Chapter 1155 Dusk and Green (531)
Chapter 1155 Dull Yellow and Green (5.31)
[Additional content: I saw a new entry point when I was browsing a certain forum today. It said that "Daytime Rain" used the color tone of everyday life to shoot a horror movie. I thought about it and felt that it was not true, but I was too lazy to write a new long review, so I just put it in this one. Friends who are not interested can skip it freely↓]
Speaking of color tone, "Daytime Rain" has three major directions of color tone in my opinion: everyday natural light, soft light commonly seen in nostalgia, and "horror movie lighting" exclusive to Mossen.
The first two are common in film and television works on the market, and I believe everyone is very familiar with them. Here I will pick up some interesting places that I personally think of and talk about them.
The part where Tian Gang and Mossen were eating in the restaurant, the colors and auras of the two were opposite.
Logically speaking, Tian Gang was wearing a bright color (I forgot whether it was a green jacket or a cyan jacket). Such colors are more conspicuous and prominent in a small street shop, and will guide the audience's attention to Tian Gang.
Mossen is wearing dark colors. His black (or gray) plaid shirt is the most common style. He looks inconspicuous. If it weren't for his lighter hair and his frighteningly white skin, Mossen would be visually gray, which is in line with his social loser temperament.
In other common works, people wearing bright-colored clothes are 80% likely to be the protagonist. This is easy to understand. More attention = occupying the dominant position = more and more important roles = protagonist. The general logic is roughly like this. Especially in scenes with multiple people, many costume stylists will adopt the contrast method of the protagonist wearing bright colors and the others wearing relatively plain colors, implicitly suggesting to the audience "this is the protagonist, pay more attention to him/her".
"Daytime Rain" uses the color difference of the costumes (and the acting skills of the actors, haha) to outline a picture of a conversation between two people who "look like the protagonist" and "are actually the protagonist".
Many movies and dramas now like to have "double male protagonists". According to this idea, aren't Tian Gang and Mossen a kind of double male protagonist?
Don't tell me, using this term, it seems that "Daytime Rain" has become fashionable all of a sudden.
Okay, let's not talk about it. In short, Tian Gang, who is more visually distinct here, is repeatedly choked by what Mo Sen said. He can only pick up the cup and drink awkwardly, and look around, trying to hide his embarrassment. On the contrary, the loser Mo Sen, because of his heavy gloomy aura, overwhelms the weak and cowardly good guy Tian Gang in momentum, forming a subtle dramatic conflict.
This is a relatively good literary drama in "Daytime Rain". Actor He Chang interprets Tian Gang's embarrassed "degree" very appropriately. As for Qin Jue's acting skills, it would be too presumptuous for me, an amateur movie lover who occasionally writes scripts, to talk about it, so I'm lazy and won't mention it here (laughs).
Let's talk about Mo Sen's exclusive "horror movie lighting". When I was watching the movie, I noticed that Director He used two colors as the main tone to create the atmosphere. One is yellow and the other is green.
The yellow is dim, like an old light bulb that has been used for a long time, supporting only a little weak warm light, and most of the time it is very dim.
The green is miserable green, which seems to be integrated with the darkness, but it is out of tune with the pure dark tone, and has a strange and weird presence.
I don’t know much about color tones and lighting. I think the dim yellow corresponds to the warm daily color of Tian Gang and Qiu Xue. The light when this couple is in love and doing things is very natural and comfortable. The overall color is warm and occasionally ambiguous. However, when it comes to scenes such as Mossen and the female white-collar worker, Mossen and the staff, although the picture is also orange and yellow, it is more or less dim, which is obviously a hint of the atmosphere.
As for miserable green, this is too classic. The small woods on a rainy night are all this quiet and creepy miserable green, so green that it is black. Speaking of revenge for He Ye, I was impressed by Cao Hao's flashlight. The screen was very dark at the time, with only the sound of heavy rain. The flashlight held by Cao Hao was very bright, and the yellowish-white light shone on Mossen like a stage spotlight. When the camera cut over, Mossen looked like a strange white-skinned monster, which made my heart stop for two seconds.
Coincidentally, the clip where Mossen followed the female office worker also showed this eerie green color on the screen.
The light at the subway entrance was obviously not this color. I heard that Director He used natural light when shooting. I really don't know how he shot it.
Especially in the latter part of this segment, Mossen held the white-collar worker against the wall with a knife. The door of the white-collar worker's house was open a crack, and the corridor light was yellowish. However, because the white-collar worker had not had time to turn on the light in the entrance hall, the door showed a dark green color that was almost the same as the woods on a rainy night. It was particularly eerie, and it would form a cognitive reflex for the audience if it happened several times.
So sure enough, when Qiu Xue moved to Tian Gang's residence and went up the stairs at night, the audience around me gasped, thinking that "this dim green" = "Mosen is going to commit a crime".
The thriller rhythm here is also quite good, worthy of study, but unfortunately I am a little sleepy after catching up on the content, I will talk about it when I have time.
[Additional content: The rhythm is written in the comments of the next door film review, please forgive me for being lazy. ]
Finally, I will just write about the soft light that is often used in the memory killing in "Daytime Rain". Director He's level is here, and everyone can use the soft light filter, so I don't say how good it is, it all depends on how skillfully the director uses it. As long as it is used skillfully and appropriately, the effect presented is good.
Whether it is Qiu Xue's personal memories, Tian Gang's recollection of high school days, or the montage performance at the end, they all have their own flavors under the blessing of soft light.
By the way... Tian Gang's memory killing filter is basically soft white light, while the memory killing from Mo Sen's perspective (the part of school bullying) is basically green, including being used as a live target in the classroom and the swill clips outdoors. The main color is a kind of empty green. It is not bright, and it does not have the freshness and vitality that green usually gives people. It is very empty and weird, even a little weird, like a nightmare.
I don't know if this is also a metaphor for Mo Sen's spiritual world.
Okk, this long review, which is not very professional, ends here. Please forgive me for the various nonsense contained in it. In short, congratulations to "Daytime Rain" for its success at the international film festival, and I hope that Dragon Country films will get better and better.
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Xie Qingyan’s computer screen was divided into two parts. On the left was a film review page on a certain website, and on the right was a self-created text document. She read and copied the content carefully.
When she saw the penultimate sentence “Mosen’s spiritual world”, Xie Qingyan called up two folders labeled “Qin Jue-Mosen (filming period)” and “Qin Jue-Mosen (official materials)”, and looked through the extremely large number of pictures one by one, looking at Qin Jue’s eyes in the pictures.
She observed very attentively, so that her face looked a little cold. However, after roughly reading it once, the cold expression on her face changed, with more emotion and heartache.
After taking a sip of the coffee at a reasonable temperature, Xie Qingyan opened the same small notebook as Qin Jue and wrote down a few key points worth paying attention to on the paper.
After completing these preliminary preparations, she solemnly opened "A Century of Light and Shadow" and listened to Qin Jue’s own insights and answers through the paper and text.
2200+. Originally this chapter and the previous one were two chapters in one, but for safety's sake I decided to separate them. I'm in a hurry, I really want to praise Jue brother as soon as possible.