Chapter 1140 1140 Three Roles

Hugo has always thought that reading the script is a very interesting thing, especially after he tried to write the script himself, maybe because Lancaster was born in the classical literature major, Hugo always has more perspectives on the reading of the script. Some of my own interpretations, whether or not these are excessive interpretations, at least make reading the script a joy.

In fact, a really excellent script will not deliberately preach, nor will it take the initiative to instill its own ideas into the audience, which is too simple and rude. If the screenwriter and director can stand apart from the story and stand on the stand of a third party, explain the story objectively, and then let the audience make their own judgments and slowly aftertaste, it will make the story even more exciting. Because there is no absolutely correct truth in this world - unless it is a scientific law, everyone will have their own different views on the same thing, which is why the whole world is colorful.

A thousand spectators make a thousand Hamlets, that's the truth.

That's what Hugo was like when he created "Before Sunrise", the argument between Jesse and Selena is not to draw a conclusion, but to exchange each other's ideas, they need to accept each other's differences, but also can trigger each other's differences. Inspiration, and the audience will have their own unique views after watching the movie. That's the beauty of the movie.

The same goes for the Seven Deadly Sins. Hugo's understanding is a perspective, not necessarily correct, but a special point of view.

"So, in your opinion, this script is a tragedy, and all the ideas have been sublimated at the end." David Geffen was greatly shocked. In fact, in the process of reading the script, David had countless thoughts in his mind. Thoughts were surging, and he could feel the excitement in his blood boiling. But he needed an opportunity to sort out his thoughts and summarize the thoughts that were coming out from the bottom of his heart. Just like when he was shooting "Alien 3", he was very ambitious and thoughtful, but after shooting it, it seemed to be very different from the idea in his mind.

Therefore, when I heard Hugo's remarks just now, David's head seemed to explode, and countless ideas rushed out, not only Hugo's views, but also his own understanding, like a volcano. This feeling made David excited again.

"It's a tragedy, isn't it?" Hugo chuckled, most crime movies are tragedies, especially those involving serial killers, "It's just a matter of where you're looking at this tragedy, Mill. S? Samose? Or Anonymous?"

David Mills, young detective; William Summersey, senior detective; Anonymous, serial killer. These are the three absolute core roles of the "Seven Deadly Sins".

David raised his head, did not speak, and looked at Hugo seriously. In the past two years, the media reported on Hugo almost 360 degrees without dead ends. It can be said that Hugo is like a child with red fruit. Being judged by people. But at this moment, David really realized that maybe people can look at Hugo's appearance and Hugo's life thoroughly, but they have never really understood Hugo, and in Hugo's handsome face What kind of wisdom is hidden in the head behind Kong, and what kind of vicissitudes he has experienced, making his amber eyes look so attractive.

To be honest, before David came to dinner today, he had no interest in Hugo at all. Compared with Hugo, he likes Brad Pitt more, because he has heard about Brad's excellence from many of his friends, and Hugo's choice of each work seems to be too "commercial"—— Because you always see people bragging about how strong the Hugo is at the box office. But now, this view is going to be called a question mark.

"You tell me now that you read the script three times, and I still don't believe it. Are you sure it's only three times?" David finally relaxed his nerves and made a rare joke, "I can feel your enthusiasm for this script. , but I'm not quite sure, which role do you want to play?"

Hugo couldn't help teasing with a chuckle, "I can still choose?"

"Of course, you are Hugo Lancaster. You have this ability, don't you?" David said vaguely, but he didn't clearly say what this ability really means, is it a network ability or acting ability? "

Hugo was thinking seriously, if he really let him choose the three roles, which role would he choose to play? When they originally received the script of "Seven Deadly Sins", Rick and Joseph took it for granted that Hugo would play the leading role of David Mills. Due to the fixed impression before Hugo, the first consideration was naturally David Mills, but now it is different.

David Mills' first choice was Denzel Washington, while William Samose's first choice was Al Pacino. So what is impossible?

The film "Seven Deadly Sins" is actually based on the story. The plot and core ideas are the essence of the entire film. Relatively speaking, the three main characters have not so much room to play. But in fact, these three roles are very dangerous for the test of acting skills.

