Coquettish Rebirth

After the Oscars, Nolan actually slept very little every day.Every day he thinks about how to get one step closer!During these days, he watched other people's movies every night, took out the plots in those other people's movies one by one, and analyzed them.Even after watching it many times, he still keeps watching it repeatedly. He feels that in this situation where he knows the plot, he pauses when he sees a certain scene, and then thinks about how he should shoot this scene and how he should choose it. What effect should the position produce, and then compare it with the choices made by other directors to see who is better in the filming... Through such a kind of non-stop comparison and training, Nolan's goal is very simple. make up for those shortcomings.Like Michael Bay's movies, Nolan has watched several of them, and he found that Michael Bay is particularly talented when designing big scenes.Whether it is the selection of scenes and the selection of related props, plus the use of lens language, it really fully exerted the visually stunning effect!And like Spielberg, although Spielberg is not very good at filming the relationship between people, but in films like "et" and other films, this Spielberg is very fond of people and other creatures. The emotional shots are pretty good!

Nolan has never felt that he needs to learn so much. The more he reads, the more he feels that each of the seniors really has two brushes!Those who can make a name for themselves in Hollywood must be able to shoot at least one aspect well!Compared with him Nolan, what does he have?In addition to having a certain screenwriting ability, he also has a certain editing ability.Apart from being able to shoot literary and artistic films so that ordinary people can understand them, it seems that there is no advantage!From a certain point of view, the more he reads, the more he understands, the more afraid he is, and the more he feels that he knows less!Maybe he didn't realize that being able to be afraid is already a kind of progress. Being able to discover that others are stronger than himself, being able to discover that others have two talents, and being able to be in awe.This is already a very big progress.On the contrary, people who don't understand.But often the more I feel that I understand, the more I feel that others are nothing special.

Now when he was pulling his younger brother and Jia Hongjian together to plan the script of "Infernal Affairs", Nolan also found that Jia Hongjian is too awesome!It's not that he flattered Jia Hongjian, he never said that to Jia Hongjian's face.It is purely the feeling inside!In his opinion.Where is Jia Hongjian so awesome?This Jia Hongjian can think of many good ideas and plots in minutes!For example, in order to highlight the shock brought by the death of the only inspector who knows the identity of "good undercover".It is necessary to show the supervisor's various concerns for the "good undercover", as if he is both a teacher and a friend.For example, when the good undercover celebrated his birthday, the inspector bought him a watch with his own money.And it's quite an expensive watch.And let such a good undercover who is used to using a mobile phone to tell the time get used to wearing a mechanical watch to tell the time!In this way, this kind of relationship between characters is established. Although it is very subtle and detailed, such subtle details can be passed on to the audience in a subtle way, and then the audience looks back and sees such a wonderful story. When the police die, they will be as shocked as the good undercover!

How good are these details?Jia Hongjian even suggested that the underworld leader, who was like a godfather, should have sent several undercover agents to the police station, but only one was the best one, and he was most devoted to cultivating such a policeman. children.It's just that he didn't fully trust that person, and privately used a tape recorder to record various conversations with this person who went undercover to the police station, just in case he could save his life one day!

The addition of these details is just right and natural. It can be said that Nolan felt that if he wanted to think about these plots, he would have to come up with a bunch of them first, and then slowly select and modify them.But as for Jia Hongjian, he added appropriate details in a few clicks, and these details also reserved various places that can be used for the plot—for example, after the death of the underworld leader, it is OK to be an undercover underworld policeman. Get rid of these evidences?And will the other undercover agents that the mafia boss once placed in the police force be able to come out and kill the policeman who went undercover into the gang?All of this is very scalable!As for Jia Hongjian, he figured it out easily!This made Nolan think that Jia Hongjian was born to be a filmmaker!

On the other hand, Nolan's catching up with Jia Hongjian is also constantly showing off his genius!First of all, Nolan admired the plot outline proposed by Jia Hongjian very much, and then he was very talented and directly discovered the double symmetrical structure in it-the identities of the two protagonists are very symmetrical, like They are the same in the mirror, and at the same time, the supporting characters behind the two are also very symmetrical.Just like "Zeng Zhiwei" behind "Liu Dehua", like "Huang Qiusheng" behind "Liang Chaowei", these two people are important supporting roles, although they are not as symmetrical as the two protagonists, but they also bear certain burdens. As a foil, it can be said that the overall is also symmetrical, and then they also played their roles, fully foiling the two protagonists, and at the same time making the whole play more attractive!

