There is a German film called Lola, Run. What's its German name?

German: Lola Lent

Movie summary:

In Berlin, Germany, the gangster Manny called his girlfriend Lola. Manny told Lola that he had lost 654.38 million marks. After 20 minutes, if he doesn't return 65438+ million marks, he will be executed by the underworld boss.

In order to get 65438+ million marks and save Manny, Lola ran like hell in 20 minutes. Meanwhile, Manny kept calling around the phone booth to borrow money.

The film shows three processes and three results of Lola running away and Lola looking for money to rescue Manny.

The first run: Lola didn't borrow money, Lola and Manny robbed the supermarket, and Lola was killed by the police.

The second round: Lola is robbing the bank. Manny was killed by an ambulance.

The third run: Lola won the money in the casino, and Manny found the lost money. Laura and Manny became rich.

(a), why choose "Lola Run":

There are three reasons:

1, Run Lola is a commercially successful film.

1999 Lola Run has achieved commercial success all over the world. Outside Germany and Europe, in the United States, 1999, there were two films with little capital investment but outstanding box office receipts. One is the American film Blair Witch Project, and the other is the German film Lola Run.

In Asia, Japanese, Hongkong and Taiwan Province provinces, Lola Run is also a good box office.

I once asked a German friend: Have you seen Run Lola? He told me that he had watched Run Lola 60 times in Germany. A movie, of course, is not a VCD. A movie can be watched by a young German 60 times! This example excites me.

First of all, there must be an important reason why a movie can be watched 60 times by one person. We can consider this problem from another angle. A movie, no matter how magnificent the scene, how tortuous the plot, how vivid the story and how excellent the actors are, can it be the reason for us to watch it 60 times? ! A report on "I M D B website" made me seem to have found the answer. The report introduced the screening of Run Lola in American cinemas: "The cinema seems to have become a disco. A new generation of American children, they are not sitting in their seats, but standing in front of them. They resonate with Lola Run in many fast images and violent music. " Please pay attention to the words "disco" and "resonance".

2. Lola Run is a brand-new movie.

Today, we have entered the 2 1 century. Everything in the world is changing in the new century. So, how did movies change? Or: What will the movies of 2 1 century look like? We can't say for sure: What will the movies of 2 1 century look like? However, tom tykwer's "Run Lola" seems to let us smell the breath of the new era, and seems to let us see the embryonic form of 2 1 century movies.

(1), the film art itself:

Among various artistic styles, only movies have such a close relationship with science and technology. First of all, movies were born because of technology. After that, movies developed with the progress of science and technology. In other words: every progress of modern science and technology provides new means and possibilities for film art, and it can be asserted that in today's highly developed computer technology in the world, film production will inevitably undergo profound changes.

(2), the film and the times:

A new era has arrived. The changes in human life in the new century are profound. Art is a reflection of life. The new era will inevitably produce new movies. Perhaps "Run Lola" is still immature, but "Run Lola" shines with the glory of the times! "A person can make all kinds of mistakes, but he can't make mistakes of the times."

3. Lola Run is an excellent film.

Run Lola is well-made. For example, "Run Lola" is a dazzling and extremely beautiful hand washing card. Only such a card is worth disassembling. At the same time, we will be full of enthusiasm and fun in the process of disassembly. Of course, the purpose of disassembly is: through disassembly, we can better understand the film, and even we can develop such beautiful cards ourselves in the future.

(2), about the director:

Tom tykwer is a film genius. 1 1 year-old started making short films. 13 years old, officially entered the film industry. 1993, 28-year-old tom tykwer made her debut, and Maria was wearing a dead face. Later, he also filmed the movie "Unexpected Winter" and so on. Run Lola is the work of tom tykwer in 1998. At that time, he was only 34.

After the release of Lola Run, it won many awards. Not long ago, on the "I M D B website", the audience voted for 250 best movies in the world, and Running Lola was among them, ranking11.

