The Greatest Showman (Big Play Bone)

Chapter 1455: Ins and outs

"Interstellar"!

Listening carefully to Andy's explanation of the ins and outs, combined with the timing of the fit, Lan Li immediately reasoned out the whole picture of the "Christopher Nolan" project.

"Interstellar", which was officially released in 2014, is a science fiction work that Christopher spent two years trying to create after finishing the filming of the "Batman" trilogy. If "Gravity" is about the universe A philosophical reflection on the origin of life in space, then "interstellar crossing" is about the magnificence of time in the majestic universe and the vastness of human emotions.

The movie tells the not-too-distant future. The earth's environment is getting worse and worse, and human beings are almost impossible to survive. At the same time, human beings still have not given up their plan to find a suitable planet in outer space.

The protagonist Cooper is a retired astronaut who married and had children, and lived a quiet and peaceful life on the farm. Then, under the strong persuasion of the professor, he chose to rejoin the astronaut team and went to outer space to explore three potential humans. The planet of survival.

In the process of traveling through the interstellar galaxy, they felt that one hour equals seven years of vicissitudes of life, and the dislocation force of time has completely exploded. When they return again, the world is completely different: the father is still young, but the child is old. The class relationship defined by human society has been reversed. How should they get along?

To put it simply, the stories included in the shell of science fiction exploration, in the final analysis, tell a magnificent motif about time and emotion, humanity and the universe——

The emotional bond between the actor Cooper and his sons and daughters bursts out of energy in the vast universe, and then reflects the majesty and insignificance between life, time and space dimensions, especially stripped of age and appearance. After the restraint brought by the fixed order, the return to the purest emotional communication deep in the soul also revealed a lingering loneliness.

Human beings come and leave alone, are everyone alone in their entire life?

The film did not give the answer, but left it to the audience to savor it. Undoubtedly, this is Christopher Nolan’s bold attempt to use "Inception" as a branch of emotional fetters and use it as the main line of "interstellar crossing" to tell stories, relocating from the dimensions and heights of science fiction and the universe. Above the most fundamental and essential human emotions.

Is this Christopher's best work?

Obviously not.

After the film was released, many controversies arose. Many people began to question the rationality of the film's theoretical basis, believing that there were many flaws and loopholes in the second half of the story, and then began to attack the entire framework and concept of the film with theoretical knowledge, and even reprimanded it. The idea of ​​the movie is absurd.

But in fact, all the theories of the whole movie, including the theories of story plots and the theories of computer special effects, are all derived from Kip Thorne’s deduction and calculations. In other words, the direction of each story and the theory of computer special effects. For a picture change, the 2017 Nobel Prize winner in Physics personally carried out calculations and conducted in-depth discussions with his colleagues, and finally presented the finished product that the audience saw on the big screen.

Of course, there are inherent differences and controversies in scientific discussions, and Kip Thorne may not be 100% correct, but it is undeniable that the film represents a theoretical branch of the current research results, and there is no reason for it. Doubtful, all theories can withstand scrutiny and test, and those self-righteous doubts and complaints standing in front of giants are just a little bit of laughter.

Regardless of these controversies, the film’s reputation did not surpass that of "The Dark Knight" and "Inception", and was even slightly inferior to the later "Dunkirk". The media review scored 74, which is bad. The tomato freshness index is 71%, the average score is 7 points, the popcorn index is 85%, and the theater score is B+.

But it’s worth mentioning that “Interstellar” is still enthusiastically sought after among the ratings of senior IMDB fans. The high score of 8.6 makes it successfully rank among the top 30 of the 250 classic list of movie history, becoming Christopher Nolan’s third director's work among the top 30.

From the score alone, it can be seen that this is not a work with extremely strong box office appeal.

In the end, the global box office numbers also proved this.

The North American box office was 188 million. Compared with Christopher’s previous works, "Interstellar Crossing" has not even been able to cross the 200 million threshold. This is a disappointing achievement; the global box office is 677,700. Wan, the outstanding performance in overseas markets still demonstrates Christopher's rare appeal at the moment.

However, compared to the production cost of 165 million and the global promotion cost of more than 30 million, the income and expenditure account of the film can only be regarded as a small profit, less than 40 million US dollars. Although the tragedy of losing money has been avoided, it is far from satisfactory.

