novelraw Chapter 191
Chapter 191
What should come will always come.
Hollywood has never been a tender Garden of Eden—besides, there are also forbidden fruits and snakes in the Garden of Eden—especially this year is another year when great movies appear together, and the competition in the awards season is extremely fierce, and most people keep their eyes on the theaters. The latest feedback online.
So when "The Perfect Victim" hit theaters, it suddenly received a lot of bad reviews from certain film critics who trampled the movie in the mud. There is really no reason to be surprised.
"What does the director want to express in the end?! The dialogue between the characters is pretentious and artificial, and the characters except for the heroine are mediocre. It is completely an assembly line product made for Josie Horton's Oscar trip."
"Los Angeles Times" film critic Kenneth Turan was the first to attack the film sharply, just as he once accused "Titanic" of being "a replica of an outdated Hollywood love story."
"Very boring, very cryptic," Kenneth Turan sarcastically said, "and, as my professional advice, Josie Horton is not really suitable to continue her career as a movie star. Showing a frigid face is so unattractive, maybe it would be a good choice to change careers and study in Budapest."
——The famous Liszt Academy of Music is located in Budapest.
Barbara Schuergaiser, film critic for the San Francisco Observer, was quick to join Kenneth Turan: "What a cryptic and uncomfortable script, directed and written by Ernest Dawson. Showing off his mediocre skills, deliberately creating ridiculous suspense, his own arrogance is exactly the same as the heroine."
Some film critics in Los Angeles were extremely critical of "The Perfect Victim", but what these arrogant critics couldn't understand was that the audience just loved this movie - just like they loved "Titanic" this time last year. " that way.
Even on the day when Kenneth Turan published this film review on his recently opened personal blog site, a large number of netizens have already touched here, not only made him feel the terrifying traffic of the comment explosion, but also made his own comments about "" Excerpts from the film review of Titanic come out, and every word is ridicule.
At the beginning, the film critic personally refuted a few times with the majority of netizens. The round was based on the film quality and performance level of "The Perfect Victim". taste.
So within half a day, Kenneth Turan was retreating under the enemy's well-founded rebuttals and skilled web surfing skills. He quickly closed the comment permission in the comment area, and began to delete most of the unfavorable comments. Your message.
But it doesn't matter, the network has a memory.
The popular gossip community NOW built a tall building that night——
"Click to read the Los Angeles Times film critic Kenneth Turan's online review, the awards season bitch group can't do anything wrong and becomes angry! "
There are screenshots and emojis in the post, and they tease a professional film critic who is still relatively tall into a street rat, but it also makes interested people feel it from another angle. As the millennium is getting closer, the Internet With the rapid development of the film industry, the film reviews written by these self-proclaimed noble but arrogant film critics seem to be less and less able to influence the current young audience.
The post about Kenneth Turan was hung on the hot topic and repeatedly flogged the corpse for three days, which directly caused other film critics who took the public relations travel expenses of various parties to restrain themselves, at least David Tom of the "Guardian" Sen did not dare to do everything that Miramax chairman Harvey Weinstein asked.
"It's actually not bad, and I think some people will like it." David Thomson wrote euphemistically in his column, "The problem is that, with this rather luxurious cast, director Ernest Dow Sen could do better than deliver such an unsatisfactory answer sheet. Josie Horton is one of the best young actors in the world today, but this performance is a bit too showy ——Like those Liszt piano pieces. In comparison, I love Emily Watson in "She's Lonely Than Fireworks", her performance is gripping..."
As soon as David Thompson's film review came out, as he himself expected, it did not arouse the resentment and resistance of movie audiences on a large scale, but it detonated another hornet's nest...
【You idiot, what did you say about Liszt?Do you know how to play super skills and dare to comment on our piano king's pursuit of showing off skills? 】
[I really doubt the artistic accomplishment of this so-called film critic, because he can make mistakes even in the most basic and entry-level music appreciation. 】
[But Liszt really shows off his skills, as long as he counts the most difficult piano pieces in the world, his name is always indispensable! 】
[No, upstairs you didn't understand what the film critic meant.What this film critic said is "too much pursuit of showmanship" = "acting should not be showmanship", so Mr. David Thomson, do you think that the concert should play some pieces such as Ode to Joy?But in fact, this is a large-scale variation, and it is also the pinnacle of Beethoven, not the simple 33455432 in your impression. 】
[According to the superficial cognition of this film critic, perhaps Lasan, Paganini and his like are "too pursuit of brilliance". 】
[I think no matter what kind of performance it is, it is right for the performers to pursue brilliance.Ordinary viewers of the three-brush movie said that Liszt's two pieces are very suitable for the heroine's state during the concert, and the movie must be much inferior without them.This is my intuitive experience after watching the movie. 】
[The above is quite correct.Although my dear Sissi is not a professional pianist, she must be the best at playing the piano among the actresses, let me argue! 】
[This makes sense. As a piano major, neither "The Demon King" nor "The Bell" can be practiced by a beginner in a temporary assault for a month or two. At least she has to go through a long period of systematic study And enough talent conditions are possible short-term crash. 】
[So this means that my Sissy played really well, right?Yes, yes! 】
[Liszt is the best!God forever! 】
[Liszt's good friend Goddess Chopin expressed dissatisfaction! 】
[Pianist I still prefer Richard Clayderman, of course Josie Horton's performance in the movie is very exciting...]
