Chapter 791 Nonsense
Anson didn’t know that in just one meeting, Kate’s thoughts had gone through thousands of miles; but Anson could feel Kate’s sincerity and concentration.
After the little joke, Anson did not continue to talk in circles, "This is our third meeting."
To be precise, Joel and Clementine's third time meet.
Not the first time, not the second time, but the third time.
Kate did not hide her surprise, "What?"
After a pause, Kate repeated, "What?"
"Wait, didn't they just reunite in the whole movie? Once?"
Anson shook his head, "Beachside villa, remember?"
Kate was stunned.
When "Memento" came out, one of the reasons why Charlie Kaufman tried to withdraw from the "Warm and Bright" project was that both films focused on memory; another reason was that the narrative language of both films was different. It is to disrupt the chronological order and rearrange and combine them with movie shots.
Actually, Charlie Kaufman and Christopher Nolan didn’t know each other at all, and they had never heard of each other’s script ideas, but Charlie was still worried about overlapping themes.
Of course, no, "Memory" and "Nuan Nuan Inner Light" are two completely different movies.
In the script "Warm and Embedded Light", Charlie Kaufman completely disrupted the order and used it throughout to show the chaos and disorder of memory and the re-hiding of memory in the process of disappearance. Memories deep in the brain.
To be precise, Joel and Clementine "met" three times in total, and fell in love with each other every time they met.
The first time we met was on vacation at the beach.
The two people met by chance on the beach, started a conversation and started an adventure. The two went to an abandoned villa next to the beach for adventure, but Joel was deterred.
He did not dare to leave his comfort zone, stopped in front of Clementine's slightly crazy adventure, turned around and fled in embarrassment.
That was just a short afternoon.
The second time they met, neither of them remembered the previous encounter at all, but they were still attracted to each other and fell in love, and this time they truly established a relationship.
Until the passion subsided, they fell into quarrels and alienation again and again. Finally, Clementine decided to go to the clinic to eliminate the memory of Joel.
After learning the truth, Joel also chose to go to the clinic to erase the memory of Clementine in anger.
The third encounter was after the two people had erased their memories. They unexpectedly reunited on the train from Long Island to New York, and then fell in love with each other again.
It is similar to "50 First Dates" that Anson rejected. Both movies tell the story of two people who deeply love each other again after the "memory" malfunctions or is actively or passively erased. Meeting and falling in love again, the core of the content is the belief in the inevitability of fateful love.
Twenty years later, such romantic love movies have almost disappeared, because love has long ceased to be a belief, and the development of the times has completely changed people’s perceptions and attitudes towards love; but now, this kind of The hopelessly romantic movie is still a beautiful sight on the big screen.
The sight returns to the "warm inner light".
In the movie, the narrative time sequence is completely disrupted, and the story constantly jumps between time and space, jumping back and forth based on the third encounter and the current timeline, and going back to the third episode by interspersing memory fragments. Life after the second encounter is as dazzling as a kaleidoscope.
After the movie was released, many viewers exclaimed that it was "brain-burning". If they had not paid attention throughout the whole process, they might have been confused.
This is true even for viewers who have watched the full version of the movie, let alone Kate who has not read the full script?
Kate looked at Anson with suspicion.
"You mean, they met once, but nothing happened because of Joel's hesitation. As a result, when the two met again, Clementine still fell in love with Joel; and, this was not enough, the third time they met, Two people still fall in love? ""What the hell."
"What is the charm of this Joel that can make Clementine fall in love with him again and again?"
“I understand that Joel has fallen in love with Clementine again and again. Her freedom, her craziness, and her romance are all that people can’t help but yearn for, but what about Joel?”
"This is unreasonable."
In one fell swoop, Kate grasped the core -
At the same time, it is also what "Nuan Nuan Contains Light" is trying to explore, a kind of fatalistic love.
To be precise, this is reasonable. Countless love stories are all a kind of fateful pull. Those partings and pains finally guide two people together. This is undoubtedly powerful.
But a truly excellent love movie does not just rely on the word "fate" to bind two characters together, but conveys the soul-level resonance and bond outside of fate, "Dangha" "Lee Met Sally", "Sleepless in Seattle", "The Notebook" and so on are all like this -
They are destined to fall in love with each other, but not just because of fate, more It is a resonance from the soul.
This is precisely the missing part in the script of "Nuan Nuan Contains Light". After the shock, impact, and emotion, there is a little less aftertaste.
Don’t underestimate this aftertaste. It is often the reason why audiences are willing to reminisce, chew, and return to the cinema. It is also the key to becoming a classic after time and polish,
Anson thought , if you rely on the script to change this, it will probably be difficult, because Charlie's script already carries too much and can't be crammed in. If you continue to force things in, you will only bite off more than you can chew, and ultimately make the movie look bloated; However, actors can make up for it with their performances.
Now it seems that Anson and Kate have the same ideas.
Anson did not hesitate and immediately said, "This is the job of an actor, to tap out the charm of the character and become a spark of sympathy for each other."
There was some hesitation in Kate's eyes, and she looked Anson up and down, "You're not talking nonsense, are you?"
Anson didn't rush to deny it, spreading his hands, "This is a possibility."
< br>So calm and sincere, Kate hesitated for a moment, "So, what do you think is the reason?"
Indeed, in the story of "Warmth and Light Within", this is not easy.
The original intention of Charlie Kaufman's creation was to set up two completely different characters, but they fatefully fell in love with each other again and again, so the angular roles of Joel and Clementine were completely different. , even opposite to each other.
What's really clever about the script is that it avoids an important point: how is the action of love accomplished during the first encounter?
Love at first sight?
The movie is blurry.
For the second encounter, the script did not mention how the two people fell in love at all; for the third encounter, the movie used the fateful encounter of "deja vu" to allow the two people to meet. As the story progresses, this kind of The concept of fate naturally makes sense.
However, the basis of fatalism, that is, falling in love for the first time, is not clearly shown in the movie.
Therefore, Anson believes that actors should fill these gaps.
It just so happens that Anson needs to work with the opposite actors to complete this matter. Or, looking at it from another perspective, the collision process of the discussions between Anson and Kate is the process of chemical reaction between Joel and Clementine.
(End of this chapter)