Simon Yingyan: In the indispensable momentum of movies, everyone pursues the mainstream, goes to the cutting edge of the times, the audience pays for the wonderful plot, pays for the superb acting skills, pays for the visual effects... It is gratifying that the audience has begun to have the concept of front-of-the-stage and behind-the-scenes, and we have gradually heard the voice of sympathetic filmmakers on major online platforms, but there is still a sadness: due to the difference in cognition of movies, many people are not very willing to pay for the "movie accident".
This issue recommends a French niche film "Day and Night" filmed by François Truffaut, which has almost saved all the tricky accidents that can be encountered on the set, as if the tender version of "The Camera Does Not Stop", even if the accidents are heavy and the plot is flat, but the 46th Academy Awards Best Foreign Language Film, the honor of the 46th Academy Awards, still pays for this movie, and at the same time changes the "film form" in the audience's bones.
| peeked into the film operation from the French niche film "Day and Night" and saw Truffaut |
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Mainstream movies and niche movies have their own specific followers, and some people enjoy the spotlight and some people work tirelessly behind the scenes, which also shows that no one can experience all the popular elements in their lifetime, but they can be in one thing. Truffaut's "Day and Night" is like an uncut piece of glass, allowing the audience to face the real world of filmmakers, and then reflecting the wonderful connection between film and filmmakers, film and audience.
More than a decade after the end of the French New Wave, it can still be seen from the film that Truffaut was deeply influenced by Bazin's documentary aesthetics, which is manifested in the film with a clear form of "life flow", which in my understanding is that we are operating a real world that is flawed, beautiful, wandering, happy, depressed, and unexpected.
As the main perspective of the camera, the audience seems to be hiding in the corner and seeing with a peeping eye: the operation of the film, the accident of the actor, the scheduling of the scene, the mood of the director, the measurement of the producer, etc., just because the camera does not deliberately avoid accidents, and even accidents become part of the dominant film, we never perfectly understand Truffaut's creative footprints, so that the film resonates while highlighting the truth.
The perfect world is too far away and exhausting for the public, and sometimes life with accidents and defects has more light spots. To this day, this film is still regarded by Western film fans as "the first choice of movies that fans must see", and it is also known as "movie movie".
"Day and Night" - "The Must-See Movie for Movie Fans"
Through the narrative method of "play within a play", the director recorded the state of all the filmmakers in the completion of the shooting of "Meet Pamela", and personally believed that the storyline was not very important, focusing on what the film was trying to express.
We are used to finding themes through narratives and analyzing connotations through themes, but film is an art of talent and unity, Truffaut's unconventional shooting method, let us watch movies from the mood of the characters, and for the first time we find that we are so close to the movie.
Digging up and starting to spread little-known classics as film lovers doesn't mean being outlier, but we see the unexpected beauty of the mainstream. Thirty-five years later, in the niche film "Day and Night", we unexpectedly see the François Truffaut film master who walks independently and teaches to solve problems.
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After talking about life by accident, it is much easier, I don't know if everyone has found that the "director" played by Truffaut is so calm and calm when watching a film. According to a 1973 Interview with Truffaut by the Producers' Letters, Truffaut's attitude toward Day and Night was as follows:
"When I think about a very strong visual image beforehand, I usually end up disappointed. And usually things that aren't pre-visualized, that don't form a fixed picture in my mind, end up being really interesting shots. ”
All his optimism and reason melted into his attitude towards his surroundings. "Day and Night" is Truffaut's work, but we see Truffaut's gentle life. Although he played "Meet Pamela" in the directed play, nothing hid the appearance he should have. The movie is full of chaotic actor life, stealing, betrayal, accidental death, a bunch of unprepared troubles, the cat refuses to drink milk according to the plot, the heroine can't remember the line and never open the right door, the childish escape of the male protagonist who is chased back by everyone... Despite all the chaos, despite having to ask the director about everything, the picture led Truffaut to say, "The director is the one who asks you questions." "Sure enough, those who really have courage are a few, and those who are calm and calm are rare."
"Day and Night", an image hidden in the corner of French film history, in the moment of aesthetic fatigue, the audience can see Truffaut's love for film again through a new perspective.
We used to think we were far from the movie because we hadn't yet reached the unknown soil, and Truffaut was far away from us? It wasn't until the presentation of "Day and Night" that I discovered that in fact, the master was also a "child" who guarded his dreams, and Truffaut was really a heart-wrenching "little boy".
He has unambitious blood, not rampant desires, otherwise he would not have left the classic quote in the end: making a movie is like driving a stagecoach in the west, at first you hope to have a pleasant journey, but soon you only hope to reach your destination safely. Accidents are everywhere, and when people reach a certain age, they become savvy in handling accidents. And Truffaut's shrewdness lies in how much he loves movies, how much he loves life.
Love movies, love life
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The end of the film also indicates the end of the play, the people outside the play are separated after all, during the shooting, Truffaut fell in love with Julie's heroine Jacqueline Bissett, but designed a bridge section of a one-night stand between Bissett and the male protagonist Leo, in fact, the answer to "Day and Night", with the jumping string outside the play, we can see the complexity of people, the complexity of the community, they are mixed with a wave of enthusiasm, swept towards the film industry, as if a set of wind drama. It seems that the eternal topic of men and women has not escaped the palm of Truffaut's hand:
Actor Evans, who was abandoned by his leg-splitting girlfriend, repeatedly asked: "Are women really magical?" "• Prop Bernard wore with Joel and later slept with the costumer. Stacy, who plays the role of the female secretary, is pregnant, but she does not know who the father of the child is...
The operation of many character details in the film is to hint at the true face of life, and to feel the 1973 French film era in the twenty-first century seems to be more wandering and depressed: people are still worried about love even if they are rich, even if the actors in front of the screen are bright and beautiful, there will still be people who complain: the film industry is miserable.
Here the director leaves the space for exposition to the audience, so that the audience believes that what you see is the truth, no one can deny your ideas, and it seems that once again because of the invisible distance, the distance between the audience and the film is shortened.
The term "day as night" is a cinematic term that refers to shooting night scenes during the day. However, through the perspective of the whole film, this word contains the efforts and persistence of too many filmmakers, the repeated recording of each scene, the control of the camera angle, the placement of the characters' actions, etc., which no longer simply refers to the shooting of day and night.
More I think the director wants to pay tribute to the film, but also to Buñuel, Dreyer, Bergman, Godard, Hitchcock... A tribute. And the price of this wave of Truffaut's creation was silent for himself, powerless to resist.
"Day and Night", a niche film hidden in the history of French cinema, is like Truffaut's admiration for the reality of the heroine. Earlier it was said that Truffaut was a heart-wrenching "little boy" because the film made him a dishonest person, this one of many accidents, complex human nature, peach-colored events in the movie, only the unique Lüffer with a calm, calm image to protect himself spotless.
But in a world where drama is like life, life is like drama, I think that in the end, the only people who don't want to wake up should be the fanatical stage drama and the crazy people who are obsessed with movies.
Fanatical stage drama, movie-obsessed madman
Simon Ending: Day and night are also translated as plays within plays, and in life we ourselves are mixed with this amount of acting elements for our surroundings, but often we can find our own place in mainstream culture, but we can also find a corner of peace in niche culture.
With the penetration of film power into human behavior, everyone increasingly takes the initiative to involve their ability to have "love" in the film, protecting those misunderstood souls and buried film eras. Truffaut said: "The director is not God, just lonely. I think the creative path of "Truffaut Alone" also opened a new wave of audiences to understand movies through movies again.