Road movies, classic movies.

Road movies usually have more than one protagonist. Directors are used to bringing two or more people together to create more dramatic effects through their interaction. And these people on the road are different. After the Hollywood road movie genre, the most common on the road has become a fugitive who has fallen to the end of the world. Because, usually only fugitives will run from one place to another without stopping. Escape itself is their only mission, and the process of escape has become ups and downs in the hands of Hollywood directors. In this way, the plot itself has enough strength and tension to meet the needs of the mainstream audience of road films, that is, young people. Perhaps this is the great power of the Hollywood studio system. In order to make a living, film creators have to add many commercial elements to their works. This also makes the road film have the thrilling action film, the love and hate of literary films, the twists and turns of suspense films and other types of film components. Road movies about fugitives have gradually become the mainstream of this kind of movies. So we can often see runaway thieves and robbers in road movies. Bonnie and Clyde is a typical film of this kind.

Bonnie and Clyde, directed by Arthur Penn, is undoubtedly a classic of outlaw road movies. This film is based on a true story. Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, a couple of thieves, ran amok in Texas in 1930s, robbed banks with guns and were finally killed by the police, which was a sensational social news. The film made by Arthur Pan 1967 is also controversial. Their bank robbery was considered as an act of challenging the social order at that time in the movie. In the 1930s, the United States was shrouded in depression, the unemployment rate rose sharply, banks closed down, the stock market crashed, and many people had problems with their livelihood. When the state machine can't guarantee the survival of individuals, the public begins to doubt the existing order. Clyde was reluctant to part with the family when they saw them standing in front of an empty house. I didn't know this was their house until I asked, but it was confiscated by the bank because I couldn't pay the loan. The indignant Clyde photographed the seal of the bank in front of the house and decided to start robbing the bank. Although the film is set in the 1930s, the dissatisfaction expressed in it with the existing system and state machinery coincides with the anti-war and anti-government atmosphere in American society in the late 1960s.

In fact, they didn't live alone all the way, but a group of accomplices followed them: Clyde's brother Buck and his wife Blanche, and a little CW who can repair cars. The main line of the story revolves around the conflict between this group of people: Clyde and his brother, who is my brother, are very affectionate, while Bonnie and Blanche are in hot water. As a result, there is a subtle relationship between the four: Clyde wants to maintain the "buddy" relationship with Buck on the one hand, and to appease Bonnie from time to time on the other. Bonnie often struggles between the ideal of pursuing freedom and the sacrifice made by her lover. Finally, this tension ended after Buck was killed and Blanche was arrested. They got a chance to be alone and reached a perfect climax. But it still implies that the relationship between brothers and the love between men and women are often incompatible. This theme is often seen in action movies with men as the audience.

Cars play an important role in the whole movie. The hero and heroine met because Bonnie saw Clyde trying to steal her mother's car, and they were finally shot in the car. They change cars every time they rob, of course, one is better than the other. In this film, the car is not only a tool for crime and escape, but also a projection of material desires and a machine leading to freedom.

The last scene is a classic of violent aesthetics: a flock of pigeons fly to the treetops, and the two are enjoying the beauty of the moment. The informer suddenly got under the car. The hero and heroine glanced at the bushes and knew that the tide had receded. The two men looked at each other, and the hero rushed into the car, but at this time, the gun had already started. In slow motion, the two were beaten into honeycombs. There are many elements in it that have been used for reference again and again in future movies. Everyone is no stranger.

Bonnie and Clyde ended up in court, but this movie is not a cliche of "what goes around comes around comes around". On the contrary, the use of its image language is to hope that we sympathize with and identify with the dead. In fact, the film caused great controversy after its release. The families of the people killed by Bonnie and Clyde accused the film of beautifying the murderer; On the other hand, teenagers regard him as an idol. Faye Dunnaway, who plays Bonnie, even became the most popular style in the film. In that era when protests, strikes and anti-war were the trend, this film really added fuel to the fire. 2. "My heart is wild" is wild inside.

Nicolas Cage is very popular now. I'm afraid few people remember the movie "Wild in My Heart" that he acted in 1990. The film is directed by david lynch and adapted from Barry Gifford's short stories. Gifford's original book is only five pages long, but the film is luxuriously extended to two hours. Lynch's films are famous for their suspense and weird style. The film has a strange form, but it is a love fairy tale in essence.

