It's a movie about movies, a "story on set, or "play within a play." Truffaut played the role of director in the film, busy in charge of big things and small things, hard and happy.
Day and night is actually a kind of photographic shooting method, as the name suggests, that is, shooting night scenes during the day, so that some pictures will appear blue, which is why the director in the film wants to spray the car blue to shoot the location. There are many reasons to shoot night scenes during the day, from the perspective of investors and producers, most of them can save a lot of the cost of lighting at night, and also in order to rush the construction period, the conversation between the producer and the director in this film reveals that the film will end in just a few weeks. No wonder the producers are spitting out bitterness: "Who's still making movies now?" We should go for real estate! We make movies purely because of love! ”
On the other hand, the other name of the Day and Night, american night, more completely interprets this kind of daytime upside-down shooting method, chaotic crew and set, confused character relationships, exposed film, moving forward in a complicated vertigo, the director himself confessed that he initially wanted to enjoy this journey, but later he only wanted to reach his destination quickly.
Truffaut loves movies. This deep love may be the existence of "Day and Night" in itself, which repeats the scene in which he dreams at night and dreams of stealing a pictorial newspaper from the cinema when he was a child, a lonely childhood, and the film is his only spiritual sustenance. "Four Hundred Blows" is dedicated to Andre Bazin, this film is dedicated to Lillian and Dorosi, two outstanding silent film actresses, "Citizen Kane", Hitchcock, Buñuel, Godard, Fellini... It's all his homage to the classics. The film won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1974. Yes, as long as there are enough good elements and follow the rules, there is no shortage of Hollywood's olive branch. But I don't think it was Truffaut's deliberate intentions, like he respectfully responded to anyone on the set, and he had to be personal about the color of the wig, the size of the gun, the choice of vase, and so on, which is a portrayal of the pluralistic system of his own tendencies, and he is willing to face more people. And his "New Wave" companion Godard, who is another dimension of profundity, satirized Truffaut as "a director during the day and a producer at night", and it is said that the relationship between the two broke up after this film. It's not surprising that vast differences in perception and ideology can make any relationship untenable.
Back to the film itself, the film "Meet Pamela" filmed in the movie is the French version of "Thunderstorm", and the relationship between the characters of the plot itself is already very complicated, but the friendship between the cast and crew in the actual crew is more confusing than this fictional plot. The actor who plays the mother and the father used to be a couple who once broke into Hollywood, and now the "mother", like Norma in Sunset Boulevard, nervously laments the lost time, saying that when filming with Fellini in Italy, she never memorized lines, only numbers. The "father" who came to visit Ban and shoot her was his young gay man. Alphonse, who plays his son, asks his lover to make a note so that the two can be together every day, and the daughter-in-law is played by the actress Julie, who once had a mental breakdown, and later married her doctor. As a result, at the end of the filming, the scene and the special effects actor eloped, Julie and Alphonse had a one-night stand, and the "father" and the same-sex lover died in a car accident on the way to the airport. At the end of the film, I breathed a sigh of relief as an audience member.
True, false, false, true. Life is more important than movies, and in the world of movies, life is more exciting than movies.
Truffaut's films are something that needs and deserves to be watched repeatedly, and many elements give rise to endless freshness and new meanings, which are also revealing to the times. Because of his long-term and sincere love for movies, he can always show what he thinks is excellent on the movie screen without reservation.
Perhaps godard could also be skeptical of godard's satire of his half director, half producer, and avoid making it a shackle to his holy death. On the contrary, or the industry needs him to contribute in a more complete way, and in a more comfortable way for his own industry.
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