My Hong Kong Island Filmmaker

Chapter 1455 Men's Tough Tenderness and Extreme Romance Are Always On The Road
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The whole play of "That Man's Summer" is actually a story about a big boy walking on the road with a little boy.

In terms of the overall style of this movie, there is a Two-dimensional comic style that is divorced from reality.

Many stories are also composed of fragments and fragments, which are not the correct narrative relationship.

For example--

When the man who bought skewers with the remaining money and complained came out of the izakaya, he found that Zhengnan, who was punished for standing, had disappeared. After asking, he found out that the other party was taken to see goldfish by a strange man, so he hurried to the park. Search.

Zheng saw that the wretched man played by Mecca was about to commit a crime.

As soon as the screen changed, he pulled Zheng Nan out.

Then he went back out of breath, and the pictures that were connected together were not the process but the result.

The bald guy who played a guest role in Mecca collapsed in the corner with a bruised nose, twitching and kicking his legs
The story does not call names, but the results tell the audience.

This method of ignoring the details of the story is definitely a rare treatment method in Chinese films and even Asian films.

Many young people have a 'documentary style' feel.

Yes, this is actually a documentary-style road movie with a comedy coat.

Although there are no fancy narrative and expression techniques, and no ups and downs in the plot, the whole movie presents a special atmosphere through the skillful camera operation and scene switching of Tour Guide Wu.

In fact, there are some romantic elements in it, but it was filmed by Wu Xiaozu, which reduced the romantic elements and added a comic-style narrative method, which is more euphemistic and vivid overall.

"Actually, this movie reflects many problems of the original family, social problems and so on.

But Wu Xiaozu is very ingenious in not facing this pain directly with violent aesthetics as in the past. "

In the auditorium, the famous film critic Lu Yanhua said in a low voice to Paul Fang beside him.

The latter nodded and added: "That's right, he used a more tender and humorous method than before to reflect the understanding and mutual assistance between people.

It's hard to believe that this is a work created for students by a great director who has been famous for a long time.

It is not so much a work as it is a lesson in life. "

"Do you find it strange that the man played by Wu Xiaozu in the film does not have a name?" Chen Baisheng sat beside him and asked suddenly.

"That man? Didn't you explain it? It's normal. Many movies use this method of not giving names to characters." Paul Fang answered as a matter of course.

"I don't think so."

Lu Yanhua agreed with Chen Baisheng's statement, "Judging from Director Wu's style, he would not give such a sloppy explanation. Look, maybe you will know later. But his use of moving shots is really proficient, really good gone."

In fact, the way the whole movie is handled is divergent.

This approach will make some people feel inexplicable, but it bumps into the jumping thinking of young people.

The omission of the process gives the audience more room for imagination, and at the same time - it also makes this movie inevitable to form a certain "viewing thinking", which may not appear on the big screen, or in other words, this type of Movies need to be tasted twice or three times.

Looking at the man in the movie who drove the bouncing taxi to the explosion, many viewers couldn't help laughing.

The man with facial paralysis is like a grown-up child.

Immediately afterwards, Zhengnan and the man started a swimming competition in the hotel's swimming pool, and then——

No more then!
There is a swimming ring in the swimming pool, with a pair of legs hanging from it, and the man plunges headfirst into the water, frozen in place.

Still ignore the process as always, and explain the result of the film and television processing method.

This clip made the scene laugh out loud.

The movie continues.

Since it is a "road movie", it will naturally be composed of countless characters and small stories that are cleverly connected one by one.

Ordinary young men and women played by Zhang Zhilin and Zhu Yin.

Poetry played by Huang Tie and the young wanderer from afar.

The Erbi motorcycle combination played by Ginger and Tsui Hark...

The appearance of these combinations made the second half of the movie more and more lively.

different from the original.

Here, Wu Xiaozu set it as a journey to find relatives between the two sides of the strait.

In this way, the theme is sublimated at once.

But this kind of sublimation is an idea hidden outside the storyline that needs to be contemplated. In the movie story, the man played by Wu Xiaozu and Zhengnan finally boarded the coast on a fishing boat after going through all kinds of difficulties and obstacles.

According to the address, the two of them determined the address of Zhengnan's mother's new home.Here, Uncle Wu Xiaozu, who has a strange brain circuit, had a special and interesting conversation with Xiao Zhengnan.

"When you see your mother, you must stay overnight."

"Ah."

"then what do I do?"

"Why don't you stay overnight?"

"Me? That's not good, is it? After all, your mother is so beautiful..."

The more the man talked, the more excited he was, and there was a sense of déjà vu of a friend's mother, "I will become good friends with her, and then get along well, maybe I might marry her, then I will become your father..."

In fact, if this dialogue is turned over and read again, it will immediately name the theme of the whole movie.

Just like a special preface written by the famous "Honorary Second Vice President of Wu Xiaozu Film Theory Research Association Mr. Tsui Hark" in the third edition of the novel "That Man's Summer" ("His Summer"):
'It's a comedy and it's a tragedy.

This is a full of tears, but also a heart-warming one.

This is Zhengnan's search for his mother, and it is also the man's questioning of his mother.

This is a road movie about finding his mother, and it is also a reflection on his father's journey.

This is a personal reflection on family affection, and it is also a search for the roots of cross-strait relations. '——(After publishing this preface, Tsui Hark formally served as the honorary president of the Wu Xiaozu Film Theory Research Association in the current election.)
The man led Zhengnan to the door, but he dared not go forward.

He hesitated more than Zhengnan.

When the audience saw this, they also felt sorry for Zhengnan for a few seconds. It turned out that his mother had formed a new family.

Watching the man coaxing Zhengnan that that's not your mother, many viewers discovered that this man has such a tender side.At the same time, his spin-off clip also appears, and his mother turns out to be in a nearby nursing home.

Don't talk about reality...

The whole movie itself is a warm story or fantasy.

The fishing boat they came on could only stay for one night, and they returned to Wanwan the next day.

On the way home, they met the same people on the previous road.

In order not to let Zhengnan leave a summer memory like him - here, the audience suddenly realized.

That man was not referring to Wu Xiaozu in the play, but the father who bowed to the little devil when he took him to the beach in the summer when Wanwan was occupied by the Japanese and puppets.

After making a big circle here, many viewers felt a sense of enlightenment.

Consideration of family of origin, social issues, interpersonal relationships, and historical issues!
At this time, many students and scholars with keen minds suddenly felt that the whole movie had a bit more weight behind the warmth.

This is not the usual little fresh road movie they imagined.

This is clearly a highly humanistic road movie that is even good enough to be called an excellent road movie!
In fact, when many people saw the middle part, they were skeptical about the picture of a boy carrying a schoolbag with wings at the beginning.

Because in the play, this schoolbag is a gift given to him by the enthusiastic young men and women played by Zhang Zhilin and Zhu Yin.

Look at it in the second half of the movie——

The narrative structure of the whole movie has changed a lot!
It turned out that the beginning turned out to be the end of the film.

Thinking about the scene of Zhengnan running in the lush environment with a smile on his face at the beginning, many people's hearts trembled and they couldn't help smiling.

　In fact, there was a modified version, which I deleted.I don't think I can change this movie well.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)