Author: Li Xiaotian
Unexpectedly, chadwick Bosman, the "Black Panther" who led the awards season, was overtaken by the 84-year-old actor Anthony Hopkins at the last moment, and finally won the title of movie emperor for the second time.
At the age of 84, Anthony Hopkins set new records. Previously, the oldest winner of the Ochka Movie Emperor was Henry Fonda, who was 76 years old when he won the award for "Golden Pond" in 1981, which Hopkins extended significantly. And, even at the age of nomination, the biggest previous nominee was Richard Farnsworth (The Story of Mr. Street) in 1999, and hopkins set a record at 79 when he was nominated.
In addition, "Father Trapped in Time" also won the best adapted screenplay award. Both awards, both heavyweights, can be described as meritorious achievements.
It is said that in Hollywood, Anthony Hopkins and Robert De Niro and Al Pacino were actors of the same era and belonged to the leaders of the Golden Age of Hollywood. However, when it comes to the "Four Kongs" of Hollywood's golden age, it always refers to Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, as well as Dustin Hoffman and Jack Nicholson, and not To anthony Hopkins.
That's because Anthony Hopkins became famous too late. The "Big Four Kongs" began to emerge as early as the 1960s, and in the 1970s they have already won awards, as early as the peak of their lives. Although Anthony Hopkins also had such masterpieces as "The Distant Bridge" and "Elephant Man" in his early years, the time is close to the 1980s, perfectly missing the age comparable to the "Four King Kongs".
Anthony Hopkins is the same age as Dustin Hoffman and Jack Nicholson, a little older than Robert De Niro and Al Pacino, but his real fame did not really reach the peak of his acting career until "The Silence of the Lambs". At that time, it was already the 1990s, the peak of the Four King Kongs was nearing the end, and Anthony Hopkins was more than 50 years old, and it was time to know his destiny.
Fortunately, if you have strength, you are not afraid of becoming famous late. His performance in "The Silence of the Lambs" is simply too amazing. In this film, Hopkins' role is only 16 minutes, and it is said that he is only a supporting role. From the setting of the original script, "The Silence of the Lambs" is just a film of a big heroine, and the whole story revolves around the heroine Judy Foster, and the title describes her. But Hopkins with superhuman acting skills, did not waste every second of playing time, just rely on the eyes can catch the heart, and finally in a surprising state, in one fell swoop, won the Ochaka Movie Emperor.
"The Silence of the Lambs" is also one of the few in the history of Ochaka to be released in the summer vacation, and it can eventually win the Grand Slam film for best picture, best director, best actor, best actress, and best adapted screenplay. Generally speaking, such films will be released before the awards season, so that the impression is the freshest, and the release of the summer vacation will lead to the feeling that it has been overdone in the hearts of a considerable number of judges. But The Silence of the Lambs did.
Since "The Silence of the Lambs", Anthony Hopkins has quickly become popular, continuously contributing a large number of popular masterpieces such as "Burning Love Years", "The Sixth Sense of Life and Death", "84 Charing Cross Street", "Farewell to the Day of Love", "Nixon", "Zorro's Mask" and so on, becoming a representative figure who has come to the top and is old and strong.
Even in the past two years, Anthony Hopkins has contributed masterpieces such as "Westworld" and "The Succession of the Pope", which are impressive. At the same time, the four king kongs have basically fallen silent, and the four people together are also occasional masterpieces, and it is rare to continue to contribute wonderful acting skills.
In contrast, Anthony Hopkins is more respectable, as if he always had an energetic look.
I hope that Anthony Hopkins can live a long life and continue to contribute more wonderful works!
Back to "Father Trapped in Time" (also translated as "Father"), what kind of film is this?
The film starred Anthony Hopkins and Olivia Coleman, the queen of Ochka, and the blessing of one emperor and one queen gave people great expectations.
But in fact, as far as I am concerned, after reading it for the first time, I am a little disappointed, and it is quite disappointing.
How do you ask me? How to say, the feeling is: "Ah, this is it? ”
Well, that's it?!!
After all, in a small year of O'Zoka, even the final winner is just a general on crutches.
