Coquettish Rebirth

The editing of Nolan's "Infernal Affairs" is really attractive!

That's right, relatively speaking, in Jia Hongjian's opinion, shooting movies is not very attractive.Because filming is too fragmented, when shooting in one scene, the first scene is the beginning of the real movie, the second scene is the middle of the movie, the third scene is the end, and then go to another place, again Stagger to shoot.Over the whole month, the order of shooting was messed up!This makes people feel quite weird, because the whole shooting process is to minimize the consumption of funds and use the funds as efficiently as possible, so the shooting is too fragmented, and a complete impression cannot be formed in people's minds.

But when it comes to editing, it's different!Because editing is to change such a disorderly and fragmented content into an orderly content, which is quite exciting!And the key point is that although the editor of this film is not Nolan himself, the one he hired is very strong-although the editor named Lee Smith is an independent editor, but he has edited it before. "The Truman Show" is such a magical film!If you count forward, Heath Ledger, who played Nolan's version of the clown in history, made a film like "Hands" in 99, which was also edited by Smith. Counting forward, "Robocop 90" in 2 It was also edited by this dude!Is this resume good enough?Do you have experience editing blockbuster films?Others also have experience in editing literary and artistic films, but because some of them are not well-known, Jia Hongjian has never seen them, and I don’t know what the Chinese name of this film is.In general, such a Lee-Smith has edited seven or eight films since his debut as an editor in 86. Generally speaking, Spielberg still nods to the editing level of such a buddy Admittedly, this is also the reason why Jia Hongjian and the others chose this buddy to be an editor!

Such a Lee Smith took a look at the script and storyboards written by Jia Hongjian and the others, and said that he had an overall impression, and then started editing with Jia Hongjian's company!The action of this guy cutting it is called fast.First of all, when he started editing, he first watched the stuff shot by Nolan in the order of the story, and then after Jia Hongjian reminded him to know the overall style, he quickly started editing.Of course, this editing uses a digital non-linear editing system. I saw that this guy was working quickly on several screens on the computer. A couple of seconds in the shot are added to another shot, and then switched back and forth.It took two or three days of work.A total of more than 3000 meters of film content, it was almost edited into a single movie sequence by this guy!

Of course, such an edit is still a preliminary cut, just like when you cut your hair with the fader first, it is just to achieve the purpose of preliminarily finalizing the film, and it is just to temporarily arrange the sequence of interspersed shots.Whether this second or that second is in place in the specific time axis has not been precisely adjusted.After such a first cut finalizes the overall film, the next step is re-cutting, which can be thought of as the process of putting down the faders and starting the correction with the scissors when cutting hair.After such a re-cut, it is the third step of fine-cutting. At this time, it is time to pursue various "artistic concepts", and that is the question of whether a shot accurate to 0.1 seconds should be continued.

In the process of such an editing, although it was cut back and forth several times.Although it seems troublesome, when Jia Hongjian watched it, it really felt like a movie was slowly taking shape!And you have to know that such a movie is still his idea!So when I watched the editing, I really felt that my own film was slowly taking shape, just like my own children slowly growing up!And grow up fast!In such a film, apart from Jia Hongjian's "genes", there is also Nolan's "genes".Such a film can be said to be like Jia Hongjian's father.And Nolan is like a mother, the film produced is really a mixture of the two people's strengths.First of all, the plot was designed by Jia Hongjian, but under Nolan’s shooting, the whole film’s rhythm is quite fast, and the style is very sharp. It feels like Jia Hongjian’s ideas have passed through Nolan’s After the transformation.It turned into a cold light like the blade, a chill like the blade, and a decisive feeling like the blade!

During the fine cutting, Nolan also joined in.Under the authorization of Jia Hongjian, he began to talk to the editor about his own thoughts on film plot editing, and soon after fine editing, the film became more and more Nolan-style, and it was all of a sudden. Various reverse sequences, various interludes, various double-lines go hand in hand!After such an edit, the style of Nolan's film really hits the face all at once. This film is almost like a rock and roll song. It really makes people can't help but throw themselves into it and "carnival" together!

