"One more big vote!"
On November 27th, Martin Scorsese took him to polish for nearly ten years The gangster film "The Irishman" was officially launched on Netflix and announced, "Today, you are all covered by me."
Just the day before, "Times" announced the list of the top ten movies of 2019 , "The Irishman" ranked second. In the character posters released by Netflix, director Martin Scorsese, starring Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Joe Pesci, and the five “old guns” of Harvey Keitel who participated in friendly roles "Sitting together, there is a majesty in the old-school elegance, as if waiting for everyone to worship.
From it, you can perceive what kind of movie "The Irishman" will be.
Unsurprisingly, "The Irishman" is fully filmed, with realistic shots, icy scenes, ugly betrayal hidden in the tenderness, and iron morality covered in blood. The whole process of watching the movie made people dare not look directly but kept their eyes intently, leaving a trace of melancholy in the end.
This is also the biggest difference between the first two works of "The Irishman" and Martin "The Gangster Trilogy". In addition to the volume of the story spanning the centuries, the subtle and complex relationship between the characters, and the extremely neat and exquisite artistic expression, "The Irishman" is more like Martin's time for the "gangster era" 真告别. Just as Clint Eastwood used "Unforgivable" to pay tribute to Western films, he also put an end to his "Western Journey".
In addition, the 210-minute duration of "The Irishman" has raised its threshold for viewing movies by several levels. However, because of its longness, this "new bottle" can hold the "old wine", and can make this melancholy gangster epic, and make people pilgrimage to its glory after crossing the mountains.
Thanks to Netflix for allowing viewers to watch and taste this movie repeatedly on streaming media. Of course, you can even more like Martin said, "It would be better to spend an evening or an afternoon, when you can't answer the phone, and you're not busy to watch."
1. Give him another vote
In Douban's score, the work with the highest score and the most commented on Martin in the past two decades is "Closed Island"; on IMDb, "The Wolf of Wall Street" and "Infernal Affairs" tied for the audience favorite. The audience is always full of enthusiasm for works that have full entertainment elements and are closer to commercial films.
But Martin scoffed at these, just as he said when he explained to the world what is cinema. This attitude of refusing to compromise with mainstream aesthetics has accompanied Martin through more than half a century of artistic career.
50 years ago, Martin was still a stunned boy who just came out of college. This top student who graduated from the Film Department of New York University was baptized by new ideas such as Italian neorealism, French New Wave, and Japanese new cinema. Therefore, he also arrogantly wanted to shoot his own style.
However, his self-confidence has been hit hard by his self-confidence, who has come back unfailingly in his early works such as "Who is Knocking on My Door" and "Shaving". In desperation, Martin had no choice but to ask for everything he wanted to film "Cold-Blooded Thunderbolt" and "Once Upon A Time". In contrast, go out with himThe Taoist newcomers have already achieved fame by this time:
Francis Coppola attracted attention with "General Patton" and left his name with the "Godfather" series in history; Steven Si With "Jaws", Pierberg broke the box office record of film history in one fell swoop, and became the new favorite of major commercial films; George Lucas created the "Star Wars" series, which became the vane of American films moving towards the era of special effects.
Remember that in the movie "Old Paoer", the reason why Liu Ye dare to challenge the young rich second-generation generation depends on one It is the morality in the heart, and the other is the brothers who have shared his sufferings for many years. Fortunately, Martin also has such a group of old buddies who can understand and accompany him.
Robert De Niro, Martin’s most famous soulmate. Under the introduction of a mutual friend, director Palma, the two young people under 30 years of age "tied together" and used "Poor Streets" to win the world.
In the film, the background of the story is set in the violent New York "Little Italy", that is Martin and De Niro A place to grow together. De Niro’s gangster image in the film set the shape for his future performances, and Martin let go of his hands and feet for the first time, using chaotic times, dirty environments, and savage youth to establish the "Ma Shi" gangster film. keynote.
So far, De Niro's cooperation with Martin has almost never missed. "Taxi Driver", "The King of Comedy", "Angry Bull", etc., are all masterpieces in film history. An interesting anecdote is that, compared to director Martin, De Niro seems to have a better choice of scripts. He can always find treasures by chance, and then find Martin to discuss the feasibility of the next step.
"Angry Bull" is true, "Comedy King" is true, this time "The Irishman" is also true.
Joe Percy, another member of the "Ma's Iron Triangle". Due to his short stature, Percy's early acting career was very bumpy, and he finally got a role in the 1976 "Dead Collector". As a result, the movie's bleak box office once again made him despair of his stardom.
