On the butterfly effect 1

English name: The Butterfly Effect Director/Screenwriter: Eric Bress Ericbressj McKay Gruber J. MackyeGruber Starring: Ashton Kucher plays Evan Trepaud, Amy Smart amy smart plays Keller Miller, and Kevin Schmidt plays Kevin schmid. T-type teenager Lanmirana MeloraWalters plays Andrea Tripault, and kevin durand Carlos Carlos, a cellmate. Type: Plot/Science Fiction/Thriller: 1 14 minutes. Release date: 65438+20.

Plot introduction

Butterfly effect is a concept in chaos theory. It refers to a dependence on the sensitivity of initial conditions: small differences at the input end will be quickly amplified to the output end, and the butterfly effect can be seen everywhere in economic life. After watching Butterfly Effect 1, I felt cold and trembled uncontrollably. I don't know why this movie shocked me so much that I added it to the top of my favorite movie. Perhaps it has stepped on the softest corner of my heart, and everyone is eager to go back to the past, change history and make everything better. Evan, the star, suffers from intermittent amnesia like his "psycho" father. He often makes some strange moves, such as picking up a knife for no reason and scaring her mother, but he doesn't remember. Evan has suffered from this disease since he was a child, and he has forgotten several major exciting experiences. When seeing a psychiatrist, the doctor provided Evan's mother with a way to help Evan with memory therapy, that is, keeping a diary. Since then, Evan has been writing from a few years old until he grows up. There were several terrible experiences in Evan's life. When his teacher asked him to draw the future, he didn't know why he drew a bloody scene that killed two people. This caused panic among his mother and teachers. He saw a psychiatrist for the first time in his life and began to keep a diary. His mother entrusted him to George, the father of his childhood daughter, on a weekend. However, no one expected that this weekend would change Evan's life forever. George has a special "sexual interest" in young men, which leads him to molest his son Tommy many times, leading his daughter Kelly and his son Tommy to live in a depressed environment since childhood, and their personalities are distorted, especially Tommy, who is basically a devil. That weekend, George filmed two 7-year-old children in the basement. Evan only remembers that they were stripped naked and nothing else. In fact, like adults, they filmed a children's version of a "restricted film" that day, and Tommy almost twisted the head of the doll in his hand while watching it. After this incident, Evan continued to grow unconsciously. His illness is still not getting better. The psychiatrist suggested that Evan should be taken to a mental hospital to visit his father. But I don't know why, his father almost strangled him like crazy. The security guard who came to subdue his father killed him by mistake. Evan saw his father fall at his feet, and blood oozed from the back of his head. By the time he was a teenager, he had become a decadent teenager, smoking and wandering in a dark room. Tommy decided to test Lanny's courage with explosives one day and let him put the ignited explosives in the mailbox in front of the owner's house of a villa. When the explosive was about to explode, Evan only remembered covering Kelly's ear with his hand, and the rest of his memories were gone. When he woke up again, Lanny had fainted and everyone was in a mess. He doesn't know what happened. In fact, at the moment of the explosion, the hostess of the villa came to the mailbox with the baby in her arms, and the baby's little hand opened the mailbox. The huge explosion tore the mother and son to pieces. Evan, Kelly and Tommy turned and ran away, while Lanny stood still, dumbfounded. After this happened, Lanny was strongly stimulated, but Evan knew nothing about it. After the incident, Kelly was beaten by her father. Evan, who comforted Kelly, brought the hearts of the two children closer and closer. Tommy caught them with a green kiss. Tommy loves his sister very much, and he tries to protect her from his damn father. At the same time, he hates any man who takes away his sister. Crazy Tommy decided to take revenge. He put Evan's dog in a sack and prepared to burn it to ashes. Seeing Evan coming in the thick smoke, Kelly was knocked down by Tommy with a stick and sneaked around to Lanny behind him, unable to untie the tied rope. Finally, crazy Tommy burned Evan's dog, Kelly and Evan sat on the ground crying, and Lanny became more vulnerable because of deep remorse. In this way, Evan's mother moved, and their mother and son left sadly. A young love, just walked away. After leaving, Evan was admitted to the psychology department of the state university, joined the brothers' gang and lived the life of an ordinary boy. Until one day, he saw his diary when he was young, and he fainted. When he fainted, he saw his burnt dog. He recalled some details, but he wanted to check with Lanny. Unexpectedly, Lanny was still eccentric because of what happened in those days, and she couldn't let go. He still remembers Tommy's warning. In a rage, he kicked Evan out of the room and gave him a good beating inside. After Evan confirmed this, he began to try to remember the events of that year. He went back to his old town, found Kelly who worked as a waiter in a small restaurant, and confirmed the weekend when he was 7 years old. Kelly was filled with joy and thought that Evan had come to make up with herself. When she heard this question, she was a little nervous. She suddenly lost control and ran home in tears, leaving only a crying figure and a sentence: "Since you love me, why didn't you look for me for so many years and leave me here?" ! "Elvin wanted to give up his way of retrieving his memory, but I didn't expect the sad Kelly to commit suicide after crying with Tommy for an hour. Crazy Tommy called Evan's dormitory to tell him the news and took his life. At the same time, the only thing Evan can do is to send a bunch of flowers to Kelly's funeral and throw