Pre-sales exceeded 100 million, a rare spy war film in recent years, is Wang Yibo's "Nameless" worth watching?

There are not many works directed by Cheng Er, only four and one unfinalized "Unromantic".

But "Border" and "The History of the Demise of Romance" let everyone see his style, dark, witty, and stubborn.

Unlike many commercial film directors, he is like a clear stream in it, not much succumbing to business, but also adhering to the bottom line of art.

Among the middle-aged directors who have both, there are only Ning Hao and Cheng Er left, so how can Cheng Er's work "Nameless" after seven years not be expected.

At first glance, "Nameless" is not "nameless", it is an all-star cast.

"Nameless" is a young actor and old drama bones together, Wang Yibo, Liang Chaowei, Zhou Xun, Huang Lei, Zhang Jingyi, Wang Chuanjun, Dapeng, Jiang Shuying, just look at this cast, "Nameless" is worth a movie ticket.

At the previous press conference, producer Yu Dong, director Cheng Er, starring Wang Yibo, Liang Chaowei, Zhou Xun and others all made their interpretations of "Nameless" and revealed some interesting facts about the process.

For example, Yu Dong said that "Nameless" can also see new details after watching it three times, praising the popularity, drama, and commerciality of the film, and there is no threshold for the audience to watch the movie, Cheng Er also said that the sound and painting, art and other aspects of the film are an ultimate enjoyment, and the story is even more thrilling, I hope you don't spoil it after watching it, just cool it.

Starring Wang Yibo, Liang Chaowei, Zhou Xun, Jiang Shuying and others also said their feelings about filming "Nameless", Liang Chaowei said that the crew was very professional and tacit, Wang Yibo sighed that it was not real, and he could play against Tony Leung, Zhou Xun said that he and director Cheng Er are old friends, knowing him for so long, he can still feel his love for movies, and he is also his fan.

In addition, Cheng Er also revealed that reversal and suspense are one of the biggest highlights of this film, "Many details are very exquisite, including the tie worn by the actor, which is consistent with the identity and personality of the character, and hides the mystery." ”

Every kind of food in the film, every plot weaving, every foreshadowing, will eventually be integrated into the movie, through these grass snake gray lines, the audience can get their own pleasure from their own perspective, so as to discover the mystery of "Nameless".

Looking at the current "Nameless" released a total of five trailers, each trailer is full of details and high-quality texture.

Although it has not yet been released, you can enjoy the film aesthetics, film techniques and ideological themes through the trailer.

The 30-second and one-minute trailers focus on cinematic aesthetics.

One is color, the color is concentrated in two points, black and white, interspersed with warm tones of yellow.

Black is the lightest of all colors, symbolizing darkness, confusion and sin, easily reminiscent of suffering and sorrow, and can trigger low, solemn and solemn emotions.

For example, in the one-minute trailer, black is the main color, black clothing, black corridors, black shadows, the whole city is shrouded in black, making people obviously feel dark and depressed.

And the most effective way to drive away the night is the coming of day, in the same way, to disperse the black naturally use white.

White is the highest brightness color, symbolizing light, stability, with a sense of nothingness and peace, and the ideogram of white can also profoundly express people's ideas and beliefs.

For example, in the 30-second trailer, Wang Yibo and Wang Chuanjun are dealing with a person, but they do not do it at night, but do things openly during the day.

It is a metaphor that implies that the black night of the nameless sacrifice will eventually be replaced by day, that victory will eventually meet the day, and that the ancestors will no longer have to be as careful as before.

In addition, the brief yellow color that appears in the trailer is not a senseless embellishment.

Like black and white, which is also a means of storytelling with color, yellow can give people a feeling of brightness and joy, indicating happiness and warmth, that is, full of hope for the future.

In other words, the warm tones set the tone for the film, that is, the theme of Nameless is not sadness, but hope, a hope that victory is coming.

The second is composition.

Two compositions appear in the 30-second and one-minute trailers, one with a regular corridor and the other with a beach below the horizon.

In the first composition, the characters sometimes disappear, sometimes appear, as if framed by a large net, and the body cannot help itself.

Combined with the music with a strong sense of rhythm, it creates a strong visual effect and artistic effect, which makes people feel the oppression and danger of the protagonist's environment.

The second type is irregular composition.

The horizon in the trailer is not designed according to the golden ratio, and there is a perception of asking the sky and the earth when the war will end.

The third is photography.

It can be seen from the trailer that the shots of "Nameless" are mainly close and long-range, and the lens language conveyed by the change of scenery is different.

Director Cheng Er interprets the meaning of the film with the help of the camera's pushing, pulling, panning and lifting, the actors' positioning, as well as lighting and sets, supplemented by many subjective shots, to express the reality and mysterious story that reverses black and white.

The fourth is black humor.

This can be seen at a glance from the 30-second trailer.

The director deconstructs the film through contrasting performance techniques, changing the previous story first film composition method, but focusing on existentialism.

People themselves are meaningless, but they can become meaningful through self-achievement and self-shaping.

But the background of "Nameless" is a period of frequent wars, precarious, involuntarily, and how to talk about living meaningfully, it is this contrast between people and the times that creates the black humor of the film.

This is the cinematic aesthetic that can be seen in the 30-second and one-minute trailer of "Nameless".

Although the story of "Nameless" does not yet know how to develop, it can be concluded from these artistic styles alone that "Nameless" will not be bad.

