Me Before You is a film based on Jojo Moyse's novel of the same name. The film mainly tells the love story between Louisa, an ignorant small-town girl, and Will, who is paralyzed. In the beginning, Louisa lived with her parents and worked in a coffee shop herself. However, due to the poor management of the coffee shop owner, she had to close, leaving her unemployed. The male protagonist Will comes from a wealthy family, but a car accident left him paraplegic and lost his freedom of movement and freedom. Subsequently, Louisa became Will's caregiver. In daily interactions, Louisa's optimistic and sunny personality gradually dragged Will back from his previous despair and pain. However, despite the quality time that Will and Louisa had a good time, he eventually chose euthanasia to welcome his own relief.
In a movie, the use of fast and slow speech is very common. They mainly promote the development of the storyline of the film by adjusting the speech rate, and highlight the characteristics and themes of the characters, etc., to help the audience better understand the characters and plots in the film. For example, at the beginning of the film, Will speaks quickly when he calls his assistant to arrange work, showing his vigor at work and passion when he puts into work. This contrasts with his image of a changed temperament and lazy speech after the car accident, further highlighting the huge impact that the car accident had on him. Slow speech is also a frequent occurrence in movies, often to reinforce the tone or highlight the occurrence of an event. For example, in the film chosen, the heroine Louisa's boyfriend Patrick deliberately slows down in order to convince her to go on vacation to Norway and says, "Look, I've never been so healthy." Patrick deliberately slowed down, stressing that he had never been to Norway and had never experienced Norway, and patiently persuaded Louisa through this slow tone that he finally achieved his goal. The alternating use of fast and slow speech has an extraordinary effect, it is able to attract the audience's attention and stimulate the audience's curiosity about the movie.
Stress can be divided into sentence stress and word stress. In oral communication, people often express special meaning by stressing, and rereading is also one of the important ways to express emotions and meaning, which has a direct impact on the effect of oral communication. For example, in the film, Patrick and Louisa discuss paralyzed patients and say, "No more running, no more cycling." In this sentence, running and cycling are reread to emphasize, showing that for the athletic Patrick, losing running and cycling is unbearable. Sound is not common in Chinese movies and TV series, but it is often seen in Europe and the United States, where English is the main language. Pronunciation is the automatic omission of parts of the pronunciation of certain words for reasons such as fast speech, and it does not change the original meaning of the film or text. In this film, sound is used a lot at the beginning, such as "I'm" (I am), "don't" (do not) and other words. Continuous reading refers to the combination of adjacent words into consecutive readings when speaking or reading aloud. In film, the use of sound saving and continuous reading can increase the speed of speech and show the characteristics of export language, which is different from the pursuit of beautiful text style.
Before I Met You is a romantic and poignant love story that people are happy to talk about. In the original novel and film, simple everyday vocabulary is used, making it easier for the audience to understand and expanding the audience. The film uses a lot of colloquial words and interjections to express the inner emotions of the characters, such as "Oh, God!", "Un, Yeah", showing the characters' doubts, surprises and confusion. Interrogative sentences in the film drive the dialogue and plot. The special interrogative sentence in Example 1 reflects the father's anxiety about the increased burden on the family after Louisa lost her job, while the declarative sentence in Example 2 does not express Patrick's love of running and the excitement of meeting his girlfriend. Patrick can't wait to do what he loves with his girlfriend, so using exclamations is more expressive of that emotion.
In the field of stylistic analysis, most of the research focuses on literary works and poetry and songs, while relatively little research on film dialogue and lines. Therefore, this paper chooses the film lines of "Before I Met You" as the research object, which is an innovation and supplement to the stylistic research perspective. The film adopts a voice-saving technique in terms of voice, which enhances the rhythm of the lines; The vocabulary uses concise small words, colloquial words and interjection, showing the uniqueness of the film's dialogue and making it easier for the audience to understand; In terms of syntax, interrogative sentences and exclamatory sentences are used to promote the development of the plot of the film; In terms of semantics, the film uses rhetorical devices such as quotations and exaggerations to enhance the viewing effect.
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