[US Entertainment] Best Director

"I want to know her. Can you introduce me?" David Finch asked bluntly.

"Of course." Cate Blanchett looked at Prairis, who was surrounded by the crowd, "but it will take a while."

In the afternoon, Prairis received a text message from Cate Blanchett, inviting her to a restaurant for dinner later.

After thinking for a moment, Prairis agreed to the invitation.

In the evening, Prairis brought Ennio to the restaurant.

Cate Blanchett sat in a corner of the restaurant with a strange man wearing a mask.

"Hi, long time no see."

Prairie and Kate exchanged a hug.

"This is Ennio." Pryris and Ennio sat on the opposite side of Kate and David.

Kate and Ennio nodded politely.

The man beside Kate looked at Prairis with undisguised curiosity.

"This is David Finch. He is very curious about you." Kate introduced.

David Fincher?

That posterity made two films in a row, the famous director who made Rooney Mara popular with "The Social Network" and "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo".

She raised her eyebrows curiously.

"I like your Zodiac very much."

"You don't look like you'd like Zodiac," David Fincher said quickly.

The sunglasses covered most of his face, leaving only his pursed lips.

"Then what would I look like?"

"'Titanic'? 'Atonement'?" David Finch paused, "It won't be the type of "Zodiac" anyway."

"You have too little confidence in your own work."

"On the contrary," said David Fincher, "it's because I'm confident that you don't like it."

"why?"

"Little man. Like I don't like Giuseppe Donatore," David Fincher said of course.

Prairie raised an eyebrow.

"Your film this time is a war film?" David Fincher asked.

"It doesn't count. In fact, it should be a combination of a documentary and a war film."

"War film meets documentary? What kind of weird property is that?"

"It is recorded as a frame, and the character setting in the form of a story is added to this frame, and changes with the development of facts." Prairis explained.

"How is it different from your previous Letters from Iwo Jima?"

"It's not the same... If you really want to talk about it, there are only some changes in the form of the film, but the main theme is the same, which is anti-war." Prairis shrugged.

David Fincher raised an eyebrow.

"But I also heard that your film is politically right."

"I just stand more from the perspective of civilians."

"But the chairman of this year's judging committee is Ang Lee. He always likes the left side. Just like this year's "Life in Wartime", you may not be favored by him from the perspective of civilians."

Prairie raised an eyebrow.

"Actually, I was invited by Mr. Li An."

"........."

"Maybe you'd like to see my premiere?"

"........."

Screening session.

Ang Lee walked into the studio.

Accurately select "Approaching Iraq" from the applied film library.

Surprisingly, the film's side was tagged in blue, meaning it wasn't selected.

Not selected?

Are you kidding me?

Li An found the staff.

"Why is this movie labeled blue?"

"Of course it's not up to the Venetian standard." The staff member said it as a matter of course.

Li An frowned.

"Turn on the projector, let me take a look."

The staff raised an eyebrow.

Although he didn't understand why this was done, he followed Ang Lee's wishes and inserted the DVD engraved with this movie into the projector.

The light in the room was a bit strong, Li An ordered the staff to close the curtains.

With palms folded, sitting on the sofa in front of the screen, waiting for the opening of the film.

According to his previous experience of watching movies, the feature film should be released after the opening title of about 2 minutes.

But unexpectedly, the DVD of this movie appeared directly as the feature film as soon as it was loaded.

Soon, Ang Lee understood why the staff judged the film as "unqualified".

Rough pictures, shaky shots, if he didn't know that the director of this film is a young director who is not inferior to him, he would almost think that this is a student's work.

He can even be sure that the machine used to shoot this movie is a camera in an ordinary TV station.

too rough, too rough....

Li An frowned.

Film is an emerging art based on technology, and it is a high-investment work based on audio-visual language. However, if you look at the history of film development, you will be surprised to find that the entire development process of film is closely related to the revolution of film technology. Black and white, color, 2D , 3D, single-channel mono, two-channel L·R, four-channel surround sound, and even the last Dolby surround sound invested by Praris...

Film is an art attached to technology, and film is a high-consumption capital investment product.

It's art, but in a way it's not just art.

His old friend Quentin once said that there are only 300 prototypes of all the stories in the world, and the rest are only the director's audio-visual language and film technology.

