novelraw Chapter 192
Chapter 192
Compared with the mixed reviews of "The Perfect Victim" from most film critics on the West Coast, the feedback from New York, the drama base of the East Coast, is much more positive.
David Danby of The New Yorker, AO Scott of The New York Times, Jamie Bernard of The New York Daily News...even the retired former Chief Film Critic of The New York Times, Vincent A. Camby, all sang the praises of this movie, especially the lead actress, Josie Horton.
"German new film master Rainer Werner Fassbinder once said: Love is just the most sophisticated, most cunning, and most effective tool of social oppression.
When Josie Horton appeared in front of the male protagonist, she was not aggressively beautiful, but with a contradictory and special mysterious temperament, which was the main reason why she attracted men.
In fact, the heroine is very similar to the city of New York.
In a big city full of feasting and feasting, the more dazzling the bustling night, the more intense the shadows under the night, just like the heart of this character.
The rhythm of the movie is not slow, but it still gives enough long shots for the leading actors, especially the heroine, to capture the subtle expressions and movements. And the performances of the leading actors are just right.
For example, when Josie Horton and Christian Bale were smoking before getting into the car, the off-white smoke from far and near managed to manipulate my emotions.
Josie Horton's eyes are always very show-stealing. I used to think that her acting skills on the upper half of her face were limited by her too beautiful eyes, but the subtle changes in the lower half of her face are exquisite. Those graceful eyes The moment when the red lips opened and closed, and the white teeth gently bit the lady's cigarette, matched with the face shrouded in smoke, and Christian Bale's obsessed eyes beside him, it was cold and hot.
That moment was totally stunning.
I originally thought that the elusive and moving demeanor intertwined with the crazy artist temperament and elegant ladylike upbringing in her had released her own charm to the maximum extent at this time.
However, looking back at the end of this scene not only sublimated her charm again, but also broke my inherent impression of this actress' eyes are too stealthy.
There was a reflection in those extremely beautiful eyes, people subconsciously ignored the blue to rich color, but mistaken it for some kind of metallic color, accompanied by sharp ambition and biting chill, created this A femme fatale full of destructive beauty.
It can be said that if her eyes were not beautiful enough, this scene would have become mediocre, instead of being so dangerous, deadly, and attractive.
This also makes Iris unique as a character, you can't connect her with Ellen in "First Fear".
There is no doubt that the actress has managed to prove that she is much more than a vase, and this slow and somewhat dreary scene becomes poetic and dramatic with her interpretation.
Her performance is so moving.
It is worth mentioning that the soundtrack of this movie, it is not an exaggeration to say that it played half of the role for the atmosphere of the whole film.
Especially for Liszt's selection, the finishing touch of the recital is completely addictive - it is said that the actor himself played the whole process - and in some intimate scenes, the low-pitched gasps and ambiguous collisions slowly Fade out, the soothing and elegant melody blooms, coating the cool-toned film with a soft halo..."
"Trash movie! Except for the heroine, everyone is an asshole!"
In a movie theater hall in Manhattan, New York, Kelly was madly complaining with her girlfriend Christine and friend Christopher.
The redness and swelling in the female college student's eye sockets has not completely faded away, and Christine's mood is also somewhat unconcealable. Only Christopher, the straight steel man, scratched the back of his head with a somewhat indescribable expression.
Come on, it was the heroine who almost killed and maimed everyone, why would Kelly accuse other people...it's outrageous.
"Especially that director named Ernest Dawson! Really! I watch at least two movies a week on average recently, but I swear there is absolutely no director as perverted as him!"
As Kelly said, she took a big gulp of Coke angrily.
"Wait, I remember you told us last time that Ernest Dawson is the most handsome and coolest director?" To be honest, Christopher still loves the British director's video style, "Besides, for this As far as the ending is concerned, it cannot be described as 'perverted', at most it is just unexpected!"
——There are only a few billion dots.
Kelly glared at Christopher, who was more handsome than a girl, who blinked innocently and pulled the brim of his baseball cap.
"What's wrong—there's something on my face?" He touched his face.
"Whose 'surprise' is to suddenly let the heroine get a box lunch?" Kelly rolled her eyes and took Christine's arm, "No, I'm really angry that Dawson can't give a movie like "The Usual Suspects " ending? He's such a big asshole!"