It’s hard to imagine that this now full-fledged boss played one of the stupid thieves in "Home Alone". How it feels. In the later "Good Guy", the sentence " do you think I am funny? " is not only a highlight of Persie's career, but also a portrayal of him in reality.
With the help of Martin and De Niro, Persie has plenty of room to play in "Angry Bull". Among the "Top Ten Acting Moments in Film History" selected by YouTube, the first place was the stage where De Niro and Persie fought each other in the film, which made the film and himself even more legendary.
Al Pacino, the famous "gangster" professional household. Unexpectedly, "The Irishman" was actually his first collaboration with Martin. Perhaps it was because Pacino was really young, and established his position early with gangster movies such as the "Godfather" series and "Scarface", while Martin at that time was still struggling with his personal style.
However, Pacino was one of the few people who appreciated Martin's talent in the early days. Although the two had never cooperated before, they had already known each other and admired each other.
For "The Irishman", Martin had already finalized the actor of the union chairman Jimmy Hoffa when the project was established-only Al Pacino. In "The Godfather 2", Pacino exquisitely interprets a calm and introverted Michael Corleone. In addition to being an authentic gangster, Martin is more interested in Pacino's grumpiness and surly in "Scent of a Woman" and "The Wire of Fire", which has too many similarities with Jimmy Hoffa.
Someone once compared De Niro and Percy to Martin’s "crouching dragon and phoenix", and one person can win the world. Today, Martin relies on "The Irishman" to collect "Tuka Tiger". How could it be unstable this time?
We can even clearly imagine how Martin declared war on commercial films and initiated an assembly order at this moment when he is not friendly to art films: " Brothers, let us do more votes Big! "
"Let them see, we are still alive! "
2, go back to the river
The meaning of "The Irishman" to Martin is special, and the impact on the aesthetics of the 2019 film is undoubtedly huge. As a product of "directing art", "The Irishman" in addition to "recreating the gangster epic" and "two generations of'godfathers' gathered together" and other gimmicks, is also full of Martin's examination and emotion of his past. This makes the film's temperament more distinctive .
First of all, "The Irishman" has a Martin-style "outside play".
The film is based on Charles Brandt’s semi-autobiographical gangster novel "I heard you cleaned the house" created in 2003. The protagonist Frank Shelan is not only a person in history, but also The famous "painter" in the Mafia.
What is a "painter"? It refers to the blood splattered over the wall during the assassin's murder, as if repainting the house. From this explanation, we can know that "The Irishman" is indispensable to all kinds of blood and killing.
Robert De Niro plays Frank in the film, a veteran who participated in World War II and his duty is to secretly handle prisoners of war . The film does not shy away from showing Frank's ruthlessness at work. "It's really unbelievable. I never understood how they kept digging... their own graves. Maybe they thought that as long as they did things obediently, people with guns would not kill them."
The film is interspersed with narratives in three timelines, showing the career trajectory of the Irish killer from different stages of Frank's life. After accidentally getting to know the gangster Russell Buffalino (Joe Persie), Frank found the pleasure of killing in the past and became the most efficient and calm killer in the gang, nicknamed "The Irishman."
As a professional killer, the assassination scene is naturally a topic that cannot be avoided. Especially in Martin's lens, every shot of the "Irish" is so uncomfortable. In addition to the bloody scenes, Martin's description of "cold blood" is full of weight:
Frank also had the same assassination target one second agoSaid hello peacefully, and then immediately took a shot. Kill one person in ten steps, without staying for a thousand miles, only the face of the deceased being pierced by bullets and the horrified eyes are the eternal fixation.
In the half-century of the "Irish" gangsters, Martin has not forgotten to compare the story with the great American society at that time. Events are combined. From the "Barbershop Shots" that shocked the United States, to the "Bay of Pigs Incident" that made the United States faceless, to the well-known "Kennedy Assassination" and Nixon's "Watergate Incident", "The Irishman" was turbulent to the United States at the time. The meticulous presentation of the uneasy social situation has made the gangsters who are behind the scenes legendary in the film.
However, "The Irishman" is also "introverted".
The film will not let famous historical figures such as Kennedy and Nixon come to the stage for joking, but will use a lot of news materials and dialogue to explain it. This not only can give the audience a sense of life-like reality, but also through various events, it can portray the panic of ordinary people, the secretiveness of gangsters, the raising of the flag and the lowering of the flag and other details, which invisibly expands the film pattern.
