How to write a film review

The premise of writing a good film and television review is to read it carefully. Film and television reviews are different from book reviews. Books can be read repeatedly, and movies are fleeting. Therefore, when watching movies, we should not be careless, but concentrate on all aspects, pay close attention to pictures, music, dialogues, sounds and performances, and capture the highlights in time. So you can write with ease and use it freely. There are many angles that can be evaluated in the film. As far as a film is concerned, we can comment on the theme, characters, details, scenes, artistic features and the use of film language. As far as many films are concerned, a series of films can be comprehensively reviewed to clarify the tendency and characteristics of film artistic creation in a certain period; You can comprehensively comment on a certain kind of movies (such as thrillers and exploration movies); You can comment on similar issues (such as the similarity of ancient costume films, etc.) ); In addition, you can also make special comments on movies, such as writers, directors, actors, photographers, artists, music and so on. Film criticism writing can be long or short, focusing on a shot or a film phenomenon of a film. For our junior high school students, it is difficult to make a comprehensive evaluation of a movie. Practice writing film reviews, starting with commenting on a character, a plot and a scene, and acting on actors. Make a single comment on shooting skills, director's intention, film style, color, language and music. With the improvement of film criticism, we can express our views on a certain character image, such as students, teachers, soldiers and other screen images in the film, or we can talk about a certain stage of the film or a certain genre of the film vertically and analyze its gains and losses; Or talk about a certain style of movies horizontally, such as westerns, Chinese New Year films, entertainment films and so on. Or tell a director's style horizontally and vertically, such as Xie Jin mode and Zhang Yimou phenomenon. When you are new to film criticism writing, you should not be greedy for perfection. You should start from bit by bit, think and dig, and write articles. (2) When writing film reviews, we should grasp the following points: 1, and capture feelings. A film covers a wide range and needs a lot of comments. This requires thinking about the film repeatedly, feeling it with your heart, grasping the most touching place in the film and letting it sublimate rationally in your own pen. Watching Titanic, we can't simply tell this love story, but feel the light of human nature from the life and death test of the protagonist. 2. Grasp the details and interpret its profound meaning. The so-called detail is a detailed description of the local or subtle changes of the objects in the movie screen. Details include gestures, smiles, use of props, color scheduling, sound changes and so on. Typical details play an active role in displaying characters' personalities, setting suspense and promoting plot development. For example, in the great turning point, Chiang Kai-shek's back appeared three times, each time indicating the next defeat of the Kuomintang army. Through the following three descriptions, it symbolically reflects the declining situation of Chiang Kai-shek's regime in Xishan. 3, the idea should be new and the excavation should be deep. Writing film reviews should be original, have original opinions, grasp the main points and be spontaneous. To innovate, first, we must grasp the content of the film and buy it now in combination with +63; Second, we should accurately grasp the spiritual essence of the film and tap the profound connotation contained in the film itself. For example, it is not necessary to analyze them from the perspective of ideological significance. For example, the image-building of Gong Li in Zhang Yimou's films and the male image in Zhang Yimou's films are all areas that can be explored. 4. Analyze and evaluate the facts. Mr. Lu Xun once said: A critical work "must say bad things and good things" and "learn from the world". He said, "If the best thing in a paper is to consider the whole article, not the whole author and his social situation, this is even more conclusive." To make a realistic evaluation of the film requires us to look at the whole situation, not just a certain point, but the whole film. Considering the director's intention, the whole performance, the social environment and historical background at that time, make an appropriate analysis and evaluation. You can't force the director, actors and characters of the film to be perfect. Similarly, when writing film reviews, we can't follow suit, such as commenting on "Is it raining hard?" A classmate calmly pointed out that the director raised the image of warlords (such as peaceful father) on the screen? When you meet a beautiful woman, you rob her to be a concubine, but the reason is like the first lover. 5. Pay attention to the artistic analysis of movies. Movies express themes, portray characters and express feelings through artistic means, so film critics should pay attention to the analysis of film art, which should be concrete and detailed, from the surface to the inside, with substance in words; The assessment should be clear and realistic. In the evaluation of art, film consciousness permeates between the lines. To use the terms of film art as appropriately as possible requires a profound feeling and rational grasp of film art. This can be solved by reading books on film theory and enjoying excellent films. When you begin to practice writing film reviews, you should also pay attention to: the language should be simple and personalized. When writing film reviews, you must tell the truth, say your own words, and don't copy other people's comments. Only one's own feelings and simple language can make one's comments full of individuality and originality, and can also bring fresh feelings to readers. Narratives should be combined and comments should be prominent. Film criticism is inseparable from narration. But don't tell too many stories, but focus on analysis and evaluation. Of course, evaluation and analysis must not be separated from the film. The design of film review titles is very important. Generally speaking, it consists of a title and a subtitle. Straight to the point-revealing the center of the article must be concise and thought-provoking, so as to arouse readers' interest in reading and bring readers aesthetic pleasure. It is the main thread that runs through the whole article; Subtitle-It is a necessary supplement to the topic to point out the object of comment and explain the film title or comment angle. The two complement each other and can add a lot of color to the article. Such as: the fighter of history and times-comment on the image of party member made by * * * on the screen, and the tragedy permeates in the red-comment on the film Red Sorghum, the prism of rural reform-the TV series The Feeling of a Village's Length. In the process of writing film reviews, we should constantly sum up and learn from other people's writing experience, enrich our own writing practice, and on the basis of accumulation, through the