the "I'll come back for you" card he once wrote to Kelly into the grave. When the sad Evan came back to read the diary, he was surprised to find that he went back to the past while reading the diary. He returned to the 7-year-old basement, and Kelly's father was dumbfounded by the excited words. This restricted film was not produced. The change in this matter led to a fresh start in Evan's life. When he woke up again, Kelly became his girlfriend and slept beside him. Everything seems wonderful. He and Kelly are very happy in college. When he decided to propose to Kelly, Tommy released from prison upset their plans. Evan changed Kelly's father, so he never touched Kelly and put all abnormal tendencies on his son Tommy. Tommy was desperate and went to prison. Tommy was jealous that Evan could get everything and attacked Evan in the middle of the night. Evan, who had already prepared it, sprayed Tommy's eyes with a sprayer. Angry Evan hit Tommy crazily: "Without you, Lanny wouldn't be stimulated;" My life wouldn't be like this without you. "Out of control Evan accidentally killed Tommy, causing his own prison disaster. In prison, Evan tried to get his mother to get her diary back. He wants to change the past. His diary was stolen by the leader of a gay gang, and he tried to convince his cellmate that he could change the past. In front of the inmates, he read the diary, went back to the past and went back to the primary school classroom. His teacher asked him to draw his own future, and he drew a scene of killing people. After painting, he put the note needle in his hand in front of the teacher. When he woke up again, his cellmate found two scars on his hand out of thin air and believed him. Evan went into the gay leaders' room, killed them, and began to read the diary. The crazy little brother was blocked by Evan's cellmate who rushed in. At the critical moment, Evan went back to the past. He went back to the dump where Tommy killed his beloved pet dog. Before that, he found a sharp weapon that could cut the rope. He handed it to Lanny and told him to take it. It must be useful. Cowardly Lanny believed Evan. The three children who arrived at the scene saw the dog in the bag. Evan, who already knows what happened, blurted out, "Tommy, I know you've been protecting your sister from your father alone with her." "Tommy, who heard this, let the puppy out of the bag, but Lanny, who didn't know what to do with this sharp weapon, killed Tommy with it! Evan's life started all over again. When he woke up, he saw Lanny tied up in a mental hospital. Lanny was regarded as a mental illness, and became a young man because of what happened in those years. Desperate Lanny said slowly from the hospital bed, "You should lie here." He thought of Kelly and went back to town to find her. Unexpectedly, his beloved girl has become a prostitute and is addicted to drugs. Kelly still loves Evan in his heart, but he doesn't understand why Evan is so confident that he can change the past. The sad Kelly left and made Evan cry. Evan, who blames himself, opened his diary again. He decided to go to his father and change this situation. His father saw that his son had the same experience as himself and advised him to stop, otherwise it might kill his mother. At the moment, Evan, who thinks he is God, doesn't listen to his father at all. He returned to the day of the explosion. When the owner of the villa approached the mailbox, he rushed forward crazily. Disappointed Tommy shouted "I'll save you, lady" and threw the mother and son down. The mailbox exploded in front of Evan. When Evan woke up this time, everything seemed fine. Lanny woke up from the bed next to the dormitory and was having sex with his girlfriend. Evan stretched happily and found that he had lost two forearms and became disabled. Surprised Evan found that Lanny's girlfriend turned out to be his beloved Kelly! His three friends changed the course of life because of him. They were moved by Evan's spirit of trying to overcome difficulties. Lanny became a famous excellent student on campus, and even Tommy became a good student because of saving lives. The three of them are very happy, only they have nothing. At the moment, Evan just wants to say a few words to his beloved Kelly. When Kelly said that she once loved Evan, now it's just the truth. After giving birth to Lanny, Evan decided to commit suicide. Tommy, who happened to come, saved Evan and took him to see his mother. Evan found out that his mother died of lung cancer. The sad Evan knew that it was because of his disability that his mother became addicted to cigarettes and got lung cancer. As his father said, he killed his mother. Evan's bright eyes told his mother that everything would be all right. The surprised mother saw the shadow of Evan's insane father in his eyes. Evan started his diary journey again, and he returned to the evil basement of seven years old. This time, he decided to kill George Kelly?, Tommy's abnormal father, who caused all the disasters. When he lit the explosive, George rushed up and threw it, but Kelly thought it was firecrackers and picked it up and was killed. When Evan woke up again, he had been admitted to a mental hospital. All his diaries have been put away, and the only thing he can find is the previous videos. When he learned that his father changed the past with photo albums, he chose these last hopes-videos. He locked himself in a remote room and wrote his "last words" under the doors of many doctors and security guards. Then he watched the video and went back to the party where he and Kelly first met. Evan whispered to Kelly, the little girl who offered to be nice, "If you bother me again in the future, I will kill you and your family." Kelly ran away in fear. Evan woke up again, and Lanny looked at him with concern. The first thing Evan said when he woke up was, "Where's Kelly?" Lanny asked in surprise, "Who is Kelly?" Evan was relieved and suddenly understood: "even if Kelly is lost, it is better than her being hurt." "Evan finally stopped changing the past and burned all his diaries.

