Roger has always favored independent films, not because of the many excellent independent films. In fact, it is just the opposite. In fact, independent films are still not mature, so the number of excellent works is not as many as expected. However, after nearly a century of precipitation, Hollywood has been monopolized by eight major film companies and the film has fallen into a commercial routine that lacks novelty, but the quality and completion of the film are indeed second to none.

However, Roger believes that even if the quality of independent films is not outstanding, its existence is a reminder to Hollywood: after the commercial significance of the film is separated, the film itself, as an artistic form of expression, still needs continuous innovation and continuous development to maintain sustained vitality.

In Roger's opinion, it is not that Hollywood is too commercial, but that Hollywood has become accustomed to routines and is tired of innovation, thinking that the old model can succeed, and becomes lazy. However, independent films can continue to maintain the vitality of creation, which is of great help to the development of the entire film.

Roger has always supported Robert Redford's move to create the Sundance Film Festival because he knew that sooner or later, Hollywood would thank Sundance and they would need Sundance. Just as the "male and female thief" announced the opportunity for the surging wave of new Hollywood movies.

"Male and Female Thieves" appeared in the 1960s. At that time, American society was noisy and uneasy, and domestic anti-war sentiment was rising. Race minorities, as important political forces, rose strongly on the American social stage. Faced with internal and external troubles, the fierce social turmoil caused radical young people to confront the tradition, doubts about the existing system and living conditions, and resisting mainstream myths became the goal of their movement. Hippies evolved from the Beat generation, and rock music evolved from jazz. Correspondingly, when the golden age of Hollywood had become a thing of the past, a group of young directors began a new attempt.

This group of directors tried to reflect the concepts and lifestyles of the younger generation that conflicted with the old concept of life through movies, explore social and political issues, and had a strong "counter-cultural" color. They inherited the traditional Hollywood star system and industrialized production methods, and made bold and novel attempts within the system, giving the film more realistic content, and developing various film-type expression methods in it. This historic moment is called "New Hollywood Movie", dragging the already dead Hollywood out of the mud, realizing the comprehensive alternation of two generations of filmmakers, once again filling it with new light.

The creation of New Hollywood is reflected in the walking system to seek itself. It is attached to the system, but it is a new wine in old bottles, which leads to a completely opposite ending. The "male and female thief" borrows the traditional robber film model, but changes the original model, breaks the case, and repeatedly chases, and the three-part plot of the finale, resulting in a new text targeted to the original model.

The film replaces the moral hero positioning of traditional robber films with two anti-moral characters Bonnie and Clyde. Through a long and gentle, daily life-oriented narrative, the characters' dialogue, behavior details, survival and psychological state, revealing deep sympathy for these two characters, and blaming the cause of the crime on the neglect and harm of young people by society and family.

The baptism of gunfire and bullets that were repeatedly praised by film history at the end of the movie sublimated this tragedy. It reveals the fact that the government, courts and police slaughtered two living lives by the government, courts and police. Clyde repeatedly appears in several passages of the film with the image of "sexuality and incompetence". He does not kill innocent people like the bandits in traditional robbers, does not have a cruel and cold expression, but only his weakness in front of Bonnie.

In the story, the Great Depression of the society brought about economic poverty. The 1960s when filming the movie was faced with spiritual troubles. Clyde's image implies the sexuality and incompetence of society. This also resisted the lack of reflection and critical maintenance of ideology by traditional robber films. The calm examination behind it is full of reflection on society.

Therefore, the "male and female thief" have a very special position in film history, which divides the two eras of Hollywood. Many Hollywood practitioners in the old era were eliminated because they were unable to keep up with the pace of social change. After entering the new era, the entire Hollywood was reshuffled. This is the case in front of the stage and behind the scenes.

Ernst Lehman was one of the eliminated members of the old era.

In fact, many actors are out of touch with society after entering the new Hollywood era. Although many actors continue their career peaks in the new Hollywood era, within the entire Hollywood industry, everyone agrees that there is only one superstar across the new and old Hollywood era, that is Malone Brando, which is also an important reason why he always has a special status in film history.

After entering the 1990s, Hollywood entered its second golden age, even surpassing its first peak period from the 1920s to 1940s. Because countless classic works were born in the 1990s, North American movie box office also entered a period of rapid development, thus giving birth to a group of truly box office superstars. The fusion of commercial elements and artistic elements became the main theme of Hollywood during this period.

