Movies as content
In "Escape from Tehran", the protagonist is watching "Battle for the Apes Ball"
The film watched by the characters in the film directly becomes part of the plot, and even discusses and analyzes these films with the mouth of the characters, which is the most direct use of the "film in the movie", unlike other films as a background, the director here puts the "watching the movie" directly in front of the audience, in addition to the two textbook film analysis documentaries starring Žižek, we have more interesting ways to watch the movie in the movie.
Sadness and Pity in Anne Hall
Woody Allen has complained about countless artists and works of art in the film, and in his famous work "Anne Hall", Woody Allen and Diane Keaton meet in the movie theater, and the two have been arguing, from feelings to literature, philosophy and art, while the people in the back of the queue talk about Fellini endlessly, which makes Woody Allen very annoyed, and the "Sorrow and Pity" of Marcel Orpheus watched by the two in the movie theater is exactly what Diane Keaton said." Four-hour documentary about the Nazis".
Most of the issues discussed by Woody Allen in the film have little to do with the film itself, but only Woody Allen's own art criticism through the mouth of the protagonist, and this typical intellectualism is everywhere in Woody Allen's films.
The Invisible Man in Holy Blood
Mexican director Alessandro Zodurowski's masterpiece Holy Blood is full of eerie and magical colors, and the protagonist of the film, Fenix, is a patient in a mental hospital. In this prophetic story, Fenix watches a movie in front of a TV in front of a tv with a white cloth wrapped around his head, and his appearance is clearly derived from the scene that is playing in the film, which is from the American director James Weir's 1933 sci-fi thriller film The Invisible Man.
The scientist in The Invisible Man who invented the invisibility potion but no antidote resonates with the crazy world of The Holy Blood, and Fenix's re-enactment of the white cloth-wrapped, sunglasses image also directly externalizes the complex emotions of the film mixed with the chaos of survival and the pain of escape.
Top Hat in "Miracle in the Green"
In the opening part of Frank De la Bonte's masterpiece Miracle in the Green, the elderly Paul watches the screen best partner Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in the 1937 song and dance classic "Top Hat" in the living room of the nursing home, and can't help but cry.
The film "Top Hat" became Paul's key to opening the door of memory, not only because the story of the film took place in 1935 at the same time as "Top Hat", but more importantly, in the economic depression years, the fresh song and dance film that sang and danced on the screen and was carefree, in fact, hidden behind it was too much bitterness and tears in reality, and for Paul, the heavy story of redemption and understanding in his memory also surged back in this seemingly "ignorant taste of sorrow".
Film as a metaphor
The protagonist in "Seven Mentally Ill Men" is watching "The Violent Man"
Enriching and expanding the extension and level of their own films through other films must be a very low-cost and very effective thing, not to mention, directors can also take this opportunity to secretly show their own film interest, good or bad evaluation, and high and low style. Through the borrowing of other films in the film, the mutual text relationship formed has also become a topic of discussion among fans and critics.
"American Psycho" "Texas Chainsaw Killer"
In Christian Bell's 2000 film "American Psycho", Bateman is doing exercise on fitness equipment, and the TV behind him is showing the 1974 version of the classic horror film "Texas Chainsaw Killer", which happens to be a scene of chainsaw hunting, and the crazy killing behavior in the film is undoubtedly a preview and hint of Bateman's behavior in reality, and even more directly, in the second half of the scene, Bateman did use a chainsaw - Recreates the image of a Texas Chainsaw killer.
Even from the title, we can tell that Bateman is not really a "murderer", but a sad individual who has been suppressed and distorted in the hypocritical life of high society. But when we overlapped the images of Bateman and the Texas Chainsaw Killer, this superposition effect in the mutual text really made the film more effective.
"The Bodyguard" in "Heart Stick"
In 1992, Kevin Costner and Whitney Houston co-starred in The Bodyguard, a film about the relationship between a white bodyguard and a black actress. In the film, Frank, played by Kevin Costner, is tasked with protecting the singer Rachel, but his secret relationship with Rachel becomes the biggest challenge of his career. Under the superficial professional contradictions, the relationship between Frank, who is white, and Rachel, who is black-skinned, also implies the director's thinking on racial issues, and the multi-layered contradictions and struggles embodied in the film correspond to the tragic nature of Tsubaki Sanro in Akira Kurosawa's "Heart Stick" screened in the theater, and Frank's fate is hinted at here.
In the second half of the film, the Japanese samurai sword at Frank's residence once again ignores this theme, and this dutiful bodyguard is destined to face the trauma of separation from his lover.
