A Study On Jean Pierre Melville’s Film

Through the survey found that due to the age and race, language, geography,whether domestic or abroad content for Jean-Pierre Melvil and the movie works makea systematic study is very low, the small amount of research is for the introduction toMelvil and skimming over the surface, and can not be a comprehensive and systematicanalysis of the creator and the movie for Melvil, this makes the understanding is blurredor paranoid.Jean-Pierre Melvil (Jean-Pierre Melville) formerly known as Jean-PierreGlenbach, was born in October20,1917in Paris of France, because the majorcontribution to the French film and is known as the father of the French new wave film.He participated in the resistance movement and the Spanish democratic liberationmovement, and had been put in prison in Spain, in addition, during the two World War,served in the army for eight years, these experiences have caused significant influenceto him, this also indirectly influenced his style of the film, he cited George Courteline’sPoetry in the movie "L’Armee des Ombres":"the unhappy memories I gladly accepted,because it is my distant youth" to express his own attitude to life. Melvil made a total of12feature films and1short film, he created the independent film and the French localgangster film pioneer who learned the U.S. elements, Melvil’s creative conceptoriginated in American movie "The Asphalt Jungle" and "Odds Against Tomorrow", inturn, his film has greatly influenced the creation and development of American movies.In the narrative characteristics, Melvil inherited the narrative features such astheme first, multiple lines, to explain the development of the plot in the process of thenear future in film, this point has been recognized by many film and television art scenefigures, Francois Truffaut appreciated very much of the plot processing in the movie "Les enfants terribles ". In addition, Melvil in the film is always able to seize theopportunity of unexpected events and to start the story. Melville film very personalpoint is the similarity of the end of the story; this treatment is a reasonable grasp of thefilm climax, on the other hand, the inertia approach in some degree makes the filmestablished author’s style.Melvil’s men are dominant and the female subordinate, in Melvil’s opinion, he isnot sick woman but because it is difficult to find space in the production process. At thesame time, Melvil also had been committed to those poor, marginalized, and challenge of the mainstream social legal, moral offbeat characters and story writing into a film,made the number of murder and robbery criminals and criminal idealization, heroic,chivalrous, these male characters cannot be accepted by the mainstream social but theyare able to adhere to moral, keep promise, which also determines the film’s moralambiguous. The female images in the movies are often treated as betrayal and gazedpronoun. The women’s beauty, charm and exposure to porn were woven into thepatriarchal order of the film by Melvil, to strengthen the view of process of visualpleasure. The characters in the movie image made subversion to the moral sense of thetraditional, the positive image has been missing in the moral, aroused suspicion andnegative character because of personality charm conquered the audience. Melvilworship the star too, the quiet, neat act star in the film can enhance the film ornamentalvalue and provides conditions to self style.Paraded scenes of life is the typical characteristics of Melvil’s film, the life scenesof the real performance without taboo, he thinks that built the world consistent with theimagination of the people’s hearts is very necessary systematically. The real scene inMelvil’s lives is the source of the unreal world in the movie, such as police chief’s officein the Melvil’s film " Le Cercle Rouge " like the Melvil’s office decoration very much.In artistic creation, Melvil is especially good at describing the light, for example,he always likes to use light character contrast intensely between light and dark, use hardlight to create a dignified atmosphere and so on, at the same time, the rational use oflight in the film’s appeared visual tone. For example, in the movie " The Finger Man "Maurice walking on the long corridor, corridor formed the lustrous and dazzling effectbecause the barrier fence’s block above it, when the light is hard light, the it often makesthe picture contrast of light and shade intensely, the border is clear, no transition, thissuggested that Maurice resolute character, also laid the film’s visual tone.In the clip, Melvil’s film shows three characteristics: smooth, simple, crisp pointjump strongly. Smooth is the rational use of performance of transformation rules;Straightforward angle is the thinking of Speculative in the film; jump is to create a tenseatmosphere.In the overall characteristics, Melvil’s film is mainly about the simple story, therepeated use of similar style scene, Pioneering French film noir and depth present offetishism and ceremonial sense in the process of crime.Compared with the French New Wave cinema, will find Melvil movies pay moreattention to the "daydream" effect; new wave films pay more attention to the "alienation effect"; from the aesthetic point of view, Melvil’s film is fatalistic, and new wave filmsare more association for death, moral aesthetic.Melvil’s movie creative motivation and philosophy greatly came from the UnitedStates, but the experience is not apply mechanically, but a kind of film which localizedAmerican movie style by French, he opposed the traditional war film full of hackneyedand stereotyped expressions in the same pattern style of melodrama background,injected new elements into the French film, Melvil’s spirit of innovation has influencedmany figures of the French new wave, but he is also independent of the new wavesystem, he influenced American and even the World Movie Creator, Melvil indirectlypromote the "taxi driver","pulp fiction" birth.