Chapter 320: Genius is acting
That's impossible!
In the first few minutes, the atmosphere of the critics' screening changed, and Loppe, Byrne, Pugh, Daggis and others all had surprises on their faces, as well as an excitement that increased with each additional minute.
The quality of this movie seems to be ...... Unexpectedly high!
It's too high in every way!
In the bright and interesting, the situation of the Hoover family has been preliminarily explained on the screen, the actors have built the characters, Hanks is no longer Hanks but Richard, Roberts is no longer Roberts but Cheryl, and the other actors are like this, the more they are screened, the more amazing they are.
"Did Stan Grossman call?" Richard hurried into the kitchen, Cheryl preparing dinner, and the two of them talking about their own things, suppressing a sense of anxiety. Cheryl called out to Dewyn to help out, Richard checked the message machine, Cindy's excited chirp rang out, he shouted in disappointment, turned off in annoyance, and cursed in a low voice, "Damn it." ”
Richard calls Stan to ask about the progress of publishing his Success Rules, but is unable to reach him. Richard was even more irritated and helpless and said, "You don't have to worry about this, okay?" Cheryl didn't bother to ignore him and continued to make salad.
The two of them performed awesomely! The eyes of the critics have become different, and the first screen partnership of Hanks and Roberts is also surprisingly good!
Because they played the soul, only for a moment, the troubles and tiredness of their respective characters have been shaped, and together they are a cold couple who seem to be on the verge of rupture, but her care for him, the pressure of his care for her, and their care for the family can all be seen.
This effect can come from many aspects, the script is well written, the director is well filmed, and the actors are well acted.
This surprised Luo Pei very much, and the critics have always had a big doubt about LMS, is it a star-filled film? Ye Wei, this kid director, can he point to those star superstars and old rivers and lakes? Or just let them perform in their true colors?
Luo Pei and his show partner Roger Albert made a private bet, and Albert bet that it was okay, but he didn't think it would work......
Now, at the beginning of the film, the answer has been revealed.
Oliver, Richard, Dewyan, Grandpa, Cheryl, Frank, all six characters are vividly displayed in the scene, and then continue to deepen, forming a strange family in crisis.
Bryslin, Hanks, Dano, Akin, Roberts, Rose, no matter adults or children, under the direction of Ye Wei, they are all performing at a peak level, which has nothing to do with their true performances. They're either like they're exploding, or they're refreshing, and they're in the play!
"I lost. Luo Pei said and glanced at Albert next to him, Albert's old face was showing a playful smile, and Luo Pei said again: "Yes, I lost well." ”
In the LMS screening hall of 3116 theaters, there will be a chuckle from time to time, and the audience is very happy to watch, many people are fans of Hanks, and many people are fans of Roberts, they are not disappointed at this time, they look so good! Ye Wei's fans are not disappointed, until now, it is just one word, good-looking!
At the premiere of the Chinese Theater, Emma laughed especially loudly, diluting her depression, she knew that her aunt and Hanks were called NG by him in the first scene. Look at my aunt's smile now, I said, it's right to join this program! That guy is a genius!
At the same time, Hanks is also laughing, very satisfied with his performance, Rita and others also said that there is a breakthrough after watching it, and he has a long-lost new vitality in Weige's film.
The stage play is for the actors, the movie is for the director, and there is never such a thing as "the actor acts well only because he plays well" in the movie, and the director's role is the greatest.
It's not just directing on the set, it's the look and feel of the whole movie, which is in the hands of the director.
From the analysis of the script, to the preparation and design, scene scheduling, and post-production of all aspects, it can be said that Ye Wei single-handedly depicted and built, and everyone else was executing and creating in the blueprint he gave.
In Claudia Pugh's opinion, the look and feel of the LMS is fantastic, a kind of freehand refinement, a kind of rustic gorgeousness. Ye Wei is really not ambiguous! Maybe ordinary viewers just watched an ordinary frame of the picture, but in fact, the frame by frame is full of intentions.
This excites the critics, it amazes the insiders, and it makes all the viewers feel so comfortable watching it.