Butterfly effect 1 * * has four endings (four versions).

At the end of the film, it goes back to the beginning of the film: Evan runs into his doctor's office (the result of this historical change makes his diary disappear) and wants to change history for the last time through the pictures of home movies. Here, the director arranged four endings. This is the ending of the director's version: at the beginning of life: Evan's home movie is Evan's mother is about to give birth to Evan. Evan, who entered history, decided to end it all by himself. He grabbed the umbilical cord with both hands and ended his upcoming life. In real life, there is no Evan. Kelly and Tommy are guarded by a divorced mother, far away from BT's father, so naturally there is no detonator incident. At this time, Evan's father has entered a mental hospital, so the child finally held by his mother was actually born after his mother remarried, so only Reed Jensen in a mental hospital in the world has this ability. In fact, the ending of this director's version is the final ending of the original script, which makes the theme of sacrifice for love more lofty and great, more beautiful and touching. But later, because the new line company was worried that the plot and picture in this shocking ending would cause some public and public anxiety, it was finally changed to the current theatrical version when it was released. The end of the theatrical version: each grew up and went his own way, but the home movie Evan watched was the party where he first met Kelly. Back in the past, Evan scolded Kelly. He and Kelly didn't become good friends, and his mother got custody of Kelly and Tommy. Evan met Kelly in the street after work, but he didn't recognize her. The other two endings are also set according to the ending of the theatrical version. Another ending of the butterfly effect theatrical version: tailing (55 seconds). After Evan meets Kelly, he goes back to chase Kelly. The happy ending of the abandoned theater version of the butterfly effect: acquaintance (53 seconds), that is, two people recognize each other.