It is predicted that tom tykwer will become a world-class Hollywood director after the famous French director luc besson (director of The Fifth Element). However, it is said that tom tykwer himself doesn't think it's great to go to Hollywood to make movies. On the surface, tom tykwer is a film prodigy. 1/kloc-0 made a short film at the age of/,made his debut in his twenties, and his works in his thirties began to spread all over the world. In fact, tom tykwer is not only a film prodigy, but more importantly, tom tykwer is the product of our special era-the audio-visual era. This is how tom tykwer is introduced on the website. Tom tykwer grew up in front of TV and computer all day. What makes tom tykwer proudest is not his movies, but his playing computer games. He is a well-known computer game master in the "computer game world", and he can play Star Wars computer games from the first level to the last level. It is said that if you praise him for his good movies, he will take it for granted. However, if you praise him for playing computer games well, he will be very proud and even invite you to dinner.

Western sociologists regard the 1960s as the "generational" watershed of human division in sociology. They call those born before the 1960s "the generation of words" and those born after the 1960s "the generation of seeing and hearing". (China should be born after 80s).

The main feature of the "written generation" is that their knowledge and information sources are mainly written.

The main feature of the "audio-visual generation" is that their sources of information and knowledge are mainly television and computers.

In fact, for the "audio-visual generation", television and computers are not only the source of information and knowledge, but also have a far-reaching impact on their thoughts and lives. According to statistics, an American child born after 1960s spends an average of five or six hours in front of TV and computer every day. Their understanding of society and the world comes from television and computers, which have influenced their words and deeds and even their thinking. Therefore, there is even a saying that the parents of the "audio-visual generation" are not the biological parents who brought them life. Their parents are computers and televisions.

Tom tykwer was born in the mid-1960s and belongs to a typical "audio-visual generation". He grew up on TV, computers, video games and MTV.

What we want to point out in particular is that the film Run Lola is a work of "audio-visual generation".

(1), roller:

Anyone who likes playing computer games knows that Lola, the heroine in Lola Run, is the most famous computer game character in the world now. Not long ago, the United States made a computer game movie. The hero's name is also Lola. At present, the name of the number one computer simulation news anchor on the Internet in the world is Lola.

② Computer games:

The movie Lola Run is actually a computer game that Lola broke through. We can imagine that in western cinemas, many movie audiences (many of them are computer game masters like tom tykwer) and so many like-minded heroes from all walks of life in the computer game industry gather in a common place like a festival. They run with Lola, they "resonate" with Lola and they "break through" with Lola!

In a word, from tom tykwer's films, we can feel the great difference between him and the mainstream and most filmmakers in the world today, including Spielberg, and feel the distinct brand of the audio-visual era. Tom tykwer's movies let us smell the new era and the new breath of new movies.

(3) About movies:

How to evaluate and treat the film Lola Run?

The most important thing is: this is a brand-new movie.

On the surface, the theme of Lola Run is an unusually "old" love theme: Lola runs desperately to save her lover. However, the core and spiritual essence of the film are brand-new.

1, feminism

It is also the salvation of love. In the past, movies were all about rescue, and men usually saved women, so-called "heroes save the United States." But in Run Lola, "the hero saves the beauty" becomes "the beauty saves the hero". This is an important point of the film. It clearly shows us that times have changed and the traditional roles of men and women in society have undergone fundamental changes.

In fact, "Run Lola" shows not only "beauty saves heroes", but women are saving the world. In the same 20 minutes, the woman (Lola) was moving and the woman was running. The man (Manny) is very quiet. The man has been talking on the phone at the telephone booth, and he is pitifully borrowing money everywhere. The world has entered today, and men cannot change everything. Men can only wait for bad luck. On the contrary, women are doing their best to constantly and tirelessly fight against fate. Women are trying to change everything, and women even turn "time and space" upside down several times.

It should be said that the dislocation and change of the hero and heroine's fate behavior in Lola Run reflects the great changes in the role status of men and women in the world today.

2. About the truth

In Lola Run, Lola's rescue of Manny has three processes and three results.

The first run: Lola didn't borrow money, Lola and Manny robbed the supermarket, and Lola was killed by the police.

The second round: Lola withdraws money from the bank. Manny was killed by an ambulance.

The third run: Lola won the money in the casino, and Manny found the lost money. Laura and Manny became rich.

For humans who only live in the "present continuous tense", three processes and three results are impossible and "unreal". However, the film did not show the truth of the incident. In other words, the producer just disdains to show the truth about certain events and certain people like ordinary movies.