Mills is young and vigorous, unruly, impulsive, but has a desperate drive for work. At the same time, he is also very competitive, eager to prove his ability to work to others, and the idea of ​​heroism has not completely subsided. This is actually the image of a typical young man, who has just walked out of society, has many dreams and expectations, wants to show his strength, is idealistic and energetic, and believes that he can rely on his own ability to change the world.

The setting of this role is relatively simple, but when Mills's thoughts are impacted, there is still a lot of room for the changes and conflicts in his heart to evolve to the final outbreak. It can be said that this role is somewhat similar to Charlie played by Hugo in "Smell the Scent and Know a Woman", but Charlie is more student-like, and Mills is out of society.

Samosey is in sharp contrast with Mills. He has gone through countless hardships and has become flattered. He has seen too much of the dark side of this society and has learned to deal with cases smoothly - only in this way can he survive in society. When the crime of Anonymous had begun to emerge, he realized that it might be a serial crime, and his first reaction was to refuse to accept the case, because he was afraid of getting burned. Although he still had a sense of justice, it was compared to the illusory justice. , he will prioritize himself. So it shows indifference and calmness.

The space for this role to play is very limited, but many times Samose's inner struggle is very delicate, and there are very strict requirements for the actor's control. Although Samosa armed himself with indifference, he still holds hope deep down in his heart. He will not be as high-profile and arrogant as Mills, but he will achieve the remaining justice in his heart in his own way. This kind of confusion, contradiction, banter and sarcasm, which is often calm, but cannot be ignored.

The length of Anonymous is not long, and many clips about this character are glimpses, only shown in an extremely limited time and space, but left a deep impression on the audience. He is a martyr. He has accomplished punishment and redemption for God in his own way. He does not think he is at fault. Even after killing several lives, he still thinks that those people are dead and deserve no sympathy. The place. So he is calm, calm, calm, even cold-blooded.

But conversely, it can also be seen as a person who pursues perfection. The world he imagined must be perfect without a trace of flaws, so when this society, which can never be perfect, could not satisfy his ultimate desire, he chose extreme self-destruction - before self-destruction he destroys others more radically.

There is no doubt that the time that the movie leaves for this character is very short, but the space for imagination is infinitely broad. Just like Dr. Hannibal in "The Silence of the Lambs", he is elegant but evil, and his few strokes make people shudder; while the character of Anonymous perfectly reflects evil and innocence, brutality and calmness, ferocity and wisdom. There is an evil self-confidence and elegant disdain, which can almost be said to determine the existence of the ultimate ideological height of the "Seven Deadly Sins".

Hugo couldn't help but imagine that if Denzel Washington played Mills and Al Pacino played Samosa, what would it be like? Hugo suddenly discovered that maybe the settings of Mills and Samosser will deviate to a certain extent, because their performance styles are different from Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman.

Brad's version of Mills can only be said to have performed well, and the few scenes that broke out in the later period are OK, but overall it is slightly conservative and can only be said to be quite satisfactory. It can be seen from this that Brad at this stage knows how to express his acting skills, but he does not know how to control it, so he can have a very wonderful performance when dealing with roles similar to "Twelve Monkeys", but "Seven Deadly Sins" In this way, the role that needs to show an inner transformation is a bit difficult.

Morgan's version of Samoyed, on the other hand, is wonderful. His delicate and deep temperament gives the character more depth and can be said to have done the task well. But objectively speaking, it is not a big breakthrough compared to "The Shawshank Redemption", but this is Morgan's performance style.

Undoubtedly, Kevin Spacey's version of Anonymous is the biggest highlight of the film, weird and evil, calm but crazy, almost making the audience shudder at the gesture. However, Kevin's control in this role performance is still a little bit worse, not as good as his perfect presentation in "The Usual Suspects", which also makes this role comparable to Dr. Hannibal a sigh of relief after all.

If Hugo had the initiative to choose, what would his decision be?

"Anonymous." Just thinking that he might play this role, and just uttering the name, Hugo had already begun to tremble uncontrollably, and the fast-paced blood in his body made his eyes shine brightly.