Is the movie Citizen Kane interesting?

A good movie is like a machine with extraordinary working efficiency, which is composed of all kinds of well-made parts and works freely. Disassembling every part of it is worth pondering and aftertaste, and it is fun. Citizen Kane is such a film. It is not only an important experimental film in American film history, but also a recognized classic in world film history. What impressed me most was the innovation in photography. For example, photography with contrast between light and shade, scenery with ceiling, application of long focal length lens, motion position, Gao Fancha lighting, studio with ceiling, melting mirror, multiple exposure (matte) lens with shielding, photography with direct light, and the most interesting thing is to dig a hole in the ground to shoot. It has changed the traditional photography mode in the past, created many precedents, and many forms have been widely used so far. It can be seen that it must have been super avant-garde at that time.

Generally speaking, when shooting a scene in a movie, it is usually to explain the general environment with a panoramic view, then to make a transition through dialogue or close-up actions between characters, and finally to summarize the whole scene. Gong completely abandoned this technique and did the opposite. For example, the film begins with a close-up of the iron gate of the villa, and then advances step by step, constantly overlapping pictures to lead us into the next scene, and then the whole villa appears with a long lens transition. Followed by a close-up, Kane is lying in the hospital bed, holding a glass ball ornament in his hand. Seeing the back, I found more and more. It often starts with a close-up shot, interspersed with some long shots to change it, and finally ends with a big close-up.

Other ultra-low angle lenses are also very impressive. A conversation between two people in the office. According to the teacher's explanation, it turned out that the floor was cut and the camera was buried underground, forming a feeling of looking up. Because people usually don't agree with what they see from a normal perspective, they have no special feelings. And a view beyond the visual range like this will bring a shock. Looking up will enhance the image of a tall and stalwart figure. Indeed, Kane has a different side from ordinary people, but his greatness is mixed with many negative factors. So what we see from our perspective is an indomitable Kane, but the information brought to my mind by this picture is not a feeling of arrogance, but a feeling of oppression, which gives people a feeling of being breathless and very depressed. From the following scenes, we can learn more and more about Kane. Compared with the general public, he is really extraordinary. However, his later years were a tragedy. He was thrown into a lonely and lofty position by his genius and extremely inflated self-consciousness. And this kind of photography is like a stroke of genius, which appropriately conveys the feelings that the director wants to bring to the audience.

Another commendable feature is the deep focus, which makes the picture different from previous films and greatly enhances the expressive force of the film picture. Throughout the film, many scenes with dialogue between characters mostly use long shots, which seem to have the feeling of playing a drama, and they are also changed and adjusted from time to time to create a triangular composition by using the positional relationship between characters. Everyone knows that triangle is the most stable geometric figure, so it strengthens the connection between foreground and background. Create a unique deep focal length effect. Traditionally, the depth of field should be small, the foreground characters are quite clear, and the background characters are blurred, because only in this way can we highlight the key points and make them clear. And its role in the background is not vague but clearer. It can be seen that it will be extremely difficult to realize this kind of unconventional photography scheduling with real traditional shooting methods. At that time, I was thinking that it was impossible to achieve it by traditional methods. However, after consulting a lot of information, I finally figured it out. The following is the photographer of Citizen Kane? Toland truthfully described:

"As we all know, using a short focal length lens will increase the depth of field, and at the same time, you have to close the aperture. At present, with the fast film, some photographers can use the sensitivity of the film to receive the aperture of F/3.5 when shooting in the shed. However, this is only done occasionally when shooting a scene or a paragraph needs to increase the depth of field, and the rest is still done in the old way.

In order to solve our problems, we decided to go further along this road. If you use fast film, such as medium-speed film, the aperture can receive F/3.5 to get better definition, so why not use faster film, such as high-speed film, and narrow the aperture a little?

The initial experiment proved this point. However, it is not enough to receive an aperture sufficient to compensate for the sensitivity of high-speed film. However, our thinking is obviously correct.

The next step is to increase the illumination to compensate for the reduced exposure value and receive an aperture with sufficient depth of field to obtain the required depth of field in any particular scene. "

According to the photographer, the last one is a coated lens without halo (which can improve the speed from half to first gear; Moreover, due to the exclusion of halo and internal reflection light, the definition is obviously improved). The aperture receives F 1 1 of F8 or less. So those inexplicable pictures have finally been answered, and now we go back to watching movies. See Susan at the nightclub. At the beginning of deep focus, the reporter called the front desk headquarters to report the situation. The waiter in the restaurant stands in the middle scene, with Susan drinking at the table in the foreground to drown her sorrows. All this is orderly and the view is very comfortable and pleasant. It also makes us clear about the scene at a glance, and greatly enriches the information of the picture and tells us a lot of content, so that we don't need to adjust a place after watching it like a telescope. I think this is one of the reasons why movies are becoming more and more interesting.

Next, let's talk about the long shot, which plays a very important role in this film. In any case, the large-scale scheduling of long shots is difficult, plus a bunch of tracks and special equipment, which is unnatural and is a high-intensity and difficult operation. But the effect is a mirror, and the feeling of running water is very comfortable and flowing. Susan's first performance was definitely a wonderful long-range shot. Susan sang in the middle of the stage, the camera was pulled up, moved over the curtain, and finally reached the overpass above the stage, then pulled in and came back to see two staff members standing on the overpass. It is impossible to shoot such a shot on the real stage. No wonder it impressed me so deeply. After reading the information, I found that the joke was originally a miniature model pulled into the sling in the background, which was really amazing. It is no exaggeration to say that every fragment of Citizen Kane deserves our careful analysis, and its casual burden often makes us dumbfounded. When people watch the long shots of many movies, they think they are expressed by long shots, but we often don't feel them in Gong. I watched the movie several times and chewed it carefully many times before I suddenly realized that it was originally represented by a long lens. For example, when Kane's future adoptive father, Thatcher, picks him up from Kane's mother, the whole picture is a classical triangular composition, with Thatcher in the middle and Kane's young child near the lower right corner, looking puzzled and at a loss. Then Kane walked around and stopped at his father backstage. At this time, Thatcher and Kane's mother were on both sides of them, forming a triangle composition. In the next scene, my father walked to the front, and almost all the gathering points were on the young Kane in the lower right corner ... This whole paragraph used a long lens, and finally it was a close-up of a mother and then transferred to Kane's face as a termination. The connection of this paragraph is very smooth, which brings a lot of information to the audience: his biological father's position in the family, his biological father and future adoptive father can't replace his mother's extremely important position in Kane's heart. Everyone noticed that in all the compositions, the mother was basically in the middle of the foreground. Through the lens described above, we finally understand why Kane's last words were "Rosebud". In fact, how much wealth, how much career, how much love, how much achievement, and the lack of maternal love are the eternal pains in her heart. It also paved the way for the rose buds at the beginning and end.

The photography of Citizen Kane has made bold changes in form, and some pictures that cannot be realized according to the conventional theory have been taken with limited photographic equipment. It is a bold change in the form of film art, which pioneered the style of contemporary film shooting techniques, and also had a far-reaching and indelible impact on the later film shooting creation techniques. It deserves to be the starting point of technological and artistic innovation in the history of photography.

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