The more people who know the goods, the more pleasing they feel, and they are reluctant to miss a frame, which is simply handsome!
Steven Soderbergh was shocked when he watched the DVD, and George Lucas, who was also watching the DVD, was a little dumbfounded.
This top-notch literary feast is created by a teenager from 15 to 17 years old, Fucking-Awesome!
If you knew Soderbergh with "Ocean's Eleven", you probably wouldn't think he had anything to do with literature and art, but after watching "Never Compromise" and "Drug Network", you would never think that way again. If you know Lucas from the "Star Wars" series, you may think that he doesn't know anything but science fiction, but after watching "American Style Painting", you will never feel that way.
"A teenage director can have such control, big picture, aesthetics and scheduling...... Soderbergh is really convinced, how old was he when he made "Sex, Lies and Videotape"? 25 years old?
Look at the prop settings, art design, costume makeup and other techniques! Every scene is a surprise, like the video Oliver watched praising the ladies for their pompous expressions, like the cobwebs and wall stickers in the bathroom, like the Polaroid photo on the kitchen refrigerator......
Like the slightly rough warm colors, like Oliver's clothes are a variety of color combinations, showing the liveliness of children, Frank and Dewynne are almost all white, showing their dull and sick, grandpa is old dark but has an untamed hippie style, Richard pretends to be a high-class successful person, and Cheryl has no time to dress up haggard......
Of course, the art and styling departments have the credit for this, but they would not have been able to do this without the director acting as the commander-in-chief, making good explanations, making requests, and making decisions.
It's not scattered, it's unified, acting, art, modeling, photography, soundtrack...... The pieces of the puzzle form the look and feel.
Did Ye Wei do any directorial work? Those who have watched movies and know movies know that there is no need to say much, all of this is clear proof that he has done the best. It's like a giant Christmas tree full of gifts, one after another being opened, but there are still them!
Soderbergh was very emotional, every time he got one, he was excited, this movie is really good.
Ye Wei's aesthetics, Ye Wei's artistic touch, is really good.
"Why don't you speak? You can speak, but you just choose not to speak?"
The Chinese Theater chuckles again, and on the big screen, Dwynne stands in the door of his room, gesturing for Frank to go to dinner. Frank, who was sitting on the edge of the bed in the room, asked expressionlessly. Dewyn still looked cold and arrogant, and gestured with his eyes to the portrait of Nietzsche on the bed sheet hanging on the wall over there.
Frank turned his head to look, "Is that Nietzsche? You don't speak because of Nietzsche?" Dewyn nodded and turned away. Frank pondered, "Radical enough. ”
"Haha!" The audience in the screening room laughed even more, because the portrait of Nietzsche was painted crookedly and ugly, and it made people want to laugh ugly.
It is Ye Wei's requirement to draw ugly, and this prop setting is the details of the script, as well as "Thus Says Zarathustra" that Dewyn watched before.
Like Ye Wei said that he couldn't express his feelings, Michael Arndt was the same, watching the script that had been revised and revised finally appeared on the screen! The mood was indescribable, and he suddenly wanted to cry.
Here Nietzsche mainly represents the philosophy of the superman, and Dewyn does not speak, in fact, a contempt for other people, and a quest for self-evolution. Superman is arrogant and the most tolerant of pain, and certainly doesn't talk to these mortals.
Many ordinary viewers understand the meaning of Nietzsche, at least the most superficial madness.
In fact, a lot of obvious information is actively received by ordinary audiences, because the superficial meaning is easy to understand, such as Dwynne's room looks like only airplanes and Nietzsche, and there are even a few bedside cartoons of Nietzsche flying airplanes, which shows his love for airplanes.
Sure enough, in the dining room, DeWynne and Frank sat and waited for the others to take their seats, and "chatted", and Dewynne wrote "I hate everyone", highlighting his rebellious heart. Cheryl and Richard took their seats, and during the conversation she revealed that her son "was going to apply for the Air Force Academy to become a pilot." He swore not to speak until he achieved his goal. ”
Oliver took his seat, chatted a few words, and then Grandpa.