The director is actually ambitious. He is not showing the "small truth" of a specific event. The hero of this film is our whole class. He wants to show all the feelings of the whole human being in today's world, and he wants to show the "great truth" of human being's vacant and unpredictable mentality when facing today's unpredictable world.

It is a higher level of "truth" and a higher realm of artistic creation to express the common feelings of human beings and express "truth" through deformation and distortion.

3. The theme of the film

The superficial theme of this film is to write about love. Lola ran desperately to save her lover.

The deep theme of the film is to write about the unknowability of the world and the helplessness and despair of human beings to the world.

Step 4 explore movies

Run Lola is an exploration film.

The film begins with the following subtitles:

"We don't give up exploring. The end of exploration will be its starting point. Let us re-recognize and explore. "

-Aitero

("After the game is before the game." )

"After the game, that is, before the game."

-Horberg

Run Lola is an exploration film. However, unlike many poorly known exploration films, "Lola Run" is very "good-looking". Is a "good-looking" (strong visibility) exploration film. This needs our attention and study.

In my opinion, the main reasons why Lola Run is "good-looking" are as follows:

(1), love theme

Love is always a panacea for attracting audiences in movies. (discussed later)

(2) Lola and computer games

Lola is the most famous computer game character in the world. The movie Lola Run is a computer game that Lola broke through.

(3) Fast pace

Our life today is very fast. Art is a reflection of life. The fast pace of this film is in tune with the fast-paced life of people today.

④ theme resonance

The profound theme of the film "Unable to grasp fate and the world" has aroused strong resonance among people. (discussed later)

⑤. Brand-new art form

A large number of new film technologies (computer means) have been applied in Lola Run, which makes people dizzying. The life of art lies in innovation. The novel artistic form and expression of the film make the audience feel unusually fresh and excited. Especially the "audio-visual family" who likes excitement.

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(4), movie reading:

First, the characters:

Laura, Manny, father, mother, uncle Meyer, tramp, cart girl, car thief boy, female employee, guard, blind girl:

Second, the structure:

Plate structure.

Plate structure is a modern drama structure in film drama structure, which is different from the "conventional drama structure" of ordinary films.

Unconventional dramatic structure.

Full film time: 75 minutes.

Beginning: 1- 10.

First round: 10-30.

The second round: 33-53.

The first round: 55-75.

Schematic diagram of membrane structure:

At the beginning (10), Manny lost money.

The first round (20 points. Normal) supermarkets rob money. Lola is dead.

Underworld (3 points)

The second round (20 points. The bank robbed the money. Manny is dead.

Underworld (2 points)

Third run (20 points. In advance) the casino wins money. Become rich.

Thirdly, the paragraph reads:

Start: (1- 10).

It is divided into three parts:

1. Introduction: (2 minutes).

Subtitle: The text clearly shows that this film is a game and an exploration film.

After the subtitles, the camera pushes to the clock, and then enters the time tunnel from the clock.

Enter the time tunnel:

How to enter the time tunnel:

(1), the clock props:

First of all, the clock is a sign of time.

Secondly, the maker made the clock into a little monster with sharp teeth. It not only shows the ruthlessness of time, but also shows that time devours human life; It also reflects the producer's "game mentality" of pursuing visual stimulation and excitement and "fun".

(2) Push the lens forward.

The lens gradually moves closer to the pendulum of the wall clock, and finally it is the great feature of the wall clock.

Then, the lens rises along the metal rod hanging on the watch, and first rises to the dial of the watch. At this time, the hands of the watch rotate rapidly at an abnormal speed. The rapid rotation of the pointer shows the non-objectivity of the film time and the non-recording of the film.

The lens continues to rise from the clock dial and finally rises to the little monster above the dial. The gangster opened his mouth first and showed his sharp teeth. The lens is pushed in from the mouth of the little monster. The image is completely black and enters the time tunnel.

In the time tunnel:

How to express the scene in just visiting;

1. intersection.

The location is chosen at the crossroads, which is mainly the symbolic significance of the crossroads.

2. Many people.

In the lens, there are many people in the darkness, which shows the expansion of population and the aimlessness of people.

(3) degradation (rapid shooting):

Degeneration has caused many people to surge mechanically like puppets. People are in a hurry, like passers-by in the world. People are expressionless, like lifeless "walking dead".

