This article is written by Grand Duke Peter Pavlovsk of Habsburg
Welcome to the "Grand Duke Brings You to the Garlic Series"!
It's my fault that I haven't taken everyone to garlic for a long time, and my laziness has caused this tragedy to continue to be staged.
Now let's be honest.
Let's talk about an area to avoid when taking a little girlfriend to watch a movie.
Suspense films!
The subspecies of suspense films has a lot of hard material to dig up. For example, we mentioned the spy movie category before, but many people, including most of the high-quality human men who feel good about themselves, will always fall into a clichéd self-inflating meme, that is, overestimating their reasoning ability.
So, at the beginning, I pointed out here that this is the biggest disadvantage of our kind of social pillar type of high-quality men for young girls.
After all, you are not as young as them, what they lack for you is only experience, and the logical thinking of the various rules of the world is not deep enough, but their young brains are not slower than you in terms of the reaction speed of the established rules and the limited logical thinking within the small circle.
Especially in this regard, your experience may not be as good as theirs!
Really, not as good as them.
As a post-80s generation who grew up watching "Detective Conan" and "Kaneda Ichi Juvenile Incident Book", we are familiar with the devious design of various Benguet reasoning stories when we are young, and we also understand the murderers behind various detective killing stories, seemingly various tragedies, in fact, there are several fixed templates to tossed over and over, especially hundreds of episodes of Famous Detective Conan down, how to write ordinary detective stories should have a little aesthetic fatigue.
Simply put, you do have a lot of logical tricks to reserve, but you're old, buddy, you're not young, and your mind doesn't react as well as a young person.
And as a high-quality male who is the pillar of society, you have a good job, bring a good income, but also deprive you of limited entertainment time, as well as the pressure of facing a complex society. You don't have time to exercise your logic.
This is a generational difference with the young girl who often plays the script to kill.
In this regard, your experience is not as good as theirs.
Imagine when you would show your abilities in the field of Benguet reasoning with the opposite sex?
When the other person has similar needs. Where do girls have this type of perverted need?
Isn't it the so-called Reasoning Club, script killing and the like?
For this kind of simple rule, proficiency is the most important, and this is obviously your disadvantage, you don't have so much time to accumulate reasoning experience in this area, and your actual combat ability must be inferior to the players who have played for a long time.
Does that mean it's a pit avoidance guide? What else is there to pretend?
I don't mean that, and it's best not to try to put garlic in this direction, because your reaction ability is more likely than that of young people.
Your strength is not in trickery, in fact, the charm of Benguet reasoning does not all come from trickery, and the charm of detective stories does not all come from "who is the murderer".
For example, the recent fire of "Manslaughter", and Du Dazuo's wild love of "The Dedication of Suspect X". What they have in common is that, from the very beginning, they tell you who the murderer is and how they killed them!
Why? Because of the story. Their selling point is the story, and the trickery is only part of the story. These two films mainly sell emotions.
This is your advantage, the charm of detective movies is not only trickery, but also comes from the story, and the emotions expressed in the story. That's what a good movie has to offer, and it's what sets them apart from Conan, the famous detective who finds the killer in 40 minutes.
So don't lose the watermelon and pick it up, the trick is much more superficial than the story.
To learn where to build an edge, don't ask me how I know!
And I, take you to the garlic and take you flying, let's take a look at the qualities that a good mystery suspense movie should have, as well as some not-so-good negative examples.
The first thing a good Benguet story must have is good subterfuge.
This kind of trick is not to be more than innovative, to know that the Benguet reasoning story has been developed for more than 100 years, and anyone who has seen detective Conan should be familiar with almost all the tricks.
It's like the basic core of a story, like raisins, and it's very sweet. But the crisp and juicy grapes, the lubrication and sweetness of the flesh are also very important.
The Story of Benguet Reasoning, on the other hand, is a story based on the subterfuge itself. Such a story can be said to run through the basic routines of quite a few reasoning dramas.
But if a good story doesn't start from a ruse to build a story, but from a story to design a trick, then it has the prerequisites for a good movie.
Like the works of Agatha Christie.
Today's young people are already unfamiliar with this classical "Blizzard Mountain" model. The murder case in the secret room, the soil is slagged, after all, it is the stuff that the predecessors have played for more than 100 years. I complained about this in "Detective Chinatown" a few years ago. They wrestled with details related to solving the case, such as the grip of the knife, whether there was glass under the scene of the corpse and other details.
That's part of the ruse, remember, we're going to focus on the artistry of the whole story.
Suspense film master Alfred Hitchcock's "Butterfly Dream" is a typical example, the film's Lady Lybecca has always been outside the plot, but exists in the plot, is the most famous MacGuffin in the history of film. I won't say more about how good this movie is.
Now we're going to talk about a story bigger than he's playing. Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express, and detective Lowlander Hercule Polo.
Agatha Christie's novels are many, famous ones such as "No One Survives" and "Roger's Bill", which are all masterpieces of trickery. But like I said above, to care about the story, to understand the artistry, you have to look at the few excellent works that have been put on the big screen.
I recommend here two of Pieter Ustinov's works, Massacre on the Nile and Crime in the Sun. He plays Mr. Polo, a traditional aristocratic style wearing a white suit, round and cute, gentleman and humorous. It was filled with the pedantic and confused sour smell of old Europe.
This should also be Mr. Polo, who is most familiar to our old Chinese audience. So when I learned that Kenneth Branagh's Massacre of the Nile was about to be released, I was furious.
By the way, Mr. Peter Ustinov actually played Polo 6 times, and two were introduced in China, and four can be used as Easter eggs, which is not easy to find.
And "Murder on the Orient Express", this is Grandma's most wonderful story, the best to find is of course Kenneth Brana's one, but I strongly recommend you first look for Sidney Lumet's version to take a good look.
Yes, the British version in 1974. After watching it, you know what Kenneth Branagh made.
Specifically we will say in the next issue!
Once upon a time, in the distant Milky Way...
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