Hollywood legendary director

The original director of "Old Nowhere" is one of the few relatively non-mainstream Western crime movies geeks in Hollywood.

They are strange because of this type of masterpieces such as "Fistful of Dollars", "Noon", and "Unforgivable", which generally take the protagonist to punish evil and promote good, tough western cowboy style.

The characteristics of the films directed by the Coen brothers should be summarized as: logic and order.

In fact, these two struggles with "orderly and followable" films are not the matter of these two works. They have been playing like this since their debut.

In other words, the personal theme of the Coen brothers is inexhaustible order.

In other words, they are the old western doctors who specialize in patients who have watched too many movies and think they are enough to master-in his movies, don't believe in the protagonist halo, don't believe in the cowboy knight, let alone believe in Sherlock Holmes.

The Coen brothers would always hold a gun against the chest of the audience, and shouted aggressively: "Who believes in a fool."

Therefore, in their films, the acting style of the characters is always so unexpected, even if they die suddenly.

And "Old Nowhere" is the master of the disorderly black philosophy of the Coen brothers, and the absurdity is all private.

By a highway in New Mexico.

Down the hill, Moss, the hunter played by Josh Brolin, carefully hid behind the boulder, watching the two groups fighting not far away.

The sky was already dark at this time, and he was about to go home before stumbled upon this scene.

Gradually, there was no sound not far away.

Moss sneaked and lurked in the past and saw three dead bodies and a black and thin guy who was seriously wounded in the cab of the off-road vehicle.

There was a delicate silver box beside the boy's feet. Under his unwilling gaze, Moss opened the box and checked it without hesitation.

As soon as I opened it, my heart beat violently.

But the box was filled with Franklin, estimated to be no less than 2 million.

Moss closed the silver box, greed suddenly appeared in his heart, and the thoughts he had taken for himself instantly filled his brain.

He is a veteran and has little wealth at home. His wife also suffers with him. In addition, he has retired from the battlefield for so many years. He has no expertise except killing and marksmanship. He is not even treated for work. He hunts on weekdays. How much money can be left for a living?

Moss thought in his heart that these people had a fight for some reason, and let himself find out that it was not a huge fortune, and there was something he dared not take.

At this point, Moss disguised the scene again, making it look more intense, shooting each other to death, and then changing the positions of the dead people, fumbling for a while, and touching it from another person’s arms. A piece of palm-sized dog head gold is even more sure that it is ill-gotten wealth in his heart, and he took it without any psychological condemnation.

Moss took the belongings, and suddenly saw that the black and thin guy hadn't died yet, he was picking up the shotgun and was about to make up his knife, but he felt that even if he didn't die for a while, he couldn't live in such a desolate place.

Thoughts struggled, the black and thin guy's gaze for alive made people couldn't bear to look at him, and Moss strode away.In his expression, he still hesitated.

"Cut."

In the feature film, this episode can be described as a turning point in the whole film, but at this time, the atmosphere of the shooting on site is still quite hot.

Because the scene is quite large and the camera space is also large, the various departments of the crew coordinated and organized around several actors.

And because it was filmed with fixed cameras and slide rails, Lyman did not check the composition of the lens at any time behind the director’s monitor. Instead, he stood next to Thomas at the fixed camera and watched the role of Josh intently. I couldn't help but compare with the original when I was on the scene.

Although this version of "Old Nowhere" changed the background, added a few branches and characters, and wanted to express a lot of themes, but the shooting styles are still in the same line. They are all relatively objective and forbearing perspectives, and the frontal close-ups of the characters are rare. , It is mostly a large space composition with many details.

As for actors, among a large group of actors with powerful acting genres such as Tom Hanks, Nicholas Cage, Daniel Day Lewis, etc., Josh Brolin has little public fame (has not yet played Before Thanos), but this guy has a tough soldier-like style, but it fits the image of a Vietnam War veteran like Moss. Acting skills or acting skills are not so important.

Watching him sweep the "battlefield" with a shotgun, people subconsciously think he can do it.

Bronze-black complexion, professional technique, always paying attention to the vigilance of the surrounding wind, even suppressing joy, slightly pursing his lips and not forgetting to clean up the traces of the scene, forging clues to the direction of the person Josh Brolin, Lehman only There is a feeling that this role is really right.

You know, in "Old Nowhere", the role of Hunter Moss doesn't need to be the most impressive pervert killer Anton Xiao. It is with this kind of foil that both roles appear to be well-interpreted. If the character’s impression is low, or if the actor’s performance skills are insufficient, it’s not beautiful—the killer is chasing and killing it. It’s wonderful if you come to me and show your magic.

Unilateral rolling is not enough for comparison.

After all, a malicious murderer has an advantage in setting and is easy to shine. If film history wants to comment on a character such as the top ten villain killer, it is difficult for Anton in "Old Nowhere" to be unnamed. .

Whether it is the distinctive ugly mushroom hair style, or the stern but like a mocking smile when making choices, they are all impressive features.

Ignoring all the rules of the world, facing his life and death, it is as ruthless as tearing a leaf, and not purely for killing people, but with a very calm mind and strong combat power, and will not stop until the goal is reached.

And this class of great people also need Moss, who is close to the opponent, to make the character completely stand.

This mining village in the western United States is a barren and loess boundary. What Lehman wants to say is that human life in such a cruel environment is like weeds on the roadside, without any warmth.

The killing started and the killing ended. The only thing that remains unchanged is the wilderness. There is quite a sense of lawlessness, and people are calm and even deaf to all kinds of cruelty.

Therefore, the main character of "Old Nowhere" does not have a background board.

After returning to the scene, Josh quickly returned to the makeup workshop to take care of his image.

For such a role, Josh paid too much.

To play a good job as a Vietnam War veteran with extraordinary skills and brains, Josh has conducted intensive physical training for more than a month, and deliberately made his face rough and unshaven.

Not to mention going to the Firearms Association, constantly feeding live ammunition, just to get familiar with the feeling of touching a gun.

Fortunately, all this is worthwhile, and the director Lehman also has some appreciation for his behavior.

An actor, it's always right to be professional.

If you don't take the role in your heart, where can you get the respect?

For such an opening scene, Josh and Lehman discussed the psychological changes and performance details of the character many times, so that it can be so smooth after the shooting.

After 10 minutes, it was the same scene.

However, the scene was disrupted until Moss went home to hide his belongings, hesitated left and right, thinking about saving the black and thin boy.

With the comfort of the "Bible", Moss took gauze, a water bottle and a little bit of food, but unexpectedly, the black and thin guy in the buggy that had just been fighting had a big hole in his head.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Moss ran away quickly.

Sure enough, another team hired by the mine owner arrived, and they were still lying in ambush nearby. They saw someone running away and immediately drove to chase Moss.

It turned out that the rally was that the lucky guy who picked up the dog's head gold planned to leave the mine and find a good buyer to exchange money before leaving.

But behind the buyer is the big boss of the mine. He doesn't stop doing two things, he wants to get both personal and wealth, and kill the lucky guy and throw it into the abandoned mine.

But these few subordinates who acted as buyers also moved the hearts of taking away their belongings and running away. For a moment, the uneven distribution of the stolen goods and the unclear position came to fight on the side of the returning highway, but the passer-by Moss benefited.

The mine owner could not wait for the return of his subordinates, knowing that something must have happened, and sent another team.

But I don’t want this team to arrive at the scene of the murder, their property would have been taken away without knowing it, so angry, killing the thin black guy and waiting...

It happened that the other side was uneasy, and Moss, who was still a little principled, returned to the scene.

Following the hunt, Moss was shot in the shoulder and jumped into the river to hide his trail...