Sailor and Lula were lovers, but Lula's mother strongly opposed their relationship and sent a gangster to deal with Sailor. Sailor killed the gangster at once, for which he spent two years in prison. After he got out of prison, he took his girlfriend, and Lula's mother indirectly found a group of abnormal killers to get his daughter back and solve the boy. So the plot unfolds in the strange experience of a long car journey, the pursuit of the killer, and the conspiracy of Sailor's mother to collude with others to kill her husband.

If Bonnie and Clyde's journey shows the audience the unfairness and darkness of capitalist society and then defends their actions, then Lula and Sailor's journey almost completely reflects their inner experience. The title of the film is My Heart is Wild, and the film focuses on how a frantic heart is "tamed" by the infiltration of love (the ending is "Love Me Tender" sung by Sailor to Lula). Flame is the most common theme in this movie. In addition to representing the memory fragments of Lula's father who was killed by fire, it also implies a violent and uneasy mind. Many unpleasant memories of Lula, such as being raped by his father's friends and having an abortion, are also to emphasize the mental state that is difficult to calm down. Even the strange things they met along the way-such as witches riding brooms, boys and girls who died in car accidents, fat women dancing topless in small towns, and wretched men with black teeth-seem to exist in their fantasies and dreams. What can soothe their wild hearts is the combination of their flesh and love sublimated from lust. Like most love stories, the two ended in a perfect union.

The most important event of pop culture in 1980s was the rise of MTV. The difference between MTV and the past is not that it connects images with music (musical films have been in operation for many years before), but that it uses a series of broken and rapidly changing images to match music, thus giving music new meaning. Roland barthes, a post-modernist theorist, put forward the concept of "the author is dead", thinking that every reader can read different meanings from the text. When we watch MTV, the interpretation of the image is different according to our own life experience, psychological state and desire, and it does have a post-modern flavor. Although "My Heart is Wild" doesn't use broken and rapidly changing images, it adds many strange and irrelevant image elements. Jazz, heavy metal rock and Elvis Presley's love songs are intertwined, which inevitably makes people feel MTV. 3. In the endless stream of road movies, we can find a relatively universal law, that is, no matter how these people started their journey, most of them started on the road based on a spirit of rebellion and freedom, and they all started a rebellion because they were dissatisfied with their existing world. Watt and Billy in Easy Rider resisted, the hero in Bonnie and Clyde resisted, and Travis in Paris, Texas also resisted. However, there is a kind of resistance beyond these resistance, a denial of the whole patriarchal society. The best embodiment of this double resistance is thelma and louise, which declared war on the whole society.

Thelma and louise is also known as thelma and louise &; Louise ridley scott 199 1

Ridley scott's "Thelma & thelma and louise" opened a new direction for road movies-successfully introduced feminism into this school which has been dominated by male chauvinism. Selma and Louise are close friends. Selma is a little woman, an ordinary housewife, and Louise is an ordinary (even ugly) and masculine restaurant waitress. They drive together. What was supposed to be a simple and pleasant trip turned into a struggle between two women against the oppression of male society.

In a bar, a man accosted Selma, which was originally a simple entertainment, but the man further attempted to rape her. Louise arrived in a hurry and shot the man. Originally it was a simple self-defense killing, but there were no other witnesses at the scene. Fearing that they would be convicted of a felony due to insufficient evidence, the two embarked on a journey of escape.

In the process of escape, the oppression of patriarchy on them was exposed one by one: Selma's husband called for her to come back on the phone (mainly because he could not cope with housework). The police kept chasing them and further drove them to Liangshan, without considering the possibility of killing in self-defense. The only prosecutor who believes in their innocence has been unable to contact them because of several mistakes. Even the lover who had a one-night stand with Selma on the way turned out to be nothing but a liar and a thief. In other words, the only thing they can rely on is themselves. However, they find that it is much more appropriate for them to be a female warrior against the male society than to be a little woman. They robbed, smashed the truck of the driver who sexually harassed them, and robbed the police of their guns. These actions also drove them to the point where there was no way out. Finally, I was surrounded by police in New Mexico, and I would rather die than surrender and sail into the abyss.

