Chapter 52： High IQ

The premiere of "Death Illusion" is over, but no one understands what the story is about. The scene was silent, and no one responded, as if the movie was a bad movie. But in fact, it's not that the audience doesn't want to react, it's that they don't know how to react, they are still immersed in their own thoughts, thinking about the movie.

Is this just a dream of Tony Duck? Is Frank a real person or an alien? Gretchen was already dead, why did he finally come back to life and lose all his memory? Why did the plane's engine smash into Tony's room twice, and the second time Tony took the initiative to stay in the room and die?

God, what movie is this? After watching the movie, no one dared to say that they "understood" it!

In fact, as far as Gu Luobei is concerned, before the filming of the film, he read the script and the "Time Travel Upanishads" in detail before he understood the content of the story. Even so, when Gu Luobei himself was watching a movie, he felt that the plot switching was too fast and the reaction time was not enough, let alone the audience who watched the movie for the first time?

"An Andalusian Dog" is incomprehensible due to the incoherence and illogicality of the cuts between shots, "Memory Fragments" is incomprehensible due to the crossover of flashbacks and the unknown of the protagonist's past, and "2001 : A Space Odyssey's fourth paragraph is difficult to understand due to the connection between abstract and meaningless shots. Unlike other difficult-to-understand films, the switching between shots of "Death Illusion" is very coherent. The film has always maintained the traditional sequential narrative method. There are almost no episodic paragraphs and non-sequential combination paragraphs in the film. There are no abstract and meaningless shots. But the film is still incomprehensible, and almost no one in the audience understands what story the film is telling!

To truly understand the film "Death Illusion", two things must be done: one is to understand the story's countless fragmentary small plots, and understanding here refers to the in-depth analysis of behavior, behavior, dialogue, and even expressions. ; Second, read the "Time Travel Upanishads" carefully and understand the framework and content of this book. Then compare the two before and after, and the truth hidden behind the fog of the "death illusion" will be revealed in front of you.

From the former analysis, we might as well make a comparison with the movie "Once Upon a Time in America". The theme of "Death Illusion" has 120 minutes, while "Once Upon a Time in America" ​​has 230 minutes, a gap of two hours; but "Death Illusion" has 47 paragraphs and more than 110 scenes, while "Once Upon a Time in America" ​​has only 29 paragraphs and only 86 scenes.

It is not difficult to see from this set of data that although everything in "Death Illusion" follows the rules of traditional films to narrate, the switching frequency of scenes is very high, often when the audience is watching a scene, they have not yet understood this What the scene wants to express, it has already switched to the next scene. The shortest scene in the movie is less than ten seconds long and doesn't have any lines. The high frequency of scene switching makes the rhythm of the film so fast that it is difficult for the audience to have time to think.

This is also the reason why even Gu Luobei still feels a little confused when watching the movie. From the structural analysis, it is not difficult to understand the difficulty of "Death Illusion".

Secondly, let’s analyze from the latter, that is, the content of the film itself. The book "The Mystery of Time Travel" does not exist in reality, it is completely constructed by Richard Kelly himself, and the movie is based on the theory of this book. In the movie, there are only a handful of times before and after the content of the book. Even if the specific content of the page appears on the screen, it only takes a few seconds for the audience to finish reading the content. As for the understanding time, it is Not given at all. Precisely, this book is a very esoteric kind of book, and it needs to be carefully understood after reading it, so the audience is naturally confused.

From the content analysis, the audience does not know the system of the movie story at all, and naturally cannot understand the meaning represented by the countless events. So, even after watching the movie and "understanding" every event, no one can understand what the movie is all about.

This is an obscure movie, this is a movie with high IQ, and this is a movie that if you don't have a deep understanding, even if you watch it five or six times, you will still be confused. This reminds Gu Luobei of "Mulholland Drive" that has already been released, and the movie "Inception" that Christopher Nolan filmed and released ten years later. If you want to talk about the degree of esotericity, "Death Illusion" is definitely a There is more than that.

