Disaster Artist

There is no doubt that Fincher is an angular director, with his unique image style, sharp-edged paranoid stubbornness, and dark and profound thinking ability, all of which make him suffer and stumble in the traditional cooperation process of Hollywood studios. , hit the head and broke blood.

It is precisely because of this that when Fincher filmed "Mank" later, he gave up cooperation with traditional studios and turned to Netflix.

So, what's really special about Finch? Lu Qian personally believes that what can be called Finch's masterpiece should be "Zodiac" and "Social Network"——

The former shows Finch's delicacy and profoundness towards the characters' psychology. From anxiety to distress to despair, it penetrates into every corner of the camera, and forms a powerful vortex through the image, attracting the audience and ending the movie. You can also feel the aftertaste afterward.

The latter shows Finch's masterful control over editing. Editing, soundtrack, lines, scheduling, etc. are all integrated with the rhythm. Every picture can deeply feel the emotional blow, and then let each character feel the rhythm. Escaped into the bondage, there was only a moment of loneliness when the curtain fell.

There is no doubt that Fincher's strength lies in the analysis and cutting of the characters, and brings an incredible viewing experience with strong editing.

However, the "disappearing lover", because of too much drama, too many reversals, and too deep suspense, robbed Finch of the space to show his personal style, and did not give the characters too many opportunities for "precipitation" and "fermentation", just like A whirlwind whizzed past.

It is precisely because of this that "Gone Lover" is out of balance in terms of character building and narrative focus, but it is precisely this kind of drama that has a strong impact. After the final work was released, it was enthusiastically praised by the audience, but after the awards. Season but not much harvest -

Only the heroine shines brightly.

Can't blame Finch for not controlling the proportions, but the drama of the original stole the limelight, so Finch made a choice, focusing all perspectives on the heroine, showing the level and depth of this femme fatale, at the cost of other Characters are reduced to shells.

So, if Lu Qian came to film and make it, what would he do?

In fact, Lu Qian had an idea that completely subverted the idea of ​​Finch's version.

A question needs to be asked first.

Why does Finch's version of "Gone Lover" put all the weight of the scenes on the heroine?

The reason is not complicated.

In the original story, the heroine is a calm and almost cruel character. Facing her husband's derailment, she does not seek improvement, and she faces a dead end in marriage. If it is an ordinary person, she will either explode emotionally, or divorce directly. Exaggeration is to take revenge on the husband.

However, she did not do so. She carefully planned her disappearance, death, and framed her husband, and then cleverly used the power of the media to completely destroy her husband.

This is a practice of burning jade and stone. Killing people without blood is far more cruel and crazier than "killing" her husband by herself. Simply put, she is a lunatic.

Well, when such a character appears on the big screen, he often plays the villain, but if all the audience hate her and reject her, fear her, and curse her, then the movie will fail, because the movie needs the audience to enter the wife's perspective, Anticipating the thrill of revenge while suppressing the stomach-burning anxiety of morality.

The director needs to create a "protagonist's light" for his wife.

Naturally, the role of the wife shines brightly, and when the audience empathizes with what happened to his wife, the movie is a success. Valley

Therefore, there is no need to criticize the other supporting roles for being too flat, and the movie does not need to be all-round and comprehensive. The focus is on the final effect of the movie, but Lu Qian's reading and watching the story is slightly different.

From the perspective of "tourists", husbands and wives have different feelings about the same thing. When one party overly condemns the other, it will break the balance of the relationship, so it is an inevitable result that the marriage relationship will be in chaos, but Lu Qian's The purpose is not to show this aspect of marriage, but to show the face of each person under the marriage relationship:

At the end of the day, it's about people.

The same goes for "Gone Lover".

Everyone says that the essence of marriage is to deceive and control each other through this movie, but if you think about it, this sentence itself is flawed, because the husband is "responsible for" deception and the wife is responsible for "control". This is not mutual. ; What if the emotional arc on the husband's side could be shown?

In this marriage, how did the husband "give up" himself step by step, why did he stop making progress, stop trying, and stop trying to show a better side of himself? What is the connection between this and cheating? After the disappearance of the wife, what is the husband's psychological state, and what changes have occurred?

How did the husband lose himself in deceit and control and eventually evolve into the walking dead?

Of course, the movie is not to win sympathy for the husband, and there is no need to find a reason for the husband's behavior, but to echo the wife's choice through the husband's changes, and the ultimate goal is to show the impact of the "marriage" state on everyone——

Just like a "tourist".

Bound in her marriage, Tao Li chose to swallow her humiliation and bear the burden of humiliation, so that she was provoked by her compromise and turned into an aggressive posture; Ma Wen chose to lie in order to maintain her dignity and pride. Your own masculine self-esteem beats.

In this way, to show the marriage.

In Swedish film master Ingmar-Bergman's classic masterpiece "Marriage Life", the director, who has had five marriages before and after, tried to show such a sentiment:

In fact, many people truly love each other, but they are in a marriage relationship~www.novelmt.com~ two people are compulsively placed in the same living space, not only getting along day and night, but also need to constantly run in all aspects of life, The bumps and bumps feel each other's edges and corners, and the most trivial and smallest shortcomings are magnified, and each other falls into the rut of mutual torment.

But after getting rid of the marriage, both parties can regain the breathing space, but can find the spark of love again——

Love never goes out, a truly suffocating perspective on marriage.

Therefore, in "Tourists", Ma Wen and Tao Li saw the tip of the marriage iceberg for the first time; in "Gone Lover", Lu Qian was able to show that the two people lost their original appearance because of their marriage, and transformed into their own If you don't know it, the difference is:

The wife is determined, so she dares to act; the husband is cowardly, so he allows himself to suffocate.

Once Lu Qian can show such a character arc through the movie, the quality of the whole movie can be raised to a higher level.

Of course, it's just an idea at the moment, whether it's feasible or not, and how to operate it, Lu Qian still needs to read the original book to know.