But Roger clearly knows that prosperity will lead to decline, which is a normal law of natural development. Although the whole Hollywood looks rich now, Hollywood works have once again fallen into a vicious cycle of routine patterning and vicious circles, from ten years to five years, Hollywood will surely face another change.

Therefore, Roger has always believed that the Sundance Film Festival is accumulating strength for the next change, and perhaps the next "Male and Female Thieves" will appear here.

"Pulp novels" are the first signal, not only the rise of independent films, but also the signal that Hollywood needs fresh air. In Roger's view, the reason why Hollywood is so popular with "Pulp novels" is that the quality of the movie itself is absolutely excellent is another reason because the audience has already developed their desire for change deep in their hearts.

"Pulp novels" not only break the traditional concept in the narrative structure, but also redefine the relationship between lines and plot advancement, allowing people to feel the unique shooting methods of gangster movies and action movies. Most importantly, this movie made Hollywood notice: the ratio between investment costs and profits can break the framework, and the production model of the movie also provides Hollywood with a brand new choice.

Against this background, "before sunrise" appears in front of Roger. This is also the reason why Roger highly praised this movie, because Roger noticed the uniqueness of "before sunrise".

On the surface, "Before Sunrise" is a completely boring literary film; but in fact, the two innovative points of "Before Sunrise" are eye-catching: the first is the narrative method, and the movie composed of lines throughout allows everyone to re-understand the obvious differences in line skills; the second is the depth of the line. The seemingly ordinary dialogue is worth chewing on and savoring the connotation of the lines carefully. More importantly, it advances layer by layer, gradually progresses, and inadvertently completing the theme promotion and core ideas sublimation, which makes people applaud.

Or in other words, there is only one innovation point, that is the lines.

As an important element of script construction, lines have actually been gradually forgotten by Hollywood over the years because Hollywood encourages structural innovation more. At this point, "before sunrise" and "life and death speed" are two extreme cases.

The lines in "Speed ​​of Life and Death" can be said to have no plot driving force. They are basically buffer zones used to slow down the rhythm and nonsense to fill the gap in time. The whole story is completely driven by the ups and downs of the storyline. This is a model of Hollywood movies after the 1990s: vision, vision, vision, everything is related to vision. Create ** through vision, create highlights through vision, and create atmosphere through vision.

But the innovation of "Speed ​​of Life and Death" is that it shows people the retro effect of visual blockbusters like "Terminator 2", presenting the visual effects of the movie in the lowest cost and easiest way, thereby arousing the enthusiasm of the audience.

"Before Sunrise" is the opposite. The plot has no driving force. The lines are the core of the movie. Using lines to promote the plot, using lines to control the rhythm, using lines to sublimate thoughts, and using lines to complete communication, this almost pushes Woody Allen's "talk-box movie" to a new peak.

People always think that Woody's movies are the most typical chatterbox movies, and "Anne Hall" is the typical one. The whole story is filled with countless monologues, narrations and dialogues. But in fact, the dialogue in Woody's movie is just an auxiliary. He has a plot line, and then uses dialogue to explain this idea and promote this core.

But "before sunrise" is more bold than Woody. It uses lines to construct the entire movie without even the main line. This is more extraordinary and braver than "pulp novels", but it is a pattern that is almost impossible to replicate. The reason lies in the vitality of lines.

Almost every line in "Before Sunrise" seems nonsense, but every sentence is also meaningful. You can copy almost any paragraph in the movie and then carefully savor and study it. The outlook on life, world, and values ​​contained in it are all over the corners of life. The seemingly random lines are carefully arranged, but the audience cannot notice it.

Such a profound foundation fully reflects the excellence and ability of the screenwriter, and at the same time, the screenwriter's profound literary heritage and life experience can also be seen. This is the biggest highlight of "before sunrise". It can be said that the depth of the script is enough to become a textbook template for professional screenwriters' academy.

Therefore, in Roger's view, "before sunrise" appeared after "pulp novels". Both are chatterbox movies, but they explain the importance of lines to people in an unused way. This is an important supplement and promotion to the current Hollywood script model that puts innovation first, and it will also allow people to re-understand the importance of screenwriter position again.
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