[US Entertainment] Hollywood reverses life

Subscriptions to HBO's mini station STAR have increased by a large amount in just one week.Although it is still incomparable with the subscriptions of some traditional large-scale charging stations, this is already a record.

Moreover, the premiere and rebroadcast of "True Detective" has ended, if you want to watch it again, you have to wait until a week later, and no one knows what the ratings of the new episode will be.

However, in various forums, such as IMDB, Rotten Tomatoes, Yahoo movie community, etc., and even overseas, where many fans of American dramas gather, you can see heated discussions about the first episode of "True Detective".

No one, after watching this first episode, would be so foolish as to think it was from an ordinary director.This is definitely from the hands of a top director with seasoned experience and deep thinking!

They will check it out, and finally everyone knows that the director is Joey Grant!

As expected of a director who can make such an awesome TV series, he is actually a famous miracle in Hollywood.

"What shocked me the most was the 8-minute long shot at the end."

"I won't discuss anything else today."

"I just want to simply worship the 8-minute long shot at the end."

"This scene can enter the history of American TV dramas."

"Too strong to burst your brains!"

Every viewer who knows a little bit about film and television can see that this "True Detective" is definitely not that kind of coquettish and superficial bitch.

Of course, the skill of the Oscar soundtrack master is also indispensable.

In short, this "True Detective", which only had the first trial broadcast, has already shocked everyone with an IMDB rating of 9.9!

This once drove the TV station's subscriptions.But no matter how people praise this show, those who missed the premiere still missed it after all. After all, this is not a movie, and it’s not something you can walk into the cinema to watch whenever you want to watch it. It’s a TV series.

You have to subscribe to HBO to buy a package first, and then you have to stay in front of the TV on time. If you miss the first episode, there may be a rerun to save you, but if you don’t even have time to watch the rerun, then you still have to wait until next week to watch the second episode. Bar.Or just wait until the DVD comes out.

And before it airs next week, Joey still had to film the second pilot episode without complacency, despite the rave reviews.

At present, she has only signed a contract with HBO for the first three episodes. Whether she will continue to direct after the three episodes is still unknown, but for these three episodes, she must go all out and not ruin her reputation. Now it seems that, If she continues to perform at this level, not only will she not lose her reputation, but she will also create a monument.

The filming of the second episode is in full swing.

She is still in Louisiana, looking for the majestic and weird exterior scenes on this continent, picking up the breath of new life and decay in the swamp.

At least this style seems to be very successful so far, and the audience is very popular.

Joy always believes that all stories tell the same story, and all differences, including the plot, era, characters, and scenes, are just the shell of the form. The so-called genre films are the shells of certain standard models.The real difference lies in the degree to which the storyteller understands the story.

Joey is always on the way to understand a story more deeply.

For example, in this story, the police detective whose wife and children were separated and who was exiled far away, with the scars of the past, sleeps in an empty house with only mattresses.Alcoholic, loner, whimsical.

This kind of story is too old-fashioned. Since Joey's career, he has seen at least a few hundred films of this type.

But she believes that "True Detective" can surpass all of its kind, as long as she can understand the story deeper than anyone else.

In a chat with Christian Bell, she told Bell her thoughts, "The routine of the story is the same, and all the stories are actually the same. The difference is the degree of comprehension of the producers."

Bell kicked a small stone away from his feet, facing the rippling lake surface caused by the falling stone, "So Grant, you must have understood the story of "True Detective" that many people cannot understand."

"I don't. The comprehension I'm talking about doesn't mean how much you need to understand the connotation, spirit, or anything else of the story. I don't mean these." Joey took a deep breath and looked at the depths of the night. , where there are some evening sunsets.

Bell obviously felt that every time she talked about movies and TV with Joy, she would always talk about it in a high-pitched tone. Bell liked this feeling, which would benefit him a lot, "Then what do you mean, what is it? Learn more about the story?"

