Today I want to talk to you about the "actor label".
I think the luckiest thing for an actor is to be able to get a role that changes his fate, and the most unfortunate situation in luck is probably to get a role that can make himself a household name but also set his career in the right place when he becomes famous.
For this type of actor, most people, no matter how many classic screen images they have created in the future, cannot tear off the label on their own. That's why, in general, the most popular thing for this type of actor is to try a variety of different breakthroughs to broaden his career.
The first of these is naturally the famous Scar Boy Daniel Radcliffe.
Poor Little Egg spent ten years growing up with the whole world, and then spent the next six years trying to escape the shadow of Harry Potter's role with an almost hysterical effort, starting from the nude performance of the stage play "Horse Lover", he began a new journey:
The Woman in Black – The Grieving Lawyer, The Killing of Love – Gay Poet, The Game Changer – GTA Founder, Victor Frankenstein – Hunchback Assistant, Swiss Army Knife Man – A Corpse...
But most of the movies in this one may not have even been heard, and to everyone he is still the brave and determined little Harry, which shows how difficult it is to tear the label (heartache .jpg).
So Big Pete wants to talk about another representative of "this kind of actor": Twilight Man.
Robert Pattinson, the jianghu people send love to call the tender cow five square.
Since harry potter and the Goblet of Fire began his film career in a high profile, and then became a hot idol with "Twilight", he played the blonde handsome Edward who remained at the top of the list of dream lovers of flower girls in the next few years. But he also has the same troubles as Eggnie: he doesn't want to be a "twilight man" anymore.
Unlike Egg Ni, he was luckier. This year, he finally succeeded.
Just by this one:
Good Times
Douban 7.2, IMDb 7.5, one of the annual expectations of this year's French Film Handbook.
Big Pete first introduces the director: the Safdie Brothers.
American indie film rookie. The brothers have shot many small short films since childhood, and in 2009, they participated in Cannes with "Go for Rosemary", and "God Knows" won best picture and best director at the Tokyo Film Festival in 2014, showing amazing scheduling ability.
Most of their works focus on marginal characters, depicting flashpoints in small scenes, showing the dirtiest corners of New York with near-thin plots and accompanied by violent shots.
This year's "Good Times" has transformed Pattinson, completely leaving behind the burden of idols and contributing the best performance on the screen so far.
First on the Synopsis:
Connie (Robert Pattinson) and Nick (Ben Safdie) are a pair of brothers who live by each other, and the younger brother Nick suffers from severe cognitive impairment (this is one of the directors, and he is super good!). At the beginning of the story, Nick is in treatment. Contrary to expectations, Connie did not dislike his brother because of his mental illness, but loved him deeply, and even beat up the doctor just because the doctor's questions during the treatment made his brother cry in pain.
Originally, Nick was ill and could not take care of himself but had such a brother who loved himself was a great luck in misfortune, but there was also a great misfortune in the misfortune that Connie was an unlearned.
No, because they were both penniless, and he actually decided to take his mentally ill but strong brother with him- rob! silver! Yes!
Because neither of them had any relevant skills and experience, it goes without saying that this was definitely the most lame robbery That Big Pete had ever seen: wearing a very strange hood, entering the bank in a dignified manner, inexplicably getting money without even taking out a gun, and being very happy to find a car to pick up after coming out (smiling .jpg), it can be said that they admire their courage.
After a lot of tossing and turning, although he got the money, his brother Nick was unfortunately arrested and imprisoned. So in order to rescue his brother, the brother had to go on a long and desperate new York adventure.
In order to focus on the psychological changes of the characters, the director deliberately weakened the characteristics of crime genre films that always have hot fights, so that we can calm down and feel how desperate Conny experienced a night.
Although the title of this film is "Good Times", after watching it, I think it is more like a joke made by the director and the audience. Because the Safdy brothers are actually telling a sad story that is worse than the tragic:
The younger brother ran away timidly and was caught; the older brother sought ransom but failed; he bravely took the risk to break into the hospital and save the mistake; the playground violently resisted without success.
The entire film is compressed into just 24 hours, but it doesn't have the usual fast pace of the imaginary crime genre, because the director doesn't want to do it. By slowing down the pace, what the director wants is to show us a New York that is very different from the tourist brochure, and behind the seemingly absurd plot, they let us see the dirtiest corners behind the lights of New York.
The biggest highlight of this film is the director's success in constructing reality through audiovisual means on the basis of fiction.
Vision: Photography
Sean Price Williams, a photographer who has always been very stylish, also delivered excellent answers this time: handheld and slide, shallow focus and zoom, sharp editing, plus just the right graininess, it is a good dish. Although there is always a strange sense of vertigo due to the shaking of the hand throughout the text and the large close-up scenes, and the tone is also a neon that is difficult to control, the whole film surprisingly presents a very moving sense of reality, real and rough.
Listen: Soundtrack
The famous electronic music creator Oneohtrix Point Psychedelic Force Max's electronic sound performance in this film is perfect, so that the audience floats in the air like a hallucinogen, restless to the sky, successfully renders a tense to palpitating atmosphere in the whole film but has a good grasp of the measure without making a fuss, plus the punk godfather Iggy Pop's "The Pure and the Damned" at the end of the film makes people sad to heartbreak, it can be said that after listening to this soundtrack is to die and have no regrets!
It may be strange to say this, but through this desperate and absurd night, the director succeeded in portraying Connie as an anti-hero hero. He was crazy and violent, ignorant and sad, relying only on the blood thicker than water love between brothers, supporting himself to do things that he knew was hopeless, so in the end, even if he was not a good person, we still couldn't help but feel sad for him.
The end of the movie even has a bit of a sense of the coen brothers' fate, and the brother that Connie tried his best to rescue was finally acquitted because of the mental problem of cognitive impairment. It was Because of Connie's ignorance of the law that all this supposedly great "brother-saving operation" became a completely meaningless farce.
To borrow the lyrics from Iggy Pop: It's a nice dream.
Finally, Big Pete just wanted to say:
Pattinson, whose face is full of scum and golden hair, is also too handsome!!!