"Father Trapped in Time", adapted from the stage play of the same name, continues to be written and directed by the stage director Florian Zeller, which is also his film debut born in 1979. Zeller's name is unfamiliar enough for most viewers, but as a French novelist and playwright, he has been called "the most exciting playwright of our time" by the British newspaper The Guardian. In terms of fiction writing and stage plays, she has mixed up a certain position.
However, if you want to live up to this name, there should still be better works, especially film works.
"The Father Trapped in Time", in fact, the English name is "The Father". However, this snake-like translation is very good, and it summarizes the main theme of the film.
This film invited Anthony Hopkins to star, and it is also about the story of an old father, and it can already be roughly guessed to talk about the theme of elderly care in the aging society. As expected, the film is indeed like this.
As a stage play, "Father Trapped in Time" has won many awards. This is easy to understand because the theme of aged care is easy to understand, and as long as you are careful enough, it is easy to shine. This drama also does not deeply analyze the connotation of aging society, but has done enough in the form of expression.
The unfolding of the story of the film is advanced in a suspenseful way.
Obviously, the daughter just said that she was going to move from London to Paris, but when she turned around, her daughter flatly denied that there was such a thing. Ming ming saw a man in the room, he said he was the husband of his daughter. But as soon as she turned around, the daughter said that she had long been divorced and had not remarried, where would there be an inexplicable husband?
Obviously, he lives in his own home, but there is a person who says that this is his home, and the old father is the new one who has moved in. The daughter gave the newly hired nanny, and the old father obviously had a good chat with him, but he still refused, thinking that he could take care of himself and did not need to hire a nanny. But as soon as she turned around, her daughter said that the nanny was coming to work tomorrow. Haven't you already refused?
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A series of questions make the whole story seem confusing and chaotic into a pot of porridge.
Which is true?
Follow the plot down. Slowly learned that the old father played by Anthony Hopkins has suffered from Alzheimer's disease (Alzheimer's disease), his brain has been confused, he can't tell who the people in front of him are, and he will always forget what has happened, the memory is confused, and the world in front of him is also chaotic.
And the perspective taken by this film/drama, the first half is the perspective of the old father, telling the world through his eyes. Therefore, the virtual is real, the true is false, and the chaos is chaotic.
Therefore, the direction of the whole story, from the first plot, seems chaotic, the characters and events are more jumpy, and even a little brain-draining. But when you understand that this is an Alzheimer's perspective, it will suddenly open up. I see!
The fun part of the whole film lies in this form.
The form of play is not bad, it is very good. Two years ago, our old friend Nicolas Cage starred in a "Mandy", which is to use the perspective of the uncle played by Cage after taking drugs to unfold the story, which is also very chaotic, but the logic of the story is very clear, that is, the sense of form is full. This film is also one of cage's few recent non-rotten works lying in the mud of bad films. It was a test of acting, and Cage acted well.
Unfold the story line from the perspective of the characters, and the best game is "Game of Thrones". It even gave this perspective a name, POV (Point of View). The whole play is based on the eyes of a specific character in the play, that is, POV, which has a strong sense of substitution. Moreover, following the perspective of POV into the story, you can quickly enter the story, and you can only see the part of the whole story, not all-knowing and omnipotent. This way also breaks the previous way of watching the drama that the audience always looks down on the story from an all-round perspective.
After Game of Thrones has ended, it is not fresh enough to play this form of POV to tell the story. Therefore, the form of "Father Trapped in Time" looks very good, but it is actually not good enough, it has lost its freshness, and it is not innovative enough.
Of course, as far as stage plays are concerned, the form of POV is still valid. In the theater, the whole story is found under the eyes of the audience, there is a strong sense of substitution, after all, the story transformation is very fast, the theater will not leave the audience with time to reflect, can only passively follow the story to quickly advance, the audience is easy to be led away, so they will feel that the whole story is very good.
After the conversion into a movie, the sense of substitution on the stage is greatly weakened, especially looking at resources, which can be tentatively fixed at any time, can be fast-forwarded, and the audience can very calmly think about the things behind the story, and it is difficult for this form to exert its power.