The journey described in "thelma and louise" is undoubtedly the process of two women resisting the whole patriarchal society. Most of the things that happened or people that I met along the way were dangerous and hostile to them. In this environment, only your partner is the object you can rely on. The emotion between Selma and Louise is a revolutionary emotion that comrades depend on each other, but there is no denying that it contains homosexual elements. This was not in the previous road movies. In traditional road movies, most of them are lovers of a man and a woman, or brothers with similar interests, because in this masculine movie with adventure as the theme and male audience as the main object, only love between men and women and friendship between men are allowed. However, the appearance of this film confirms the possibility of "alternative" travel partners in the film. After thelma and louise, various groups appeared in road movies: homosexuals, AIDS patients, ethnic minorities, the disabled or the mentally retarded. The travel experiences of these people provide different world views and enrich the diversity of road movies. 4. Born killer Born killer 1994

Oliver stone's natural born killers (1994) is the latest road movie mentioned here. It also caused great controversy after its release. Unlike Bonnie and Clyde, natural born killers is not adapted from a social event, but seems to be a "preview" of the social event: after the film was released, a cotton worker in Mississippi was murdered and the murderer was arrested, claiming that his behavior was inspired by the film.

Si Tong's natural born killers inherits the themes of Born on July 4th and Assassination of Kennedy, and mainly condemns the culture of mainstream American society. The target this time is the media. This film tells the story of a pair of thieves, Mickey and Mallory. They are by no means the embodiment of justice, but "natural killers" as the title says. Everywhere I went, it was bloody, leaving only one alive to publicize their deeds. However, after their deeds were exaggerated by the news media, they became the objects of worship and imitation all over the world.

The two men were arrested in a gun battle and put in prison respectively. However, a news anchor of a TV station wanted to visit Mickey on the "American Madman" program, so he persuaded the warden to let him visit the prison. Unexpectedly, when the talk show reached the prison, other prisoners rioted. Mickey took the opportunity to hijack the reporter and his party, rescued Mallory and escaped from prison. In order to grab the news, the reporter thought they wouldn't kill him to show off, so they robbed the prison with them and rushed out of the tight encirclement. But in the end, I have to die. Two dark angels, who killed many people, are at large and live a happy life.

Si Tong is an expert in playing with the media. He uses all kinds of existing media to express different themes, so as to subvert the audience's preconceptions about the media. He used the format of a TV sitcom to describe the encounter between the hero and heroine, but the canned laughter encapsulated the bloody scene of vulgar dialogue, which was impossible for TV media. He used the format of TV news reports to describe gun battles, prison robberies and other scenes, which made people even more confused about the boundaries between true and false. Plus the violent fighting pictures in cartoons and the romantic pictures in literary films. All kinds of broken scenes are intertwined, which magnifies the intensity of TV series, movies, news, animation and video games that we are familiar with ten times, making people feel saturated and want to vomit. Paradoxically, however, his criticism of the media still depends on the media. He achieved the truth-exposing the exaggerated reports of news events by the media and making them false-on the contrary, he finally achieved the truth-the audience turned the illusory scenes presented in the film into their own parts and put the murder into practice. At this point, Si Tong has a moral responsibility.

In "natural born killers", the road and the journey itself have completely relegated to the marginal secondary position. The people I met on the road were just victims of offering blood sacrifices to the hero and heroine, and the main purpose of this trip was just to let the news media catch up with me in order to generate more reports. Its style also reflects the current American cultural atmosphere. In this era of "virtual reality", the distinction between true and false is becoming more and more confusing. Similarly, the distinction between radical and conservative reactionaries has become increasingly meaningless. The content and form of radical works were quickly absorbed by the capitalist system and reproduced as marketable commodities. 5.paris, Texas

In fact, Bonnie and Clyde, which was also a huge box office success, was shot earlier than Easy Rider and had more commercial elements than the latter, but it was not remembered as a road movie at first. The focus of this film lies in its portrayal of violence, which is direct and heartless, so at first it entered American cinemas as a crime-themed or gangster-themed film. But it was such a bloody film that saved the American film industry at that time and provided a model for later genre road movies. Many elements in the film are frequently used for reference by later films, thus establishing the immortal status of this film in similar movies.