The amount of information in the two previews of Part A and B is super large and needs to be analyzed one by one.

The first thing that catches your eye is naturally that there are still no lines in the trailer, and the leading actors do not have the names of the characters they play.

From this, we can see four words, the undercurrent is surging, silent represents nameless, nameless means the danger and particularity of the action, they must hide everything in order to succeed.

They used namelessness and silence to deal with the enemy in Shanghai, where the canines were intertwined, not only to send intelligence, but also to unite all the forces that could be united.

This involves the third feature of "Nameless", which is also an advantage that many domestic films do not have, that is, it clearly explains what the anti-Japanese national united front is.

In many anti-Japanese war films, anti-Japanese resistance has become a matter for a small number of people.

But here in Nameless, we can see workers, journalists, dignitaries and underground workers.

They are all contributing to the war in their own way, allowing the audience to have a deeper understanding of that history and many nameless ancestors.

This is "Nameless", which restores history with an all-round truth, uses wonderful techniques to correct the audio-visual, enriches the market with rare spy war themes, and uses an all-star cast to let young people understand history.

The "Nameless" Don't Talk trailer has three important points.

The first is visual symbols, which is one of the keys to the design of film text, which helps the audience to sort out clues, facilitate viewing the movie, and is also a way to deconstruct the film.

There are two dogs at the beginning of the trailer.

One is just a Saint Bernard dog sitting on the ruins, looking around, sighing helplessly, and the origin of the Saint Bernard dog is Switzerland, which was a neutral country during World War II.

It can be concluded from this that in that war-torn Shanghai, no one can be spared, whether it is the concession or neutrality, it is inevitable to be affected by the enemy's artillery fire, which shows the danger of the situation and the cruelty of the enemy.

Then the camera was given to another dog.

Wearing pilot equipment, proud spring breeze, high toes, the breed of this dog is Akita, Akita is the national dog of Japan, and it is self-evident who director Cheng Er uses this to refer to.

On the one hand, it reflects the arrogance of the enemy, and does not put us in the eyes at all, after all, the popular xxx and dogs in Shanghai at that time were not allowed to enter, so the enemy took dogs out to fight, which has a strong irony.

On the other hand, it also shows that the enemy was really strong at that time, and when they even fought against us, they were all relaxed and relaxed.

It can be seen that at that time, we were indeed too far behind them, and we could also see the hardship of underground work from the side, and if we were not careful, we might die on the spot.

The second is the identity of the character.

Since "Nameless" is a spy war film, a lot of materials have been released, but it has not been clear whether the characters are good or bad, but it is only speculated from the previous three trailers that Wang Yibo is a good person because he hit the enemy.

But in the Don't Talk trailer, the identities of the two people can be speculated, and Tony Leung and Huang Lei should also be good people.

Because Tony Leung went to the store to pass on information in the trailer, Huang Lei connected with people, which is similar to Tony Leung.

The third is that Cheng Er has transported the classic suspense element wrong guidance.

According to previous speculation, Wang Yibo and Tony Leung are good people, but near the end of the trailer, he let Tony Leung and Wang Yibo fight together, and the identities of the two became confusing again.

But this shift in focus does not affect their identities, and they are most likely good people but do not know each other.

This was common in the previous underground work, and there were several of their own people inside the enemy, and everyone did not know each other for secrecy and safety, but Wang Yibo and Tony Leung should reveal their identities to each other and then work together.

In addition to the analysis of the trailer itself, Cheng Er's skillful use of suspense elements can also be seen from these five versions of the trailer.

"Nameless" is a spy war drama, focusing on three points, shadow, MacGuffin, and ending reversal, these four elements make up the movie "Nameless".

As long as we look at it a little, we can tell that almost all the members of "Nameless" are in the shadows.

This gives a sense of mystery, who is good and who is bad, who will be subdued by whom in the end, and who will win? From this a sense of suspense appeared, and MacGuffin followed.

MacGuffin is a technique of cinematic representation, where someone or something does not exist, but is critical to advancing the plot of the film.

With this explanation, let's look at what MacGuffin of "Nameless" is, that is, identity, everyone's identity is different, the story direction is different.

Wang Yibo, Liang Chaowei, Zhou Xun, Zhang Jingyi in the trailer are all sideways, Dapeng, Wang Chuanjun and others are frontal, and Wang Chuanjun is the only one who is smiling, which means that one or some of them are opposites.

The ending reversal is the last element of Nameless.

The film is certainly not a classical narrative of a five-act play, but a non-linear narrative that disrupts the timeline and breaks the limitations of space, making people fascinated by the story and reversals and enjoying the fun of speculation.

It can be seen from this that the technique, aesthetics and ideas of "Nameless" are above the level, and it is worth buying a movie ticket and entering the cinema.

But compared to domestic films, the market needs "Nameless" to break the singleness.

The film market in recent years has basically been a world of comedy films, which is not conducive to the diversification of films, and domestic films must accommodate different genres if they want to bloom.

"Nameless" is a rare spy war film in domestic movies in recent years.

This kind of film has never been very favored by the market, and the last film of the same type mentioned was Zhang Yimou's "Above the Cliff", and further ahead was only 2009's "The Wind".

Therefore, "Nameless" is a supplement to scarce films, but also a promotion of genre films, and the hundred schools of thought of domestic films need more nameless genre films, I believe that "Nameless" will bring a different viewing experience during the Spring Festival.