ep01
1. 1985-1918 The World Discovers A New Artform
1)Lumiere lumined/illuminated the world. 现实向
2)梅里爱,找到了电影的另一极。【泪目
2. 1903- 1918 Thrill Becomes Story
1)剪辑与story telling
2)摄影机找到自由后,电影挣脱了剧场的阴影,演员被推到了最令人瞩目的地方——Stardom。
1910,Florence Lawrence, the very first movie star. 炒作,成名,悲剧,she set the pattern of stardom.
Hollywood upgraded the stardom, using luxurious costumes.
3)法外之地Hollywood
4)镜头语言的发展:交代人物,空间的关系
5)Hollywood was built by WOMEN, IMMIGRANTS and JEWS, people who were not accepted in any other professionals at that time.
Half of the films before 1929 were written by women.
When talking film era came, the price of making film skyrocketed. Wall Street came into the business. Money created more jobs. Film was considered as a real business. Men wanted the job now. (Cari Beauchamp
6) D. W. Griffith: film needs to show wind in the trees. (a step to blur the real world and the imaginary world【how beautifully written here.
一个国家的诞生(power of film, to infulence the real world);党同伐异(meanings behind the screen)
Griffith's gate. 【我并没有真的去过Hollywood Blvd。。。
ep02 1918-1928 The Triumph of American Film And the First of its Rebels
核心是讲好莱坞的崛起和现实主义电影对摄影棚电影的反叛
【真的很喜欢看导演之间的纵向联系=v=,得看多少电影才能架得起这么一个影像宇宙
说到好莱坞它的厉害之处(studio system在全球的繁殖也是资本主义production line的缩影),也不得不提它的短处。片子里提到了部分导演没有“最后剪辑权”的问题。【值得思考
卓别林《城市之光》《大独裁者》
德莱叶《圣女贞德蒙难记》极简 --- 拉疯
ep03 1918-1932 The Great Rebel Filmmakers Around the World
反好莱坞entertainment romantic cinema(soft lighting, shallow focus, makeup, dream-like)
第一波:德莱叶(现实主义)
第二波:刘别谦(film comedy)
第三波:法国 阿贝尔·冈斯impressionist influence
第四波:德国 罗伯特·维恩《卡里加里博士的小屋》 expressionist influence表现主义 德国刚刚输了第一次世界大战
《日出》
《大都会》
第五波:德法 知识分子新欢 达达,布努埃尔《一条安达鲁狗》
第六波:俄罗斯 爱森斯坦
第七波:日本
酒鬼小津:小津的镜头秘密,他的停顿
沟口健二
第八波:中国上海 左翼电影 现实主义
(所以这一章基本上在讲现实主义电影对好莱坞浪漫主义电影的矫正,为啥我还是觉得这么好莱坞中心呢= ,=)
(以及,看到阮玲玉被给予这么高的评价,还是很感动的)
ep04 The 1930s: The Great American Movie Genres & the Brilliance of European Film
Late 1920s, the great depression was drawing near. Silent pic is taking off, the talking era came.
6 genres set up: 【和有声片的推广关系好大
1) Horror: Rooted in German films.
2) Gangster: American origin, born with the background of American Prohibition Era (1920-1933).
moral debate: indulging in the charming stars from gangster pics.
Scarface (1932), turning gangster film to Greek tragedy. "the world is yours"
influence: Japan, 7 samurai; once upon a time, the best gangster film;
3) musical
4) western: ever since the first decade of the cinema, set between 1860 and 1900
iconic features extract from Iron Horse: landscape, camera moving fast, chasing scene, the coming of modernity (theme), white settlers vs. indigenous Indians.
(mob films are about law breakers in a cynical age, while western films are about law makers in an ideological age; city is sinking vs. order has just been set up)
5) comedy
became femininized; speed of female characeters' dialogue; feeble man vs. brassy dame
Howard Hawks, shaped the popular movie genres
6) cartoon
came ever since 1906; Walt Disney, 1937, worldwide box office hit, snow whitle and 7 dwarfs, first motion capture film.
French cinema