Hollywood Rhapsody

Speaking of Sarah's new movie, many people are looking forward to it, especially those old fans who have liked Sarah for four or five years: "Although Sarah is so beautiful that I can't take my eyes off it, but to be honest, I I look forward to a work in which Sarah plays the leading role to take on an important role, a comeback masterpiece at the level of a true actress!"

"Have you seen the poster of "Hope"? The appearance of that fat woman almost scared me to death. No, although I love Sarah very much, I refuse to go into the theater to see such an ugly Sarah." Some movie fans couldn't accept it. Sarah's self-destructive image is really very different from the beautiful and the ugly.

But there are still stalwart Sarah fans who don’t just like Sarah for that face, just like Janet who expressed her loyalty to Sarah when the filming of "Hope" started, Sarah, who these old fans like, even Sarah in the movie poster is not eye-catching enough, but they will still go into the theater without hesitation to support their idol, not to mention: "Think about Sarah playing America's number one female serial killer, don't you have any desire to watch it?" A movie that can make Sarah self-destruct in such a way, the story must be wonderful, right?"

At least that's what many film critics expected. Sarah's comeback work has cost a lot of money!Judging from the quality of Sarah's works since her debut, the new movie will definitely not be bad, and... I guess this girl has a lot of ambitions!look!Even the release mode is compared to the small-scale word-of-mouth route of "Boys Don't Cry" back then. This is the first choice for most literary and artistic films. Build momentum for the upcoming awards season.

If the first leading role in the comeback can win the award, Sarah's No.1 position in the younger generation will undoubtedly be more stable.Almost all the film critics who came to watch the premiere knew this very well. Roger Ebert even patted Sarah on the shoulder and said meaningfully: "If you don't come up with any good works, I'm afraid we will really come out." I want to treat you like a vase, but as long as this film is good, my pen will never be stingy with praise."

There was undisguised ridicule in his tone, and even the first half of the sentence had a hint of warning.Sarah couldn’t help being ashamed to hear that, that is to say, the two had known each other since "Rising Star" and had a very good personal relationship, so Roger Ebert reminded Sarah so bluntly that she had been making vases for too long up!It can be said that since "Boys Don't Cry" won the Oscar, Sarah's next few films have been vase roles. Even if she has acting skills, it is only a pass for film critics like Albert.

How can a person who has won an Oscar statuette be judged by general standards?Therefore, even though Sarah's performance in "Gangs of New York" is considered superb; although she only appeared for a few minutes in "A Game of Cat and Mouse", it is unforgettable for all moviegoers; Conquering fans all over the world, replacing the sexy girl in "Mission: Impossible" as Sarah's most well-known personal screen image in the world... But in the end, no matter how good it is, it's just a vase, even including the recently well-received In the role of Katharine Hepburn in "The Aviator", Sarah brought the legendary actress to life, but she is still a vase!vase!

If it really continues to follow this rhythm, the youngest actress in Oscar history, the youngest generation with the most high hopes, will become a representative of failure under adjectives such as "short-lived" and "not enterprising".Become "the vase with the best acting skills"?This title is not very glorious to Sarah.

Fortunately, Sarah has confidence in "Hope", at least it will definitely not be the "Sad Waterloo" that some people expected, and when the lights in the auditorium dimmed and the logo of Starlight Company flashed on the big screen, this film The high-profile comeback is finally going to be judged by film critics from all sides!

The movie is called "Hope", and the opening chapter is a little girl who looks five or six years old, beautiful and lovely like an angel. The little girl blinks her big innocent eyes and talks about a childish dream. In warm tones, A beautiful little girl always makes people feel happy when they see it. Even if the word hope is not mentioned, people will unconsciously think of this little girl's lovely dream. Her life should be full of beauty and hope.However, a big hand that looks old and rough suddenly stretched out from the left side of the screen, like a hungry wolf breaking into the garden, grabbed the little angel who was smiling at the mirror, and pulled her towards the camera In the shadows of the edge.

The voiceover did not give any explanation for this hand, but that hand was obviously not a friendly or gentle hand. Such a discordant and destructive atmosphere made the viewers feel down suddenly, and they also had a bad premonition for the following plot.

In a blink of an eye, a beautiful girl of sixteen or seventeen began to look for love, but she didn't know what love was. She approached the boy she liked full of hope, but the boy just wanted to satisfy the agitation of adolescence, and he took out a dollar bill and asked her to set off. The clothes reveal the girl's best body.She thought that making love with someone was the beginning of love, but she didn't know that for those men, making love was just a pastime that could be bought with money. After the pastime, they threw her on the side of the road and let her Desperately chasing, but only disdain to leave the taillights that are getting farther and farther away.

"I always hope that life can be as beautiful as my childhood dream, I always hope that I can get the most romantic love, I always hope like this..."