Even if it is describing one of the founders of the Mafia, Anastasia was assassinated in a barbershop. At that time, the film only focused on a bunch of flowers outside the barber shop, restored the tragic scene through gunshots and screams, and incidentally satirized the seemingly beautiful and splendid social appearance, but it was full of violence and panic.
There is also an interesting detail in the film: Since the first attack, Frank will throw the murder weapon into a river. With the increase in the number of killings, the film did not repeat the whole assault, but only recorded every scene of Frank's "throwing a gun", which is even more chilling.
The bottom of the river buried by firearms
Martin explained in the interview, "When the killing happened, we Did not make any spectacular angles or movements. The camera moved as he approached a person, maybe he killed someone, maybe moved back. Sometimes the camera just stood still, sometimes even extended to the car. All the cars, we show A perfect silhouette. Shooting in a capable, simple and methodical way.”
In addition to the “convergence” in the narrative technique, Martin’s shaping of the characters in the film is also “anti-type convention”. of. For example, when introducing Russell's characters, the audience can see an old man with a kind face and a gentle tone directing his buddies to be busy, but he clearly said "kill him".
And when Frank, on behalf of the Mafia, gave his long-time friend Jimmy Hoffa an ultimatum, his eyes were full of Reluctance, sympathy and pity. He hoped that his friend could turn his head back, but Frank didn't say a word of digression except for a "please".
Until the end, the old Frank will also learn from Russell to enter the church to confess, and find his own daughter, trying to explain why he went astray. In Frank's eyes, those days when blood was licked on the tip of a knife belonged to his golden age. And now, he can only choose his grave in the cemetery tremblingly.
Seeing him get up from the Zhu Building, seeing him entertaining guests, seeing his building collapsed.
Watch the rise and fall of fifty years.
30 minutes after the film, there is no more bloody scene like the first three hours. Generations of heroes have passed away, and the film only gave a few statements stingy. But it is these dialogues that make the end of "The Irishman" called "2019 the saddest movie ending ".
"Do you know Jimmy Hoffa?" Frank asked his nurse.
"I don't know, I have never heard of it."
"You don't know Jimmy Hoffa, he is the Elvis of our time."
There are two kinds of deaths, one is clinical death, the other is forgotten by the world. At this moment, Frank is like a microcosm of Martin's "underworld" career, welcoming the end in loneliness and wandering.
And in the last shot of the film, Frank asked the priest to leave a gap before going out, as if it was Martin's last souvenir of his golden age.
" don't close the door, let me see you more, one last glance ."
a7d4da#After all, Martin is 77 years old.
"The Irishman" is not only the 26th film in his long director career, but also his most difficult to give birth. In the past ten years from the establishment of the project to the present, Martin has encountered various budget overruns and funding breakage problems, so that this film originally scheduled to be released last year even missed a number of authoritative events in the industry. Instead, it is the opening film , Has achieved the grand occasion of this year's New York Film Festival.
At the beginning of the project, "The Irishman"'s budget of 125 million made Paramount, who has a close relationship with Martin, frowned. After taking over the movie, Netflix generously gave us $160 million in investment, and even the final total cost reached 200 million, and Netflix also strongly supported it.
Thanks to this, the audience can appreciate the 80-year-old, 40-year-old, or even 20-year-old veteran through the "ageing technology" given by Industrial Light & Magic (the "Irish" special effects company) A vivid face at age. "I think my career is expected to be extended by another 30 years." De Niro said when he saw the demo of the film.
c5a5a#4d0a#04a1 In addition to financial and technical issues, Martin also talked about the reasons for choosing Netflix, "I have gained some benefits from the Netflix platform. If I feel that I can add some content to the film, no one here will interrupt and say,'This part Cut 15 minutes." This is my life..."
In addition, just like last year’s award-winning movie "Rome" chose Netflix, the "Irishman" will undoubtedly be too long. This has brought difficulties to its distribution in traditional theaters. Martin said, "This has always been a thorny issue and a war. But we are still thinking, if we take a risk, what will happen? "
In the year of movie controversy in 2019, the appearance of "The Irishman" undoubtedly has a summary meaning. The dispute between streaming media and traditional theaters no longer exists here.With streaming media, this epic gangster movie does not yet know when it will be difficult to give birth.
And what is the movie art that Martin has always emphasized? After writing a response to the Marvel movie controversy, Martin renamed the film art with the image charm of "The Irishman", " movie is about the truth-aesthetic, emotional and spiritual truth ; It is about people-the complexity of people and their contradiction ".
Sure enough, Martin Scorsese is still the most emotionally stubborn old man in the movie world, and only he can use an exciting work to end the "gangster era".
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