I like Dai Jinhua's film reviews, if you haven't seen this movie, you can't help but listen to her evaluation first.
Dai Jinhua
Dai Jinhua is a professor at the Institute of Comparative Literature of the Department of Chinese, Peking University, and a doctoral supervisor.
Dai Jinhua, starting with romanticism, culminating in heroism, and ending with realism, is like a long river precipitating all the thoughts about time and life. It seems that few films combine the language, dramatic characteristics, directing style and social meaning of the film so perfectly that every time I think of the four words "Once Upon a Time in America", an indescribable wonderful feeling rises in my heart. For me, Once Upon a Time in America is more than just a movie, it's one reason I love movies, and sometimes even a testament to my interpretation of the world. When people say, "The whole life is in it," I am inexplicably ashamed, ashamed of the paleness and incompetence of words, and I cannot express my strong feelings and fascination with this "life" in satisfactory words, and even the comments may turn into a dangerous disrespect. So, I just immersed myself in those pictures over and over again, while imagining the slowly walking teenager in the twilight, under the bridge.
Once Upon a Time in America DVD Cover Movie Poster
In the picture below, the eternal memories in the movie that have made countless people unforgettable.
Under the Brooklyn Bridge As a teenage buddy
The goddess of the protagonist noodles (as a teenager)
Noodle peeping viewpoint
Once Upon a Time in America is a drama film directed by Sergio Leon and starring Robert De Niro, James Woods, Elizabeth McGovern, Tasty Weld, and others. Set against the backdrop of New York's Jewish community, the film tells the story of the protagonist "Noodles" from an ignorant teenager to a gangster, and also shows the history of gangsters in the United States from the 1920s to the 1960s. In February 1984, the film was released in the United States. "Once Upon a Time in America" is a classic gangster crime film, although the film focuses on the legendary story of the gangster, it is contrary to the fixed-line mode of the traditional gangster genre film, and the humanity and emotions behind the story are vividly expressed with rich lens language. Once Upon a Time in America has spent more than a decade trying and trying to make a variety of efforts in the overall process.
Getting to the point, let's talk about this flawed dressing shot that I accidentally discovered.
This shot appears later in the film and is an axis confusion error. When they were planning to rob the Federal Savings Bank, Noodles and the woman came to the bank door to step on the spot, this small bridge section less than 2 minutes, the woman is persuading Noodles to find a way to stop this suicide robbery. At that time, their car was parked opposite the bank entrance, from the above picture you can see the car driving on the road on the woman's left side, this shot is normal no problem, and then the two people in the car had a conversation, in the process of dialogue, inexplicably the right side of the hero noodles also appeared to be driving cars, see the picture below, which will give people an illusion: the car seems to be parked in the middle of the road, there are cars on both sides of the car moving, which is obviously not right. Unexpectedly, I borrowed position shooting (a common technique used in film and television photography), coupled with the mistakes of post-editing processing, which led to this wear gang.
This angle is wrong
In the picture above, the male protagonist noodles should be a relatively close street building behind him, and there should be no cars in motion.
When the men got out of the car, it was more obvious that the car had been parked on the other side of the road, and they had not started the car in the car at that time, it was stationary.
I didn't expect big directors to make some small mistakes.