Chapter 1224

Damien chazeley, the young director, is undoubtedly one of the most noteworthy young generation in the United States. He was born in 1985, only four years older than Langley. He is 28 years old this year. However, the baby's fat baby face and slovenly Houseman's clothes are always filled with the green feeling of a college student.

In 2007, after graduating from Harvard University, Damien began to prepare his first long film, "guy and Madeleine on the park bench". This independent work did not cause much discussion, but initially showed his flexible ideas on lens scheduling and color composition.

Then Damien began to travel around New York, writing "the last exorcism 2" and "grand piano" as a screenwriter. The latter, starring John Cusack and Elia wood, can be regarded as the "big" production in the field of independent film. These meager incomes support Damien's artistic pursuit career; Later, he also participated in the writing of the highly acclaimed "10 clover road" script.

It is worth mentioning that Damien's parents are highly educated intellectuals, his mother is a writer, teaching at the University of New Jersey; My father, a computer scientist, taught at Princeton University.

However, his excellent family did not become the source of funds for his pursuit of artistic career. He went to Los Angeles to make his own living. But it has cultivated Damien's creative talent. In addition to directing, as a screenwriter, his ability has also been affirmed. Like Christopher Nolan, he is more interested in directing his own scripts.

Since the first feature film in 2009, Damien has been preparing for his second work, the "pop drummer", for four years.

Unfortunately, this work chooses music as the starting point. In the contemporary film market, music movies have basically died. Except for youth musicals, few film companies are willing to invest in production; What's more, the characters in the script are really unpleasant, even disgusting, and can't arouse the interest of the producers.

As a result, after nearly four years, Damien was at the end of his tether and had to come to the Oscars night to try his luck.

From the perspective of 2017, Damien is still the most popular director of the new generation. In addition to his debut, he has only two feature films, one is "pop drummer" and the other is "city of love".

After the release of the latter in 2016, it caused a wave of praise. On top of the Oscar ceremony, it swept through 14 nominations, and picked six of them, reappearing the glory of music movies; At the ceremony, the best picture Oolong was caused by mistakes, which witnessed Damien's loss and helplessness.

However, at the age of 31, he won the best director Oscar, and Damien is still the hottest young director in the industry.

Before "the city of love music", the "pop drummer" had already demonstrated his talent to people. This work tells the story of a freshman in the Conservatory of music who is eager to become a top drummer. However, the hellish training of the music tutor severely torments him both physically and mentally. In order to achieve greatness, he is going crazy bit by bit.

In short, this is a work about "no madness, no survival".

In 2010, a "black swan" vividly interprets the meaning of the survival of mad devils. When art reaches a perfect state, the boundary between performance and reality is completely blurred. Like a moth to the fire, it flies to the extreme. With this work, Natalie Portman has won the Oscar.

In a sense, the core meaning of "pop drummer" and "black swan" is the same. The simple and clear story, however, is gradually out of control in the rhythm of the drum, and gradually falls into the out of control crazy situation, which brings the unspeakable ultimate viewing experience. In terms of psychological suspense and tremor, it is inferior to "black swan", but the visual impact is more powerful.

Under Damien's lens, the paranoia and extreme sense of art burst out, even a bloody sense of cruelty. After cutting in from a different angle, it gradually separated from the field of art, and simply interpreted the core meaning of "pursuing perfection", which really had a thrilling feeling.

Maybe this work is not perfect, but it can leave a strong and grand color.

If it is a "drunken ballad" about a wanderer's poetic dream, but ultimately trapped in the same place, at a loss, reflecting the tide of the whole era; Then the "pop drummer" is to concentrate the era on a small person, just like a bull's-eye-on-the-spot, reach the extreme in his own world, and finally fight against the whole world with his own shoulder.

One is to enlarge and the other is to shrink; One is addition and the other is subtraction.

But there is no doubt about the excellence of both works.

On top of that year's Oscars, "pop drummer" won five nominations, including best film, best supporting actor, best adapted script, best editing and best sound effect, and three small gold medals, including best supporting actor, best editing and best sound effect. Among them, the best editing of "little best film" is undoubtedly an important affirmation of this work.

