Tell the story of the rise and fall of superheroes in the time of a song
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MAIN TITLES DIRECTOR — Zack Snyder
MUSIC — The Times They Are A-Changin by Bob Dylan
FILM DIRECTOR — Zack Snyder
COUNTRY — USA
LANGUAGE — English
Created by Alan Moore, painted by Dave Gibbons and colored by John Higgins, the comics have been acclaimed in both the comic world and the mainstream media as classic works in comics.
Watchmen is one of the “100 Best English Novels from 1923 to the present” selected by Time magazine in 2005, and it has also won the Hugo Award, the highest honor in the science fiction and art world, for its comic works.
“Watchmen” was released in 2009. The R-rated film received mixed reviews from the public and polarized media. But no one can deny its artistic opening, which uses a lot of slow motion and brief pauses to create the visual illusion of a time machine going back to history. Its grand historical background, American thinking during the Cold War, and the reshaping of American history, both shown and fabricated, make it one of the most memorable classic film clips of this era.
There’s a lot of shooting going on in this opening sequence. And the techniques used are often matched with long shots, close shots and panoramic shots.
—Shooting Methods
There are five main shooting methods used in the opening sequence.
- Push the lens
Push the lens is video shot one of the commonly used gimmick of du, cameras and gradually close to the picture, designed the picture frame by is gradually narrowing, scenery gradually enlarge picture, the line of sight of the audience see a from the overall layout, this push lens can guide the audience more appreciative role inner activities, strengthen the emotional climate of the foil. - Pull the lens
To pull a camera is to put a camera on a moving car and pull it away from a person or object.
As the camera moves away from the subject, the image expands from one part to another, allowing the viewer to move back and see the connection between the part and the whole. - Pan
Shaking the lens is a kind of shooting technique in shooting video, which refers to the shooting method of changing the axis of the optical lens of the camera with the help of the movable chassis on the tripod or the cameraman himself as the fulcrum when the camera position is still. - A close-up
A close-up is a shot of a person’s face, a part of the human body, or a detail of an object in a movie.
It was first created and used by the early American film director Griffith et al.
Its appearance and application enrich and enhance the unique expression of film art, which has always been film aesthetics. - Move the shaft
The effect of the photo taken by shifting the axis is like a miniature model, which is very special.
The function of the axle-shifting lens was originally used to correct the perspective problems caused by the ordinary wide-angle lens, but later it was widely used to create photography works with varying depth of field focal points.
—Cinematography
Cinematography is full of technique, which can not only give people a high sense of style visually, but also bring people into the story through the tone and tension of the photos themselves. In this opening scene, I combined several common and commonly used shooting methods to explain.
– The composition
In this opening, the photography mainly uses the method of symmetrical composition. And in the film, the shooting uses a lot of slow motion and deliberate pauses to strengthen the overall storyline and give people time to discover what needs to be discovered in the whole picture.
Central composition is one of the most common forms of composition because it is the most conservative and error-prone one.
For symmetric composition, whether it is architecture or people, there are many USES of symmetric composition. The advantage of symmetrical composition is that the picture is balanced and stable, while the disadvantage is that the overall picture is a little dull. However, since most of this shooting technique is used in the film to deal with architecture, this shortcoming is also perfectly concealed.
– Color
Compared with composition, color can more directly express emotions and render emotions. Whether a movie is brilliant, color also accounts for a large proportion, the same is true of photos. In this film, the head is tilted in the old-fashioned way. The whole picture is dark and tends to cool colors. This post-processing makes the story more relevant to the feeling of the time.
– Storytelling
The film is usually the carrier of the story, and the picture full of “film sense” must be very pictorial and story-like. In short, to make a photograph feel “cinematic” you have to make it tell a story like a movie. And this opening shot makes it very clear that this is about American history.
—The following is a detailed description of the entire opening
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“The Times They Are A-Changin” by Bob Dylan in The 1960s.
In 1964, Bob Dylan released The album The Times They Are A-Changin.
The words anti-war, equal rights, the pursuit of freedom and equality were added to Dylan, and he became the voice of America in the 1960s, the idol of young people rebelling against the establishment.
The director chose this song well, because he couldn’t have chosen a better match for the opening sequence.
Picture to the right the poster on the wall is batman first cover, this is at the gate of Wayne couple, the famous American comic book hero “Batman” Bruce Wayne parents, as well as the butler Alfred, originally in the cartoon should be snatched the purse and died in the opera house back alley Wayne couple to survive, so Bruce did not become batman, instead of his place is the watchmen.
