Aki kaurismaki's filmography experience.

Before filming, Archie Corus Markey worked as a postman, dishwasher and film critic. With his involvement in the film industry, he and his brother Mika Kaurismaki set up a production and distribution company named Villealfa to commemorate Jean-Luc Ge Daer's film Alpha City. As a prolific filmmaker, since the early 1980s, the number of films made by Machiavelli brothers in Cauris has reached one-fifth that of Finland, and Archie's works have attracted the attention of foreign filmmakers in particular.

A Zi's works have distinctive characteristics. First, the length of the film, because he once said that a film should not exceed 90 minutes, and most of his films are close to 70 minutes; Secondly, it is full of strange imitations of various types of movies, including road movies, film noir and rock movies; And it is often rooted in the miserable Finns, and the music is mainly rock in the 1950 s.

To be sure, as the author of a film with distinctive personality, the director Archie Cauris Markey is arrogant and autocratic. As early as when The Man Without a Past won the Cannes Jury Award, Archie Corus Markey's first sentence was: "First of all, I want to thank myself." In the process of film creation, Aceh is responsible for all the work, and all departments should act according to his wishes. Actors and other staff are equal, but they must follow the director's trajectory. The improvisation of actors is not allowed, even if the direction of eyes is not allowed to deviate more than a few centimeters, so it is often necessary to make a mark.

Finnish director Aki Kaurismaeki is an amazing young master, only 49 years old. The Logano Film Festival, the fourth largest film festival in Europe, has just held a super sensational retrospective exhibition for him: all 16 feature films, 3 documentaries, 7 short films as directors, and works as producers, actors, screenwriters and film lovers. The 22 series of "Chris Markey's Favorite" are all classics in film history. There were many silent films in the last century 10 ~ 20' s: from Griffith, Monau, Eisenstein, Chaplin, bunuel, Keaton, Powell, Ray, Bresson, Godard, Kurosawa, Anjiro, Descartes and fassbinder to his brother-in-law, and his friend's Stranger in Heaven was among them, and Jia was among them.

There are also photos and stills of his work over the past 20 years, even a photo exhibition of all his works as a dog lover: his dog Tahti won the most special prize-Palm Dog Award at Cannes Film Festival in France for his outstanding performance in People Without a Past in 2002, while Tahti's grandmother Laika starred in Bohemia and his mother Piitu starred in Juha. The cover of the album specially published by the film festival also shows Cauris Maji sitting on the top of the mountain with a big dog watching the sunset, and his expression is still as erratic as ever.

The screenwriter's dream is dim under the aura of the film.

August 1 1, Locarno, Switzerland, a capitalist paradise. Finnish director Koris Markey was awarded the honorary leopard. Nearly 10,000 spectators applauded warmly, but he kept bowing his head, vague with a lost expression: "I'm really ... so ... sorry about it!" " -half absurd, half cold humorous truth. At the age of 49, he is very tired and wants to retire from the film circle and start his own writing: "What's it like to be a star director who is cheered?" Actually, it's worse than not being famous. People can celebrate at any time, but I can't. I want to be a writer, but I have been trapped in movies for 30 years. If I come back later, maybe I will bring a good work, or I won't come back at all. It's really hard to say that all good works happen by accident. "It is said that Finnish audiences don't like his unattractive films. The reason is very "global" and familiar: "Make our country so dirty and backward! "It seems that all Finns are depressed and hopelessly" living elsewhere ". In fact, Chris Markey's later films in Paris, London and the United States all have the flavor of "Finland".

Cauris Markey and the painter's wife spend half the year in Portuguese wine estates and the other half in Helsinki, where he owns several hotels, or in his hometown of Karkkila, 70 kilometers away. He even runs a hotel there. "Don't go there, I'm just here to help my sister wallpaper-she left the village a few years ago and moved away, but I stayed there." Finland is a country famous for Nokia. But in Chris Markey's movie, there is no camera lens of mobile phone, away from all weapons, violence and sex: "All I need is a man, a woman, a wall, a lamp and a shadow. Take women away from the picture, leaving men, walls, light and shadow; Then take away men, as well as walls, lights and shadows; The wall is taken away again, and there is light and shadow; Finally, the lamp was taken away, leaving only a shadow. I'm not very modern. The cars in the movies are all outdated styles. The car now is so ugly that I don't want to shoot it at all. " His own collection are all classic cars: Soviet-made 1949 "Moscow" sedan, 195 1 Chevrolet pickup truck, 1956, bus: Chevrolet engine, but the body is Finnish wood.