"South Street Adventures" in "The King of Comedy"
In Martin Scorsese's masterpiece The King of Comedy, Jerry, who was haunted by Rupa, watched on television the 1953 South Street Adventure directed by Samuel Fuller, which tells the story of the protagonist who wants to make the film and is mistakenly involved in a farce, while the "King of Comedy" itself is about the stand-up comedian Rupa who kidnaps Jerry and threatens the TV station in order to be able to perform on stage, causing an uproar.
Although the two films are very different in theme, the similarity of plot makes this detail an interesting little tidbit of the film, and Scorsese, as a famous fan, has left a hidden Easter egg for the ashes fans here.
The History of Don Juan in Broken Flowers
In 2005, Bill Murray collaborated with Jim Jarmusch on Broken Flowers. Bill Murray plays Don Joston, who is over half a hundred years old, a wanderer who has fallen in love with countless dashing men, who turns back in the year of knowing his destiny and goes back to explore every woman he has ever loved.
Bill Murray's slightly blessed figure and face are hardly connected to his love, so when we see him sitting on the couch watching Alexander Kodak's 1934 don Juan, this internal contrast provides the most obvious illustration of this contrast in the film's character setting. It is through this contrasting story that the talented Jarmusch guides us to explore the meaning of life and love.
"Joan of Arc of God" in "Do Whatever You Want"
Of course, when it comes to showing "high taste", it is Godard who is indispensable. In Godard's early masterpiece, "Do Whatever You Want," Nana, played by Anna Carina, burst into tears as she watched Carl Delaise's Joan of Arc in the cinema.
As an ordinary girl with nowhere to hide in the ups and downs of fate, and Joan of Arc, who died in flames for France, resonates, just as torture and death do not shake Joan of Arc's inner firmness, and cruel fate cannot blind Anna's inner simplicity and innocence, these two people who have been devastated because of their flawlessness have achieved mutual talk in the dark theater. Godard left Anna Carina's clean, tear-stained face in a full of whispers and philosophical dialogue.
Film as annotated and referenced
"Girl in Uniform" in "Juneflower"
Unlike film as a metaphor, other films, when introduced into the film as annotations, do not influence the film in terms of content, but play a role in external emotions, atmospheres, or symbols. Just like the director added a number of labels to the film, "see ..." and "See for details...", leading us to feel the subtle feelings that may be difficult to easily show on the picture.
"An Andalus Dog" in "Juneflower"
In 1990, Philip Kaufmann released his controversial work "Juneflower", the protagonist of the film Anaise is a banker's wife, but can not meet the desires of the daily ordinary life, accidentally met the famous writer Henry Miller and his wife Joan, which became a turning point in her life. The film is full of large-scale scenes that challenge taboos, and its artistic achievements and expressions have left the American Film Association in a dilemma, and the film, which would have been classified as an "X", eventually became the first "NC-17" film to be rated "NC-17" with an exception to modify the rating system.
There are two films in the film, the protagonists of the film are watched together in the theater are the 1933 German film "The Girl in the Uniform" and Buñuel's masterpiece "An Andalus Dog", the former is the first lesbian film in the history of cinema, and the latter's performance of sexual psychology is needless to say.
"Beauty Plan" in "Untouchable Lovers"
In the American version of "Untouchable Lovers", Sandra Bullock's film watched alone in the room is Hitchcock's classic "Beauty Plan", and the scene that is playing happens to be Gary Grant and Ingrid Bergman kissing, under the shackles of the Hayes Code at that time, Hitchcock avoids the "3-second rule" (Hayes Code stipulates that the kissing shot can not exceed 2.15 meters of film, about 3 seconds), interspersed with the two talking and chatting, so that each shot does not exceed 3 seconds, Thus completing the longest kiss scene in the history of cinema at that time.
In contrast, Kate and Alex, who are blocked at both ends of time, can't even hold hands, and the "longest kiss in the history of cinema" on TV has undoubtedly become a ruthless irony, as a footnote to the protagonist's sad love, in this contrast, we still see the poignancy of the story.
"Bonnie and Clyde" "1933 Gold Rush Girls"
In Arthur Payne's Bonnie and Clyde, Bonnie is in the cinema with Clyde and Moss, where Clyde blames Moss for acting on his own initiative and causing a catastrophe, while Bonnie uncaringly lets them "have something to say", while she herself indulges in a movie on the silver screen: the song and dance film "1933 Gold Rush" directed by Mauvin Leroy and starring Ginger Rogers.