For this double symmetrical structure, Nolan put forward an interesting proposal, that is to design a woman, let this woman be the center, and then on her sides are double symmetrical structures like butterfly wings, how good it is!Jia Hongjian really wanted to give a thumbs up to this. In the original US version of Infernal Affairs, Jia Hongjian sincerely thought that combining the two female characters in the Hong Kong version into one was a rare highlight!Because in this way, although it seems to be simplified, it can connect all kinds of characters together, and on the contrary, it can create a sense of fate!There is a more dramatic style!

In Nolan's vision, Zheng Xiuwen's role and Chen Huilin's role are combined into one, becoming a woman who looks like a psychiatrist but dreams of being a writer.She met "Liu Dehua" because of psychological guidance, and then met "Liang Chaowei" because of psychological guidance.Then such a deliberate setting, doesn't it just show a sense of fate?This is double centrosymmetry!The two undercover people have completely different undercover directions, but they are both betraying the "class" that should belong to them. Such similar lives make them even fall in love with the same woman!Maybe in the end, both of them died the same!If you set it up like this, there will be a kind of shocking rush?There is a faint feeling that "Liang Chaowei" would become "Liu Dehua" who was not found to be an undercover agent if it wasn't for family factors?Will it rise step by step and have a bright future? If "Liu Dehua" became a bad guy instead of because of family factors, would it be dangerous, but at least he doesn't have to worry all day long, and doesn't have to watch his future get better and better, but he also knows that he is an undercover agent. One day, the future may be ruined by the boss behind it...

In this wonderful situation of "appreciating" each other, Jia Hongjian and Nolan quickly completed the outline of the script, and at the same time perfected the general background setting and personality setting of each character.At the same time, while designing, Jia Hongjian and Nolan, foreigners, had to often find different people to come over to inquire about things in the United States—after all, they were both foreigners, although Nolan When he was a child, he ran in both the United States and the United Kingdom, but after all, he had never lived like ordinary people in the United States, so it is normal for him not to understand many practical problems here.After inquiring about it, Jia Hongjian and the others even added the subprime mortgage problem that gradually became prominent in reality into the setting.

What is a subprime loan?In short, it is a "sub-level loan" or "a relatively dangerous loan"!After the stock market crash in 2000, in order to cope with the impact on the real economy, the Federal Reserve of the United States lowered interest rates n times in a row, and then stimulated funds to go out of banks to invest in various "products", and then the real estate market began to boom stand up.For example, Jia Hongjian and the others transferred the ownership of the house from Aniston last year. It has only been half a year, and the market price has already increased by about 100 million US dollars!And as a result, even the banks began to think of all kinds of crooked ideas.Originally, buying a house in the United States requires a loan, and banks also have to review their qualifications. For customers with poor qualifications, the risk of repaying the loan is relatively high, so the bank classifies them as sub-standard customers, and the loans given to them are called subprime loans.

Normally, banks are not very good at lending to subprime customers, that is, they are not very good at making subprime loans. After all, the risk is high.But what happens when the real estate market heats up?Banks will find that fucking stimulus loan customers are a great way to make money - yes, it's not easy for them to pay back on time, but what they want is that they still don't pay!When the time comes to collect the house and then sell it on the market, will it be higher than the total amount of the original loan?The relative profit is also quite a lot!

It is easier to understand this matter when viewed in the Chinese market. In the seven years from 03 to 10 when housing prices soared, the family first took a loan of 7 yuan in Shanghai in 03, plus their own income. The money bought a house.Even if the loan of 8 is for 20 years, it will take 16 years for the bank to recover 20 in the end!But in this era of skyrocketing housing prices, if the loan is given to a street vendor, and the family can’t pay it back after two years, the bank will take the house away.Maybe at this time, that company has already paid 3 yuan, and there is still a shortfall of 13 yuan.But after these two years, the price of the house has increased by far more than 13!Can the bank make more money by selling the house through various means?Is it even faster?As for such secondary customers, what should they do if they lose their houses?The fuck is in the bank of America's business!People don't care!Of course, this kind of subprime loan makes money by relying on the hot real estate market!If one day the real estate market is not hot, and suddenly the house price starts to drop slowly, then the bank will suffer a lot of losses!Especially when the original high-quality customers found that the house price after the fall is less than their remaining outstanding loans, why do they still have to repay the loan? (To be continued..)