writing of film reviews, constantly promote the perfection of our own knowledge and improve our own remuneration level and aesthetic ability. Attachment: Criticism of film critics-Sun Ke wrote a book "Criticism of Criticism" for French theorist Todorov, collected his critical articles on literary criticism, and put forward that literary criticism should be a systematic science, that is, it is a critical work on literary criticism. Here I use this method to name this article "Criticism of Film Critics". As the name implies, this is not a criticism of the film, but a comment on the film review, which is a re-comment. Here, how the film is not the main problem, but the comments about how the film is commented. Like literary criticism, film criticism is also a part of criticism. Anyone with common sense knows that today's criticism has its own methods and is a science. Since it is a science, it must be rational, knowledgeable and systematic. What is the function of film criticism? Who are they written for? Generally speaking, we think it is written for the general audience, and film reviews can provide some information to the audience. As Todorov said in Criticism, "The purpose of literary research is to better understand the works, so we should not write critical articles like poetry", and film criticism is also to better understand the works. In addition, film reviews have a reference function for the audience, mainly to provide criticism and interpretation information for those who have never seen a movie, and to tell the audience whether a movie is worth watching, or where the gains and losses of this movie are and how to watch it. Perhaps it is because of the different views of film critics that different review articles are produced, thus providing rich information about movies for the audience to choose from. For the audience who have seen it, professional film reviews can help them understand the context of the film (production background, personnel situation, time environment and so on). ), and professional film reviews can also help the audience better understand a certain film or some films. Film criticism has a direct impact on film creation. Directors and actors will be influenced by professional film reviews, thus changing their own creation. Due to the personal hobbies and prejudices of film critics, the methods and directions of film criticism are often different. Talented film critics can always accurately grasp the core issues of films and criticize them accordingly. Criticism is not negation, but affirmation. Of course, on the whole, there are positive and negative. Generally speaking, film reviews are objective comments. In order to grasp or approach objectivity, it is very necessary to investigate the context. There is a "new criticism" school in the history of criticism, which advocates sociology, psychology, philosophy and other disciplines to intervene in criticism. The "new criticism" school is influential, which makes the original criticism break away from the limitations of literature itself. The same is true of film reviews. Due to historical reasons, Chinese mainland's film criticism is either reportorial or public opinion-oriented, and to a great extent, it has not played a real role in serving the audience. Reporting film reviews is mainly about the news reports of the films currently being shown, such as how the box office is, who the director is, who the main actors are, personal feelings, what tidbits are there, and what feelings are there after reading them. At present, such articles are mainly flooded with a large number of traditional media. There are fewer public opinion-oriented articles now, but their influence is very great. For example, words like "activating the market", "enriching cultural life" and "improving people's living standards" are often seen in many articles. With the development of the Internet, a new style of "film criticism" appeared. This kind of article sells many personal feelings. The article should first talk about your recent feelings, then talk about how to go to the movies, and then praise or belittle. Gorgeous writing and confusing words. In short, it is to make people dizzy and finally express their feelings (or loneliness, or boredom, or cynicism, or sexual fantasies). It is difficult to see the real situation of that movie in an article of several thousand words. If someone tells this story, it's lucky. This kind of prose is not a film review, at best, it is just some personal boring words. It doesn't matter if this article only expresses a person's temporary mood, everyone just regards it as prose. But more articles are unbearable. These articles are a bit excessive. After reading them, people can spit rice, and God laughs off his fangs. The feeling of narcissism is too strong, and I don't know why. Originally, film reviews were thought-provoking, informative and rational analysis, but these "film reviews" went to the opposite side. Fortunately, no one takes this writing seriously, but if it appears too much, people can't stand it and will run away when they see its author. In fact, there are few real film reviews in China. If we look at those foreign film reviews carefully, it really gives us a hard feeling. How did they see all this in the same movie? The same film reviews, how can they write so deeply? A really good movie does not need to be touted; Its critics say it's good. The quality of a movie is not determined by a few film reviews, but the audience will know after watching it. Therefore, film reviews, like movies, are targeted. If someone on the internet wants to read that kind of article, give it to them, but don't call yourself a film critic. This may be a little strict. In fact, there are many ways and styles to write film reviews. A good film critic's film reviews are as easy to distinguish as his own. In any case, film criticism is a science and a rational thing, not a flood of physical feelings. Frey, a Canadian critic, said in his book Stubborn Structure: "Knowledge that can be called knowledge leads to wisdom, because knowledge without wisdom is a lifeless body." To put it mildly, some film criticism articles are not rationally created. Another important issue is the nature of current criticism. On the one hand, he belongs to the criticized, has no mature attitude towards criticism, and is very happy with affirmation and angry with negation. This is a very naive mentality, and critics are often regarded as enemies. Seriously speaking, it is morbid, which greatly limits the normal development of criticism. On the other hand, criticism, lack of rational analysis and objective statement, is often either praise or scolding, many of which are for interpersonal reasons. This practice of disturbing criticism and audio-visual for personal desire is extremely bad. At present, the character problem of film critics in Chinese mainland is serious, which deeply affects Chinese mainland's film criticism and film creation. Although I try not to talk about morality, it may involve different values. However, Chinese mainland's critics are seriously lacking in moral concepts, lacking objective and true comments, and full of over-catering, irresponsible and interpersonal comments. I wrote this article to remind you.