Chapter 453

There is also the veteran moss in the film. The huge sum of $2 million he met accidentally disrupted his faith in life. He wanted to use this unexpected wealth to change his life. Moss loved his wife very much and didn't forget to arrange his wife's trip even when he was in prison.

Mark also used a lot of details in shaping this character. For example, at the beginning of the film, when moss found several bodies in the wilderness, a dying man asked him for water, which he rudely refused. When moss came home, he couldn't sleep in bed. This inability to sleep made him unexpectedly carry a bucket of water and want to go back to the man. It was this move that eventually led to his being chased and killed. The rejection in front can see that moss developed his indifference to death in the harsh natural environment, and the water delivery in the back is a trace of addiction to civilized society after he saw the money.

Morse's death was doomed. When he picked up the $2 million, he had decided his final tragedy.

The old policeman bell is not the only old man in the film. There are many old people in this film, and bell is only the most representative one. In the process of tracking down the case, bell lamented that time is gone and he can't do anything about the world. He can only chase the killer to eat the dust. The era of being a good policeman without a gun has become a legend of yesterday.

He is a real old man, representing the old age. At the end of the film, he made the decision to retire. Bell's nagging and incompetence represent another extreme, that is, the old and lost past rules and traditional values.

In addition to these three main characters, there is also a woman role that can not be ignored in the film, which is Morse's wife Carly.

Killer Anton finally gave the woman a chance to choose, that is, to decide her life and death by throwing a coin, but the woman didn't make a choice. She gave up this opportunity, and this abandonment is actually a detail arranged by mark. This woman actually represents a kind of helplessness. She didn't choose her own destiny. She is innocent, But fate brought her to death. This impermanence of fate is another meaning mark wants to convey.

There is no clear ending in no country for old people, which gives the audience countless reveries and inferences. In fact, when you think about it carefully, the ending is not important. What the director wants to convey is not a story of good and bad people, nor a story of justice and evil. When people are used to the theory of good and evil, they find that many things in real life are not controlled by ideal values.

"No country for the elderly" is an alternative writing about order and rules. When many things subvert the traditional values, even mark doesn't know where to go, so he finally gives the end of the story to fate and the end to the audience. This black way of handling makes the audience more meaningful, but also adds a lot of sadness.

In terms of shooting skills, the three lens technique of "three lenses" is adopted. The panoramic, forward and reverse shooting techniques of "three lenses" have long been used as the method of shooting dialogue. This spatial relationship has been used in various situations, so that when we mention the three lenses, we associate them with "old soil and old" and ignore the correct use of their own space.

In fact, as long as the "three shots", even the "three shots" of the whole film can be used, it will also produce extremely good results. In "no country for old people", not only the dialogue, but almost the promotion of the whole film is based on the "three shots, positive and negative shooting" method.

The cowboy started from hunting to finding a broken car and then to finding people under a big tree. Almost the whole way of advancing was to shoot the hunter forward first and then shoot the things in front of the hunter back; Or fix the lens behind the hunter, and then shoot it from a distance in front of the hunter to connect the space and promote the plot. The appearance of old policeman bell is almost the same promotion method, but the surrounding environment is different. Such appearance is very sudden or even abrupt, but it is one of the core expressions of the film.

In addition to the appearance, all situations of the whole film are promoted by similar three lenses, but the factors in Wally's three lenses (each single lens constituting the three lenses) are not vulgar and full of changes. Wally constantly zooms and positions with the subject in this forward and reverse shooting, such as the period when the hunter was chased by a car and a dog for the first time, Those action scenes are also the method of shooting the hunter from the rear of the hunter, shooting the car (dog) from the front of the car, and interspersed with a panorama in the middle. However, this forward and backward shooting is different from the usual fixed position. Almost every time you switch, even if the camera has the same direction, it always changes its position.

For example, when a dog chases a hunter in the water, it first gives a panoramic view, then gives a medium view of the hunter, and then immediately gives a close-up reverse shot of the dog, which gives people the illusion that the dog will catch up immediately, including the illusion that the hunter took out his gun later. Similarly, the action scene of the duel between cowboys and killers is similar to this one. Therefore, there is no soundtrack for the whole film or even the action scene of no country for old people (except those wandering artists), which is promoted by the positive and negative combination of various lenses and the action of the characters. It has a full charm, which any filmmaker knows, If there is no rhythm of music in the action scene, how difficult it is to edit the charm.

