Chapter 1401: Break through levels and upgrade to fight BOSS
The screenings of "12 Angry Men" are in full swing, and there are more and more comments, discussions, etc. about this movie.
In fact, what are you most afraid of in this kind of movie?
It's chaos!
Twelve people! Although there is a protagonist, that is Juror No. 8 played by Chen Weijie.
But all twelve people have dramas, and there are a lot of dramas.
But the key point is that after watching the movie, many people will find that although these twelve people in the movie have no names, or do not need names, everyone can easily tell the characteristics of each character.
For example, number eight, such as number four, such as number 1, etc., etc.
"Damn, that's awesome. Obviously none of the twelve people have names, but why do I feel that none of the twelve people are strange at all? As long as I think of the number, I can think of who he is, what he did, and what his attitude is.
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"It's true that No. 7 is a fan, No. 5 has been in a club, No. 4 is a securities analyst...everyone is so memorable. Damn it, Director Dog is
How did you do it?"
"It's really true! There are twelve people, but all of them have distinct characteristics, and the logic is very smooth, and there is no feeling of chaos at all. It's really awesome!"
"Whoever dares to come out and analyze it!"
Soon, film critics came out to take advantage of this wave of traffic.
The famous online film critic Ah Shu went out of his way to watch "Twelve Angry Men" several times before writing a review.
"I saw many people on the Internet praising this movie, praising that "12 Angry Men" has twelve characters, and each character has a big role, even the protagonist's Juror No. 8, who is Chen Weijie
The character he played can only be said to have slightly more scenes, but throughout the film, people can easily remember these people. So how did Director Dog do it?
For this reason, I specially watched "12 Angry Men". The whole movie lasted for an hour and a half. After watching it, I was so excited that I watched it again and twice the next day. I can only say that it is a good movie.
Pleasant, a great film reformer. "Twelve Angry Men" is really something that the more you watch it, the more you have to admire it. This movie is really awesome! This also made me truly understand that movies have so many ways to attract audiences.
!Now after thinking calmly, I have written the following brief opinions.
First of all, the background setting of the movie "12 Angry Men". We all know that the jury system in Hong Kong Island is actually a 5-9 person system. Some people say that the jury system in Hong Kong Island is actually a system between British and American law.
We don’t care whether this is a castrated version of the jury system. After all, the history of Hong Kong Island is quite special, so the jury composed of twelve jurors in "Twelve Angry Men" should be based on those in North America.
Comes from the jury system.
But in fact, this is not important, because what is important is that the two have something in common, that is, in a first-degree murder case, the jury's decision must be completely unanimous to form an effective verdict. In this case, then the number of people is the base number
, is an even number, it doesn’t actually matter, and the fact that there are more people also means that it is more difficult to reach a completely unanimous resolution.
Closer to home, the entire story of "Twelve Angry Men" is one scene. The court scenes at the beginning and end are negligible. They are completely decorative. Deleting them will not have a big impact. This can be said to be a single scene with twelve people.
, a movie that relies on dialogue to drive the plot of the entire movie.
Twelve members of the jury were discussing in a lounge to decide whether a murder case should be established.
The defendant in the murder case is an 18-year-old child, and the deceased is his father. The 12 jury members must discuss and reach a unanimous opinion: whether the child is guilty of murder. If found guilty, the child will be sentenced to the maximum penalty, which is life imprisonment.
He will spend the rest of his life in prison. If not, the reason must be based on "reasonable doubt" arising from the reasoning, questioning, evidence, testimony or proceedings of the entire trial.
Due to the complete set of witnesses and physical evidence, 11 out of the 12 people at the beginning were categorically convinced that the child was guilty. Only Juror No. 8, played by Chen Weijie, felt that there was something fishy about the case. At the end of the movie, all 12 people were convinced that the child was guilty.
The child was found not guilty.
There is a huge contrast between the beginning and the end. This seemingly "impossible task" often tests the script's ability the most.
Of course, this is also the reason why this movie can attract so many viewers, because this itself is a very conventional model commonly used in commercial movies.
However, this is not to say that "Twelve Angry Men" is not good. On the contrary, it is like a proposition composition. If it is done smoothly, it is called skill, and if it is swayed, it is called Wuji. It is completely different from many domestic blockbusters.
"Twelve Angry Men" is an example of this kind of movie full of dramatic conflicts.
