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New Oscar for Best Supporting Actor: Brad Pitt
The winners of the 92nd Academy Awards were announced, and Quentin Tarantino's ninth feature film", Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, won only the Best Supporting Actor Award and the Best Art Direction Award.
Prior to this, the film competed for the 77th American TELEVISION Film Golden Globe Awards as the biggest winner of five, taking best screenplay, best picture in the musical/comedy category and best supporting actor into the bag, and Brad Pitt of "midlife crisis" finally woke up from the mud of bad films and the controversy of private life.
To be honest, as a fan who has learned the charm of Quentin's early classics "Falling Dogs" and "Pulp Fiction", watching "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" is like watching a big show, full of film titles, stars, music, pop culture, etc. from the 1969s and before, once again sitting on the name of Quentin's fan-type director and "fashionable" director.
The overall look and feel is still typical of Quentin Tarantino's style, containing violent aesthetics, non-linear narratives, nagging lines, genre mixtures, black humor and other elements, but also some novel elements, the curiosity of the Hollywood scandals of that era and the strong nostalgic atmosphere.
It's not hard to see that Quentin prides himself on making intensely personal films, and in fact he's really emboldened. He buried Easter eggs in almost every frame of "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood", and most of us simply can't track it, believing that domestic subtitle translation will only proofread those titles and names.
For this grand movie "tribute", Quentin probably has to move out his classic quote to refute: My film is plagiarized, not a TMD tribute at all.
Whether it's a tribute, plagiarism, or melting, solving puzzles in Quentin Tarantino's style is still a lot of fun.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > the era of Hollywood boasting</h1>
Quentin Tarantino has always liked to make films that mix everything together, and "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" is no exception, focusing on the murder of the Manson family in 1969, and covering the film ecology of Hollywood in the 1960s and even extending to Italy.
The list of films that appear intensively in the film actually represents the epitome of this era.
American films such as the 1968 song and dance film "Funny Girl", the horror film "Rosemary's Baby" and the crime film "Beautiful Poison", and the 1969 Western film "McKenna's Gold" and the science fiction film "The Illustrator". Italian Westerns such as 1965's Bounty Killer (aka Twilight Doubles) and 1968's Ruthless Professional Quick Gunner.
The 1960s were a divisive era for American cinema. The early years were the era of bragging about swollen faces and fat men, with "big is good" as the credo, keen to make big-scale spectacle films; the ends are inseparable from politics, sharp aesthetics, and bloody confrontation. Only a few big directors have been produced, of which Stanley Kubrick has attracted the most attention, making classic titles such as "Dr. Strange Love" and "2001: A Space Odyssey".
Sunset yellow sand
Other directors such as Sidney Lumet are typically knowledgeable, artistic, left-leaning directors, with John Frankenheimer, who made The Prodigal Son (1962) and Second Life (1966), and Sam Bikingber, who made Major Dundee (1965) and Sunset Sands (1969).
The "alternative" John Casavetti of this period was a character actor who was good at playing villain roles for the audience, and for small groups of fans, he also made some controversial, eccentric and extremely personal directors, such as "Shadow" (1961) shot on 16mm film.
shadow
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > hippies and The Getaway Rider</h1>
Quentin Tarantino films, also known as talking films, usually feature large sections of lines and dialogue, including slang and trend culture. One of the more frequent words in the movie "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" is "hippie".
In the film, Leonardo drunkenly scolds the hippies, and the reference to the "Hell's Angel Drag Racing Gang" refers to the 1969 "Runaway Knight" directed by the young American director Dennis Hopper.
The film is a typical hippie movie, starring Peter Fonda, who is not a star, and the music is all rock 'n' roll, and it is said that this unpopular genre used to be only seen by hillbills in low-end drive movie theaters.
According to today's words, the motorcycle movie "Runaway Rider" was a big hit that year, investing 375,000 yuan to earn 50 million US dollars, and also won the Best Director Debut Award at the 22nd Cannes International Film Festival.
Quentin used this to reverse the Manson family's bizarre hippie culture, which directly poked at the weaknesses and hopes of the United States at that time: myth, hypocrisy, power. In 1968, the film rating system was created, which is why the rebellion and violence of the Runaway Knight style existed.
< h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > Polish director Romain Polanski</h1>
In the film, Roman Polanski is a successful director who makes the horror masterpiece of Rosemary's Baby, marries Margot Robbie's sexy wife Sharon Tate, and lives an enviable life of luxury.
Roman Polanski
In reality, Polanski, a Jew, was a series of nightmares of persecution, his mother was killed in a concentration camp, he began to flee at the age of eight, and later left Poland to make films in France, Britain, the United States, and even suffered murder by the Manson family.
In 1969, Polanski was not in the United States, but at his home in Hollywood, the actor's wife Sharon, who was eight months pregnant, and a group of friends were brutally murdered and dismembered by Charles Manson Group fanatics.
Polanski's films, on the other hand, are mostly psychological thrillers, full of panic, alienation, and senseless cruelty, blending in with his personal tragedies. Among them, his Macbeth has been criticized as excessively brutal.
Macbeth
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > Bruce Lee and Asian culture</h1>
Quentin Tarantino, who has repeatedly claimed to be a Bruce Lee fan and even made a tribute to him in the "Kill Bill" series, has fallen into the vortex of "scandalizing" Bruce Lee because of "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood", which is, in the words of its title, "shameless bastard".
In the movie scene, on the shooting scene of "The Green Hornet", the arrogant Bruce Lee claimed to be able to cripple the boxing king Ali, but he did not expect to turn around and be beaten down three or two times by the stuntman played by Brad Pitt, losing face.
