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As a filmmaker for decades, I am very supportive of the essence of movies rather than the charm, and excellent writing and performance have replaced actions and special effects. Although comic books of Marvel Comics emerge one after another, supernatural adventures occupy most of the box office charts, and Oscar-rated movies have also received due attention, there are still some movies that have lost their way in this chaos and have been appreciated by film critics, but have been ignored by the public.

One hour photography (2002)

The film premiered at Sundance Film Festival on June 65438+1October 65438+March 2002, and was released in limited theaters on August 2 1 Sunday, only in 7 theaters. In the end, the larger-scale film released on September 13 won wide acclaim from film critics and achieved some success in the cinema. The film was nominated for the 1 1 award and won two of them. I have won several small awards in film production, but I can only dream of making such a charming, wonderful and charming film.

Robin McLaurim Williams

Since the breakthrough in the TV program Merck and Mindy in the late 1970s, Williams has been attracting audiences for decades with his unique comedy style and lovely and kind roles in serious movies. Before 2002, we had never seen him play such a dark role as Sy Parrish in an hour-long photo. This role is a rather complicated and uneasy photographer, working in a local shop, with deceptive elegant appearance and pleasant manners.

This sad and lonely villain won the sympathy of the audience despite his creepy and immoral behavior, which Williams captured brilliantly. No spoilers spoil your viewing experience. His role has become too dependent on a family in private. He took pictures of the family, but his motives seemed respectable and legitimate, because he protected innocent victims.

Williams won the Saturn Award for Best Actor and was widely praised by critics for his role. I remember I was surprised when he didn't get the nomination for best actor in the Oscar the next year. It was Adrian Brody who won the special prize. But Williams is as good as other nominees, just like Nicolas Cage in The Adaptation and Jack Nicholson in About Schmidt.

At least that year Williams was nominated for the Film Critics' Choice Award and the Satellite Award. Other nominations include best film, best editing and best design. Gary cole (office space, Talladega night, etc. ) and Eric Lassall (come to America, er, etc. ) also performed well in one-hour photography.

Photography and editing

The actual shooting of this film was completed by Jeff Cronan Weiss, the son of legendary photographer Jordan Cronan Weiss. Jeff is nearly forty years old and is making his second Hollywood movie (his first movie is Fight Club). He was nominated for two best cinematography Oscars, including The Social Network and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.

Jeffrey Ford is the editor-in-chief of this project, which won him a Golden Star nomination for best film editing. Ford later left his mark in Hollywood. In fact, it was the editor who decided to use the line "I … I … am in Avengers 4: The Final Battle", which was almost cut from the highest-grossing movie in Hollywood history.

writing

The writer and director of One Hour Photography is mark Romanicaa, whose works in the music video industry (Beyonce, Taylor Swift, Michael Jackson, Madonna, Chili peppers, etc. ) is more famous than his contribution in Hollywood. In fact, the only film he directed before was Electrostatic Field (1985). His one-hour portrait won him the best breakthrough filmmaker award from the Online Film Critics Association. Unfortunately, Romanicaa has never written a film since then.

ticket office

When The One-Hour Photo was released, the movie Signboard Agent starring mel gibson was still burning money, but the box office revenue was as high as 52.2 million dollars. Nevertheless, it only ranked 8 1 among all the films released in 2002. This means that the film Photography Hour, which was praised by film critics, ranked behind the bad films Spice Girl and Fat Liar, and was the least praised film in 2002.

It is appropriate for rotten tomato website to get 80% rating for one-hour photos, but the user rating of IMDb website 6.8 is surprisingly low. Fans who have seen this film will not be disappointed.