Okay, let's start from the beginning, first face this proposition composition ourselves, see what answers we can get, and then see how "Twelve Angry Men" answers it. There are several major difficulties in the question:
First, the movie only takes place in a conference room, which means there are almost no visually pleasing changes, and it means that all plots are limited to this square table;
Second, the movie is about twelve people. Twelve people can be said to be more or less. The reason for not being many is because there is no change. The reason for being less is because we have to introduce each character in place, including occupation, personality, etc.
IQ, background, political orientation, and mental journey, all of these must be reflected through dialogue and action, and made unforgettable. Think about it, it is an extremely huge narrative project;
Third, this is about a murder trial. The murder case has many witnesses, evidence, testimonies, including time, place, people, and psychological analysis. This information is massive. How to make the massive information reasonable?
, it is planned and arranged step by step in each person's dialogue, and it fully takes into account the acceptance level of the broad audience. There is no need to take notes or look up information, which is even more difficult;
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Fourth, this story can be summarized in one sentence as "miraculous reversal", that is, one person gradually convinces the remaining eleven people. This is the biggest difficulty of the film, because so
The plot is full of drama. If the arrangement is more exaggerated, it will be suspected of deliberateness. If the arrangement is more subtle, the audience will feel that it is not credible. Moreover, the rhythm at which the twelve people are persuaded one by one is even more profound.
Knowledge - if you are not careful, the audience will think that it is arranged. Once the falsehood is labeled, don't think about turning around again. This is the most difficult point.
To use a more understandable word to describe it, "Twelve Angry Men" is actually very similar to how we usually play games, leveling up and killing monsters, knocking down levels one by one, and defeating bosses one by one!
In this movie, there are eleven bosses waiting for player No. 8 to defeat them one by one!
First, let us take a look, how to remember twelve people at once?
Twelve jury members, twelve protagonists. What is the biggest fear of large numbers of people? Chaos.
Because there is only one big star, Chen Weijie. Although the other eleven people are familiar to everyone, it is absolutely difficult to call them by name. The audience must remember everyone within half an hour and then look forward to them.
How much effort it takes to take turns on stage to sing in the next hour! I still can't imagine how much talent it takes to build such a magnificent narrative building.
First of all, let me ask you, if you were asked to make a film and there were twelve very different characters to introduce, what method would you use to make the audience remember who they are "well and quickly"?
In fact, there are. There are many ensemble movies in Hollywood, but the most common way they use it is to distinguish them by race. Of course, the so-called race here does not mean white, black, and yellow, but such as dwarves, elves, etc., and usually only
This type of fantasy movie will use this method to distinguish. After all, dwarves have the characteristics of being short, and elves, werewolves, etc. each have their own extremely distinctive characteristics, so that people can easily distinguish them by their appearance and race.
Let’s differentiate and remember these feelings.
What is more commonly used, or what is easiest for the audience to remember at present, is to distinguish between many celebrities, and the characters are introduced over a long period of time. What if the time is very tight and only half an hour? What if the characters are not celebrities?
What? What to do?
The method used in "Twelve Angry Men" is unique, and this method is probably only used in this film.
Why do you say that?
The way this movie guides the audience to remember the characters is not by names, because these jurors have no names at all. Of course, names are not important here. It is not by numbers. First of all, numbers have no personality difference and will hinder people's memory, let alone
Occupation and personality, as we all know, this takes time to strengthen the impression. It is not a simple and effective method. It is not the appearance of tall, short, fat and thin. Of course, this is not a good method, because it still needs repeated reinforcement to make people remember it. It is not clothing.
, after all, everyone is wearing similar formal clothes... So the question is, what is it?
Spy memory method! Yes, the movie actually uses this incredible memory method.
What is the spy mnemonics method? A spy can memorize a long paper in a short time, not by forceful memorization, but by clever memorization, that is, by replacing certain text codes with another non-text code, such as
For a certain part of our body or the location of each province on the map of our country, the brain area it uses is not the area we usually use to memorize text, but other brain areas responsible for processing concrete things, so the memory efficiency will be greatly improved.
Of course, this is a bit abstract, so let me explain it in detail.
First of all, the first thing done at the beginning of the movie is to establish a host; and the first thing the host is asked to do is to announce that everyone will be seated according to the jury number. Note that this inconspicuous announcement,
It is the cornerstone of the entire narrative!
