Chapter 1154 "Daytime Rain" Prop Design (530)

Chapter 1154 Prop Design for "Daytime Rain" (5.30)

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"Those Real and Ugly Things Make Up Our Real Life"

I have read many film reviews written by teachers these days. I forgot which one I saw this sentence in: "The characterization in the movie "Daytime Rain" is too real, so real that it is very ugly." I agree with it.

Qiu Xue fell in love with Tian Gang for the classic purpose of "finding an honest man to live with", Tian Gang's attitude changed after learning that Qiu Xue had rich sexual experience, Cao Hao was instigated by Su Qi to kill Mo Sen and return to daily life, etc., all of which reflect the complex and real human nature in this film.

To describe it with another comment that I think is very pertinent, it is:

"Each character in this movie has one or two reasons why I don't like him/her. It is so realistic that it makes people disgusted. Just like my best friend and I have small shortcomings that each other can't understand so far. We can get along for so many years only because of mutual tolerance and turning a blind eye or directly losing our memory when necessary. Well, this is probably human nature."

The words are rough but the truth is not rough. Yes, this is human (laughing).

In addition to the characters themselves, "Daytime Rain" also has many plots that make people both agreeable and uncomfortable.

There is a wall between drama performances and real life. For example, we will write a person in the script who is very bad, murdering, arson, and committing crimes, but we will not deliberately shoot close-up shots of him urinating and spitting everywhere. It is also like we can write a comedy character who wails when he finds that he has no toilet paper, but generally we will not write that he has diarrhea and squats in the toilet.

The above is a tasteful description, right (laugh). So everyone should understand why "this kind of plot" is avoided in film and television dramas. First, it is unnecessary, and secondly, it does not conform to the proper aesthetics.

But "Daytime Rain" broke this unwritten rule.

Mossen was tortured by an abnormal spirit and went crazy at the subway entrance. A white-collar worker passing by saw him and casually talked a few words to his friend on the other end of the phone (not derogatory or insulting language, just saying "there is a strange person"), so he was targeted by Mossen and followed all the way until he broke into the house with a knife.

The subsequent attempted rape scene was extremely uncomfortable, but the discomfort was not only the rape itself, but also the bloody sanitary napkin stuck to the underwear that Mossen took off when he tore the white-collar clothes.

I still remember that when the big screen showed this scene, the audience below was all silent.

To be quite offensive, rape scenes often play an important role in dramas. It is a relatively common way to express "someone's temperament has changed drastically because of this", "someone has suffered serious injuries" or simply provide shock to the audience with stimulating scenes.

Therefore, this kind of "sex" plot usually has two ways of expression. The first is to pass by and explain the "result after the incident", and the second is to show a small amount of process, create sensory impact, and mobilize the excitement or disgust of the viewer.

To put it more bluntly, everyone thinks that what they are about to receive is the "plot information" of rape that is fictional, deduced, and expressed by the creator with the purpose of foreshadowing, and "information" only needs to be instilled and accepted. It is intended to let the audience "know" and know that such a thing happened, that's all.

However, "Daytime Rain" is different.

It shows sanitary napkins nakedly, and even bloody sanitary napkins in use.

To make another offensive analogy, it's like the hero and heroine have a child. What everyone wants to see or expects to see is the heroine giving birth to the child with great difficulty and becoming a happy mother, or dying of dystocia, which drives the next plot, but few people want to see the bloody birth process of the heroine, and not many people want to see the incision, amniotic fluid and stretch marks.

Because dramatic expression is idealized, it conflicts with reality and truth.

It is precisely because of this that "Daytime Rain" will give people a strong real stimulation when it reveals the "unbeautiful" details of reality.

After all, basically no one - let me offend you again, even some of the small movies you watch are not shot like this - will know, understand, and anticipate that the victim will have menstruation during the rape.

So Mossen's disappointed look is so, so real and ugly.

A bloody sanitary napkin changed the nature of the rape scene that was supposed to be "plot information", stripped away all the dramatic color it carried, and also made the audience receive what they received instead of "fictional information required by the plot" into "real cases that violated moral laws", which is often uncomfortable and avoided.

There are indeed too many such unexpected designs in "Daytime Rain", which are so real that they are very vulgar, earthy and ugly when you think about it carefully.

For example, during the fight between Mossen and the patrolman, the patrolman twisted Mossen's hand hard, causing the kitchen knife in his hand to fly out and fall to the ground. After the two fell together, Mossen directly got on all fours and crawled like a beast to pick up his murder weapon.

It's really... rare to see such an unbearable fight scene (in a positive sense).

Too ugly, too low, and therefore more realistic. Because reality is like this, there are many things that are not beautiful or handsome at all.

For example, the key to Mossen's counterattack: chopsticks.

Before Cao Hao and Su Qi came to the door, Mo Sen was still eating a box lunch. The food was fishy, ​​and the meat dishes contained fish, so the disposable chopsticks Moson used were "pointed chopsticks." The tops of these chopsticks are much sharper than the common round-headed chopsticks. They are specially designed for picking fish bones. Some of them are When the store takes away the food, it will replace it with the corresponding chopsticks according to the dishes ordered by the customers. This is a premise that most viewers have not noticed.

Later, Cao Hao and Mo Sen fought, and the coffee table was overturned, sticky food was scattered everywhere, and the chopsticks rolled down nearby, making a mess.

Then, Cao Hao used a shovel to suppress Mo Sen. Mo Sen caught a glimpse of chopsticks out of the corner of his eye. His judgment method was very animalistic, simple and direct. "As long as it is sharp, it is a weapon," just like a kitchen knife or chopsticks.

So, Mo Sen grabbed the chopsticks and pierced the side of Cao Hao's face with it.

Apart from anything else, the close-up of Cao Hao's cheek flesh being deeply pierced by the chopsticks really makes people grin. For a moment, they have visual hallucinations such as the toothpick sticking into the gums when picking teeth, and the zipper being pulled up to get stuck on the chin and feet. My little finger hit the cabinet leg, my hand holding the blade slipped while shaving, and when I put my legs down, I was pricked by the edge of the metal keyboard drawer under the computer desk, and so on.

Pretty real life pain... right.

In fact, if it were any other film and television work, here Mawson would have used at least a pen or a hairpin or something in a hurry. There is no special reason, just because they are more "dramatic", or more direct, and appear more interesting. Strong style.

But "Daytime Rain" goes in the opposite direction. Chopsticks, which can be seen everywhere, become a weapon for Mo Sen to fight back.

A similar "weapon" is the jump*. In the pre-plot, it is just an adult prop bought by Tian Gang. Its function is to express the plot of "Tian Gang was still reserved and shy in the early days, but later he learned that his girlfriend had rich sexual experience and developed these vulgar tricks."

Unexpectedly, when Mo Sen and Tian Gang were fighting back and forth at the end, this little thing actually became a handy "weapon". The scene where Tian Gang uses his rope to strangle Mo Sen is really... ridiculous. I can't even tell what my expression was at that time. Maybe it was because I was sweating.

In such a tense and exciting fighting scene, jumps suddenly appeared, and Tian Gang was still using this thing extremely seriously to fight Mo Sen. It was such an unexpected call back, which was really embarrassing.

I echoed that sentence again, reality is like this, bloody, absurd, ugly, and ridiculous.

2300+, has it been sent out?