On screen, Ginger Rogers is singing "We're in the money, the sky is sunny", which is exactly the voice of Bonnie, who has no concern about killing people, and the song is repeated here, even in the next scene, and Bonnie is still humming. Under the pleasure and fullness of sin, the sky in Bonnie's eyes is indeed always clear, without a shadow.
"Adventures" in "Vinegar Sea Storm"
In 1984, Natasha Kinsky collaborated with Dudley Moore on a remake of the classic comedy "Vinegar Sea Storm", Dudley Moore played by the husband who suspected his wife of having an affair with others because of unwarranted jealousy, so the husband who could not suppress his anger began to follow his wife's every move, and after following his wife into a movie theater, the film screened on the screen was Michelangelo Antonioni's masterpiece "Strange Encounter".
Similar to "Vinegar Sea", "Adventure" is also about the triangular relationship between men and women at the story level, and more importantly, the fragility and hypocrisy of the relationship between people in modern society that Antonioni has always tried to reveal is becoming the philosophical interpretation of the storm between husbands and wives in the film. Even under the cloak of comedy, the director does not forget to try to arouse our thinking in the film.
The film serves as a tribute
Leonardo and others in "The Aviator" are watching "Hell's Angels"
The tribute is probably something that every director has done or will do. In addition to the most complete way to pay tribute to is to remake your favorite works, borrowing lines, shapes, character names, similar plots, and the simplest way to play your idol's movie in your own movie, the double viewing effect formed here will be further sacred to the object of tribute, whether serious or ridiculous, seeing your favorite movie appear in your own film as a part, for the director, perhaps the most gratifying moment.
"Farewell to the Love Sky" in "Rock Gangster"
Of course, there are various ways to pay tribute, such as in Guy Richie's "Rock gangster", Mark Strong went to the street gangster leader Tank to inquire about the stolen painting, and Tank was in the car watching a movie playing on the car TV - 5 Golden Globe nominations, 8 Oscar nominations, and "Farewell to love" starring Anthony Hopkins.
Guy Richie didn't even use any subtlety, almost like a door-to-door salesman, bluntly borrowing Tanke's words "This is a great movie, Archie, this is a remake, the picture is very beautiful, the sound is very delicate", this line that has almost nothing to do with the plot is Guy Richie's "personal recommendation" that always walks on the unconventional routine, for whom the most undisguised way to say what he likes and dislikes is the most natural way.
"Sweet Life" in "Lost in Tokyo"
The most widely known work of the talented Sophia Coppola, Lost in Tokyo, is not so much a movie as a manifestation of her own cinematic intuition, encounters in foreign lands, different lives, and short encounters.
Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson, two people who can't find a home in Tokyo, enjoy fellini's "Sweet Life" together in a late-night hotel room, of course, Sophia Coppola is also here to express her reflection on modern society with Fellini, but this is actually a direct tribute, this camera with a slight upward shot from between Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson, almost looking up at the movie on the TV, This posture of viewing trumps all interpretation and homage.
"Dragon Gate Inn" in "Not Scattered"
Cai Liangming's "Face" for the Louvre is a "play within a play", echoing Truffaut's "Day and Night", in which Xiao Kang flipped through the "Four Hundred Blows" album, almost turned out a motion effect, and incidentally reviewed "What Time Is On Your Side".
He made so many "movies in the movie", the most direct and moving is "Not Scattered", the most meaningful is also "Not Scattered", the English name of this film means "Goodbye, Dragon Gate Inn", at the beginning of the film, is to watch Hu Jinquan's "Dragon Gate Inn" in the theater, which is a tribute to Hu Jinquan sitting in danger, but also a nostalgia for the movie and time.
In "Dragon Gate Inn", Miao Tian and Shi Jun's two sideburns are white, they meet in the empty Fuhe Theater, the chivalrous spirit of the old years is only a silver phantom, "Face" Lame female worker Chen Xiangqi pushed the door in, the face of the dark reflection and the screen swallowed up and down, the heroic Shangguan Lingfeng quickly cut several faces, the real world and the imaginary world and placed in the theater, the theater became an independent time and space in the damp rain.
Fuhe Theater was temporarily rented by Cai Liangming, but could not avoid the fate of demolition, Yao Li sang "nostalgia, before the moon flowers", the film dispersed, the building carrying the image was eventually included in the image preservation, the film is an infinite world, and what we are nostalgic for will always exist in Si.
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Title: A woman is followed by a man, and she enters the elevator to find that the man has also followed. She asked the man to press first, and the man pressed the 2nd floor, so she pressed the 3rd floor.
On the 2nd floor, the man got out of the elevator and smiled back at her. The moment the elevator closed, she saw the man pull out his knife and walk to the 3rd floor. The woman died.
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