Chapter 106 like hitchcock

When a director is praised as "like Hitchcock", it may not mean that his film achievements have been recognized, or it may just tease him for a habit of being like Hitchcock—in his own Cameo a small role. Hitchcock will always play a passerby who has no lines in his movies.He's either posting letters by the mailbox, or walking past the heroine (always a blonde) in a black coat, or getting on the train with a cello, or the deadpan one who's the last in the elevator. Passengers, or just a silhouette in the dark.He said he did it on purpose, just to remind the audience that this is just a movie.But he may also want to mark his own works, like a painter leaving an unknown signature in his paintings, like a craftsman of the Terracotta Warriors and Horses, leaving a signature on the puppets buried in the ground. own mark.In the boundless world, it is not enough to just leave immortal works, but also to leave a mark, and use this mark to tie the work before it leaves itself.Therefore, when later generations watch Hitchcock's movies, they have one more fun, which is to look for the man with the big belly who appears as a passerby in the movie.He always walks alone, with occasional companions, and is nothing more than a pet dog.

The filmmakers of later generations have learned to look for a little fun in this kind of cameo, and those directors who call themselves his students will never miss this iconic behavior.The most famous is Nat Shyamalan, in his "The Sixth Sense", he is the psychiatrist; in "Omen", he is the neighbor who runs away to the water with a sullen face; In "Demon", his guest role as a writer not only has a lot of roles, but also is almost the most important character in the whole story; while in "Spiritual Village", the reason why he did not appear is because of the time and geographical background of the film. , according to the 1900 U.S. population data, the story happened in 1897, there were 2,050 Indians living in the United States, but none of them lived in rural Pennsylvania.

Cameos in the film are not limited to Hitchcock's disciples, nor are they limited to his own creations.As a filmmaker, making a small appearance in your own or a friend's movie adds a lot of fun to the movie.Quentin Tarantino always cameos in his movies as a bad guy who dies badly, while Lau Chun Wai has appeared in "The Gambler", "A Chinese Journey to the West" and "Unparalleled World"; Xu Anhua in "Golden Branches and Jade Leaves 2" She played the role of a flight attendant in "I Want to Be Famous" released earlier; she played a director in "I want to become famous"; Ang Lee played a guest at a wedding banquet in "I want to become famous" and said the most famous line in the whole film: "You see It is the result of 5,000 years of sexual repression." Some cameos were even very successful, Tsui Hark played the gangster boss in "The Last Victory", for which he was nominated for Best Supporting Actor in the Hong Kong Film Awards.

Our director also learned.Jia Zhangke's films are full of interesting points of this kind.The poet Xi Chuan played the role of the head of the art troupe in "Platform", and in "The Good Man in Three Gorges", someone showed a picture of the mysterious behind-the-scenes big boss-she contracted the big project to demolish the entire county!And the beauty in the photo is the poet Zhai Yongming.