In a word, time tunnel shows the chaos of the world, the aimlessness of human beings and the absurdity of the whole life in the eyes of producers.

In the turbulent crowd at the crossroads, several minor characters in the film appeared one after another: the salesgirl, the woman pushing the cart, the boy who stole the car, and Uncle Meyer .................................................................................................................................. Where are we going? What is a person? "

Bank guard:

The camera speed gradually became normal, and the camera finally stopped on the bank security guard. Although the bank guard doesn't appear much in the film, he is a bystander of the whole film, and he will supervise the whole "game" (movie). The bank guard kicked a football and announced the start of the game (movie). The football rises high, and the pedestrians in a hurry at the intersection below constitute the opening subtitles of the film (the computer completes the composition). Football falls, football falls into time tunnel, and animation is made here.

2. Title: (Animation, 2 minutes).

In the fast-paced music, animated rollers (red hair, blue coat and green pants) run in the just visiting full of teeth. The rhythm and speed are accelerating, the teeth start to turn, and the roller starts to turn. Teeth and rollers turn faster and faster. Finally, Lola was swallowed up by the time tunnel. The subtitles of the founder's name were announced one after another.

3. The story begins:

Continuing the rapid landing of the football ahead, the camera falls into a city, a building and a room-Laura's room. The phone in Laura's room rang and the real Laura (not the animated version of Laura) rushed into her room.

Quick shot:

Laura is answering the phone in her room. The next shot is on the street. The shot is like a speeding bullet rushing to a telephone booth in the street. Manny is making a phone call at the telephone booth. The speed at which the camera moves forward is amazing. The speed of the camera is Laura's thinking speed.

Local color:

This way, Luo with red hair holds the red telephone receiver. On the other end of the phone, Manny stood in a street phone booth and made a phone call. Manny in a black coat has a black microphone in his hand. He told Lola with tears that he had lost his money and a tramp had found it.

The happiness of tramps:

This passage uses a group of quick jumps to show Manny's imaginary tramp's joy and behavior after picking up 654.38+ million marks: freeze-frame jump: the plane takes off and the train flies. The Statue of Liberty in new york, the Eiffel Tower in Paris, the blue sea, white beaches, green palm trees, delicious food and plump women. ......

This is a set of freeze-frame clips commonly used in TV commercials and MTV, and the audience can hardly see the main body. It is one of the "iron laws" that regular movies must follow to let the audience see clearly the object and content of shooting. Here, tom tykwer didn't do it, or didn't finish this "iron law". On the contrary, tom tykwer didn't want the audience to see the theme clearly at all. Movies just give the audience a general state and feeling. It reflects the differences between tom tykwer and traditional filmmakers in the concept of film production.

Shh:

When Manny was crying, Laura made a gentle "shh-"sound to Manny on the other end of the phone, just like a mother coaxing a child. (feminism)

Shout for the first time:

Manny told Laura that if she didn't pay back the money in 20 minutes, she would die. Manny begged Lola to save herself, and Manny even ridiculed Lola: "You said that love can solve everything". Laura told Manny to wait for herself. Laura's The First Shout. As soon as Lola shouted, Lola shouted loudly, and the glassware in the room was broken violently. The sound and video show Lola's power and magic. After Laura shouted, the camera was silent and a turtle was crawling slowly. Use silence and slowness to set off the fierceness of the front cry.

Tone:

The tone of this paragraph is divided into two parts: color film and black-and-white film. Color movies show reality, while black-and-white movies show Manny's memory of losing money. Color movies and black-and-white movies appear alternately, mainly to give the audience a clear narrative and distinguish between memory and reality.

First run: (10-30).

1. Lola's room: Lola looks for the borrower in her mind:

Ideas turn into concrete images:

First, an animated character opens the door to memory (clip: strokes). Then, Laura's body began to rotate. During the rotation, she kept jumping and cutting photos of relatives and friends. The speed of the photo jump is from fast to slow, and the characters in the photo are from chaos to clarity. It shows the process of people's thoughts from confusion to clear concentration. At the same time, the speed of roller's body rotation also changed from fast to slow. The photo ended up on my father. Frozen to normal speed, my father shook his head, indicating that Laura had a hard time asking for money.

