Film Classic Review - Hollywood (6)
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City Lights
City Lights was released on March 7, 1931. It is a silent film directed and starred by the master of comedy Charlie Chaplin, which is also his 74th work. The film tells the love story of a tramp and a flower girl. The film was born during the worst economic crisis in the United States, and Chaplin also incorporated this social reality into the film's creation.
City Lights has been a worldwide success and loved by audiences around the world. The film has also become a designated collector's item by the National Film Protection Agency. The film "City Lights" is Chaplin's last silent film, but it also symbolizes chaplin's highest achievement in film art, and at present, the film "City Lights" has been collected by the National Film Conservancy, indicating the affirmation and achievement of the film's artistic value. The film is strongly social and critical. In the film, the persistence of the tramp and the rich man are repeated, sad and joyful, expressing the economic crisis at that time, the easing crisis of the upper class of society to the laborers, and occasionally relaxing the policy, chaplin skillfully expresses the inequality of American society through the encounter between the tramp and the rich.
Forrest Gump
Forrest Gump was released in the United States on July 6, 1994. is a film directed by Robert Zemeckis and starring Tom Hanks, Robin White and others. Adapted from the novel of the same name published in 1986 by American writer Winston Grumm, the film depicts the inspirational story of a small-town boy with congenital intellectual disabilities, Forrest Gan, who perseveres and eventually "fools have foolish blessings" to get god's favor and create miracles in many fields.
In 1995, "Forrest Gump" won six awards, including the 67th Academy Award for Best Picture, the Best Actor Award, and the Best Director Award. On September 5, 2014, on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the film's release, the IMAX version of Forrest Gump began to be released nationwide
The shaping of Forrest Gump's image subverts the heroic image in the normal world, runs counter to traditional concepts, and has a strong anti-traditional and anti-mainstream nature. What he saw, heard, said and did was not only highly representative, but also a direct illustration of history. This visual metaphor is vividly hinted at in the first shot of the film: a feather flutters, blows across houses and roads, and finally falls at the feet of Forrest Gump, elegant but bland, casual and inevitable. Tom Hanks transformed Forrest Gump from a projection of history into a real, flesh-and-blood man. Forrest Gump is a toddler who occupies the body of an adult, a sage fool, an ordinary person who transcends reality, and a small person who represents the personality of the nation.
Modern Times
Modern Times was released on February 25, 1936. is a classic comedy film directed and starring Charles Chaplin. The story of the film takes place in the 1930s economic depression in the United States, when the worker Charlie (Chaplin) works in the factory, goes crazy, and enters a mental hospital, all of which are closely related to the existential crisis caused by the economic crisis at that time. In the difficult life, Charlie and the orphan girl are in love with each other, and the scene is warm and touching with the brilliance of humanity.
Modern Times is considered one of the greatest films in the history of American cinema and one of Charlie Chaplin's most famous works.
Modern Times is the final finishing touch of Chaplin's silent film era. Looking back at the filming era of Modern Times now, we have to admire Chaplin's strength. The film was filmed in 1935, when Hollywood was already the world of sound films, silent films were on the verge of withdrawing from the stage of history, and local color films were also born in this year, which was an era of rapid development of film production technology. But many people always cling to something and refuse to give up, which does not mean that they are old-fashioned! Like Enya in the music world, Chaplin proved to us the greatness of this persistence with his Modern Times. Chaplin always believed that the expression of body language is the true essence of film art, and this concept is still very instructive in today's big bang of film technology. At Chaplin's insistence, Modern Times, like a traditional silent film, shields the dialogue, leaving only a little sound and background vocals, and it proves that the classic does not lose its color because of the form.
Taxi Driver
Taxi Driver is a 1976 American drama film directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Paul Schrader. The film takes place in New York after the end of the Vietnam War from the perspective of a taxi driver, when the whole United States is quite embarrassed and confused. He drove a taxi every day to witness the fall of New York, and eventually became a public hero dramatically.
The film won the Palme d'Or at the 29th Cannes Film Festival in 1976. and four nominations for Best Picture at the 49th Academy Awards
"Taxi Driver" is one of The Most Landmark Works of Scorsese, and the practical significance and profound ideas contained in the film are enough to be listed as the best in the world's century-old films. Scorsese constructs the bustling but indifferent atmosphere of New York through gray tones, and the eye close-ups of Travis many times highlight the loneliness and sadness of the people in the city.
The Dark Knight
The Dark Knight was released worldwide in 2008. Adapted from DC Comics' classic superhero comic Batman, directed by Christopher Nolan and starring Christian Bell, the film is the second installment of the Batman Dark Knight trilogy, previously released in 2005 as Batman: The Mystery of the Shadow. This film is the first time in all Batman movies that the word "Batman" is not used in the title, it is a darker and more mature work than the previous work, packaging an extremely realistic superhero story in the way of a realistic cop film, successfully excavating the deep personality of the character and the human philosophy contained in the story, elevating the comic book movie to a new level, becoming the first superhero movie in film history to step into the "$1 billion club".
The film won awards such as Best Supporting Actor at the 81st Academy Awards
If The Dark Knight is the most sophisticated and ambitious work in its genre, it is by no means an exaggeration. In terms of conceptualization, creation, performance, and directing, it surpasses all the Batman series and even its stunning predecessors. The Nolan-helmed sequel to The Mystery of the Shadow is a dark, complex, and distracting film, at least because it grafts the comic book hero onto a blueprint for real reality, rather than just creating a superman in a elastane costume. And while that difference may not be much different for those who are waiting for the return of the Cloaked Knight, I can say here that The Dark Knight is the first comic book adaptation to achieve a truly great artistic achievement so far.
Mulholland Road
Mulholland Drive was released in the United States on October 19, 2001. It is a suspense thriller directed by David Lynch and starring Naomi Watts, Laura Haring, Justin Therox and others. The film tells the story of Rita and Betty, a girl who aspires to be a Hollywood actress, after a car accident on the winding Mulholland Road that makes her lose her memory, around Los Angeles in search of clues and answers, followed by a twisted adventure beyond dreams and reality
The 74th Academy Awards Best Director 54th Main Competition Unit - Best Director Award
The film's narrative approach is slightly novel, using a parallel narrative technique that was favored by the audience at the time, and the plot looks upside down at first glance, but in the end it reflects the "kaleidoscope" of mysterious and deep brilliance. The film is definitely not an easy to understand film, the story scattered in various corners and the back and forth shots seem to test the audience's mind and patience, the outline is clear little by little, like a person waking up in the morning and trying his best to recall last night's dream. The audience must pay attention to seemingly irrelevant details over and over again, but even these ingenious details can only be eclipsed by the film's deep themes, gripping plot developments, and extraordinary techniques
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