It is worth mentioning that the "pop drummer" really brings the charm of the two stars into full play.

In the story, around the hero Andrew and teacher Fletcher.

Fletcher is a devil teacher, born out of Damien high school band, a real devil whose words, deeds and even eyes are enough to make people shiver. But this is a very interesting character. He is not the "justice and evil" on the traditional moral level, but abandons the moral benchmark, and does not break the means for the sake of art, purpose and benefit. His persistence and perseverance are positive in essence, but the means and ways on the surface are extremely dark.

After watching the film, everyone in the audience was afraid of him, disgusted with him and rejected him, but that was Damien's intention. He made it.

JK Simmons, who once played a supporting role in many works such as "Spider Man 3" and "Juno", has successfully interpreted this role. His chilling ferocity and ruthlessness have become the most shining light on the big screen, and even robbed the elegant demeanor of the main role, becoming the biggest blockbuster in the award season of that year. All the way to win the best supporting actor xiaojinren.

Andrew is a student, but he is also not a good fault, harsh, selfish, arrogant, a total villain, but he is the same as Fletcher, in order to achieve the goal of no compromise means, and the drummer is his dream, to treat himself, he is more cruel than anyone else, really pushed himself to a dead end, Finally, he made a breakthrough in the critical point of art, just like the "black swan", and found his own perfection.

Similarly, after watching the film, the protagonist is not likable. Even though it is a work full of inspirational feeling, Andrew's dark temperament is enough to repel.

This is normal. In real life, those who focus on their own world of genius, they are often not understood by the world; What's more, those geniuses who are crazy and fanatical in art are the objects of exclusion, coldness, ridicule and suppression in this society. There are too many similar cases in history.

Because their paranoia is often frightening.

Far from it, lanli is like that“ The crew of "bury alive", "speed and passion 5" and "anti-cancer me" all over lanli's body exudes the breath of "no birth". For the staff, their feelings about lanli are also contradictory and mixed.

New actor miles teller plays Andrew. Myers had been polishing himself in independent films before "pop drummer". In 2010, he collaborated with Nicole Kidman in "rabbit hole" as his first work, and then appeared in the new version of "full body", "plan X", "better now" and other niche works.

Myers is not a handsome guy, neither typical nor atypical, but his performance has a primitive rough feeling. Whether he is a "dissident" or a "cracker drummer", the good and evil temperament endows the character with the soul. However, objectively speaking, his performance is still lack of level and change, and the performance details are often lost in the plain, often between facial paralysis and vividness, unable to maintain a stable level.

Miles was able to get Andrew's role because of his drumming experience. At the age of 15, he began to beat the drum, and his palm was still calloused. When he auditioned for "pop drummer", he was 26 years old and had more than ten years of experience in playing drums, which was undoubtedly crucial for the role.

In the actual performance, all Miers' demeanor is robbed by Simmons. In Simmons' powerful performance, all Miers' performances seem to fall into the shadow of each other, and all the details and depth are lost in the lens.

Similar role, Natalie Portman with "black swan" to the top, while miles throughout the award season, but not a nomination. Of course, it's undeniable that the director's camera lock has a bonus effect, but on the whole, miles is still unable to interpret Andrew's soul.

Nevertheless, the overall quality of "pop drummer" is still amazing, and it has not been delayed by the performance at all. This is Damien's skill. From camera scheduling to post editing, from atmosphere creation to light and shadow construction, Damien presents a perfect stage, and then gives it to the actors for interpretation. His deep internal skill shows his sophistication and composure that is not in line with his age.

Whether it's the "pop drummer" or Damien chazare, this is what lanli likes very much - the dream of light and shadow of the "city of love" in the last life. It's still vivid in his mind. I didn't expect that I met one by chance on the roadside today.

Although everyone says that Los Angeles is a city full of miracles, and opportunities can be found everywhere in the streets, when they really meet, lanli still finds it quite interesting. Is this... What's left on the road?

If so, Damien is a stray poodle?