Chapter 1034

In the work of "drunken ballad", Lan Li found a real artistic resonance. In his last life, he yearned, longed and marveled, as if he saw his dream life but was afraid to try it; This life is empathy, as if you can see your own shadow, and even the shadow of Don Quixote.

In fact, "Don Quixote" and "drunken folk song" seem to be the two sides of the lake, reflecting each other, and telling the story of Don Quixote walking alone in the cruel reality.

Obviously, the Cohen brothers and Langley hold similar ideas. They have heard the belief and persistence in the song "beast", and they have also heard the dreams and visions in the album "Don Quixote". As a result, the creative inspiration burst out, and they appeared in front of Lan Li, eager to send out the invitation.

If you think about it carefully, "drunken folk songs" is really like a work tailored for lanli. Levine seems to be the projection of lanli in his works of art——

They also came to New York alone to pursue their dreams; They also played and sang in a small bar, and changed their life because of a folk song; They are also faced with the crossroads of giving up and compromising, but they resolutely choose to be stubborn to the end; They also created an album, placed on the shelf at home, waiting for people of insight to dig.

The only difference is that in real life, "Don Quixote" is a success, while the hero's album "inside llewyn Davis" in the movie story is ignored.

In other words, Levine Davis is Langley Hall who failed to pursue his dream; To be more precise, after Langley failed to pursue his dream, he struggled for 15 years and then became Levine.

It's a bit of a shock. If it wasn't for the fact that Langley was absolutely certain that he had no communication with the Cohen brothers, the two brothers couldn't really write a script based on his experience. He would almost have the illusion of time and space disorder.

And so on, or, in the last life, there was a real Levine Davis, but because of the rebirth of Langley, he took his place, and then the fate trajectory changed? Or, like the "Butterfly Effect", the real experience of lanli hall was indeed adapted into a "drunken folk song", and finally became the version seen by Chu Jiashu in the last generation. So who has shuttled through time and space and changed history?

After going around, my mind was a little dizzy; Cut off the confusion of speculation and speculation, lanli fell on Joel and Ethan's eyes suddenly become fun, but the two brothers don't know, so they are confused and looking forward to lanli's future, and the urgent eyes make lanli dumbfounded.

There is no doubt that this is the most desired, favorite and greedy work of Langley after "crazy love", and that kind of stupid and ready to move mood is rampaging in his chest; It's not only because it's another form of Don Quixote, like seeing Heather cross again, but also because the character itself is very challenging.

Levine Davis, as a character, bears the weight of dream and reality, as well as the weight of the whole era. In his body, the confusion, hardship, bitterness, irritability, ego, arrogance, uninhibited, mixed and unified, contradictory and harmonious are mixed together to outline the vicissitudes of life under the wave of folk songs.

In fact, this is a very difficult role to handle, just like David Bowie, Bob Dylan, Dave van rock, Kurt Cobain and others. These artists are always filled with a unique temperament, beyond the constraints of the leather bag itself. They are unrestrained and uninhibited, but they have unique charm.

Maybe they are all such jerks; But again, they are all so charming.

Levine in the movie is like this.

Levine, who is homeless and has no place to stay, has been living in his friend's house for a long time. The professor and his wife treat him as an artist. They not only provide sofa, but also delicious food. However, Levine gets angry at the table and loses his wife's cat.

In Greenwich Village, Jim and Jane are also long-term sofa providers for Levine, but Levine secretly sneaks in with Jane and makes her pregnant.

Besides his friends, Levine also has family. His sister lives in Queens and always takes him in, but he dislikes her. "You people outside the entertainment industry are just brushing your sense of existence."

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There is no doubt that Levine is an asshole, a terrible, ungrateful, self righteous asshole; But there are many details hidden in the script of the Cohen brothers, which vividly outlines the softness and vulnerability of the bastard.

