The first survival rule of suspense movies is to never let the audience guess what is going to happen in the next second.
If unfortunately they guessed, it doesn't matter, there must be a reversal in the follow-up.
And the reversal doesn't come too quickly.
If unfortunately, the progress bar is only halfway up to a reversal...
It doesn't matter!
Don't give up, continue to reverse, the most like a roller coaster like duang ~ duang ~ turn non-stop, turn everyone dizzy, heartbeat accelerated, blood veins gushing...
Today, I would like to recommend a few good films with immortal reversals.
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Actor: Anthony Perkins / Janet Leigh
Released: 1960
When it comes to suspense films, there is a originator-level big guy who must not be bypassed, that is—
Alfred Hitchcock.
When the film was first made, Hitchcock was still a rotten teenager with a clean face.
Later, after decades of chasing dreams in Hollywood, Fresh Meat Hitchcock successfully made a fortune and was promoted to Churchill in the film industry, and people sent love to call him "Hee Fat".
The picture shows fresh meat Hitchcock, Heffield, churchill
Fortunately, Xi Fat does not rely on his appearance to walk the rivers and lakes, and fa fu does not affect his status in the jianghu, and to this day, when it comes to suspense films, everyone still respectfully calls him "Daddy".
Xi Fat has made more than 70 suspense movies in his lifetime, and is the founding father of a variety of suspense shooting methods.
For example, it was the first time he introduced psychological crime analysis in the film, the first time he used the blindfold method of "identity misidentification", and it was also he, in "Horror", who first brought transgender personality splits to the screen.
Today you may think that from "24 Billy" to "Deadly ID", the split personality has rotted in suspense films.
But at the time, this technique was like a thunderbolt in the clear sky, new and scary.
In "Detective Chinatown", Zhang Zifeng's last penetrating laugh is also a parody of Man Xi Fat's "Horror Story", see the picture.
And, even if you know that the key to cracking the case lies in the split personality, "Horror Story" is still worth watching.
Because, Xi Fat is capable, by throwing out new puzzles and reversals, so that your ass does not dare to leave the seat for a second when watching, and your eyes are inseparable from the screen for a second, and the frightened hand is inseparable from the other hand for a second.
Even Xi Fat himself said: "I control the audience like an organ." ”
Directed by: Billy Wilder
Cast: Charles Lawton / Marlene Dietrich
Released: 1958
In addition to the professional suspense of Xi Fat, there was also a genre film director in the golden age of Hollywood, who also opened a new door in the suspense world, that is, Billy Wilder.
The "Prosecution Witness" he directed was born in the era when there were no cuts, no ps, and no special effects.
It won 6 Oscar nominations that year, and now it still has a super high score of 9.6 in Douban, which is better than 99% of suspense films.
This is not a full-time high-energy movie, and the first half of the film is still a bit of a Hollywood light comedy:
The husband of a woman, Wall, met the rich woman, and was deeply pleased by the rich woman, and the rich woman even wanted to give him a large inheritance, who knew that the rich woman had just changed her will and hung up...
All the signs show that Wall is the murderer, so the question is, how to defend Wall's innocence?
The progress bar is only ten minutes away, and the plot direction is just an excellent lawyer scene.
However, when the lawsuit was settled and everything came to an end, the reversal jumped out one by one like a monkey spitting out a walnut.
All indications are that Wall is the murderer, so why defend him?
No spoilers, only that there was a big reversal at the last minute of the movie.
Directed by: M. Knight Shyamalan
Cast: Bruce Willis / Hayley Joe Osmond
Release date: 1999
Suspense films inevitably become more and more closely integrated with crime and thriller.
For example, in this "Sixth Sense", the male protagonist Mike was shot and killed by a naked young man who broke into the house as soon as he came up... This is a crime.
Mike is a psychiatrist who focuses on children's psychological problems... Well, it's a social issues film.