A passing Hispanic girl happened to hear this in the lobby of the movie theater, and immediately said with empathy: "Well said, sister, I just pretend that I haven't watched the last minute of the episode! - Let's give a happy high-five !"
So the two gave a very happy high-five and then gave each other a hug.
"I was going to watch Scary Movie, but The Perfect Victim looks more classy? I don't know, I think it's kind of a date thing, ahhh I just got dumped Well, men are really bastards!" The girl complained all over.
Christopher was a little embarrassed.
"Oh, my dear, losing you is the biggest regret of that idiot." Kelly gave the girl a loving hug again, "Okay, it doesn't matter, you have been resurrected with full blood."
"Actually, I've never been knocked down."
"Really? That's great, you're so strong."
"Fucking be strong, I just want to hug now, or find a good bastard to have fun for a night."
Seeing that they were chatting vigorously, Christine looked at her watch and looked very helpless, so she said out loud, "Okay, sweetheart, it's time for us to go home, and you, Christopher, I remember you still have something this morning." There's an audition to go, let's give you a drive."
"That would be great!" Christopher yawned, "Meet tomorrow in Times Square at 16:00, remember our next round of tickets is at 16:40, ladies."
The next morning.
In an eight-bedroom red brick row house in downtown New York, Meryl Streep took off her gold-rimmed glasses and threw the New York Times on the living room floor. superior.
"Oh, Vincent Camby is so obsequious!" Meryl Streep held her forehead, "And Peter Travers from Rolling Stone magazine, what are these men like? Are you all obsessed with that girl like crazy?"
As an undisputed actor in Hollywood and a top actress among actresses, Meryl Streep has scored a jaw-dropping 1979 hits at an average interval of two years since she first entered the film industry in [-]. Nominated for an Academy Award in the acting category.
During this period, she witnessed that Jessica Lange, who once stole her role, passed away quickly after winning the Oscar, disappeared from Hollywood and became a TV star, and also witnessed the actresses who once defeated her grow old due to age And the development is hindered, and the competition of middle-aged actresses is even worse than when they were young.
Only she, and it must be only her, Meryl Streep, is still active in mainstream Hollywood movies, and can still be the absolute heroine of the movie.
Is it because of her superb acting skills?
Maybe there is a small part of the reason.
But more, it is because Meryl Streep is good at managing herself. Whether it is the East Coast or the West Coast, Broadway or Hollywood, her network of contacts is all over it, and she also knows how to use the media to market herself.
However, this year's Olympic debut "Family Love is Priceless", the public relations during the awards season were not very smooth.
First, "Priceless Love" was pointed out by film critics as a serious anachronism-this is a film adaptation of the novel of the same name-and then Meryl Streep's performance in the film was considered homogeneous. , and even the performance of the newcomer Renee Zellweger in the same film seems to be more fresh and lovely.
—Damn it!She is Meryl Streep!Do these film critics understand how to appreciate performances?
What's more terrible is the attitude of the distributor, Universal Pictures.
They even thought Renee Zellweger's performance was worthy of a PR Oscar!
Did Lon Meyer, that damned old bastard, sleep in a woman? Could it be that he was so old that he couldn't see who was the soul of this movie?
Thinking of this, Meryl Streep was extremely irritable for a moment, but looking at the newspapers and magazines left in the living room, most of them were bragging about Josie Horton and Gwyneth Paltrow, these two empty-headed blond girls, gave a small part of the page to Australian newcomer Cate Blanchett.
Overnight, it seemed Hollywood was about to be taken over by these young actresses.
This is... really unpleasant.
Meryl Streep thought quietly for a while in the living room alone, and was just thinking about whether to contact a friend when she heard the landline ring.
She rubbed her eyes tiredly, but quickly displayed her superb acting skills within a few seconds of answering the phone: "Hi, this is Meryl—aha, it's you, Harvey, recently How's it going? Yes, I saw the Miramax featured movie and Gwyneth's performance in Shakespeare in Love literally sublimated the movie... what, let me go for Josie Holden award?"
"Yes, you heard that right, Meryl." Harvey Weinstein on the other end of the phone said naturally, "And, you will speak during the award speech, such as performance is more important than real emotion, not False, ostentatious ostentation."
Meryl Streep chuckled, obviously understood the meaning, but she didn't reject Harvey Weinstein outright, she just shook her head slowly and said, "Oh, Harvey, you know, everyone I have my own acting style, and I don't think I'm qualified to tell anyone what to do."