Behind the group photo is the U.S. Supreme Court, and Minutemen, the former watchmen, have officially begun working with the government. Three of the seven men pictured together are eyeing her breasts, and the one standing next to her is brazenly. But she is proud of it.
The Script has been led by Violent Saboteur after being fired by Minutemen and has been led by Watchman. Is laughing as captured in the 1930 s during the great depression, active in the bank robber in the Midwestern United States and the United States, Herbert John Dillinger gang members, in spite of the police and others dislike, even when the American FBI (later reorganized as the federal bureau of investigation ) crown ” Public Enemy No. 1 “, but it is still a big to him, at that time, people think he is a modern Robin Hood.
Photo shoot captures Minutemen members’ finest moments, from left to right: The Silhouette, Mothman, Dollar Bill, Nite Owl, Captain Metropolis, The Comedian, Silk Spectre, Hooded Justice.
The aircraft was the Enola Gay, a famous B-29 superfortress bomber that dropped the atomic bomb “Little Boy” on Hiroshima, Japan. The front of the plane is painted with a portrait of the Silk Spectre generation instead of the words’ ENOLA GAY ‘originally printed in history.
On August 15, 1945, in New York’s Times Square, people celebrated the end of World War II, with a striking headline in the New York newspaper: “Victory! Japan surrenders “. But then The famous photo in history, Victory Day in Times Square, where The character was changed, and The sailor came in late and saw himself replaced by The Silhouette and kissed The nurse, and then people saw The look behind The scenes, and it reflects the hostile attitude towards homosexuality in the United States at that time.
Pixar’s The Incredibles has a classic homage to this plot.
The composition is similar to the last Supper. The Silk Spectre generation is pregnant. Standing next to her is her husband. The intimate sight of the Silhouette holding hands with the nurse also confirms their relationship.
Newspaper reports of a Lesbian victory kiss, and the scarlet Lesbian Whores on the wall, were the extreme acts of anti-homosexuality on the eve of Stonewall, which is the starting point of the gay rights movement.
Rorschach, the son of a prostitute, quietly and placidly joined the line of clients at the door, one of whom held A newspaper headline that read “RUSS HAVE A-BOMB”, marking the start of the Cold War.
Dr. Manhattan, working with the government as a response to the Soviet nuclear threat, should have Dr. Kissinger with him at that time.
On November 22, 1963, In Dallas, Texas, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated while riding in a Lincoln. In real history, the official investigation reports that Oswaldo fired the gun at the library, but ballistics experts later determined that the gun was fired at the location of The Comedian in the movie.
On June 11, 1963, Vietnamese Buddhist Thích Quảng Đức sat on the ground in Saigon, set his body on fire and killed himself to protest against south Vietnamese government leader Ngo Dinh Diem and the South Vietnamese Catholic Church’s policy of persecuting Buddhists.
The two men tied up were Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, the journalists who exposed the Watergate scandal and forced Nixon out of office. Nixon was re-elected because they were killed.
Castro visited the Soviet Union for the first time after the Cuban missile crisis in 1963.
On May 4, 1970, students at Kent State University protested Nixon’s reneging on his promise to invade Cambodia. Alison Krauss, 19, was one of 11 students killed when national Guardsmen opened fire after she planted a white flower in their gun.
Behind them is a masterpiece of Pop art, replaced by the Owl II in 1967’s “Marilyn Monroe,” with Ozymantes in the back and a Rorschach inkblot test in the distance.
Armstrong said, “good luck, Mr Gaussian basis”, this sentence has caused widespread speculation, until July 5, 1995 in Tampa, Florida, in an interview, because gaussian basis had died, Mr Armstrong just explained: “his childhood neighbors gaussian Sir Asked his wife for the KJ, wife denounced unless the neighborhood kids can fly to the moon”.
Next to Mr. Bowie would be Mick Jagger, with the Village People, a famous music group, in the background.
From left to right: The Comedian, Silk Spectre, Dr. Manhattam, Ozymandias, Nite Owl, Rorschach.
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There’s Richard Milhous Nixon running for a third term on TV, and the Doomsday Clock on another TV. Outside the window was a police strike, which they chose to use as a form of protest against the “watchmen”, the so-called heroes who they believed were robbing real policemen of their jobs.