In such a piece of voice-over, the long endless road and the back of the girl looking at the car going away constitute a picture that looks a little lonely, and on the top of the car going away, a movie is suspended in mid-air. name - hope!It followed the car farther and farther... Finally, under the distant gaze of the girl, it disappeared at the end of the road.

The rain wetted the girl's hair, and the camera turned upwards with the close-up of the wet hair, and when it turned to the front, what was revealed was no longer the girl's pretty face, but a rough and dull skin covered with A face that has gone through the vicissitudes of time and has not been carefully maintained at all.After growing up, the woman who was obviously fatter and burlier also maintained the posture of standing on the road and watching the traffic go by, as if she was thinking about some complicated problem. For a long time, she looked at the vehicles that never returned, frowning , spat very rudely to the side, took out a cigarette and put it in his mouth, turned around, gestured for a ride, and waited for the arrival of the next car...

It’s just less than 1 minute of footage, and there is no need for any voice-over explanation at all. All viewers understand that this woman is a road prostitute, and she is the number one female serial killer in the United States who was executed not long ago——Ai Lynn Vosnow.There is no other reason for realizing this. It is because the appearance of Sarah on the big screen at this time is so similar to the real picture of Irene published in the newspaper. Look, on this fat and rough face, movie viewers can still clearly find traces of Sarah's eyebrows and eyes, as if the pretty girl before had really grown disabled and turned into the ugly woman who is now fat and rough.

The first close-up of the adult Irene's face has a great visual impact on the viewers, especially compared with the appearance of the actors behind it, Sarah's beauty is completely covered up, and she has become too ugly!At this moment, there were even more than one gasping voices in the auditorium—"It scares me to death! What kind of terrible life is it that can make a beautiful little girl look like this?"

"The movie just started, and I don't have the courage to watch it anymore, what should I do?"

"Obviously I know that Sarah has lost weight successfully, but looking at such a fat and ugly Sarah still makes me feel blocked, and I even feel panic unconsciously!"

... Instead of using it for the inner monologue of movie fans at the moment, the film critics are secretly smacking their tongues: "Although it is a bit ugly, this appearance really matches the prototype, which can be called a high degree of restoration. Regardless of the acting skills, it is just From the perspective of character image, the thoughtfulness of this biographical film is already very surprising! This girl Sarah is cruel enough to herself, isn’t she afraid that once she becomes fat, she won’t lose weight? Isn’t she afraid that she will scare off a lot of people just because she looks ugly? Are you a movie fan who looks at the face?"

Human beings are visual animals, and at this time, no matter movie fans or professional film critics, they are actually resisting such a sloppy-clothed, rough-looking road-prostitute.And because of this resistance, the scene where the two protagonists met next did not make moviegoers feel the excitement of a romantic encounter like "Love is coming!", nor did they look forward to it like watching "Boys Don't Cry" What a beautiful chemical reaction between the two protagonists, this... really is a world that depends on faces!

So when the obese woman on the big screen is only wearing underwear, happily washing herself for the next date, and the fat is trembling, the audience did not look forward to it with the protagonist, but felt that this scene was ridiculous.Sarah's performance at this time was very good, whether it was the fast-paced movements of rubbing her body, or the never-ending pleasant melody in her mouth, they clearly conveyed Irene's expectation of the date to every moviegoer in the auditorium .It's a pity that in the eyes of movie viewers, that date is not worth looking forward to. Does an ugly prostitute still want such a beautiful date?Stop dreaming!At that moment, I don't know how many people thought so maliciously in their hearts. Because of their status, they subconsciously chose an attitude of looking down. They looked down on this prostitute named Irene, especially because she was ugly and fat. The old prostitute!

However, this attitude soon changed subtly. On the big screen, Irene went to the appointment with full expectations, but heard the girl she had a crush on ask straightforwardly, "Are you a prostitute?"

At this moment, the movie viewers who were originally disdainful suddenly felt a little sympathetic to the Irene played by Sarah.A kind of emotional accumulation finally broke out at this moment. The joy and anticipation that Sarah showed in the previous performance had already infected the movie viewers. It’s like a seed has penetrated into the subconscious of the viewer—she’s nervous because she’s nervous about the upcoming date, she’s imagining a wonderful date, she can’t wait, she even sang in a good mood Song!

This expectation made movie viewers sneer, but when this happiness was punctured, movie viewers couldn't help feeling uncomfortable.On the big screen, Irene, played by Sarah, admitted her unremarkable career very frankly, and even talked about those prostitutes with a disdainful expression in order to please the girl in front of her.Under Sarah's interpretation, viewers have already seen that Irene is a vulgar, frank and somewhat cynical woman at this time. Her actions, her language, and her expressions are all so vulgar!

