The Greatest Showman

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Damien Chazelle, this young director is undoubtedly the most noteworthy one of the younger generation in the United States. He was born in 1985 and is only four years older than Renly. He is 28 years old this year. However, Baby fat baby face and sloppy otaku dress, but always filled with a fresh sense of freshness of college students.

In 2007, after Damien graduated from Harvard University, he began to prepare his first feature film, "Guy and Madeleine on the Park Bench", this independent work did not generate much discussion. , but initially showed his clever ideas on shot scheduling and color composition.

Then Damien began to circle in New York, writing "The Last Exorcism 2" and "Grand Piano" as a screenwriter, the latter starring John Cusack and Elijah Wood, which can be regarded as an independent film field. The "big" productions of these meager earnings supported Damien's artistic pursuits; he later worked on the critically acclaimed "10 Cloverfield Lane" script.

It is worth mentioning that Damien's parents are highly educated intellectuals. His mother is a writer and teaches at the University of New Jersey; his father is a computer scientist and teaches at Princeton University.

However, the wealthy family did not become a source of funds for him to pursue an artistic career, and he went to Los Angeles to support himself. But it has cultivated Damien's creative talent. In addition to the director, his ability as a screenwriter has also been recognized. Like Christopher Nolan, he is still more interested in directing his own script.

In the four years since his first feature film in 2009, Damien has been preparing his second work, "Boom Drummer".

It is a pity that this work chose music as the entry point. In the contemporary film market, musical films are basically dead. Except for teen musicals, almost no film companies are willing to invest in production; The characters are really unlikable, even distasteful, to be of no interest to the producers.

So, after going around in circles for nearly four years, Damien was still exhausted after all, so he had to come up with this strategy and try his luck on Oscar night.

Judging from the node in 2017, Damien is still the most eye-catching among the new generation directors. Apart from his debut, he has only two other feature films, one is "Boom Drummer" and the other is "Love". City of Pleasure".

After the latter was released in 2016, it caused a wave of praise. At the Oscars, it swept up 14 nominations and picked up six of the golden statuettes, reviving the glorious dawn of music movies; and On the ceremony, Oolong, which resulted in the best picture because of mistakes, also witnessed Damien's loss and helplessness.

However, at the age of 31, he won the Oscar for best director, and Damien is still the hottest young director in the industry.

Before "La La Land", "Boom Drummer" had already shown his talent. This work tells the story of a college freshman at a music college who aspires to become a top drummer, but the hellish training of his music tutor tortures him physically and mentally. Point to fire into the devil.

In short, this is a work that tells the story of "no madness, no life".

In 2010, a "Black Swan" vividly interprets the mystery of the survival of madness. When the art reaches the perfect state, the boundaries between performance and reality are completely blurred. Tully Portman won the Oscar for this work.

In a sense, the core meaning of "Booming Drummer" and "Black Swan" are the same, concise and clear stories, but in the rhythm of the gradually out of control drum beats, they fall into a state of out-of-control madness little by little, bringing difficulties. In terms of psychological suspense and tremors, the ultimate movie viewing experience of Yanyu is inferior to "Black Swan", but the visual impact is stronger.

Under Damien's lens, the sense of paranoia and extremeness of art burst out, even a bloody cruelty. The core meaning of "pursuit of perfection" is truly thrilling.

Maybe this work is not perfect, but it can leave a rich and magnificent touch of color.

If the "Drunken Country Ballad" is about the poetic dream of a wanderer, but after all, he is stuck in the same place, at a loss, reflecting the tide of the entire era; then "Booming Drummer" condenses the era into a small person, as if Like a bull's horn, he reached the extreme regardless of his own world, and finally confronted the world with his own shoulders.

One is to enlarge, the other is to reduce; one is addition and the other is subtraction.

But the excellence of both works is undeniable.

On top of the Oscars that year, "Boom Drummer" won five nominations, including Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Editing, and Best Sound Effects, and won Best Supporting Actor and Best Editing And the three golden statues of the best sound effects, among which the top of the "small best film" and the best editing is undoubtedly an important affirmation for this work.