He's a filmmaker, and like all filmmakers, he's a techie.

And the work in front of me.

This is a new work from the director who once amazed the whole of Europe with a "Sagan".

Picture, sound, light.

None of the three.

Jiang Lang is exhausted?Out of ideas?

Looking at the picture in front of him, he didn't know what to say.

He almost wanted to turn off the projector immediately and put the DVD back into the blue-labeled box that symbolized "not admitted", but this movie was invited by him personally. Out of politeness, he still sat in his seat and continued to taste the movie in torment. .

15 minutes.

Degrees and seconds are like years.

The narration of the film is extremely slow, the documentary-style writing style and the overall real structure make it procrastinated and annoying.

The director's photography foundation and narrative skills are fairly solid, but this cannot conceal the quality problem that even blind spots can be seen on the screen.

Even if there is no investment funds, why would you rather use a camera than directly change to a camera with better picture quality?

Which of 3D and 5D3 is not better than the video camera used for TV?

This director is still too young.

Looking at it, I couldn't help being dazed.

He lit a cigarette and smoked it from time to time.

until the first burst.

The bullet misses the protagonist in the center of the screen and hits the camera.

The screen shattered into pieces.

Like broken stones, the glass rushed down in an instant.

Only then did Li An realize.

This is true, not acting, not fake.

This is a real, real, brutal war where people really die.

Almost instantly.

Ang Lee understood.

I understand why the director is obsessed with TV cameras with extremely low picture quality, understand why the director is obsessed with single camera, single perspective, and even understand why this movie uses "no script" as a shooting gimmick.

There is no other reason.

Because the old camera that shoots this work is the protagonist himself, or in other words, every such camera is the war correspondent himself, it is their eyes, it is their belief.

She uses the world of real-world war reporters to tell her stories.

She sees the world through the eyes of a real war correspondent.

Rough picture quality, poor recording, what is it?

It's all true.

This is all real, the real world.

Across the ghetto to Baghdad.

The ubiquitous war smoke, the wanton blood, innocent civilians stepping on mines, injured, they cry, they are helpless, but what can be done?No one can save them, not even the war correspondents who filmed them in front of them.

In the face of war, people are cautious about their words. For war reporters, all they can do is report and report, condemn and condemn.

The war continues and the national consciousness never changes for the people.

A shell explodes 50 meters from the camera.

But both Eddie on-screen and Ang Lee off-screen have become calm.

This is war, are you afraid that a shell will stop in the air for you?

If you don't advance, you will retreat, the same is true.

There were flames of war, and corpses littered the field.

Eddie walks through here, together with Prairie and Paul, fighting alone with the camera as a spear.

The film ends with the bright orange sky of Iraq.

The red sun is surging with some cloud waves.

Quiet and gentle.

Sweep away the haze of war.

This is supposed to be a gentle and nurturing land, where people live and work, and where people have children, but those sanctimonious "leaders" who wage wars for personal interests, they are in the name of "serving the country" , personally turned this land into a purgatory on earth.

The orange-yellow sky finally slowly turned black.

The cast and crew rolls by quickly.

Simply pathetic.

Directed by Prairieth Klander.

Starring Eddie Redmayne.

Screenwriter Paul Haggis.

Three lines passed by, and there was a long silence.

After Ang Lee thought the film was over, the black screen began to scroll again.

At first it was a photograph, a still from during filming.

A bullet grazes Eddie's ear, and Prairie, Paul, and Eddie are pictured together in the hospital.

When they first came to Iraq, the guide took them to the slums. The children there were pitifully skinny, with almost only a skeleton. They looked at the camera with defensive eyes. One of the children mistook the camera for the muzzle of a gun and held it up high. hands.

.........

He can't judge this movie.

In other words, he is not qualified to comment on this movie.

The story is the body, and the record is the outline.

This is a brand-new film form, and it is the only film that can be called "experimental" in this century.

What's more, the experiment was a success.

He seemed to have imagined the uproar the movie would cause when it was released.

There is no doubt that this is a movie that belongs to the era.

Silence for a long time.

Ang Lee stood up and tore off the blue label on the side of the DVD that symbolized "Not Selected".

Call someone else on the committee.

"Hey, I have a movie here that I think you should all see."