Behind the scenes production

"When supernatural factors are used in movies, you may generally have three feelings: being bitten by a poisonous spider, being cynically stared at by your father who works in a science lab, or being attached to such a sixth sense since childhood. Of course, I hope our film can give the audience a third feeling. " Eric Bress, one of the directors of this film, said. For screenwriters Eric Bress and J McKay gruber (the popular thriller Terminal and its sequel are their scripts), The Butterfly Effect is their first independent film. The film was conceived seven years ago and finally started shooting on the streets of Vancouver in 2002. For this film, because the past and present have been jumping at different times, and there are several different virtual situations in reality, it is very important to reconcile the film. The director must constantly grasp the performance of different actors playing the same role in different periods in order to grasp the consistency of characters and images. Producer Chris Bander said: "The real operation is much more difficult than we thought in advance. "We have 12 actors playing four roles in three different periods, and the opportunity seems to have been against us. Fortunately, the great god in the entertainment industry does not seem to have given up on us. " In order to show the real changes brought by Evan's time travel more truly and credibly, and also to make this film with many clues clearer, the two directors have made great efforts. They have been rewriting and perfecting the script for six years, so that after the real shooting, no matter how complicated the order is, they have clearly remembered it. "We know every path in this maze because every shot processing, shooting sequence and even details have been discussed hundreds of times before shooting." The two directors said, "However, we also feel that being able to combine surrealism with realism is a technology that can give directors enough space to deal with those challenging situations." In terms of technical treatment, in order to divide the parts more clearly, the director used different colors in different virtual reality parts of the film. And specially invited the famous photographer Matthew Lanetti to take photos. They tried various films provided by Kodak to show different changes in the real world, and adopted various forms of color perception, including classic black and white films, black films and blue films. Lanetti said: "Maybe our photography technology is not the most orthodox, but it may be an advantage for this interesting film." He does use a lot of unconventional shots in the film, such as hand-held shots, oblique shots, some variable-speed motion shots and small depth-of-field shots, and hopes that these shots can show the feelings and feelings of the protagonist Evan who is completely uncertain about the future and reality when he travels through time and space. In addition to the structural plot, ashton kutcher, a popular fried chicken in Hollywood, will play the leading role, which will be the foreseeable box office guarantee for this film. This handsome upstart in Hollywood has been very popular recently, and has just been named as "the most popular new star in Hollywood in 2003". It is said that he will re-star in the famous film The Graduate with his gossip girlfriend and veteran actress demi moore. Speaking of his new film, Ashton thinks that such a role is a direction he has never tried, and the constant switching of time and space is really a test for his performance. In order to better grasp the character's mentality and feelings, he deliberately read psychological works, especially those about selective amnesia. Ashton explained: "I want to know how people can get rid of the feeling that makes them suffer." "That's the same as what Evan did." For most audiences, The Butterfly Effect should be regarded as a fantasy film, even an adventure film, but amy smart, who plays the heroine Keller, thinks that it is still a romantic film. She said: "We passed by in different emotional patterns and strange scenes like roller coasters, as if it were a great journey. Keller and Evan are just an ordinary couple. They just want to make each other happy and try their best to keep up with the changes in the past and reality. What really touches me is that they really believe in each other, no matter what incredible changes have taken place. "