However, there is an inferiority complex and embarrassment that has been carefully concealed inadvertently revealed in the brows and eyes... In this performance, Sarah and Clint Eastwood have argued, and judging from the current effect, the two finally Deciding on a compromise interpretation is obviously a good choice.Sarah's performance is still nuanced, but in a more subdued manner, following the gritty style Clint wanted without giving up her interest in microexpressions.All emotions are only in tiny details. Her expression has a silent influence. Complex emotions are like suspended in the air, invisible and intangible. You can't describe what emotions are like, just like you can't Describe the form of a taste, but you will unknowingly receive that emotion, just like smelling that smell.But now, feeling the complex emotions of the protagonist Irene, the face that was resisted because of ugliness seems not so unacceptable.

Then this woman, who was finally used to watching it, encountered a nightmare. I knew that this movie would not be a pleasant movie, and I never thought that prostitutes were good things, but when I saw Sarah played by Sarah Lin was subjected to perverted prostitutes and clients, and she was about to be killed... Almost all the viewers frowned. At this moment, they all stood by Irene's side. Prostitutes are also human beings. Although this profession is disgraceful, it shouldn't be beaten, insulted or even killed by prostitutes!At this moment of silent night, in the barren mountains and wild mountains, the woman who was tortured and wailed was all depressing and anxious, and she was used to sympathizing with the weak, and the women on the big screen obviously got this sympathy.

So, when Irene broke free from the ropes that bound her, fumbled for the cock, and shot wildly, there were almost uniform breathing sounds in the theater—finally, finally, this perverted scumbag was killed up!At this moment, everyone did not condemn Irene who was holding the gun because of the homicide. Instead, they felt that the perverted prostitute who fell on the ground and turned into a corpse deserved what he deserved, and he deserved being shot!And the woman who was too frightened and still trembling uncontrollably, kicking the dead body angrily, was so sad.

Blood flowed from the wound on her head, and her expression was a bit ferocious because she was too angry and terrified. She had killed someone just now, and there was even a hint of fierceness in her eyes, but the viewers didn't think she was scary. I don't even think it's ugly, I just think this woman is really unlucky and fateful!

After a homicide, everyone's habitual thinking is to dispose of the corpse, flee overnight, and avoid being chased by the police.However, what surprised the viewers was that the first thing Irene did was to wash off the blood stains on her body, and she was still thinking about the girl she had agreed with.At this moment, everyone realized how much Irene, who had just killed someone, valued that girl and this "love affair".

And when Irene begged with trembling eyes, and even humbly begged for just the girl's company for a week, many movie viewers unconsciously said in their hearts: "Promise her, you must promise her! She killed someone, she She is also terrified, she has nothing, she needs to be appeased, she... This is her only wish right now, and it is also the only hope that can give her some hope in life at this time..."

Looking at the indecisive girl on the big screen, as well as the humble and begging Irene, viewers only feel that Irene is too humble and pathetic!When her jaw trembled, she didn't know whether it was because she was too nervous, or because she was so excited and sad that she seemed to be crying in the next second.In the eyes of movie viewers, there are no prostitutes, murderers, fat and ugly. At this time, there is only a woman at the end of her life on the big screen, a sad woman.

This kind of emotional change not only happened in the hearts of ordinary movie viewers, but also the film critics present were also infected by the movie, and when they realized their emotional changes, watching Sarah on the big screen, the film critics had already received They recalled the mentality of examining and evaluating at the beginning of the movie, because they had realized that Sarah invited them to watch the movie, but they didn't need their evaluation, but just let them enjoy it.It’s like a world-renowned painter opened a painting exhibition, and you don’t need to rate her works, because she is confident that those paintings are one-in-a-million masterpieces, and the reason why you come here is to just appreciate it!

"This girl...really, this girl..." Roger Ebert muttered in a low voice while sitting in the seat, looking at the big screen. He no longer knew what words to use to describe Sarah, because this girl The performance on the big screen has completely exceeded his expectations.Can acting skills be improved by such obvious tricks as being ugly and gaining weight?No, of course not!Such gimmicks can only be icing on the cake, but what can really support a perfect skeleton is the most fundamental acting skills.For example, now, the audience has long forgotten whether the woman on the big screen is different from Sarah's original appearance, and they have already put away their initial resistance to ugly faces and fat bodies.

The film critics seem to have heard Sarah's confident voice, which is being conveyed to all moviegoers present through her performance on the big screen-"I am an actor, not a clown. I will use my superb acting skills to tell everyone that I am not at all I don’t bother to use gimmicks like gaining weight and making myself look ugly! I’m just being an actor, an actor who can still amaze moviegoers even though he looks ugly!”

The author has something to say: 4.8 soon, happy birthday to myself!