Joey looked up at the night sky that was about to fall into darkness, and smiled slightly, "I don't know, at least my understanding of the story of "True Detective" is nothing but the steaming watery land, crazy beliefs, a Cleave the dark soul of pain with life. That's all."

Bell listened to Joey's magic-like but seemingly philosophical words, "I can probably understand what you mean. Your so-called comprehension is a very emotional comprehension, not a rational approach."

Joey nodded, "Yes, this is probably the difference between male directors and female directors. Male directors like to comprehend a story rationally and logically, while female directors comprehend it from an emotional level."

Bell suddenly thought, so maybe this is why Joey can shoot such a good hard-boiled work?

Because she thinks about men's work from a female perspective, she takes this tough guy story to a new level.

In the suspenseful story of a cold and hard man, there is a strange tenderness hidden everywhere.

In the few shots of the second episode, it can be seen that Joey is not as focused on portraying the language of the camera as in the first episode. One is that the budget is reduced, and the other is that this is an American drama after all, which requires careful logic and plot. to maintain its appeal to the audience.

But even the shots that follow the meticulous plot step by step are inevitably tainted with Joey Grant's unique style.

In one scene at this time, Joey arranged for Bell and a prostitute to sit outside the bar to investigate the case.

The actress may have been a little nervous facing Bell, her size and rhythm were out of order, and the entire speech rate and rhythm were too fast.Joy immediately planned her performance, and she said to her: "Lilith, slow down, this show is not urgent, not at all."

This sentence seems to be the one she said the most in the entire crew.

"Slow down, we're in no rush."

She's said it to the actors, she's said it to the cameraman, she's said it to pretty much everyone involved in the camera.

After a long time, everyone knows Joy's rhythm. The rhythm of the movie is her rhythm.

Under her rhythm, the camera is carried out in the male voice and female voice full of magnetism and small fresh style. Therefore, the silhouettes composed of characters and scenery frame by frame exude a "noble and glamorous" literary film temperament.

This perverted slow rhythm, if placed in other TV dramas, probably belongs to the rhythm of being "abandoned in one episode" by the audience.

After all, for most people, its plot has been slow to the point of excruciating. Compared with solving the case, the two policemen are more inclined to ramble.

But Joey just has this magic, and in this film, this slow pace is really a charming tone.

While Joey was still filming the second episode in Louisiana, subscriptions to the paid mini-station under HBO had hit a record high.

But Joy is still shooting "slowly", and the crew is not worried that she will not finish on time, because she has completed all progress on time except for the actors to "slow down".

In the second episode, Joey starts to take a lot of overhead shots.

It's rare that you see such a large number of overhead shots throughout the entire TV series, especially detective TV.But in the second episode of "True Detective", such shots are indispensable at the beginning and the end.

In the second episode, at the moment Joey is shooting a scene with a combination of overhead shooting and forward shooting.

Bell and Damien had a confrontation, after which Bell left the room alone.At this moment, the camera switches to the overhead shot in the distance, dawn, dusk, swamp, and countryside, everything is so beautiful.

However, soon the camera turned to Bell again, and here Joey took a follow-up shot, a slight shake, and a close-up shot of the character's face, expressing the inner depression, the self-evident, the conflict of values, suspicion, and rejection. Ready to come out.

Combined with the beautiful scenery shot down from a distance, for some reason, suddenly a gloomy and depressing artistic conception swept over the sky.

Joey used photography, tone, scene scheduling, lines, soundtrack, editing, actors, in this slow motion that lasted several minutes, he piled up a kind of blur and darkness of wild grass.

The atmosphere of sex, humidity, gothic, abyss, arrogance and even self-admiration spread across the screen immediately.

There's nothing special about this shot, but it's just memorable.

No one knows how Joy did it, but she did it.

If the long shot in the last 8 minutes of the first episode is the one that ignites adrenaline.

Then the last 3 minutes of this episode is the soul after touching the abyss.

That strength, plus this soul.

Who can stop the pace of this "True Detective"?

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