The film "Jack the Giant Slayer" combines the two stories of "Jack and the Bean" and "Jack the Giant Slayer". It seems that it should be a fantasy work. In fact, the whole movie is as plain as boiled water. The relationship between the characters is weak, there is no dramatic tension, and the special effects that were originally proud have become shortcomings. The lines in the film have repeatedly said that "the bedtime story you heard is true", including at the end of the film, focusing on the Modern British Museum, you can also see the director’s ambition to sublimate the theme and want to combine fairy tales with reality. It is blurred, but the concept is completely emptied. The film only cuts out the most well-known parts of the two fairy tales, and then puts together a mediocre work. There are no surprising passages in the development of the movie's story. Jack and the giant are always playing hide-and-seek, and the protagonist only relies on luck and procrastination to defeat the tall enemy. There is no dramatic tension in this setting. ()
Jack the Giant Slayer Mediocre pseudo-magic
2021-11-29 08:01
Extended Reading
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Elmont: Well, she's not in the house. This is the only other place she could have gone.
Crawe: If she climbed down, we would have seen her.
Elmont: [notices a footprint in the mud] She didn't climb down. She climbed up.
Roderick: Why would she do that?
Crawe: If she were cold.
Elmont: Or hungry.
Jack: [to himself] Or looking for an adventure.
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Isabelle: If I hadn't run away, none of this would have happened. A princess is such a useless thing.
Jack: If you hadn't run away, Roderick would have taken over the kingdom with no warning. Your running away just might have give Cloister a fighting chance. So no one's useless, least of all the princess. That's why we need to get you back, because one day you'll be the queen. From then on you'll have the power to make the world a better place. Isabelle... imagine all the good things you could do.
Isabelle: [touched] That's what my mother used to say.