It is worth mentioning that "Booming Drummer" really brought the charm of the two leading actors to the extreme.

In the story, it revolves around the hero Andrew and his teacher Fletcher.

Fletcher is a demon teacher. The image is born out of the teacher of Damien High School's band. His words, deeds, and even a look in his eyes are enough to make people tremble. But it's a very interesting character image,

He is not "justice and evil" on the traditional moral level, but abandons the moral standard, and does not compromise the means for the sake of art, for the purpose, and for the sake of profit. The perseverance and perseverance in the bones are positive, but the superficial means and The way is extremely dark.

After watching the movie, every audience feared him, hated him, rejected him, but that was Damien's intention. He succeeded.

jk-simmons (jk-simmons), who played a supporting role in many works such as "Spider-Man 3" and "Juno", successfully interpreted this role. The brightest ray of light on the big screen even took away the protagonist's style and became the biggest hit in the awards season that year. He swept thousands of troops all the way and won the Best Supporting Actor Golden Man.

Andrew is a student, but he is also not a good stubborn, rude, selfish, arrogant, a complete little villain, but like Fletcher, he will do anything to achieve his goals, and he is the drummer He was more cruel to himself than anyone else, and really drove himself to a dead end, and finally made a breakthrough in the critical point of art, like a "black swan", finding his own perfection.

Similarly, after watching the movie, the protagonist is not likeable. Even though this is a work full of inspiration, the dark temperament of Andrew is enough to make people repulsive.

this is normal. In real life, those geniuses who focus on their own world are often not understood by the world; furthermore, those geniuses who have gone crazy and fanatical in art are the ones who are excluded, ridiculed and suppressed by this society. Object, there are too many similar cases in history.

Because their paranoia tends to be frightening.

Far from it, Renly is like that. The crew of "Buried Alive", the crew of "Fast and Furious 5", and the crew of "Anti-Cancer Me", Renly's whole body exudes the breath of no one born, and for the staff, their feelings towards Renly are also Contradictory and confusing.

Rookie actor Miles-teller (miles-teller) played the role of Andrew. Miles has been honing himself in independent films since before "The Bursting Drummer," his first in "Rabbit Hole" with Nicole Kidman in 2010, and then starred in the new version of "The Whole Body" "Strength", "X Plan", "Beautiful Now" and other niche works.

Miles is not a handsome guy, neither typical nor atypical, but his performance has an original roughness, whether it is "Divergent" or "Boom Drummer", the temperament of both good and evil endows the character with soul . However, objectively speaking, his performance still lacks layers and changes, and the details of his performance are often lost in the bland, often between facial paralysis and vividness, unable to maintain a stable level.

Miles got the role of Andrew because of his drumming experience. He has been playing drums since he was fifteen years old, and his palms still have calluses. He was twenty-six years old when he auditioned for "Boom Drummer", and he has more than ten years of drumming experience, which is undoubtedly the best for the role. important.

In the actual performance, all of Miles's style was taken away by Simmons. In Simmons' powerful performance, all of Miles' performances seemed to fall into the shadow of the other party. Those details and depths It all slipped through the lens.

In a similar role, Natalie Portman topped the list with "Black Swan," while Miles went without a single nomination throughout awards season. Of course, it is undeniable that the locking of the director's lens has a bonus effect, but on the whole, Miles still failed to interpret Andrew's soul.

Despite this, the overall quality of "Booming Drummer" is still amazing, and it was not held back by the performance at all. This is Damien's skill. From lens scheduling to post-editing, from atmosphere creation to light and shadow construction, Damien presents a The perfect stage is then handed over to the actors to interpret and perform. The profound internal strength shows the sophistication and composure that does not match the age.

Whether it's "Booming Drummer" or Damien Chazelle, these are Renly's personal favorites -- the light and shadow dream of "La La Land" in his last life is still vivid in his mind. Unexpectedly, I ran into one on the side of the road today.

Although everyone says that Los Angeles is a city full of miracles, and opportunities can be found everywhere on the streets, Renly still finds it quite interesting when they actually meet.

If so, Damien is -- a stray poodle?

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