2. Mom's room: While watching TV, mom makes phone calls and talks about things at home.

3. Stairs: Lola goes downstairs, dogs bark, and evil men don't trip Lola (animation).

Transition:

Mom's room leads to the stairs. From the cartoon on TV in mother's room, go to the next scene stairs. The content of the cartoon is the content of the next scene: Lola goes downstairs. The transition is coherent and interesting.

Time decision point:

This passage is the key point of the narrative time clue of the film. The speed of the moment when Lola came downstairs decided all the changes behind. Laura went downstairs for the first time, and the time was basically normal.

4. Street: Laura collided with the woman pushing the cart.

Just visiting: Children stolen by women are confiscated. That woman stole the child again. (frozen cut).

Performance of time tunnel:

A. the jumping of scenes and characters. Quick switching in editing.

It shows the unstable, ambiguous and specious state of time tunnel.

5. Bank: Laura's father is with her lover. The lover wants to marry Laura's father.

6. Street: The boy who stole the car sold his bike to Laura. (Lola walks past the black nun).

Just visiting: The boy was caught and beaten. The boy met a female nurse in the hospital and got married. (frozen cut).

7. Street: Lola ran in front of Uncle Meyer's black car, but the black car didn't hit Lola, and the black car collided with the front of the white car.

8. Telephone booth: Manny calls around the telephone booth to borrow money for help. The blind woman (black hat, black glasses) has gone.

9. Street: Lola ran past the tramp.

10, bank: father and lover are together. The lover told his father that he was pregnant with a child. Laura came to the bank to borrow money from her father. When her father didn't borrow any money, Laura "shouted for the second time" (the sound was so fierce that the glass dial was blown to pieces. )

Just visiting: The female bank employee was disabled in a car accident and then committed suicide. (freezing and shearing)

1 1, Street: The old lady tells Laura the time. The old lady came to remind the time. She is a symbol of time.

12, intersection: the red ambulance braked and the ambulance didn't hit the glass.

13, outside the supermarket: Lola is one second late.

Two photos:

There are two intriguing scenes in the film.

Lens 1:

Three small frames in the picture:

Manny, Lola

clocks and watches

The composition is interesting, and the content will be shown separately for three times and at the same time, which speeds up the pace of the film. )

Lens 2:

Two small boxes in the picture:

This is a pair of backhands. In this pair of reverse shots, each frame has two roles: Lola and Manny. The lens is novel and strange. It is rare for two identical characters to appear in an image at the same time. The direct consequence of this practice is that when watching a movie, the audience will be confused because of the confusion of the movie narrative. It shows the producer's boldness and "no moment and no beam" in production techniques. )

14, in the supermarket: Manny went into the supermarket to rob money. Lola grabbed the security guard's gun, and Lola fired for the first time.

15, Street: Lola has escaped. After Lola won money with a song that was lyrical by girls without stereo, she sang and wrote "Joy of Victory". The police shot, and Lola was killed (upgraded silently), showing great sadness.

The underworld: (3 minutes, red)

Enter the underworld:

(1), shot from the middle of Laura's face to a close-up of Laura's eyes.

② The color changed from normal to pure red.

The performance of the underworld:

Laura and Manny are both naked. That's how they were born.

② Pure red light (the color of amniotic fluid in uterus).

3. Yin-Yang light distribution: Red light comes from two directions (strong light). The light makes the faces of two people bright and clear. (Yin and Yang Face)

The first time in the underworld, before Laura left this world, the last thing she wanted to prove and ask was love. Laura asked Manny if he loved himself. After getting a positive answer, Lola was unwilling to die, and she was determined to turn back the clock.

Out of the underworld:

① The lens comes from a close-up of Laura's eyes.

② The color gradually changed from pure red to normal.

Back in time:

① Connect the lens:

A. Motion connection: The motion connection of the falling of the same object. Now the whereabouts of the red wallet on the street are connected with the whereabouts of the red telephone microphone in Laura's room 20 minutes ago.

B, color connection: same color connection. The red wallet is connected to the red telephone receiver.

② Frequent switching: Red wallet and red telephone microphone frequently switch.

3. upgrade. The lenses in both positions are upgraded lenses.

to be continued ......

The second round: (33 points -53 points).

