Over the years, some bad films have been called "MV movies", but every time I see such a description, I want to reply with a sentence of "MV has not provoked anyone at all, don't insult people.".
British director Edgar Wright's new work "Extreme Car Thief" is about to be released, people are not afraid to say that they are song single movies or MV movies, because even if it is MV, it is also S-rated, look at the following film clip can be understood.
Yes, Edgar Wright's work is to arrange all the action scenes according to the rhythm of the soundtrack, including the actor's footsteps, closing the car door, shooting, starting the throttle... A series of actions, even the emotional ups and downs that drive the action, are precisely embedded in the beat of the music.
How exactly is this done! I shouted this in my heart when I watched the movie, but in fact, the director himself had already told the secret, he had already written the music and the accompanying picture when he wrote the script, and Ansel Elgert, who played the "baby", also recalled that when reading the script, he pressed the iPad page play button, which was synchronized with the music playback.
Anyway, I heard this way of reading a script for the first time, but in the world of ghost director Edgar Wright, there is no impossible.
After reading several of his masterpieces, you can see that this otaku director + screenwriter with an extremely strong personal style has several commonalities: British humor, friendly feelings, cult fun, and excellent musical taste. This is directly related to Wright's own personality hobbies, and what we will talk about next is the part of Wright's past works, although not dominant, but quite brilliant - music.
Wright likes to write his love of music into every movie, and in "Extreme Car Thief", in addition to the ubiquitous explosive music, he also teases classic songs in his lines, such as listening to "knocking on heaven's door" is unlucky, and Queen's "Brighton Rock", which he writes into his lines.
In his most famous "Blood and Ice Cream" trilogy, the music also greatly adds to some scenes, if those fragments are cut off separately, anyone who watches it will feel that "MV movie" is actually a positive word, and those bad films do not deserve to be called this.
<h1>Shaun the Zombie</h1>
<h1>(2004</h1>).
This is the first film that Edgar Wright, Simon Page, and Nick Frost have co-launched after the sitcom "House Trouble", and in ten years, the three of them have co-created three films, "Shaun of the Zombie" in 2004, "Hot Blood Detective" in 2007, and "The End of the World" in 2013, collectively known as the "Blood and Ice Cream Trilogy".
The first "Shaun of the Zombies" can be described as inadvertently inserted, starting with Simon Peggy and Edgar Wright inspired by a certain plot in the sitcom, and several people played with it, but this movie made three people become the favorites of masters including Quentin Tarantino and Peter Jackson, and also let them taste the taste of global popularity.
Nick and Simon are the unchanging protagonists of the "Blood and Ice Cream" trilogy
To this day, Simon Peggy's fans will still tease him with the film's meme "You have red on your clothes" when they see him. Many people who see Simon will tell him that when they hear Queen's "Don't Stop Me Now", they will think of him fighting zombies in the movie.
What they're talking about is the following fragment.
According to research, the queen song is the most happy song in history, anyway, this music with the bar zombie scene, it is indeed very comedic. Have you found that, like "Extreme Car Thief", their action of hitting zombies with a pool cue, the rhythm of the lights and lights, are fully integrated into the beat of the song; and the carnival crowd in the lyrics, like several protagonists who fight zombies, are adrenaline rushing. Until now, few directors have been able to use pop music so well into the plot of a movie like Edgar Wright, and it is not a song that is forced into it.
Similarly, in "Shaun of the Zombies," he teased the pop music scene, even expressing his opinion of those records by throwing records at zombies.
Prince's Purple Rain can't be thrown, The Stone Roses records must not be thrown, and only the Batman soundtrack can be thrown away without hesitation. Wondering who was so blatantly black "Batman" was the idea of two screenwriters, Edgar Wright and Simon Peggy.
<h1>"Hot Blood Detective"</h1>
<h1>（2007）</h1>
Three years later, the second part of the "Blood and Ice Cream" trilogy was released, and although there was no classic clip like "Shaun of the Zombies" that accompanied the Queen song to fight zombies, the music still contributed to the atmosphere of the film.
In this small town, which looks like a fairy tale world, there is a murderous group as brutal as fascists, and their reasons for killing people are even more terrifying and senseless- the people who were killed make the town imperfect, such as the unique architectural style of the house, the excellent gardener to move away, the newspaper editor's typos too much, and the theater lover's acting skills are too poor.
When Simon Peggy and Nick Frost rush into the bar and confront the old man and old lady who is ostensibly a kind old couple and secretly a cold-blooded killer, the game-filled electronic music accompanies the appearance of the two, and the final counterattack, the two are like the protagonists of the game who have completed the final step.
This is very much in line with the temperament of the film, although it is an action film with thriller elements, it is still essentially a spoof comedy full of British humor.
<h1>The End of the World</h1>
<h1>（2013）</h1>
As the last part of the "Blood and Ice Cream" trilogy, "The End of the World" is a comedy of "play off", the first half is the midlife crisis of the frustrated loser, and the once-beautiful and now depressed Gary King (Simon Peggy) has to force the buddies of the student era and himself to retrieve the memories of that year; the second half of the painting style turns into an absurd sci-fi thriller. It's the lowest-rated trilogy, but Edgar Wright's spoofs and black humor are still ubiquitous, and the American comedies are by no means comparable.
Gehry King, who had a few old friends, finally took them back to his hometown town, ready to drink the bar that several people had visited in one day. Back in his homeland, he had to get up again, when Suede's "so young" suddenly sounded, and he seemed to have really become the king of gold when he returned to his youth.
The use of the song is described in words rather feeble, with lyrics that sing "Because we are young because we are gone; we are so young and so powerless", and Gary King in the film walks recklessly on the territory that once belonged to him, smiling and paying tribute to every town resident who passes by. When he saw five teenagers like them, Gary King raised his hand in salute, and the 40-year-old boy used this way to find his 17-year-old self.
The soundtrack of "The End of the World" is like a British 90s rock band compilation album, from a large number of songs to select a few songs that fit this movie, it can be seen that Wright is a full-fledged music fan, but how to make these songs really serve the plot and characters, only to really test the creator's sense of music and control of details.
A few people who accompanied "so young" discovered the terrible changes in the town on the same night, when several people were still walking on the day's road, but their emotions were very different.
The background music is The Doors' song "Alabama Song (Whiskey Bar)" released in the 60s, where five people walk on the same street and pass by every town resident they meet during the day, but they are lined up in a neat row, cautious and dare not squint, feeling that everyone who passes by is a strange dangerous person, and the lyrics "I tell you we must die" sung repeatedly seem to be the voice of several people.
Amazingly, the song's prelude is matched by Gary King's monologue, and even his tone rises with the music, as if it were an inherent part of the song, reinforcing the tension in his pretentiously relaxed tone.
After "The End of the World", Edgar Wright finally could not integrate into Marvel's assembly line after investing a lot of his own efforts, and lost contact with "Ant-Man", and then there was the upcoming "Extreme Car Thief".
Empire magazine once did a survey to publish Edgar Wright's private 40 best films, and it can be seen that he has watched a wide range of movies, including the classic science fiction film "2001 Space Odyssey", the psychological thriller "Rosemary's Baby", the very cool "Falling Dog" and "Unruly Night", and of course, a large number of music-themed films that he likes.
Among them are "Long Live Rock' and Roll" in 1994, "Fluke Double Overlord" in 1980, "Phantom Paradise" in 1974, "Beauty" in 1934, and even "Song in the Rain" in 1952.
A director with such diverse musical hobbies, it is no wonder that after watching his works, you can refresh your understanding of "MV movies".
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