Wim Wenders is an elite director in the so-called "German New Wave" movement. Although he is German, Wenders is particularly fascinated by road movies and the natural and human landscapes in the western United States. Almost all of his works are road movies, and he even named his production company "Road Movie Production", which shows his persistence in road movies.

Paris, Texas is a road movie with the theme of exploring one's past. Travis walked alone in the desert of Texas for several years. When he returned to the civilized world, he refused to speak at first. Even his brother Walt, who cares most about him, kept his mouth shut and refused to disclose what happened in recent years. They silently continued their journey from Texas to Los Angeles, and the car drove through the desert. Suddenly Travis said "Paris, Texas", which is a deserted place in central Texas. The place where his parents made love for the first time should also be the place where he started. Travis said.

When they returned to Walter's home, Travis gradually adapted to civilized life and learned to get along with his son Hunter. But he still refused to disclose what happened to him and his wife Jane.

Travis learned Jane's whereabouts from Walter's wife Ann, so he drove his son to Texas and waited for his wife at the gate of a bank. Jane showed up and left, and Travis followed her to an old building. He came to a small room. The wall is translucent. He can see the opposite side, but he can't see the opposite side. His wife is engaged in pornography here. Travis confessed to the past and finally let his wife recognize him: Jane wanted to leave, and he locked his wife and children in the garage because of jealousy. Woke up in the middle of the night and found the house on fire. I hurried to the garage to have a look, but they had already left. At this point, his brain was blank, just running aimlessly and running out of the boundaries of civilization.

Travis told his wife and son the address of the hotel, reunited them and left quietly.

In this film, the memory gradually unfolds in two journeys. Los Angeles is a symbol of civilized life, and Texas is the starting point and end point of Travis. It contains his past. He left it there when he ran to the desert four years ago, so when he returned to civilized life, he had to go back and get it back. In previous road movies, most of the scenery along the way was just the background of the plot. Wenders's love for roads made Paris, Texas spend a lot of time describing the scenery along the way. At first, he wanted to make a movie from Alaska to North America and then to Texas. But his screenwriter told him that "you can find all of America in Texas". Then he agreed. When shooting this film, he also captured the scenery of the western United States with his camera, and an album came out. 6. Voyager "Glass Rose"

Voyager is the work of German director Volker Schon Doff 199 1 year. This movie is more like a "travel movie" than a road movie (because flying and taking a boat also occupy a heavy weight). The whole movie consists of two related clips. Walter Faber, the hero, crashed in the middle of the plane and landed in the desert of Mexico. He was idle chatting with a German businessman and found that the businessman's classmates happened to be his classmates and friends before World War II. And his best friend's ex-wife is Walter's childhood friend.

Walter is a water conservancy engineer and always does things rationally. But when they were rescued, Walter suddenly ignored new york's mountain of work and went to the Mexican jungle with businessmen to find his brother. But when they went to a friend's house, they found a body hanging from the beam.

After the funeral, Walter hurried back to new york. In order to get rid of his mistress, he decided to go to Paris by ferry to attend a meeting. On the ferry, he met a young girl, Elizabeth. They seem to be people from different worlds, and they don't match each other anyway: Walter is a pure rationalist, while Elizabeth loves existential philosophy; Walter specializes in science and technology, while Elizabeth loves art; Water is past middle age, and Elizabeth is in her prime. But they are attracted to each other.

In Paris, they met again and went to southern Europe together. A super-friendly relationship happened on the way. But Walter accidentally learned that Elizabeth was the daughter of his young girlfriend Henna. Surprised, he had to suspect that the girl was his daughter. In Greece, Elizabeth was accidentally bitten by a poisonous snake and was taken to the hospital for emergency treatment. In the hospital, Walter met Hannah, whom he hadn't seen for years, and learned that Elizabeth was his own daughter. Elizabeth died the next day.

This film looks like an ordinary romantic literary film, but two completely different travel experiences before and after are enough to enrich its own significance. As a rationalist, the hero takes a scientific attitude towards everything, even indifferent to the plane crash. However, reason can't explain why he went to the Mexican jungle with a complete stranger to find a friend he hadn't contacted for years, why he fell in love with his daughter, and why the girl in the mood for love suddenly died. His experiences on the journey, in addition to being firmly entangled with past memories, also highlighted the contingency and absurdity of life.