In fact, Levine loves Jane deeply. The only time he says "I love you" is dedicated to Jane; Unfortunately, Jane chose Jim, but Levine couldn't afford the life Jane wanted. Furthermore, Jane and Levine's different attitudes and pursuits towards art and life doomed them to be unable to get together. So Levine waited in silence.

But then, Levine was surprised to find that even the black bellied and utilitarian coffee shop owner once had a conversation with Jane. He was just one of Jane's lists, which made Levine's careless mood out of control.

He's a jerk, but he's a jerk that can't be rejected. Just like those great artists, only when they totally hate him can they avoid falling in love with him.

How to show Levine's bad, but not let the audience hate him; How to grasp the details and enrich Levine's image without exerting too much force; How to show the level and depth of Levine's personal charm in his introverted performance without falling into the pattern of exaggeration... All these are severe tests.

It's a problem to play Levine; It's even more difficult to make Levine perform brilliantly.

In the last life, Levine Davis was starred by Oscar Issac. His performance can only be said to be in order, and did not cause much repercussion. He only received a nomination for best actor in musical comedy category of Golden Globe Award, but all other nominations for performance category failed; Compared with the performance, his singing skills in the film have been more appreciated.

Under the lens of the Cohen brothers, Oscar Issac's performance is relatively introverted, reducing the change and publicity of expression as much as possible, and falling into the crisis of facial paralysis carelessly. It shows Levine's depression, loss and depression, and presents the vagrant and vicissitudes temperament of the ballad poet who has no place.

But comparatively speaking, the lack of details leads the audience to make a wrong judgment on the relationship between Levine and Jane, and then make a wrong judgment on Levine's artist image.

The audience simply and rudely thought that Levine had betrayed his good friend Jim, but in fact, Jane was always restless, and Levine was just one of them; What's more, Levine is really in the middle of it, but Jane just looks on coldly. Even if it's pregnancy and abortion, Jane just throws the burden of guilt and guilt to Levine and keeps away from it.

The loss of similar details does not have much influence on the plot, but it is a fatal negligence in the role building.

So, it's a pity that Oscar Issac didn't get more performance recognition and missed such a profound and full role of Levine Davis.

But in fact, as far as Langley is concerned, he likes Oscar Issac's performance very much.

In his performance, there is always a kind of natural sadness and vicissitudes. This temperament is very charming. It fits perfectly with folk songs, poets and folk wave, and gives the whole film a kind of addictive texture, which makes the viewing process very comfortable and comfortable, and also leaves a deep impression on the actor——

Sure enough, Oscar was frequently seen in other works, such as "Jackie the mechanic", "Star Wars 7: the awakening of the force", "X-Men: Apocalypse" and so on. This also proves that Hollywood insiders and lanli hold the same idea.

Performance skills can be learned, but performance temperament is natural and inborn. At this point, the Oscar version of the "drunken folk", really let Langley love.

However, if Levine Davis is performed by Langley, he certainly can't adopt the way of Oscar Issac, not because of how the original performance is, but because Langley has already got rid of the stereotype of imitation and walked out of his own way of performance. What's more, because Langley and Oscar have different temperament and styles, so their roles are naturally different.

So, how should lanli perform?

Now just thinking about it in his mind, lanli can't help but get excited. "Drunken folk songs" is a dream work, just like the original "crazy love". Lanli can't wait to join the cast, start to discuss the roles and scripts, and start to study the performance and shooting.

Strictly speaking, it's even more immersive than "crazy love", because it's about Langley's own story, the hardship and confusion of the last life, the struggle and persistence of this life, all mixed in the role of Levine Davis.

Close your eyes, Levine's gestures and smiles have been deeply imprinted in lanli's mind. There is no need to think and describe, and there is no need to conceive and explore. The familiar feeling in the soul naturally comes out and fills the whole chest.

Perhaps, this is the most important and difficult challenge in Lanley's career.

But the problem is that he can't, he can't nod his head and promise, he can't play in this work. When he realized this, Lan Li could not help but began to lose. He sat in the same place, his eyes showed a touch of regret and helpless, and his heavy mood began to fall slowly.