The theme of "Father Trapped in Time" can really impress the audience is the story and the feelings behind the story. However, the emotionally moving part of the play is still too weak.
The difficulty of converting a stage play into a movie is here. Form is no longer important, and the audience's sense of substitution is gone, or weakened. Happy Twist's stage play will be hilarious and laughable on the spot, converted into a movie, and may become a bad film, "Li Cha's Aunt" is proof.
"Father Trapped in Time" is about Anthony Hopkins' daughter Olivia Coleman moving from London to Paris to live, leaving her elderly father in London. In order to let him be taken care of, the daughter sent him to the old man's apartment and asked her aunt to take care of him.
The elderly father wants to prove that he does not need the care of his daughter and can live well. On the other hand, he can't do without his daughter, and he will always unconsciously take care of his daughter and read her name.
Anthony Hopkins took the old man's stubbornness and vulnerability very well and deserved the nomination for Best Actor in Ochaka. Daughter Olivia Coleman's mentality of leaving and not worrying is also very well acted.
However, the script is not powerful, and it does not fully convey the emotional entanglement between the father and daughter that wants to be separated, and some touching details are missing. That's not good.
The best films about elder care in recent years are Michael Haneke's "Love". An old couple in their 80s, both very cultured music teachers, one day their wife suddenly suffered a stroke and was paralyzed in bed. Since then, the feelings between the two people have begun to fission in the face of a trivial and cruel life.
Similar to Alzheimer's disease, "Love" is obviously more moving, and in the simple story, the two old drama bones Jean- Louis Trentini and Emmanuel Riva contributed amazing acting skills. In the grasp of emotions, in the presentation of details, people are tear-jerking. The whole film, the story is not complicated, it is a tedious life, and all kinds of details are magnified, and then use subtle feelings to move people and make people cry. In terms of superiority, "Love" can score 120 points, and "Father Trapped in Time" can only score 70 points.
"Father Trapped in Time" still pays too much attention to the expression form of the story, and the lack of emotional expression makes the film's color greatly weakened and wastes the acting skills of Ochkadi.
A little further, among the films nominated for elderly care that have been nominated by Ocheka, "Eros at the End", starring Peter Otto, the saddest male god in Ochka's history, is also better and more enduring than the father of "Father Trapped in Time".
Many viewers only know that little plum Leonardo DiCaprio has been let down by Ochaca for many years, and even played as a terrier. However, in the end, The little plum still got it, getting rid of the sadness. The real sadness is the veteran handsome man, Veteran Actor of Hollywood's pre-Golden Age, Peter Otto, who won the 8th Theodoreka Best Actor in his lifetime, and did not win it once. Even, after he won the O'Choka Lifetime Achievement Award, he was once again nominated for the Film Emperor with "The End of Eros".
"Eros the End" is about an elderly widower living alone in London, and as a result, his niece comes to London to find a job, temporarily using his home. In this way, an old man and a young man lived in a house, and the old man ignited the spark of love in his heart, and life bloomed again. Peter Otto's performance is very good, and the theme of elderly care is unconsciously interpreted, which is very enduring.
In addition, in recent years, the films involving the theme of elderly care, as well as "Beginner", "Virtuous Wife", "Last Stop", "Nebraska", are very good films, and even "Three Old Gunners" that are not favored by Ochaka are also very interesting.
Compared to these films, "Father Trapped in Time" has no advantage. A seemingly complex form of presentation alone is not enough to add too many points.
The core of emotion, not touching enough, is the biggest hard wound.
The saddest part of "Father Trapped in Time" is that the male protagonist Anthony Hopkins is actually 84 years old. Full of white hair, old age spots climbed on the face, although it is the need of the character, it is the result of makeup, but it is still sad.
I hope that Anthony Hopkins can be like the old man of Toki, always in shape, old and strong, and continue to contribute good works. I wish him a long life!
Again, "Father Trapped in Time" is really not good. Not only this film, but also other nominations for O'Ochka Best Picture are not too amazing.
This year's O'Choca, if it didn't end up being the one that won best picture, might really be the worst in history.
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