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Collateral (2004) Michael Mann on using music to reveal character. "As research, music enters early for me. If you can find that piece of music which evokes the central emotion of one of your characters, some pivotal crisis where he or she must rouse themselves from despair and manifest...

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Bernard Herrmann on the importance of music in movies: "Interviewer: You once said that music is called upon to supplement what the technicians have done, and mostly what they have been unable to do. Herrmann: The real reason for music is that a piece of film, by its nature, lacks a certain ability to convey emotional overtones. Many times in many films, dialogue may not give a clue to the feelings of a character. It’s the music or the lighting or camera movement. When a film is well made, the music’s function is to fuse a piece of film so that it has an inevitable beginning and end. When you cut a piece of film you can do it perhaps a dozen ways, but once you put music to it, that becomes the absolutely final way. Until recently, it was never considered a virtue for an audience to be aware of the cunning of the camera and the art of making seamless cuts. It was like a wonderful piece of tailoring; you didn’t see the stitches. But today all that has changed, and any mechanical or technical failure or ineptitude is considered ‘with it’. Music essentially provides an unconscious series of anchors for the viewer. It isn’t always apparent and you don’t have to know, but it serves its function. I think Cocteau said that a good film score should create the feeling that one is not aware whether the music is making the film go forward or whether the film is pushing the music forward. Interviewer: Is the composer, in a sense, an actor with a greater range of ‘voices off’? Herrmann: I always think that film music expresses what the actor can’t show or tell. For example, when Janet Leigh is driving her car in 'Psycho' (1960), all we see is a pleasant young girl driving in the rain with the windscreen wipers going back and forth. From what you see, she might have been going to the supermarket or visiting a friend, but it’s the music that tells you that she has embarked on a very dangerous, horrifying experience. In the very opening of 'Citizen Kane' (1941), the music really tells you what ‘Rosebud’ is. When Kane is dying, all the musical motifs and atmospheres of his childhood are presented and the search for ‘Rosebud’ has really been told to the audience right away. At the end of the film, before the camera discovers the sled, the theme is given out again. And of course it also recurs at key moments of conversation between Kane and all the leading characters." (Bernard Herrmann's interview with Ted Gilling, Sight and Sound, 1971) P.S: Remembering the legendary American composer Bernard Herrmann on his 115th birthday!

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Not every memorable moment in cinema wins over audiences through cinematography, choreography, or music alone. Some moments endure because they touch something deeply rooted in human nature. Gene Kelly singing and dancing in the rain in Singin’ in the Rain (1952) is one such moment. At first glance, it is simply the image of a joyful man walking through the rain. He sings, spins his umbrella, steps through puddles, swings around a lamppost, and smiles in the middle of an empty street. But what allows this scene to remain in the memory of audiences is not only its visual beauty. Beneath the surface, it reflects a very special state of human existence: the moment when inner joy and outward expression become one unified whole. Perhaps this is the deepest source of beauty within this scene. From a Dance Scene to the Unity Between Inner Emotion and Outer Form What the audience first feels is a very simple sense of joy. Don Lockwood has just experienced a moment of happiness with Kathy. The emotion is so powerful that when he steps outside into the rain, he no longer sees the weather as an obstacle. He sings. He dances. He plays with the falling drops of water. The rain, which could normally be uncomfortable, becomes part of his happiness. But if we stop here, we are only seeing the surface of the scene. The deeper meaning lies in the way all elements come together in harmony. The music does not exist separately from the movement. The rhythm of the song becomes the rhythm of the body. Every step, every turn, every movement of the umbrella seems to come directly from the emotion within. The rain is no longer merely a background. The street is no longer just a setting. The entire world around him becomes part of his inner state. This reflects an idea often emphasized in Western aesthetics: beauty emerges when different elements achieve an organic unity. The outer form is no longer separated from the inner meaning. The Smallest Moment Can Contain the Greatest Spirit The entire scene can be condensed into one very small action: Gene Kelly steps into a puddle. This is not simply a humorous gesture. It is a symbol of the way human beings perceive the world. An ordinary person might avoid a puddle out of concern for dirty shoes, wet clothes, or losing a sense of neatness and control. But Don Lockwood deliberately steps into it. He transforms something that would normally be avoided into a source of happiness. In that moment, he is no longer controlled by hesitation or excessive awareness of himself. He is not trying to create the image of a happy person. He is simply living within that happiness. This is what makes the scene so special. The audience feels that they are not watching a performance about joy, but witnessing joy itself finding its own natural form of expression. Why Does This Touch the Human Heart? The deeper question is: Why does the unity between inner feeling and outer expression move us? Perhaps because, in everyday life, human beings often experience separation. We may think one thing but say another. We may feel something but have to hide it. We may want to act naturally but become limited by layers of worry and calculation. Yet sometimes, we encounter a moment when all those distances disappear. A child’s natural laughter is an example that closely reflects the spirit of Gene Kelly’s performance. When a child is truly happy, that happiness does not remain only within the mind. It appears through the whole person: The eyes brighten. The expression changes. The voice becomes clear and pure. The body moves together with the emotion. A child does not need to learn how to express happiness. Happiness naturally finds its way outward. This is exactly what Gene Kelly evokes in the rain. Although Don Lockwood is an adult, in that moment he returns to a very fundamental human state: when the soul and the body are no longer separated, when genuine emotion can freely express itself through every movement. This Principle Exists in Nature What is interesting is that this principle does not exist only in art. A similar pattern can be found in the natural world. A seed grows into a tree. The shape of the tree is not something added from the outside, but the expression of an inner process of life. A flower blooms not because it tries to become beautiful, but because the life within it has reached a form that naturally expresses itself. A river does not create beauty by resisting the landscape. It flows around rocks, adapts to the shape of the earth, and through this harmony creates its own unique form. The same is true within the human body. A genuine smile is not only found in the movement of the lips. It is the coordination of the eyes, facial expression, voice, and inner emotional state. A highly skilled athlete or artist often creates a similar impression: technique is no longer separated from emotion. The body becomes a natural instrument for expressing an idea from within. The Scene and the Beauty of Wholeness From an aesthetic perspective, what makes Singin’ in the Rain special is not simply that Gene Kelly dances beautifully. More importantly, the scene reveals a profound image of humanity: A person who is no longer divided between emotion and action. A person whose inner world and outer expression move toward the same direction. A person who encounters the world not as an obstacle, but as a part of life unfolding naturally. This is also why the scene continues to connect with generations of viewers. Regardless of the era, people can still recognize the beauty of a familiar state of being: the moment when a living being is able to exist in harmony with its own nature.