This controversy aside, Quentin has always liked to find inspiration in Asian culture, and has been deeply influenced by Hong Kong martial arts and kung fu films. His first work, "Falling Water Dog", directly borrowed from 1987's "Dragon and Tiger Storm", which was directed by Wu Yusen's black violent aesthetic. After that, Quentin frequently "copied" Hong Kong films, not only wearing Tang costumes to help "Young Huang Feihong's Iron Horse", but also under the influence of this film, he ran to Beijing to shoot kung fu films, with Yuan Heping as his martial arts instructor.
In addition to Bruce Lee-esque kung fu film elements, the Kill Bill series also features Japanese culture.
In the film, Chinese actress Liu Yuling plays the murderous snake and scorpion beauty Ishii Oshi, who has a cold and fearless look, and is a cruel, beautiful and taciturn violent tool with childhood shadows.
It is said that the inspiration for this role came from the costume swordplay film "Shura Yukihime" series starring Japanese actress KajiYa, who also sang in "Kill Bill" because Kaji was also a famous singer.
Finally, quentin's understanding of Japanese violence, in the samurai sword battle of "Kill Bill", the battle suddenly became a black and white visual style in the middle of the battle, in order to avoid spilling plasma too exciting and unacceptable to the audience, but he reserved full-color images for the tolerant Japanese audience.
After all, Japanese director Takeshi Kitano, filming Quentin Tarantino-style killing scenes, is also bloody, violent and amazing.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > jade feet, women, and plasma</h1>
To discuss Quentin's film genre, it is inaccurate to use only violent aesthetics and film noir to summarize, and to add a "new" word in front of it, that is, new violent aesthetics, new film noir, and what Quentin is doing is the work of genre innovation.
He is keen to mix various genres, such as gangster films, comedies, noirs and action film elements, most notably "Pulp Fiction", which pioneered alternative gangster films, and "Shameless Bastards", known as the "war version of Pulp Fiction".
In terms of specific visual presentation, if plasma is a representative of violence, then sexy beauty is an "aesthetic" element.
Quentin Tarantino-style violence is different from Wu Yusen's heroic brotherhood, Quentin is also ruthless to strangers and women, to a certain extent, violence is greater than beauty.
For example, in the two scenes of the movie "Pulp Fiction", the apartment shooting and the grocery store rape, Quentin did not come directly up and splash the plasma, he first let the killer politely be a gentleman, and suddenly shot after the tension became relaxed, causing the pleasure to be doubled. Not to mention "Kill Bill", which is covered with subtle and restrained Asian cultures, and is a bloody picture of severed limbs scattered everywhere.
Speaking of "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood", in the film, the fierce dog bites the intruder, Brad Pitt beats the beautiful woman to the point of not being able to see clearly, and Xiao Li directly burns the beauty, this series of excessive violence quite tests the psychological endurance of the audience.
In the film, Margot Robbie is undoubtedly a sexy, innocent female symbol, but Quentin's bad taste will not stop, showing Margot's beautiful sleeping position in the camera, accompanied by one after another screams. Of course, Xiao Li's Italian wife in the film did not escape the prank of "beautiful woman snoring".
The director, who is known as a "foot fetish", will not forget to shoot this time, but the women's feet are not called "jade feet", and the soles of the feet may be stained, or like in the movie theater or car, tilted to the seat.
Looking for a sense of humor in the beautiful woman, Quentin and the poisonous tongue Li Ao teased ex-wife Hu Yinmeng for having a fight.
Dangerous relationships
Hollywood's past
Kill Bill
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > fake entertainment industry</h1>
While everyone is "ugly" Bruce Lee sucks their eyes away, they ignore quentin's actual ridicule of the entire entertainment industry.
Quentin, who loves Westerns, bombards his cookie-cutter, "old trick": always playing the bad guy? Almost in the end of the fight scene? And in the end they all lost? Who's going to flatten you next week, Mannes, The Gentleman's Secret Order? "Girl Secret Order", "Batman and Robin"? You fall, and your male number one career can't get up.
A series of questions made the film's former star Leonardo cry because "he told me the damn truth", if it is not worth crying to see the end of my career, then I don't know why I should cry?
While complaining that the actor is very fake, "he will only read the lines written by others, pretending to kill people in stupid TV dramas", while ironicizing that the entertainment industry can not hear the truth at all, it is a false prosperity and nihilistic praise.
Quentin took the opportunity to tease Roman Polanski, saying that he was cute, not tall, and talented. Bruce Lee was even more brutally blackened to the skin, borrowing Pete's mouth to say: I think you are a person who loves to brag, you are shameless enough to think that you can touch the hair of the boxer Ali, I think the of the deadly weapon is just an excuse for you guys to embroider your legs, because you never need to really fight. ”
Is Quentin satirizing Hollywood superstars like Bruce Lee or Roman Polanski? You know, they are just exaggerated, labeled characters, typical dramatic treatment, over-interpretation is not interesting.
In short, up to now, Quentin Tarantino's nine independent feature films are "Falling Dogs", "Pulp Fiction", "Dangerous Relationships", "Kill Bill", "Kill Bill 2", "Shameless Bastard", "Django Rescued", "Eight Wicked People", and "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood".
First the 1992 black thriller "Falling Water Dog" was a blockbuster, and then the "Pulp Fiction" in a lengthy form that emphasized content, and his original style, gorgeous lines, strange sense of humor, and strange star combinations are all enjoyed.
Quentin's unique "hipster" vocals, which have been sung since the third feature film Dangerous Relationship, have been criticized by traditional critics for being smelly and long, and fashion is a thing of the past, even Pam Greer, the queen of the black exploitation films of the 1970s.
At the moment, Quentin still has no shortage of fans, and Dangerous Relationship has become his most underrated film to date.
I wonder if Quentin's tenth feature film will open up new fashionable elements and help him win the Oscar for Best Director or Best Picture?
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