Of course, Mark's dialogue scene in "no country for old people" is also promoted by the "three lens", but unlike most of the bad unchanged positive and negative shots used now, Mark's every switch is intentional. The dialogue between the killer and the grocery store owner is also one of the core expressions of the whole film. Mark handles it like this: when the killer and the boss talk a lot, Almost all the scenes are the same, and they are always fixed. With the dialogue content, the killer's sense of order is more prominent; At the same time, he also has that sense of domination, because some turning points in the dialogue are all said by the killer, and the boss is passive, so when each turning point, he gives a close-up of the killer, and in turn, he gives the boss the same lens as the killer, which feels as if he has been controlled by the killer.

In addition, when the killer drives the car to find the room where the cowboy lives according to the signal, there are several subjective shots of the killer and the front and back shots of the close-up of the killer's face. The door that moves visually according to the movement of the car in the subjective shot is also one of the core expressions of the film.

The relationship between such a positive and negative shooting and the dialogue space between the hunter and his wife is different. The dialogue between the hunter and his wife is the place with the least three lenses in the whole film. For example, when two people are sitting in front of the TV together and the hunter is talking to his wife with his back to the mirror, and the lens has been fixed, mark shows the relationship between various characters in the most common way.

Therefore, "no country for old people" only uses "three scenes" to promote the plot, but it has a rare charm and the expression is in place. It is difficult for people who want to understand some of the expressions in "no country for old people" to have a clue if they do not pay attention to the combination of these methods.

For example, the Ellison brothers and sisters and the crew looked at the version cut by mark and felt abrupt. They said, "that's it? Heath hung up like this? Who has the money? Has black been killed?"

Even for the same work, if the work is launched by the Cohen brothers, the audience familiar with its style can taste it at once, but those familiar with "mark style" are full of questions.

This is the same obscure poem. I know that the author is a university professor. It is tall and full of mystery. If it is a primary school student, it is a work full of loopholes.

Mark now enjoys this treatment, but there are still people who know the goods. Many people appreciate this festival and think that mark has ascended the hall of elegance. During the internal audition of MM group, the film review department and the Marketing Department agreed that this is a rare masterpiece and an excellent work, including Daniel and egger, the publicity director.

Of course, this doesn't rule out the possibility that they flatter mark. Mark's whole tuoxiang will also be praised as a chocolate Xiang.

Mm, like other companies, has a film review department. If they want them to publicize and distribute, they will contribute to the film review department. The film reviewers do nothing every day, they are responsible for watching movies, and then write evaluations.

MM's system is that the rejection of a film must be jointly signed by the reviewers of two different groups, while the acceptance of a film must be decided by four groups, and finally handed over to the senior management, which is decided by the companies.

Without access and contacts, the road to submission is very bumpy. There are hundreds of films submitted to the company every year, but only 20 or 30 films can really stand out. Even the six giants release 20 or 30 films a year, including self-made films. Last year, the number of newly released films in the United States was 650, But relative to the annual output of thousands of units, supply still exceeds demand.

Therefore, many films can only participate in some awards to coat their works with gold and increase the weight of their distribution.

Of course, Mark's films don't worry about distribution. Even without mm group, his films are the most popular. Now the key is positioning. Mark lists them as literary and artistic films. This is Mark's first time, and its box office is not guaranteed.

In fact, with Mark's reputation and all-out publicity, it's not difficult to deceive a group of people into the cinema. He has a group of fans, but he's afraid of the fans scolding his mother. The style of "no country for old people" is by no means the favorite of Mark's former fans. It's the dish of literary and art fans.

Therefore, the strategy set by Daniel, the publicity director, is to tell the truth and operate this work in the way of operating an Olympic work. This is Mark's ambition and aims at the Oscar market. If there is no harvest at the Oscar, it will be very embarrassing.

Don't say that mark is one of the bosses of mm, that is, any director will start the God making movement and push it to the altar after such a great success.

Mark is invincible at the box office. The next step is college certification.