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#zhanglinghe's new interview with CCTV Dramas for #Overdo 🔥💬 I had never acted in a Republican drama before, so of course, one of the things that attracted me most to the script at the time was that I could experience the charm of Republican era dramas through this role. This script was different from the scripts I had encountered before. Its pace was very fast, and behind every story, or rather, every plot point, there was a hook. It would hook me and make me want to keep watching. As for my character, all of his relationships with the other characters were very complete, and every relationship would become one of the reasons that shaped his personality. I wanted to dig deeper into this character, so I chose him. Actually, love and hate are not a pair of antonyms. If there is a direction, both my love and my hate are directed vertically toward her (Susu). So can we say they are antonyms? No. They are just two ways of expressing one kind of emotion. In fact, in my view, the opposite of love should be indifference. Yes, only the direction of indifference is facing backward. My understanding is that hate is actually an emotional expression of love after it has fallen short. So when you say Murong Qingyi both loves and hates Susu, it is all because he cares about her. Ultimately, it is because she occupies a very, very large place in my heart. Everyone has seen love and hate intertwined in many dramas, but there are also different circumstances. Some people's love is very selfless and great. Although it is rare in real life nowadays, they don't ask for anything in return. But for some people's love, when your expectations fall short, they feel, "I'm in so much pain." But there is another kind of love: when my expectations fall short, I feel, "You owe me." These three are actually different feelings. In many of my previous roles, although everyone had deeply devoted characters who loved the other person very much, if you examine closely the moments when their hatred arose, you will find that their emotions were different. This drama also taught me two things. One is that, when it comes to emotions, sometimes you don't need to be too logical, because many emotional things don't have very rigorous logic. They simply arise naturally, are expressed naturally, and continue to happen naturally. This is the uncertainty of emotions. Another lesson is that drama originates from life but is greater than life. You can't demand that a fictional Republican drama, or what is essentially an idol drama, have emotions that are exactly the same as those in real life. That's impossible. In an idol drama, there can be the kind of love I just mentioned: "I love selflessly. I don't need you to give me anything in return." But how many people in real life can actually do that? It's impossible. A sudden flash of inspiration, I get that kind of sudden moment when it feels really exhilarating. Suddenly, in that instant, you have completely, 100% entered the character. It's that feeling of the emotion surging all the way to the top of your head. It's not Zhang Linghe in my mind anymore, but the feeling of that character being in my mind. After that feeling passes, when you look back and recall it, the shock and happiness it brought you feel different.

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Heat (1995) Dir. Michael Mann Mann on the how he prepared the coffee shop scene. "We did two things: We discussed the scene. Then we did some rehearsals, but I was wary because the entire movie is a dialectic that works backward from its last moment... Both men recognize that their next encounter will mean certain death for one of them. Gaining an edge is why they've chosen to meet. So we read the scene a number of times before shooting—not a lot—just looking at it on the page. I didn't want it memorized. My goal was to get them past the unfamiliarity of it. But of course these two already knew it impeccably. We shot that scene with three cameras, two over-the-shoulders and one profile shot, but I found when editing that every time we cut to the profile, the scene lost its one-on-one intensity. I'll often work with multiple cameras, if they're needed. In this case, I knew ahead of time that Pacino and De Niro were so highly attuned to each other that each take would have its own organic unity. Whatever one said, and the specific way he'd say it, would spark a specific reaction in the other. I needed to shoot in such a way that I could use the same take from both angles. What's in the finished film is almost all of take 11—because that has an entirely different integrity and tonality from takes 10, or 9, or 8. All of this begins and ends with scene analysis. It doesn't matter if it's two people in a room or two opposing forces taking over a street. Action comes from drama, and drama is conflict: What's the conflict?"

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