1. Lola Room: The red telephone microphone dropped (normal speed). Laura started running again.

2. Mother's room: Mother is on the phone and having a family conversation (the conversation remains the same).

3. Stairs: Lola goes downstairs, dogs bark, and wicked people trip Lola, (animation). Transition. Time decision point: the running time of Lola is delayed from this moment.

4. Street: Laura collided with the woman pushing the cart.

Just visiting: Women win the lottery and become rich. Front page of the newspaper: photos of the woman's house with villa and "Big Ben". (frozen cut). The last time Rabilo hit the woman in the cart, she was a few seconds late. As a result, because it was a few seconds late, the number of the lottery ticket that the woman bought later just won the grand prize.

5. Street: The boy who stole the car sold his bike to Laura. (Lola walks past the black nun).

Just visiting: In his later years, the boy was down and out, living on the streets. (frozen cut).

6. Street: Lola jumps over the roof of Uncle Meyer's black car. The black car collided with the rear of the white car.

7. Street: Lola collided with a tramp.

8. Bank: Father and lover are together. Laura came to the bank to borrow money from her father. Rabbi Luo came late last time, and her lover told her father that the child she was pregnant might be someone else's. Father and lover quarreled. Father didn't lend Laura money. The bank guard joked to Laura, "Today is not your good day." Laura decisively snatched the gun from the guard's waist. Lola robbed the money, and Lola fired two shots.

Just visiting: Female employees are having an affair with male employees. (frozen cut).

In the female staff's home, naked male staff members were driven away like horses with halters on their heads, chews on their mouths and holsters on their bodies. (feminism)

Roller slapping insurance:

Through time and space, the boundaries between the three plates and the three time and space of the film are strict. Three time and space are not related to each other. Here, the director and the audience played a horse-like joke of "teasing you". The boundaries between time and space in movies are not absolute, but sometimes they are interlinked. This is the mystery of the film. Consistent with the style of the whole film.

9. Street: The old lady tells Laura the time.

10, crossroads: red ambulance smashed glass.

1 1, the street outside the supermarket: Lola arrived one second early, and Lola stopped Manny, who didn't rob the supermarket.

Three small frames in the picture:

Manny, Lola

clocks and watches

Manny was hit:

The cheerful Manny was killed by a red ambulance. (The first run, the red ambulance passes behind Manny) Like the first run, Lola is dead: the film is silently upgraded. The difference is that the upgrade shot here is not the upgrade of Manny who was hit, but the upgrade of Lola who was not hit (the wallet slowly fell from Lola's hand).

According to the normal movie narrative, there is no doubt that Manny's death should be emphasized and rendered with the upgraded lens of the hit Manny. Here, tom tykwer has not done so. The film adopts Lola's upgrade, because the viewpoint of the film is Lola and the protagonist is Lola. Sacrifice local rendering for the overall situation of the film. It embodies the atmosphere and maturity of tom tykwer.

The underworld: (2 minutes, red)

Enter the underworld:

(1), shot from the middle of Manny's face to a close-up of Manny's eyes.

② The color changed from normal to pure red.

The performance of the underworld:

Laura and Manny are both naked. That's how they were born.

② Pure red light (the color of amniotic fluid in uterus).

3. Yin-Yang light distribution: Red light comes from two directions (strong light). The light makes the faces of two people bright and clear. (Yin and Yang Face)

The second time in the underworld, in the face of death, Manny's last question before he left this world was:-Will you love someone else after I die?

In the underworld, Lola and Manny have completely different realms. Lola asked Manny for the first time: Does Manny love himself? The last thing Lola wants to prove is love. The second time Manny asked Lola, it was not her love for herself, but whether Lola would like other men after her death. After Manny died himself, he had to pull up a quilt. In this regard, Lola's answer is simple: "Stop it, you are not dead yet." Lola put the clock back again.

Out of the underworld:

(1), the lens from the big close-up of Manny's eyes.

② The color gradually changed from pure red to normal.

Back in time:

① Connect the lens:

Motion connection: The same motion connection of falling objects, the drop of the money bag over the current street, is connected with the drop of the telephone microphone in Laura's room 40 minutes ago.

② Frequent switching: wallet and telephone microphone are frequently switched.

3. upgrade. The lenses in both positions are upgraded lenses.

Third run: (53 points -73 points).

1. Lola Room: The red telephone microphone has dropped.