The way "Twelve Angry Men" allows us to remember everyone in a very short period of time is the location of these twelve people!
Let fixed people sit at fixed positions on the long table, one at one end and five on each side. Even if people move around due to the plot, they will definitely come back and sit down after a while to continuously strengthen the impression. I
I bet that anyone who has watched "12 Angry Men" can basically not name the characters, but they can all name everyone's position!
Of course, some people may say that this is also combined with the numerical number of each of them. This is true, but in the author's opinion, the more critical thing is that the position corresponds to the number.
There is also the law of symmetry! The number of people sitting on both sides of the long table is the same, and the people on the opposite side of the long table are more distinctive.
For example, fans! Although he gave people the feeling of being a troublemaker among the twelve-person jury. He only cared about the football game and didn't care about the case at all. But you can't deny that he is memorable, and his
The position is opposite to the position of jury leader No. 1, which gives the whole picture two fixed fulcrums! People can immediately know, oh, that is No. 7, oh, that is No. 1!
Simple! Effective! It’s genius! Other movies can’t do this at all, because it’s impossible to keep the characters from moving from beginning to end. So, the single scene, others say it’s a narrative disadvantage, but I say it’s the opposite in the hands of a genius.
It is a unique advantage! What "Twelve Angry Men" loses is only the shackles, but what it gains is the whole world!
Then, how to make each of these twelve angry men have a role to play?
Everyone knows that with twelve characters, it is not only difficult to make people remember them, but also the key is how to make their scenes stand out and how to show their respective sense of existence.
Then we must first establish a fixed point. The first is Jury Foreman No. 1. This fulcrum is the starting point and is very important. As soon as he sits down, the scene is actually full, because everyone will remember that this person is
organizer.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Then there is the corresponding point of symmetry, which is number seven!
I believe everyone will remember the role of the fan deeply, because he only cares about the football game and doesn’t care about the case itself. He is very prominent, but he does not play such a big role in promoting the entire plot.
But what about in reality?
This role is indispensable. It has nothing to do with me. I am talking about people like this. Such people are very annoying, but there are many such people.
Next is the protagonist No. 8. Needless to say, Chen Weijie is the most recognizable star in the entire movie.
At the same time, he is also the most critical fulcrum.
Then there are 3 big bosses.
No. 3, angry, angry, angry, still angry!
He is the angriest!
But this role is very important. He is proud and arrogant, but a little illogical. Because he had a falling out with his son, severed the relationship between father and son, and looked at this patricide case with hatred for the younger generation, so he stood on the side of "guilty"
The last and most stubborn person in the position. As an experienced juror, he took quite detailed notes during the jury, so he was also the first to list the case information, mainly from the old man and the woman witness.
According to the testimony, we know how unfavorable the defendant is: the old man not only heard the quarrel between him and his father, but also witnessed his son fleeing; the woman also witnessed the entire murder process from across the street.
It can be said that we have to thank Juror No. 3 for his confidence. He made many of us basically stand on the "guilty" side at the beginning. And this Juror No. 3 doesn't know how to speak, especially when he leaked his words several times and showed off.
The oolong lines highlighted his cute side beneath his hateful appearance.
Juror No. 4. If No. 3 is the most stubborn "BOSS", then No. 4 is really the most powerful "BOSS". No. 4 is my favorite character because the portrayal is so successful. As a securities
Analyst, he has the most confident stance, the most rigorous expression, the clearest logic, the most objective stance, and the most stable emotion. The last sentence "It's strange that I ignored this detail" is a genius stroke of the screenwriter.
He is truly the Sherlock Holmes of the financial world! Such an extremely tough guy is the most troublesome when he is an enemy, but the most reliable when he is a comrade.
As the second person to be convinced, he was actually the final BOSS. If a detail had not been brought up, he would have probably regained the lost ground and even made a comeback - in fact, he created the only one
Reversal, and it was reasonable and powerful. When he announced that he voted "not guilty" and said "because I have a reasonable doubt", I simply shouted long live. Listening to this man's speech is a kind of enjoyment. I have to say
His shortcoming may be that he is too rational.
Juror No. 10, this one should be considered a cannon fodder BOSS, because he has no logic, all he wants is, I don’t want you to think, I want me to feel, his discrimination is straightforward and without any cover-up.