Mike meets a boy who behaves strangely, Cole, but discovers that Cole is originally a yin and yang eye, that is, he can see ghosts... Well, here's the psychic tablet.
Tokol's Blessing, from his point of view, we see the ghost head ghost, the wind gusting, the cold is compelling... Mom, it's a thriller.
Wait, didn't you say that Mike was killed at the beginning of the movie?
Here, this is a shocking reversal of "The Sixth Sense".
And the director's reversal is not surprisingly dead, and finally, the finale appears in a big reversal, not afraid of spoilers, it is -
love.
Yes, this is still a tear-jerking healing movie.
In addition to the plump story, the little boy who plays Cole in the film can also shock people to death with acting skills.
The last time I saw such a shocking child's acting skills was Xie Tengfei in "Country Love".
Cole, for his stunning performance in "The Sixth Sense," was nominated for an Academy Award at the age of 12.
Director: Oriol Paul
Cast: Mario Casas / Ana Wagner
Release date: 2016
Classic suspense films usually have two routines.
First, as mentioned above in the Prosecution Witness, the clues are laid out step by step and in an orderly manner.
The story is slowly thrown out, beginning and ending, until the last moment, there will be a 540-degree turn.
The first turn was easily guessed – I knew it was!
Then at the last minute, 180 degrees turn around and drive in the opposite direction, let people call wtf, how can there be such an operation?!
Another classic routine is the Spanish movie "The Invisible Guest".
The story begins with the gold medal female lawyer hired by a suspicious rich and handsome man, from the time she enters an elevator, pushes open a hotel door, as an audience, we warn ourselves that we are being set up, to always keep the hair erect, highly vigilant, afraid that if one is not careful, he will be treated as a fool by the screenwriter and director
So the clues and the truth unfold layer by layer, and the rich and handsome lies are like dominoes that are poked and pushed down by female lawyers one by one.
However, in the end, the train of thought followed her, and she was excited to find that her reasoning was exactly the same as hers, but found that -
This lawyer is the biggest liar...
You'll have to exclaim wtf again!! I guessed the beginning, but I didn't guess the end!!
Performed by Yukio Ninagawa
Cast: Kazuya Ninomiya / Ami Matsuura
Release date: 2003
The last one, Japanese cruel youth + suspense crime.
Strictly speaking, the facts of this case are simple, there are not many immortal reversals, but it is still recommended to everyone, and the reason is finally said.
Director Yukio Kuagawa, a giant in the Japanese theater industry, is known as the "performer of the world" and is Shunji Iwai's most admired idol. He died, and half of the Japanese entertainment industry sent eulogies.
Playing the role of a seventeen-year-old crime teenager is another Japanese idol, Kazuya Ninomiya. It was the first film he starred in.
Yukio Kanagawa once praised Ninomiya as also "Japan's Rivan Phoenix, the world's same age actor whose acting skills are unparalleled."
From some points of view, Ninomiya's character Shuichi Kushimori is very similar to Ryoji Kirihara in White Night.
In "White Night", Ryoji kills his biological father for Yukiho, and in "Aoi no Yan", Shuichi also kills his stepfather for his mother and sister.
Ryoji can only live in the dark from then on, and Shuichi, for the sake of the people he most wants to protect, has to leave them.
Eventually, Ryoji jumps off the stairs while escaping pursuit, and Shuichi pedals his bike and crashes into a large truck.
Suspense films focus on solving mysteries and revealing mysteries, attracting people with meticulous techniques and amazing reversals, but often flat in terms of motives.
And whether it is "White Night" or "Qingzhiyan", they finally cast the camera on the back of the murder, the gray area.
Li Shi wrote about a cosmic killer in the "Cosmic Super Guide", almost every planet has people he has killed, and he has not only not been arrested, but also made movies, done charity, and had his own company and fan association.
Why?
End with the words of the egg:
"The universe is so big, there are some problems that cannot be solved by law... The universe is so big, there are so many damn people, and the emergence of the cosmic killer is a historical necessity. ”