But objectively speaking, this is a work that Lan Li personally likes very much. It can be ranked fourth or fifth in Christopher’s personal director’s work, even more like "memory fragments" and "fatal magic", because Lanly believes that this is Christopher's exploration and challenge on the road of director.

Prior to this, Christopher was a master of playing with forms, aside from "following", "memory fragments" and "inception" the structure of the unconstrained works, not to mention the fragmented style in the "Batman" trilogy. The editing is also impressive. Through the sharpness of the camera and editing, the weakness of the script and the thinness of the characters are weakened to a certain extent, and the shock brought by the visual effects and narrative suspense itself is amplified.

The only exception is that the "Dark Knight" can be regarded as a classic of film history. Even after ten years, it is still an insurmountable pinnacle of superhero comic-based films. It is because the three roles of Batman, Joker and Double-faced are in justice. He has made his own choices and decisions with evil, "fleeing from the light into the darkness, but to better protect the light", this kind of philosophical reflection gives the character a charm that is unparalleled.

"Interstellar" and "Dark Knight" have something in common, and Christopher went a step further, letting shots and editing, special effects and pictures all serve emotions, striving to create a relationship between the grandeur of time and the insignificance of human beings. The feeling of contrast ultimately rests on human beings.

This is an important exploration and experimentation for Christopher. On the way of the director’s growth, he is getting rid of the shackles of structure and technology, but letting structure and technology serve the plot. After "Interstellar Crossing", Christopher filmed again. "Dunkirk" obviously made progress again, moving in the direction of the master step by step.

At the same time, this is also the one that relies on actors most among all Christopher's works.

In the previous life, "Interstellar Crossing" can be described as a cluster of stars, such as Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Michael-Caine, Casey Affleck, Matt Damon, etc. And so on, regardless of the size of the role, they all readily accepted Christopher's invitation to star in this work.

The actor is played by Matthew McConaughey.

Matthew, who was once a famous Hollywood vase, has always appeared in romantic comedies, and the prodigal son has never changed his stereotyped image. The slick tongue and hippy smiley performances are constantly repeating themselves. He is the most annoying and repelling genre of the college. Actors are like idol actors like Robert Pattinson and Christine Stewart.

However, after years of ups and downs in Hollywood, there was no work invitation for almost two years. Matthew finally learned from the pain and completed the reborn change. 2012 ushered in a complete transformation of acting, "Sludge" and "Newsboy". His outstanding performance can be seen in "Magic Mike" and in "Dallas Buyers Club" in 2013.

If the historical trajectory remains the same, then at the Oscars ceremony in February 2014, Matthew won the actor statuette by virtue of the "Dallas Buyers Club", which is his only Oscar nomination.

Then, in the 2014 TV series "True Detective", he once again witnessed his superb performance.

It is no exaggeration to say that from 2012 to 2014 is the heyday of Matthew's acting skills. During this period, his performance has a powerful force that bursts from the inside out, which is really impressive~lightnovelpub.net~ and After this, he gradually fell into a routine, unable to break through or surpass himself; and under the influence of the little golden man curse, he also seemed a little confused to select works. Until Lan Li was reborn, he could not be able to do it again. Starred in a work worth mentioning.

"Interstellar" is the work released in 2014.

Logically speaking, this should be the peak of Matthew, the performance is certainly worthy of recognition and expectation; but the actual situation needs to be divided into two.

From a positive point of view, Matthew’s performance is still delicate and vivid, especially the helplessness and bitterness of a few scenes in the tunnel of time and space that are unstoppable. Matthew’s eyes are vividly shown. It makes people see the actor's demeanor and deserves applause; but from a negative point of view, Matthew's performance does not match the tone of the whole movie.

Strictly speaking, Matthew is not method-based acting, but performance-based acting. His performance is traceable. Words and small movements are his way of acting, such as chewing gum with his mouth and unconsciously playing with small objects with his hands. Actions, the flickering of the eyes, especially the biting of words when speaking, these details are the key points of the character——

The key points of the details are carefully set through performance-based acting skills.

This way of acting is undoubtedly successful without any problems; the problem arises in the overall style of the movie "Interstellar", which is magnificent and majestic. Matthew's detailed actions are too much, but it seems redundant and cumbersome, and destroys The whole shot has a sense of integrity, but if those "excess" actions are stripped away, the emotional rendering of the performance will not be enough, and it will not be able to achieve Christopher's original intention.

Matthew is indeed excellent, but in Lan Li's view, this is a failed casting.

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