Chapter 1779: It’s ready, it’s still a good pot of chicken soup
Recently, with the popularity of "Nine Levels of Sesame Official", what is interesting is that several of Li Yi's nonsensical comedy movies have become popular on the Internet again.
Especially "Westward Journey"!
In fact, why is it "Westward Journey"? Rather than the more similar "Kung Fu"?
Because of a topic that has suddenly exploded on the Internet recently, "If you could go back in time"!
It can be said that this topic has long been forgotten among Internet articles. After all, rebirth articles are very popular.
But in reality, unlike online novels where you can do whatever you want, many people have different ideas.
Naturally, movies like "Westward Journey" that can return to the past or the future are even more interesting.
Because "Westward Journey" tells everyone that even if you can go back in time, you may not be able to achieve what you want.
Even if you want to save regrets, you may leave more regrets.
Speaking of which, there are actually not many movies like "rebirth" and "going back in time", but there are not many that are really good.
Because the movie is always a story that takes more than one hundred minutes to tell, it can be said that it is very different from novels and TV series.
Rebirth is not new, and time travel is not new either. After all, if you want to read it, there are so many online novels, but as for movies, telling a story about rebirth and time travel in such a short time would really test the skill of the screenwriter.
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Li Yi also recalled a very special movie about "time travel", "love" and "back to the past".
After "watching" the movie, Li Yi was also a little surprised that this movie can be said to be very similar to "Westward Journey".
It can be said that the chemical effect of time travel and love has created screen classics such as "Journey to the West", but the "Time Traveler" that Li Yi recalled did not fall into the cliché.
As the director of the original work said, this is actually an anti-time-travel movie. Going back to the past is to change history, but the spark of love can only be created when you meet the right person. The jerky Tom has been defeated after repeated battles.
Zhong finally gave up on traveling through time and forced himself. Fortunately, his wife Mary didn't keep him waiting for too long.
However, in Li Yi's view, although the Chinese translation title "Love Traveler" summarizes the main story, the main theme of the film is still the original title "About".
"Time" is the most appropriate. Time means timing and process, which is also anti-time travel. For example, in the film, Mary was anxious before attending an event and didn't know what to wear, so she asked Tim for advice. After several rounds of compliments, Tim found that Mary still chose
She picked up a skirt that she initially rejected. If she could time travel, it is estimated that every time a man wishes to go back dozens of minutes ago and tell a woman to wear the first one. Now, the case advises men to cultivate patience and cooperation in the process. The correct answer is.
Judging from the details of the process, time represents the years of life. Of course, Tim and his son, who can travel through time, have the best say in this. One of the troubles in life is that everyone will be tired and uneasy in the busy and unknown life. Tim once said
His father’s advice was to spend the day as usual, and then go back in time and enjoy the same day calmly without any suspense. But gradually, Tim stopped doing this. He realized that he should cherish every day as if it were his last.
, to actively embrace life is happiness.
In fact, the rhythm of the movie is really gentle. The movie starts from the summer when all teenagers are full of worries and have nothing to do. The 21-year-old Tim leaves home for London with the regret of his first love and curiosity about life. Before leaving, his father told
It is a family secret that all men have the ability to time travel. The following story is based on time. Love, marriage, and children follow the life process in a smooth and uneventful manner. The rhythm and structure of the entire film are almost completely ignored, and only rely on
The protagonist's narration connects important scenes in life.
But in a movie like this, who cares about the rhythm?
It has to be said that all veteran directors are so familiar with their story-telling skills that they cannot see it or ignore it so much that it doesn’t matter.
In "About Time", we only see the director casually and endlessly expounding the truth of life, relying on a lifetime of life experience to sustain his two-hour chatter.
Watching such a movie is really a kind of enjoyment. This is not a popcorn movie, but this movie is very, very special. For Li Yi, this movie can be summed up as: the super power of going back to the past.
, what ultimately teaches us is to move forward without looking back.
In fact, this topic is very interesting to many people.
If you have the ability to go back to the past, in novels, readers will often enjoy it all the way to the end because they cannot accept even a little bit of abuse.
But if you simply want to redeem a certain regret, can you really do better if you try it again?
Of course, no one really gets a do-over, so there will never be an answer to this question.
