"You've been so clever for a long time, you've forgotten your low-key modesty, and over the years you've been teasing your readers in every variety of ways, and you've done all sorts of unreasonable endings in order to surprise you, and you've even made new characters play in the last five pages of the book, and as for you, you've always hidden clues to hide information, so you can't guess the murderer at all, and now it's good, the table is turned over, and millions of angry mystery novel readers have finally taken a breath of evil, when they learn that you are being tricked by me. They will transfer your 1 dollar 9 cents 5 books to others for 1 cent and 2 cents, and you can settle the bill and leave, ladies and gentlemen! This is a passage from the "Strange Feast" that I want to recommend to you today. From this passage, we can roughly guess the type of this film, yes, this is a black humor film, this film is highly evaluated by people in the industry, so let's enjoy it together!
"Strange Feast" by Robert M. Moore's film depicts five world-famous detectives being invited to a mysterious banquet at an ancient castle at the same time.
But the owner of the banquet did not appear, but a series of murders occurred. Who is the murderer? Who are the victims? Nilmonsay, who is good at writing urban comedies, deliberately jokes about "detective films".
The idea of bringing together several famous detectives in the novel to make jokes is indeed quite innovative, spoofing the detective novel in a playful way, using humorous body language and facial expressions, and ridiculing sarcastic language to achieve the effect.
After watching this film, I have been thinking, whether this is a reasoning film or a comedy, the whole time is hilarious, but it is like a satire, the content hooks the soul, and it returns to the reasoning film, this old 1976 film in the various detective novels in the bridge section of the black flying: the ancient mansion of the mountain villa, the unfathomable fog, the anchor car, the detective who has no stamp on the envelope but receives the letter, the blind housekeeper, the dumb kitchen lady, everyone has a "past" with the deceased, black history, mutual mouth cannon, and even the final multi-layer reversal is interesting. The sense of déjà vu is full.
There are probably three kinds of funny methods, the first uses humorous body language and facial expressions to achieve the effect; the second uses the language of ridicule and irony to achieve the effect, often ridiculing some well-known passages; the third can probably only rely on tickling performances. Why do I think this film is a very, very good movie? Because in this film you can find the first two methods everywhere, but you will never find the last one.
The five "detectives" in the movie, Wang Jicha's prototype is the Chinese detective Charlie Chen, is the American writer Earle & middot; Del . Middot; Biggs creates characters; Mr. Pierre, a mustachioed man who loves good food and always speaks with a French accent, is the prototype of Poirot, a very famous detective in Grandma's pen; Dick and Dora allude to the Nora couple in the novel "The Thin Man"; Miss Marble and her nurse are Miss Marple in Grandma's pen; Sam &middot, who is full of foul language and straight-talking; Diamond should be referring to Detective Sam & Middot; Spade.
The film is not only a dramatic way of reasoning, completely abandoning rigorous dogmatic reasoning, not using conventional narrative methods, relying on ups and downs of the plot, but all kinds of jokes have poured out one after another, imitating the doorbell of a woman screaming, a cat that makes a dog bark, a blind butler, a strabismic baby in an oil painting, a silicone dummy kitchen, a retro bedroom covered with spider webs, a nurse pushing a nurse in a wheelchair, a specimen that can turn her eyes, a screaming mute woman, a roof that will become shorter, all of which are the excitement of the film. People no longer feel thriller and suspense, but enjoy the film with a relaxed and humorous mentality.
At the end of the film, the five detectives all come to announce their answers, and the kitchen lady sits in the room after the double transfiguration and waits for the detectives to arrive. As long as the detectives let the detectives leave after realizing that "Mr. Double" had tricked them, her plan was finally achieved, which can be said to be a deception. The film implicitly interrogates the world of detective novels and the existence of the characters in it in the form of anti-detective, since it is a pure anti-detective comedy, there is no need to worry about the truth, but it gives the audience more room for imagination, first of all, for the blind butler, the dumb cook, Mr. Double is the same person or three people, or two of the characters are the same person, the other is that the independent existence of the character has more imagination space, so that the audience wants to confirm their guess again after watching it.
Although it is a comedy, it does not lack reasoning, what is the truth behind it? Why did Mr. Shuang set up this bureau, what is the connection between the clues brought out by the various detectives and the truth, the kitchen lady is the last woman to laugh wildly, what is her identity, who is the daughter, whether the housekeeper knows the identity of the kitchen lady, well... The mind is not enough, although you will lose if you are serious, but I still look forward to everyone discussing the ending and saying your thoughts!