Although there are no fighting scenes in such a movie, it is because there are no fighting scenes that Nolan's filming seems to be all kinds of awesome and all kinds of atmosphere - just like in the Hong Kong version of the movie, Not long after the opening, Liu Dehua and the others caught another person, and then Liu Dehua pretended to be "Lawyer Liu" to talk to that person, pretending to be a lawyer sent by "Brother Mao", and let that person fight alone, saying that his family, Brother Mao He would help take care of him, and then secretly gave him a phone number, asking him to secretly call his brother in the factory to run away.When such a scene first came out, it was to show Liu Dehua's shrewdness and Liu Dehua's background - didn't the people around him ask Liu Dehua "how do you know that the factory belongs to Brother Mao", and Liu Dehua was stunned for a while? ?

In the Hong Kong version, it never explained how such a person was arrested, nor did it say what happened to Brother Mao after that, nor did the scene of the factory being raided.But in Nolan's version, all of these are available!There was such a capture shot from the very beginning!Moreover, they were caught when such a "regional manager" wholesaled drugs to the "store manager" below!So at the beginning of the scene, it was coordinated with the dispatch of the swat special police team, with the storming of various special police with big guns and small guns, with the irradiation of helicopters with searchlights, and with countless police cars honking their horns. The scene was absolutely shocking. Feel like a blockbuster!Even such a small boss let the younger brother cover him and run away, so there was another series of road car chases like those in the American news!This looks so exciting!

And after such a big scene that came at the beginning, the next thing is "Liu Dehua" pretending to be a lawyer to lie to the phone number and then use the police to search and locate the factory to determine where the factory is, and on the other side, "Zeng Zhiwei" and "Liang Chaowei" "It was said that the competitor's factory was going to be copied—it turned out that under Nolan's design, the scene where such a factory was copied was all connected to the main line!This "Zeng Zhiwei" sent "Liu Dehua" into the police force. In addition to asking "Liu Dehua" to inform him, this "Zeng Zhiwei" also often tipped "Liu Dehua" to attack all kinds of competitors in the underworld!At the same time, in this way, Liu Dehua also rose faster!

Then, through the meeting between "Liang Chaowei" and "Huang Qiusheng", he told "Huang Qiusheng" that there might be an undercover agent in the police force.However, due to various reasons, "Liang Chaowei" is not sure whether "Zeng Zhiwei" reported the secret, because the other party may also know that "Brother Mao"'s factory has been copied through the lower-level people in the police force!After such a beginning, let’s go back and interject, then add what happened when the two sides were training in the police force when they were young, and then add the two young people who have embarked on the path they didn’t want to take. A silhouette, an experience!

It can be said that such a film is under the control of Nolan, it has more police and gangster elements than the original Hong Kong version of "Infernal Affairs", it looks more like a Hollywood blockbuster, and it has more of that police force. The bandits are on the verge of rushing!It's even said that it's a bit like 007 bravely solving a major terrorist attack case!From this point of view, Nolan's filming of big scenes has actually improved a bit, at least in terms of scheduling outside the explosion scene, that's really good!It is estimated that the explosion scenes are not as good as Michael Bay and the like, but it is really possible to improve to the level of "Inception" in the future, and it is estimated that it will reach that level soon!At the same time, under Nolan's consistent editing style that disrupts the timeline, although he did not edit it, the rhythm of the whole film still makes people involuntarily think carefully and watch it carefully—because the timeline It's messed up, if you don't look carefully, you will be a little bit incomprehensible!But also because the time axis is disrupted, it seems that the rhythm is really obvious, and it's really beautiful!Such a film let Jia Hongjian talk about it, not to mention how high the box office can be, at least [-] million US dollars should not be a big problem!In this way, it must be one of the top ten films of the year, which is also quite brilliant!

After the editing of Nolan's film has been almost done here, Jia Hongjian will not need to participate in the next test screening or other scenes. He will then go back to China to participate in the editing of "Hero"!This is really busy, but he believes that he can make both movies quite well!