Chris Markey's films also return to nature, which accords with minimalist aesthetics. They are unique and poetic, and attach great importance to the use of light. He only uses 35mm film, often black and white film "for himself" and color film "for business". He is often praised as a pioneer of the dogmatic movement. Perhaps their similarity is to resist the technicalization of movies and any sequelae of digital technology from a distance. In his words, it is "Hollywood bullshit! Let Americans make money. When their money is too much to carry, I will pick up a few pennies from the ground-this is what we call art movies. " But they also don't agree with the paranoid personal style of some European authors: "Greenaway-style art shit." His anti-backbone is worthy of being a "rock singer among contemporary film directors": the reason why he failed in the Finnish Film Academy was "too cynical"; In 2003, the jury award of Cannes Film Festival "A Man Without a Past" was nominated for the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, but refused to attend because of protesting the Iraq war in the United States. All his films have the same theme: oppression and inequality in marginal life; I often tease the media and even play hooligans. The usual way of directing is arbitrary. I always use actors with strong personalities who can penetrate the screen. It is said that he hooked his finger behind the camera before the actor dared to move his eyes from one point to another, and the angle and distance should be very accurate: "After all, I paid for it, and they have to listen to me."

Pay attention to loneliness in the shadow

He is extreme, but economical and honest: "I don't know how other directors do it. I make good use of every shot I take." I seldom shoot the same scene repeatedly on the set, and often use the first audition, even one earlier than it: the actor didn't hear that the camera had started to operate; When we started the first official shoot, the camera didn't actually turn on at all. The novelty of the first attempt is hard to get, either for the first time or after 30. My brother is a director, and my brother-in-law is also a director, doing post-production in my editing room. When I got home, he helped me take out a small package from the car and asked me when to start editing. I said that if he finished, I would start cutting the next day. He wanted to know where my materials were, and I told him that he had all the materials. That's "Women Workers in the Match Factory", and the film ratio is 1: 1. 1. The film is actually only 59 minutes, but I lied in the film festival album that it was 6 1 minute, otherwise German TV stations would think it was too short to buy the film. I started as a screenwriter for others and often wrote some long dialogues, but in the end I was abandoned on the floor of the editing room. Conversation takes up too much time. When I started making movies myself, the dialogue was getting shorter and shorter, and the movies were getting shorter and shorter, which the producers liked very much. I must admit that my later works are too long. Last year, Twilight was only 59 minutes long. In four months, I'm going to shoot some auxiliary scenes. Stupid-the story is over, there is nothing to add-but in the end, I added 80 minutes to it. "

Twilight may be the finale of his last film, The Loser Trilogy, because of his retirement. The film begins with the standard and official glorious image of Finland: the city is full of high-rise buildings and dimly lit, but the intricate Jojo Lahti area in Helsinki is a maze. The hero who works as a security guard in a jewelry company is close to the so-called successful wealth, but he is alone in life. None of my colleagues who have worked together for three years can name him, and his positive dream of starting a business has been mercilessly humiliated by the bank loan department. One day, a blonde woman controlled by the underworld framed an acquaintance and deceived her until she was put in prison. She was "as loyal as a dog and a romantic fool", but she refused to betray her from beginning to end. The underworld leader was killed, and a female helper of a fast food restaurant who silently cared about him found him and slowly extended her hand to him. There is a fairy-tale romance at the end of the film. Cauris Markey also ridiculed himself in the director's exposition: "Although his luxurious workplace and humble home are in the same area, they are two sides of success. Property and income are the most arrogant and absurd dividing line in society, which satirizes an unspoken rule: wealth is theft. Fortunately, the old director of this film has always been known for his softness. It is conceivable that there will be a slight glimmer of hope at the end of the film. I don't tend to think that love and friendship are the foundation of men's and women's lives, but should be a rational partnership that accompanies each other. " Many movies with this theme will finally come to a hopeful conclusion: people are not lonely in the end, and two people are the smallest unit, while the humorous and pessimistic Coles Markey is obviously more honest: everyone is lonely in the end, and it is forever, even though those oppressed and failed lives and souls have their own dignity: "Lonely people in the shadow of society are a frequent movie theme: Chaplin also often pays attention to those wandering lonely tramps, who are always here." However, the romance, work, hopes, dreams and freedom of these kind and temperate optimists are always destroyed by the generalized equality and justice system without any expression and feeling in society. The daily sufferings of those civilians who live in the shadow are everywhere, turning an active and willing person into a pragmatic civilian, who is a person from beginning to end. The old-fashioned values full of humanity have not adapted to this society and will only be mercilessly deceived and ridiculed. "

Almost all his films can be summarized into four types: adaptation of classic literature, impromptu adventure, stories and characters related to rock music, and portraits of the most rascal: "trilogy of workers" and "trilogy of losers". All works have a series of stories between accident and fate; Unknown place, vacant expression and dialogue, dull narrative rhythm; Deep contempt for bureaucracy, urbanization and civilization; The contradiction between sublime and humble is irreconcilable in life and art; Combine the aesthetic elements of minimalism with rock style in black and white movies; The tone of the characters is between pessimism, cold humor and indomitable impermanence; De-performing image under the influence of classic and TV media. The thief's passage is completely cloned from Bresson's Bohemia poem, which depicts love, friendship and humanity. The emotion in Juha, known as "the last silent film of the 20th century", is as primitive and silent as the biblical characters. The cloud, the description of the unemployed, a homeless person with no past and the dusk all have unforgettable simple tension.

