Billy wilder: No one is perfect.

At the westwood Pierre Memorial Cemetery in Los Angeles, billy wilder's tombstone is engraved with the following words: I am a writer, but no one is perfect.

"Nobody is perfect" has become one of the most classic lines in Hollywood. As the ending line of the film "Passion Like Fire", which is regarded as a good king of comedy, billy wilder used it to sum up his life. Just like the seemingly absurd happy ending of Passion, it shows us the same mentality: Never mind, I don't care, I forgive. . . Looking back on this life, in the end, everyone should reconcile with the past, whether it is perfect or not, because no one is perfect.

Maybe in the eyes of many people, he should be perfect. Many people may know little about him, but his works are famous in history.

Prosecution of Witnesses: Douban scored 9.6, Douban TOP250 ranked 65th, imdb scored 8.4, before the classic film 100. Better than 99% suspense movies and 99% crime movies. I believe that movie lovers will never miss such a classic.

In addition to Witness for the Prosecution, there are many classic films, such as Two Girls, A Couple of Dragon and Phoenix, Sunset Boulevard, Affectionate, Peach Blossom Apartment and so on. , are produced by this great god.

Of course, there is the classic action in Monroe's film history-pressing the skirt, which comes from billy wilder's film The Seven-Year Itch. Monroe pressed her skirt and attracted more than 2,000 passers-by.

These films have achieved good reputation and box office results, and also won six Oscar statuettes for billy wilder.

No one expected that these absurd or funny films were made by a German director. Billy wilder came to the United States with fantasies and dreams from Germany, which has always been famous for restraining stereotypes.

1906 On June 22nd, billy wilder was born into a Jewish family in Suha, in present-day southern Poland. Billy was a bad boy in his teens. He doesn't like studying. He likes to skip class and go to Chaplin's movies. One year, an invitation letter changed his view of others. The content of this invitation is to let his father attend the parent-teacher conference, and the child's name is not him. He immediately understood that his father had an illegitimate child outside, and the proportion was not exposed. The father and son kept silent and tacitly understood. But then billy wilder realized that cheating and lying were normal things in life. This has also become the theme and content that billy wilder often shows.

1933 65438+ 10 In October, after Hitler came to power, Billy moved to Paris for fear of persecution of his Jewish identity, where he first indulged in directing Evil Blood. In order to realize the dream of a screenwriter, he came to Hollywood on a temporary visa. When he first came, he didn't really adapt to Hollywood life, and he was almost penniless.

In the early days, billy wilder worked as a reporter in a small newspaper, interviewed a lot of people and things, and met many stars from all walks of life. During his time as a crime reporter, he began to write plays, but he was the screenwriter of many films. His first independent signature play was sold with comedies.

The landlord's daughter in billy wilder is a slut, and she often has an affair with her fiance. During the affair, she was almost caught by her fiance. The adulterer hid in Billy's room next door. The adulterer is the head of a film company, so under Billy's "threat and pleading" offensive, the other party bought the script. Sometimes the story outside the movie is more exciting than the movie itself.

Billy wilder was the most storytelling director and screenwriter in Hollywood at that time. His story is tortuous and elaborate, and the dialogue between the characters is clever, witty and dramatic. Director Cameron called billy wilder's films "told in the language of the world of love, full of wisdom and playful sparks". For all fans and people who want to learn the beauty of life, all roads lead to billy wilder. "

How to tell a good story is a question that all directors are thinking about, and how to attract people at the beginning of the film is also the director's greatest concern. Billy wilder can be regarded as a director and screenwriter who is good at catching the audience's eye. "From the very beginning, we have to hold the audience tight, make them breathless, and never let them go." Almost all his films begin with humorous and interesting voiceover, which has always been despised by many people. I think only directors who can't tell the story background and characters will have such a traditional way. However, billy wilder hit many people in the face with his talent.

For example, at the beginning of Peach Apartment, the protagonist monologues, from the population of the city where he lives to the number of employees in his company to his apartment. Other employees can get off work at 5: 20, but there is something wrong with his apartment, and the suspense is successfully laid. In this opening, Billy used a lot of numbers to describe it, similar to the slogan "Even a cup can circle the earth twice". Contrast makes the numbers interesting, probably because the director's experience as a journalist makes his films full of news documentary reports.

In the classic movie Sunset Boulevard, there is a voiceover in a news report, which tells the story of a dead body floating in the swimming pool of a former Hollywood star: the body of a young man floating in the swimming pool of her mansion was shot twice in the back and once in the abdomen, but these are not important. He is just a writer who has written several B-rated movies.

Poor guy, he always wanted a swimming pool,

I finally understand. . .

It's just that the price is a little high,

Let's go back to the day when the story began six months ago!

At the beginning of this story, a murder case is thrown out, and the identity of the deceased is explained in quite interesting words. The deceased is the protagonist of this film. The opening of this film is paid tribute to by many films, the most classic of which is American Beauty.

Introduction: My name is Nestor Banning, and this is my hometown. . . I am 42 years old and I will die in one year. To tell the truth, I don't know yet, but to tell the truth, my heart is dead.

In addition to the classic opening, Sunset Boulevard also has an overhead shot that seems to be an underwater perspective, which made all the audience shine at that time. There was no underwater photographic equipment. Billy wilder thought of a way, put a big mirror at the bottom of the pool, and photographed the lens that reflected the mirror to the edge of the pool, so that the whole lens looked a little distorted.

Billy wilder's talent and personality are well known in Hollywood. Besides, he is famous for his bad temper. He has problems with all the writers he has worked with. Mainly because he is too demanding, some writers have been forced to give up smoking.

Just like the love between a lawyer and a nurse in Testifying for the Prosecution, Harry Kurnitz, one of the screenwriters of Testifying for the Prosecution, knows how to get along with the director. If the director scolds him, he just goes back diplomatically, and finally billy wilder will lose his temper. The witty dialogue in the prosecution witness is more or less influenced by this film.

Although he has a bad temper, it can't hide billy wilder's talent. Many Hollywood stars competed with him, such as humphrey bogart, Audrey Hepburn, marlene dietrich and Marilyn Monroe.

Marilyn Monroe, in particular, often sells herself to Billy in order to get rid of people's inherent understanding of her vase acting skills. After reading the script, she felt that the role was not rich enough and decided to give up. When she learned that the leading roles would be Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon, she decided to take the film, because both of them are very capable, and the audience watching Passion will definitely be impressed by their performances.

No one is perfect, and billy wilder sometimes encounters Waterloo. 1964' s film "Kiss with Red Lips" failed at the box office, and he was not so prolific after that. 198 1 year, after billy wilder finished his last work, A Friend in Need, he gradually withdrew from people's sight.

On March 7, 2002, Billy died. His classic works have always inspired later filmmakers and infected the audience. Even after more than half a century, his films are still worshipped by everyone, which may be regarded as a real perfection.