Realism and realism in movies

From the way of expression. Realism is mainly a technique that pays attention to the authenticity of scenes, such as documentaries. Realism refers to the reflection of real life that works mainly want to express. This is an idea, and the technique can be realistic or magical.

Nanuk in the North is the first documentary in the history of documentary. It is a landmark work and one of the representative works of American documentary master Flahardy.

The nanook 1920 in the north started shooting, and 192 1 went on sale in winter. The whole film mainly reflects the living conditions of Eskimos living in northern Canada. Flahadi chose an excellent hunter, the Nanook family, as the protagonist of the film, focusing on the story of the Nanook family living in harmony with the difficult living environment. In the film, Flahadi created a unique documentary shooting technique, that is, he fully cooperated with the shooting subject to complete the whole film, which lasted 16 months of hard shooting, so that the whole film was not a shallow taste, but a thorough perspective to fully reveal the living conditions of Eskimos.

Another success of Nanook in the north is that Flahadi injected humanistic care and personal feelings and beliefs into the whole film. Flahardy appreciates Eskimos' simple and natural lifestyle and their spirit of struggling against the sinister living environment but still enjoying it. Flahardy also shows his reverence in a series of humorous film details, which also establishes the basic principles of documentary narrative and sets a model for later documentaries.

Nanook in the North adopts the structure of dividing the film into several paragraphs, with clever and concise subtitles connecting the plot development in the middle, and arranging several exciting points and emotional points in the paragraphs very chic, so that the audience can watch the whole film with a relaxed and happy mind. Because there was no talking film in the 1920s, the commentary of the film was watched by the audience, and the subtitles were interspersed between the paragraphs of the film. Subtitles are handwritten. Flahadi filmed them on film, extracted local seawater for printing, and edited them with other pictures of the film under the condition of sub-arctic freezing.

Nanook in the North adopts a realistic approach, and the long shot is an important means for the film to run through realism, and the use of the long shot is also one of the outstanding features of the documentary. In the film, Nanuk digs holes in the ice, waits for fishing lines and captures paragraphs with a long lens in one go. In these scenes, the facts containing all kinds of narrative information are continuously and completely recorded by the camera and expressed in an equivalent time process. The use of long shots runs through the whole film, and many paragraphs showing the relationship between characters and people and prey put the subject and object in the same picture, maintaining the integrity and realism of the space without false sense of separation.

Flahadi also pays great attention to capturing interesting details when using long shots to truly reproduce the life scenes of the Nanuk family. For example, the description of the scene of the Nanuk family listening to records for the first time; Mother and her four-month-old daughter were surprised and happy when listening to the phonograph; The joy of daughters eating cakes; The expression of affection when mother and daughter play; When Nanuk taught his son to shoot arrows, his father and son had deep feelings; There is also the subtle expression of Nanuk's attention when his son plays with the fox.

Flahadi introduced suspense and drama into the documentary, which made the film enjoyable. For example, in ice whaling, Nanuk's expectation, anxiety and hope in the process of whaling are synchronized with the joy of ultimate success and the expectations of the audience. The audience firmly attracted by this detail has an immersive feeling. At the end of the film, the scene of a family running in the snow and the scene of several dogs who have been with them freezing to death in the snow on a snowy night are also full of tension and drama. The use of parallel montage strengthens and promotes the drama and tension of the film. Parallel montage is used in the scene where Nanuke builds a house. While his father was building a house, the children were playing in the snow outdoors, and his mother and daughter were helping his father to mend the cracks in the wall.

In order to restore Eskimo life and achieve truth, Flahadi adopted the method of performance. The whaling scene in the film and the sleeping scene of the Nanuke family can't be completed without performing.

These creative methods pioneered and led by Flahadi in Nanuk, the north, are still adopted by documentary workers, which shows that the film is classic, epoch-making and timeless.

After the release of Nanook in the North, it was a great success, which was well received by almost all critics and immediately swept the world. The New York Times commented: "Compared with this film, the ordinary feature film, the so-called drama film, is as shallow and empty as what is printed on celluloid." Some critics think that this film "is more interesting and touching than a few other positive films even from the perspective of pure entertainment". As a classic in the world documentary history, Nanuk in the North ranks among the best in all famous film selection activities in the later history.