In fact, the style of "Time Traveler" is quite different from similar domestic movies, because it is a British sketch-like movie, with constant laughter and the unique British clumsiness and cuteness.
Some foreign-language films are really only foreign-language films, just like many domestic films, which are only Chinese-language films.
Of course, this does not mean that people will not be able to understand it, but that some things, styles, habits, and characteristics are unique in themselves.
Li Yi didn't even think about changing anything.
Generally speaking, "Time Traveler" is British warmth paired with American chicken soup, delicate and touching!
Although it is said that everyone hates the mention of chicken soup these days, playing the warmth card, keeping a running account, and giving a few sermons, there are so many bugs that the screenwriter and director can't wrap his head around them.
It seems that this is a romantic comedy, but this is just an illusion caused by the translated title of the film. In fact, the original title of the film is also "About Time". There is love and comedy in it, but it is more...
A boy tries hard to redeem himself from all the unsatisfactory situations in his life.
Because it is really difficult to simply make a romantic comedy and try hard to write some fresh love scenes, but even if it zooms in on family and family ties like this film, it is still a clichéd account that will open up your imagination.
The screenwriter is much more relaxed, with only two or three small highlights here and there.
At first glance, some people may think that it is tasteless to eat and a pity to throw away.
In fact, from the perspective of the plot of the movie, there is some tension and conflict in the love story at the beginning of "Space Traveler", but in the end, the understanding of life is pure chicken soup. If you compare it with the inner beauty, you will know how ugly this movie is.
, come and go for love and love all day long, add some chicken soup, what the hell, tell everyone to use a unified attitude to love and live, in fact, it still has a sense of pretense, and the whole movie is also very hypocritical.
The whole editing and directing is like reciting sutras. It can be finished in 80 minutes, and the remaining 40 minutes are filled with various topics, ranging from diaosi pursuing girlfriends to marriage relationships to family warmth. The themes are explored here and there.
At first, Li Yi also felt a little disgusted.
This kind of movie makes people feel that the plot has many loopholes when they first watch it, but it is magical and not annoying.
The great thing is that when you look at it again, it will make people moved. Traveling through time and space can't actually change anything. You can't make people who don't love you fall in love with you, and you can't bring back what you lost. It often only makes you
Falling into new troubles. Living seriously and enjoying the sadness and happiness brought by life itself is equivalent to traveling through time and space.
In fact, the superpowers possessed by the male protagonist at the beginning can easily make people think, holy shit, why is it so cliche?
But the awesome thing about "Time Traveler" is that you find that the taste of chicken soup is getting stronger and stronger, but no matter how tired you are of chicken soup, you can make it have a unique flavor!
Of course, if you are someone who really understands, or someone who has a little bit of life experience and emotional experience, you will definitely not feel bored watching this movie.
Erasing the imperfections and unsatisfactory aspects of life and being fully prepared may allow us to obtain the safest life that runs along the original track; but the most beautiful things in life are precisely those unexpected encounters.
It can be said that many people must like the scene after the wedding that was in chaos due to heavy rain. At night, the male protagonist’s parents hugged and danced to the music, and the female protagonist sat on the sofa, looking at them, with a smile on her face.
With a happy and sweet smile that only the bride can have, the male protagonist asked her if she regretted not choosing a sunny day for the wedding. The female protagonist said, no, that's very good.
Of course, this is not a perfect movie. In fact, in Li Yi's memory, the initial evaluation of this movie was not that high, but the magical thing is that, like wine, the longer it goes, the more
The mellower it is, the more fragrant it is over time.
Li Yi’s favorite is the sentence in the movie: Even if you go back to the past, you can’t change someone who doesn’t love you!
Soon, Li Yi finished the script.
I showed it to my daughter-in-law, but she didn’t feel anything at all, she just felt strange.
In fact, simply reading the script is really boring and boring, or it may also be cliched.
But the role of a director is to turn decay into magic and tell simple stories wonderfully.
However, even the script has many highlights, such as dialogue.
“I try to live each day as if I had traveled back in time to that day, to enjoy it as if it were the last day of my extraordinary yet ordinary life… The stumbles and falls have made me who I am today.
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"This sentence is so well written!" Mu Qing said with emotion.
"It's just, why do you feel that there is too much chicken soup?" Mu Qing couldn't help but ask.