"What's that?chicken!?Chicken!?Chicken!?! ”
The strange silence of the crowd and the helpless cries of Richard could not stop the grandfather standing at the table from shouting in dissatisfaction: "Can we, even if we have something else for dinner? instead of chicken? Has the chicken offended us? There are many other delicious animals in the world, you know? For God's sake." ”
The laughter of the audience sounded in the theater again, and grandpa's amazing first words!
Claudia Pugh couldn't help but admire that if there was a floating scoreboard, LMS would be playing 100 points right now.
As a film critic, when facing the public, the greater consideration than the technical aspect is how the story is and how well the story is told, and now the literary and artistic story on the screen is simply perfect, so interesting and charming! From the public's point of view, there is not the slightest deep and dull comedy; from the perspective of a film critic, there is no vulgar and greasy taste of commercial films, and they are completely independent.
Peter Heller has long admired Ye Wei, if you only read the script, it is not difficult to understand why Focus did not dare to shoot at the beginning, this No. 18 scene alone can be called lengthy, and it will be unbearable to shoot a bad one. But VIY shot it right!
"If it goes on like this, what is the limit of this kid?" George Lucas was amazed, and in every movie, Ye Wei showed great progress.
From the youthful, talented, and wild horse-like energy of "The Wedding is Coming", to the calm, easy, and terrifying singing of horror poetry in "Exorcism Video", and then to "Little Sunshine Beauty", Ye Wei magically has the calmness of a veteran at the same time, the sharpness of a newcomer, and the passion that will not be lacking.
Ye Wei is seizing every opportunity to show himself, not telling stories in a disciplined, careful, and insipid manner, or the wild horse that is so talented that it needs to explode urgently. From the beginning, there are so many shots that can't be counted that the magic is volatile, which makes people feel like "he actually shot like this".
He took those ordinary scenes, such as the kitchen, bedroom, dining room, etc., and used scene scheduling and editing to make them unusual and turned them into a big stage.
It's not that no other director can do this, just like using the door frame to do repression, using the side of the two people against the door to express the estrangement and distance, this is basic and top-notch.
The difference lies in how to use it, whether it is just right or redundant. Ye Wei is expressing himself, but he is not indiscriminately expressing himself, neither timid nor eager to show his directorial skills, he is not in a hurry to show it, everything is just right! If you don't pay special attention, you won't feel any special sense of directing, it's very natural, it's there!
Any director knows that it is very difficult to deal with such a static group scene on the screen now, the longer the scene, the more difficult it is, and it is very easy to shoot into a pool of stagnant water for both newcomers and veterans - only the characters are reading the script.
Ye Wei came to life, from the scene of two people, to four, five, and six people, he kept this scene alive and interesting, not only was it not boring, but he couldn't detect the passage of time at all.
Another subtle technique, I don't know if this is the credit of the script or the director, a fly.
"Haha. Lucas smiled amusedly. "Wonderful. Soderbergh applauded. "But the best thing to do. Hanks, who also knows the director, admires it.
The eyes of the unbiased directors lit up because of the ugly fly, and when the scene began to feel a little monotonous, this little fly appeared, which injected new dynamic vitality into the scene and made the characters' personalities and ideas re-revealed.
On screen, Richard almost slapped it to death, but Oliver stopped, her smile melting in the close-up, "I think it's just hungry." Cheryl laughed a little, and Dewyn continued to ignore him, and Frank nodded as he thought it made sense.
"In our war years, flies also ate. "Grandpa is understatement nonsense.
In this way, the fly survived and became a relay of the scene, and flew away after a few shots.
For the ordinary audience who laughed and laughed, they didn't think so much, they just felt that their family was shouting and screaming very funny, these people played so well! The little girl was sweet, the old man was funny, and the teenager freak...... All six were amazing.
The smiling faces of the film critics obviously agree with this, and the amazing performances of the leading actors are all in the group scene of dinner, which is the first big explosion!
Ye Wei's performance is too. Who said he didn't act? Every minute and every second, the whole movie was his genius performance!