Black", these are all the same, those abilities that are far beyond ordinary people, so that the screenwriter cannot write the plot with normal logic, so only by using the aura of intelligence reduction can the plot end smoothly.
But "Jurassic Park" doesn't need it!
You think with the bottom of your feet, and you also understand that dinosaurs are beeps more than human cows!
And when the security system and power system are all turned off, isn't it a foraging instinct to be able to get away from them and actively attack humans? Since there is instinct as a promoter, then children don't have to carry stupid characters on their backs!
Because of this, when the legendary Tyrannosaurus rex finally appeared, in front of the Olsen sisters, who were curious to play with the telescope, and bit the goat trapped in the park to death, the red liquid that shot out and splashed the car body everywhere!
Just when her eyes were wide open, her facial features were distorted, her mouth was wide open, and she used a frightened roar to cover the helplessness in her heart, Roland, who heard the sound and realized that something was wrong, had already turned around, and after seeing the behemoth sticking out of the woods, although his face was frightened, he still raised his hand to cover his sister's mouth in the first time, and pulled her back lying next to the car window!
"Don't be afraid, don't look, it can't pass, we're separated by a 10,000-volt high-voltage barbed wire......"
Roland took the Olsen sisters in his arms, and the camera was very loyal to the close-up.
My sister, who was trembling because of fear, was closing her eyes tightly at the moment, and when she heard Roland's reassuring words, she asked in a vague tone, "Really?" ”
"Right...... It's not ...... Fuck……”
At the same time as Roland spoke, the high-voltage wire network that had been cut off could not stop the Tyrannosaurus Rex from moving forward at all, and it seemed to be attracted by the abrupt shout, while breaking through the defense line, the huge head also came to Roland's face, although there was only a window away, but the condescending look, and the trembling look up will be the idea of going to hell and retreating to heaven, to the fullest!
And at the same time that Roland's mouth was dirty, the sister-in-law who felt that something was wrong also wanted to look back again, but even though Roland was so frightened that he was about to pee his pants, he still instinctively raised his hand and pressed his sister's head, not wanting her to see everything in front of him!
“Fuck! Fuck! Fuck! This Tyrannosaurus rex is so cool! That picture of eating sheep is so cool! ”
“Wow! Did the two flee together? Will the two of them survive the pursuit of the Tyrannosaurus rex? ”
"It's so manly! It's so manly! My Roland has grown up! ”
"Is this movie played by my sister or my sister? Well, it doesn't matter...... She's so cute...... That scared little face is about to wring out the water! I really want to take her home! ”
The audience's love and hate for the actor actually has nothing to do with the actor, it is all given by the role.
If the character is set up well, the performance is not bad, and the audience will naturally like it, and if the character is bad and the performance is good, the audience will naturally be disgusted.
This is like Feng Yuanzheng in "Don't Talk to Strangers", the better he acts, the more people don't like him, although they will remember him, but the negative memory is actually quite popular with the audience for actors.
And now?
The Roland and Olsen sisters don't need the 'stupid' kids in the movies of the past.
All they need to do is show their fear of the dinosaurs and run away after them.
This is the same as the most old-fashioned horror movies and monster movies, which only require acting the size of a fingernail.
But even so, they get the most out of it!
Is it because they acted well?
No kidding, it's because the Tyrannosaurus rex played it well!
With the best technology made of unprecedented creatures to play with two people, under the audience's sympathy for the weak, the escape characters created by the two of them can gain the most attention!
And in the case of the younger sister showing her instinct and the elder brother moving forward rationally, the contrast and complementarity in the character design come out......
This is indeed a psychological way to deceive the audience's favor, but-
Isn't cinema an art of deception?
As long as the audience is cool enough!
He'll think it's worth it!
In this way, with the appearance of the Tyrannosaurus rex, the popular science movie is over, and the hunting game has officially begun!
As soon as the Tyrannosaurus rex went down, it pierced the transparent roof!
With a wave of the Tyrannosaurus rex's cheeks, the car is already on all fours!
And just when the audience was about to tighten their teeth and want to know how the children in front of them would deal with all this, Roland, who had been holding his sister tightly in his arms, suddenly saw a flashlight.
Alert, he hurriedly grabbed it, and while opening it, he also threw it to the side! With the movement of the bright light, the Tyrannosaurus rex, which was roaring in the sky, also turned its gaze to the unidentified object rolling everywhere......
Seeing the Tyrannosaurus rex turn its head, the guys at the scene immediately cheered.
However, before they could be happy for two seconds, and before they could praise Roland for his cleverness, the big man stepped on the toy in just a few steps, and then followed the smell and found the two little ghosts covered in mud and trying to escape in time......
The big man's suddenly constricted pupils, like an invisible hand, grabbed the necks of everyone at the scene, and just as they were about to tear their eyes apart, wanting to cheer Roland and them, the guy also slowly raised his right foot......
The nerves of the people are also tense because of this......
And the sisters Roland and Olson, who have their backs to the big guys, don't know that as long as they are taken care of by the director and screenwriter, as long as they use the best technology of the moment to pile up the most brutal creatures in people's hearts, even if they only appear in a few shots, they will be the protagonists......
Because in this world, there is no second 'supporting role' that is bigger than the Tyrannosaurus rex......
Can't the audience remember the actors in the special effects blockbuster?
Then let the first realistic Tyrannosaurus rex on the movie screen play the scene!
Who is the guy being hunted by a Tyrannosaurus rex?
Roland Allen! Sister Olsen!
Lore!