【You compare Richard Clayderman with Liszt? ? ?This is the biggest insult Liszt has suffered so far!I demand that you must apologize!immediately!immediately! 】
【Who said Liszt is an eternal god?I, Beethoven, want to battle with Liszt~]
[Rachmaninoff requests to play! 】
[Don't forget me Bach! 】
[And I, Debussy! 】
【And I, Boulez! 】
——There are thousands of quarrels here——
Discussions on the Internet from "Is Josie Horton too pursuing virtuosity" to "Is Liszt only known for virtuosity" turned into a melee among several fans in the classical music industry.
And the last question about "Why Josie Horton mainly played Liszt's pieces in the movie "The Perfect Victim"" and "Are there any other piano pieces that are suitable for seamlessly connecting the movie "The Perfect Victim"", these two are related to Topics closely related to movies have also been heatedly discussed under artificial guidance.
Closer to home.
Among those rather harsh film critics, Peter Travers, the film critic of Rolling Stone magazine, is like a clear stream.
So he wrote in the column:
"I felt a scalp-tingling dizziness that I hadn't seen for a long time.
There is no doubt that the heroine Iris played by Josie Horton is not a cute or energetic character, she always has a dark side of cool colors.
There is more or less a dark side in everyone's heart, but in real life, we lack an opportunity to ignite or even explode it. It is an impulse, a madness, and an indispensable inner life. passion.
It is impossible for a person to be truly as clean as alcohol.
It is these dark sides that are indispensable to human beings that allow us to feel the complexity and charm of human nature. This unpredictable area is where the dramatic tension of the film lies.
And this is crucial to whether Iris can really become a character worth thinking about. It is difficult for her to arouse specific emotions from the audience, such as pure love or disgust. In the last second, you sympathized with her experience and shed tears for her. In a second you realize she doesn't need to - this woman is more lucid and calm than anyone.
Some film critics pointed out that Josie Horton lacked the most important sexual allure of being a femme fatale in the film, and even some scenes of indulgence could only show abstinence.
My point is just the opposite.
In fact, sexual indifference and sexy are two very similar propositions, such as the scene with Christian Bale in the lounge, bright white eustoma, smudged lip line, blush face and wet temples, the actress The performance can make people feel the subtle sexual tension, and there is only a thin line between abstinence and indulgence.
I think Iris is very similar to that kind of Icelandic post-rock music, with hymn-like falsetto singing and illusory guitar performance, exuding a taste of unrestrained and cold despair.
But this kind of coldness is superficial. When you are fully immersed in the movie, you will feel the passion that belongs to Iris. Her incomparable piano performance is a gorgeous combination of music and performance. Personally, I am very fond of it. I like the virtuoso performance, it can be said to be very shocking and impeccable.
Other than that, Josie Holden has rarely been better than before, but this one clearly sheds the blond sweetheart and the rich lady to create an enthrallingly talented female character.
Horizontal comparison of Emily Watson in "She's Lonely Than Fireworks" who also plays a talented musician, I love such a character who is purely focused in essence, rather than the "Duprey" who was artificially fabricated into a weird crazy woman .
Quoting my famous colleague Mr. Roger Ebert's film review: "Needless to say, after watching the movie, you will believe that she is a talented pianist, and that's enough." '.
Iris, played by Josie Horton, makes people clearly feel her inner concentration, loneliness, fear, and conceit that only belongs to geniuses.
One of the best actors of the younger generation in Hollywood, and deservedly so. "
"Back to the movie itself.
"The Perfect Victim" is undoubtedly an innovative and sincere work. Although there are some insignificant flaws in the details of the clues, the film itself thinks about humanity and love, explores women's social status, etc. It is extremely valuable of.
The film's editing and soundtrack have a tragic poetry, evidently attributable to the director's own literary and aesthetic sensibilities, which imbue the film with an enchanting atmosphere throughout..."