After the movie was over, Richard Kelly and Gu Luobei, the main creators of the crew, all came to the stage to accept questions from the audience. In an instant, the audience was full of raised arms, and it seemed that everyone was full of doubts. Those who can enter the theater to watch the movie are naturally professional movie fans, and because of the relationship between the queues, the audience at the scene are all people who have sincere expectations for the "Death Illusion", so the question-and-answer session at this time is naturally very active.

The audience present were all professional movie fans. They were more concerned about the movie itself than Gu Luobei himself and his acting skills, so everyone's questions were all about the plot, the content, and even about the shooting of the lens and the camera. Using completely professional questions, as a screenwriter and director, Richard Kelly naturally shoulders the main task of answering. Only when it comes to the details of each character, Gu Luobei will have the opportunity to speak.

Christopher Nolan sat in the auditorium and did not speak for a long time, he was immersed in his own thoughts. After meeting with Gu Luobei yesterday, he left a deep impression on this young guy, and was even more curious about the "death illusion" he mentioned. So, without much hesitation, he came to line up early today.

After watching the movie, Christopher Nolan, who likes to think and explore, immediately fell into contemplation. The movie brought him more surprises than he imagined. This movie can be called a high IQ, not only can you understand it with IQ, but you also need to have enough understanding of the "Time Travel Upanishads" to really understand the movie.

When answering the audience's question, Richard Kelly mentioned it many times. He has established an official website for the film. The website not only has a new surprise for the audience, but also the complete content of the "Time Travel Upanishads". It can help you understand this movie. Christopher Nolan has secretly decided to go back and study this so-called official website carefully.

However, before understanding the film itself, Christopher Nolan became more interested in the boy standing on the stage. Others may not have reacted and focused their attention on the film, but as a director, Christopher - Nolan saw it. Gu Luobei has a very deep understanding of this script and this story system, so in the interpretation of the role, he has given full play to it. It can be said that Gu Luobei supported the whole movie by himself. Christopher Nolan could not imagine what the movie would look like if the male lead was replaced. Maybe it would be a sleepy bad movie.

Yesterday, Gu Luobei was a movie fan with a deep understanding of "Memories" and one of the film's donors; today, he has transformed into a dazzling newcomer actor on the big screen. For Christopher Nolan, the biggest gain today is not seeing the genius debut of "Memento", but discovering the genius of Gu Luobei.

Thinking of this, Christopher Nolan also raised his hand, and when Richard Kelly called his name and allowed him to ask questions, he stood up, "I want to ask Mr. Bell," the audience made a little commotion , as one of yesterday's most showy directors, Christopher Nolan among the audience at the Sundance Film Festival, the popularity has been opened. At this point, everyone began to wonder, what would happen to Christopher Nolan, who filmed "Memento", and why did he choose the male lead instead of the director to ask questions? Christopher Nolan saw Gu Luobei pick up the microphone, and then asked, "From your point of view, how should you make a summary of the direction of the story?"

The audience involuntarily started talking in a low voice. Richard Kelly has already explained this question just now. The main key is in the "Time Travel Upanishads", so why does Christopher Nolan ask this question again? And not to ask the director, but to ask the male protagonist.

At this time, Christopher Nolan added another sentence, "How do we understand this film when we haven't read the 'Time Travel Upanishads'?" Time Travel Upanishads", then it is equivalent to standing on the stand of the audience, how to understand this film? Christopher Nolan wanted Gu Luobei to explain the story on the spot, instead of using Richard Kelly's words as a foreshadowing.

Now, the audience at the scene were all excited, and they looked at Christopher Nolan with different eyes. Sure enough, he was the great director who shot "Memento". Of course, more eyes were cast to Gu Luobei!

At this time, the audience suddenly came to their senses. Although this movie is brilliant, Gu Luobei, the male lead, is even more of a hero. His performance amazes everyone, and no one even realizes that this is Gu Luobei. In Bei's first movie, everyone subconsciously took it for granted that Gu Luobei was an old actor with rich acting experience. Because Tony-Dake in the movie is so expressive and real that the audience unintentionally overlooks the biggest highlight of Gu Luobei.

Gu Luobei, who gathered everyone's attention, smiled calmly, "Actually, from the standpoint of the audience who saw this movie for the first time, it is not so difficult to understand this movie!" This sentence, The audience was suddenly silent, and everyone pricked up their ears in anticipation.

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