Film analysis of butterfly effect

Analysis of butterfly effect in the movie 1 Is the protagonist mentally ill? No, if so, the ending of this movie will be meaningless. About the ending: one * * * four. (1) At the end of the director's extended version, the protagonist saw a family movie in which his mother was about to give birth to the protagonist. The protagonist who entered history decided to end it all by himself. He grabbed the umbilical cord with both hands and ended his upcoming life. (2) At the end of the theatrical version, the protagonist saw a family movie, which was the first time he saw Kelly. Back in the past, the protagonist scolded Kelly. He and Kelly did not become good friends, and the custody of Kelly and Tommy was also obtained by his mother. After work, the protagonist ran into Kelly in the street, but didn't recognize her. (3) The ending of the theatrical version is the same as (2). Finally, after the protagonist meets Kelly, he goes back to chase Kelly. (4) The ending of the theatrical version is the same as that of (2), and finally there are two strangers. 2. Because Kelly was killed, there should be no "university and prison, amputation" process in the future. The doctor said that the protagonist always mentioned that he shuttled between college, prison and amputation, because he was always addicted to the fantasy of killing Kelly in order to feel better inside. Isn't the protagonist mentally ill? The part about the doctor in the film, when the protagonist comes back, is the moment when we see him come back with all his memories intact. His memory should be gradually restored before he comes back completely. For doctors, the protagonist gradually developed different fantasies, while for the protagonist, it gradually recovered. We saw that at that time in the film, it was the time when the protagonist completely recovered his memory. 3. Why can the protagonist return to the unborn world through video? People in the protagonist's family can return to their amnesia or unconscious state through diaries, photos and videos. The photo found by the protagonist at the beginning of the film, the doctor said that his father was looking for an album, and his grandfather's death certificate can prove this. When you were not born, you were unconscious and had no memory. The protagonist can go back to the unborn time through video. 4. Why did the doctor say there was no diary? Because he accidentally blew up the heroine, there was no later life and no diary. Finally, I can only go back to the unborn time through video. 5. At the end, a narrator said, "After three stillbirths". How to explain it? Before, the protagonist's mother said that he should have had two brothers before, so it seems that the two brothers of the protagonist may have embarked on the same fate as the protagonist, and the protagonist was stillborn for the third time. 6. What is the number of diaries? Less and less, his mother brought diaries to prison, only two; When amputating, there is only one book (written before amputation); Not when I was a doctor. The butterfly effect changed the past, so did the number of diaries. 7. Did the protagonist let Fat Lenny kill Tommy? Otherwise, how could Lenny ask later: "You knew something would happen when you gave me that sharp weapon"? It's definitely not the protagonist who asked fatty Lenny to kill Tommy. Tommy had asked Lenny to plant the detonator before, so the death of mother and son hit Tommy hard, causing him to faint immediately. Later, the protagonist handed Tommy a sharp weapon to cut the rope on the bag to save the puppy, and said to him, "This will at least alleviate your guilt." Lenny saw that Tommy was going to burn the puppy, and with the detonator, his hatred for Tommy increased sharply, and he killed him on impulse. As for how Lenny later asked, "You knew something would happen when you gave me that sharp weapon"? Many people will reflect on their mistakes, because the protagonist gave Tommy the sharp weapon, and Tommy will naturally question it. 8. How many times has going back to the past not changed the future? Four times. (1), reading the diary in the dormitory, suddenly returned to the scene where Tommy burned the dog and asked, "Where am I?" But the dog was still burned to death. (2) Some attempted ideas did return to the scene of the explosion, and cigarette butts burned a scar on his stomach, bringing him back to reality. (3) When I went back to painting, I hurt my hand, left a scar, and "brought back" the reality. When I went back to the kitchen to get a knife, I was awakened by my mother. The above situation can only be explained as that things are too small to have enough impact on the future development direction, so they have not changed the future. 9. When I was a child, I drew that picture of killing people. How do you explain it? Paintings that kill people as children are of course the future. He went back to draw, because at that time he had the idea of killing two criminals, so he drew this picture before going back to stab his hand and leave a scar. This also explains why he can't remember why he painted that picture when he was a child, because it was painted later; Similarly, when he went back to the kitchen with a knife to destroy explosives, his mother came over and woke up without remembering why he had a knife.