Li Yi nodded. He did not refute this, and this was also the case.
In fact, this movie was quite controversial when it was released.
The film's performance was pretty good, but the film still received a lot of negative reviews.
Some viewers think that the plot is too weak, the warmth card is too much, and the content is a bit confusing. This is because people only watch this movie based on the simple plot. If you only appreciate the movie based on the plot, you will miss some exciting things.
For example, the themes and ideas shown in movies often reflect the screenwriter's worldview and values, and are hints of their life experience and life experience.
The main storyline of the movie is very simple. On his 21st birthday, Tim learned that men in his family had the magical ability to travel through time and space and could go back to the past. After he found out, he tried it hesitantly and succeeded. So,
He began to use this ability to remedy some of the things he had done wrong, to make up for some regrets, to get along better with relatives and friends, and to spend every day of his life seriously.
But the film is actually not just about telling a time-travel story, but about growing up and cherishing the present.
The reason why "Space Traveler" has gradually moved many people to tears with a simple story that is a bit of chicken soup for the soul is that it actually used some "movie magic"!
First of all, in terms of creative style, the magic of the movie "Space Traveler" is that first of all, the colors of the actors' costumes are mostly bright colors, but they give people a sense of elegance. The main colors of the film are warm and highly saturated.
It has a lyrical effect and brings a beautiful and warm feeling to the audience. In a movie, color tone can most affect the vision, thereby rendering and mobilizing the audience's emotions, and also creating the atmosphere of the scene.
As a British love movie, "Time Traveler" expresses British romance vividly. Unlike the open and sexy American romance, British romance is elegant, gentlemanly, euphemistic and soft.
The film reflects British romance in many details: in the wedding scene between Tim and his wife Mary, Mary slowly walks into the church in a bright red dress accompanied by tender music, giving people a sense of elegance and nobility in British romance.
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This chapter is not finished yet, please click the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Tim and Mary go to work together every day, kissing each other reluctantly in the subway, and with the background music, it is so soft and gentle.
These are all British romances!
Another aspect is the character creation. The protagonist Tim is a boy who is not good at talking, shy but longs for love. His evaluation of himself is "too tall, too thin, and his skin is too yellow." Does this sentence sound like it?
When we look at ourselves in the mirror, we evaluate how we look, and worry about why our looks are not perfect. This kind of delicate and true description suddenly narrows the distance between the movie and the audience.
Unlike the protagonists in other time-traveling movies, who have a grand outlook on life or want to save the world, Tim's purpose in traveling through time and space is just to solve the trivial things in his life. This kind of Tim looks very small.
Like all living beings, Tim is troubled by the trivial matters in life. Such an ordinary Tim actually enhances the resonance of the audience.
To put it simply, there are not so many clouds and fog. Will traveling to the past produce a butterfly effect and change many things in the future?
This is not a real science fiction movie! But precisely this is the essence of the movie.
He has never thought about using his ability to travel through time and space to do something big!
For example, at Tim and Mary's wedding, because Tim wanted a perfect best man, he traveled through time and space again and again, constantly changing the best man, and repeating the wedding. At the end of the wedding, it suddenly rained heavily, and everyone took pictures in the rain.
Laughing. Although it was not perfect, everyone was happy. Later, when Tim asked Mary if she wanted a sunny wedding, Mary smiled with satisfaction and said, "No, that's enough."
In the summer, Tim met the beautiful Charlotte and fell in love with her. The first time he confessed his love was the night before Charlotte left. Faced with Tim's confession, Charlotte said: "You have to confess,
You should have told me during the holidays, why wait until the last day? I have to leave."
Tim thought to himself, this is easy to handle, so why don’t I just travel to the middle of the holiday to confess my love? After traveling back in time, Charlotte said: "You should have confessed your love on the last day of the holiday, why are you so anxious?"
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Only then did he understand that the ability to travel through time and space cannot make someone who doesn't love you fall in love with you. People who don't like you, no matter when and where you express your love, will not change the fact of being rejected. Charlotte
The timing of what Ti said was just a cover. If he didn't wear
With the ability to travel through time and space, he probably didn't realize that Charlotte didn't like him, and still held on to a glimmer of hope, doing many things that moved him but not the other person. The ability to travel through time and space allowed him to jump in the swamp of love.