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发表于 2007-11-18 23:33
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But what The Prestige and filmmaker Christopher Nolan seem to have forgotten about magic and illusion is the very important element of misdirection. Without misdirection, an audience is bound to discover the trick and not be impressed. As a filmmaker, Nolan has been pretty good about misdirection. In his first film The Following, a character starts to stalk another character only to discover that he is actually the one being stalked. For Memento, Nolan used the narrative gimmick of telling the story in reverse to hook the audience but the device proved to be less important than the tantalizing themes he served up about the lengths to which we go to deceive ourselves. Both films led us to believe we were getting one thing and ended up surprising us with something else. As Nolan has moved to bigger budgets and more mainstream projects, his style and approach have become more direct. Insomnia and Batman Begins have little misdirection, they deliver—with differing degrees of success—what they promise. |
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