Smoking addiction determines the length of the film.

Cauris Markey, who studies communication engineering and literature at the University of Helsinki, has been reading history and novels crazily. He began to teach himself movies at the Munich Film Museum 30 years ago and has never been to the cinema until now. The first acting and screenwriter was Liar, a film directed by my brother Mika in 1980. It was a romantic story of a young Helsinki philosopher roaming in the field, which was very "Godard" in flavor. The name of the film company they founded together was even taken from Godard's work "Willer Alpha", and the number of films made by the two brothers was one fifth that of Finland. 198 1 year, they made Finland's first rock film together. From 65438 to 0986, a midnight Sun Film Festival was established in the Arctic Circle. After trying more than 20 jobs such as postman and dishwasher, I began to be a film critic of movies and magazines. 1983, the first film directed by an independent director was born, starting from "Crime and Punishment", "ascetic aesthetic style, B-class film, Dostoevsky-style psychology, chain events in unknown cities". Later works are all similar elements, and the actors and scripts are more consistent: "I trust my subconscious, and the story is natural." If I follow the script, I usually follow the script very strictly and rarely change it. There have been six times when we started shooting without a script and there was no planned dialogue at all. There is often a space in the first shot, and I prepare the rest temporarily: first props, then colors and lights, actors come in, and finally dialogue. Kati outinen knows what I want, and I know in advance how their actors will act, so I won't give too much guidance to the actors. Recently, scripts are increasingly needed, because the production system is becoming more and more complicated, and scripts are needed to make a shooting schedule. "

Kati outinen, who plays the heroine in many films, such as A Man Without a Past, is the so-called "Cauris Markey actress", but she doesn't know his phone number. She/Kloc-started performing at the age of 0/2 and likes to work in the Grand Theatre, where she has to prepare everything and even sew clothes. /kloc-at the age of 0/8, she almost lost her first movie role because she was not beautiful enough, but when Cauris Markey asked her to cooperate, she told her, "Your nose is big enough to appear in my movie." She looks ugly in the film of Chris Markey, but she understands: "It's hard for me to hide my feelings. Even if the role is lost, my whole state will tell you that acting is a matter of reaction. Don't just look, understand; Don't listen, understand; Don't forget to breathe, and don't hesitate to trip over props and furniture. I don't think Cauris Markey can make me look beautiful at this time. It is not always a good thing to be called a special actress named Chris Markey. It is difficult for other directors to cooperate with me. In fact, I cooperate with him every three or four years and do something else in the middle. I am a full-time professor at the National Film Academy of Helsinki Theatre Academy. I like working with energetic and enthusiastic young people. They discuss art, how to express themselves and how to create new things. It was the same when I was young. I imagine that I am still so young, and almost all the actors my age are dead-they only think about money and all kinds of troubles. Aki and I seldom contact each other. Sometimes he calls just to chat. I don't know his telephone number yet. He has a film project, so I asked for leave from school. There is a very special way of communication between us, without language: we have the same sense of humor and respect for movies. He knows exactly what he wants on the set, but he will also put forward various suggestions frankly. I often forget it after the movie, but I will never forget the play "The Woman Worker in the Match Factory". Aki was not particularly famous at that time. We filmed everywhere in Helsinki and jumped on the tram. The driver asked us, "What are we doing?" We are trying to make a movie! What a great experience! Of course there is no script, but we can all feel that we are doing something very different. "

Cauris Markey is a heavy smoker, so he thinks it's best to watch movies for about 70 minutes to avoid making him addicted. During the film festival, the reporter once asked him, "Why not come to China?" He said slowly, "Smoking is forbidden on the plane for so many hours unless it is equipped with a special plane." Besides, China still has the "Cultural Revolution"! "The' Cultural Revolution' has long since ended!" "Really? I don't think so. "This cunning and clever guy who has a dual attitude towards capitalism and leftism once used the same logic in his movie Hamlet Doing Business:" Will you marry me? " "You are too thin." "I can eat more." "What I said is just an excuse. "

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