In my opinion, there are probably several solutions: the daydream of a middle-aged 2-year-old boy, the imagination of a mental patient, and the use of games to build a time-travel setting.
In the 1990s, Feng Xiaogang's first Lunar New Year film "Party A and Party B" had a similar attempt. It tells the story of four people starting a company to help a group of customers with whimsy to experience a different life. The name of the business is called "Dream Day Tour". So we were able to see "General Patton" during World War II in a movie, the torture in the Qing Dynasty prison, the poor boy broke into the palace of a foreign princess, and the rich boy was thrown into the backcountry. It was also this film that opened the Chinese New Year film market in mainland China.
Obviously, "Pretty Girl" delivered a more satisfactory answer. With Hollywood-level visual effects and smooth editing, it covers different background types of cultures from the East and the West to create a fantasy adventure in four alternate worlds. The "dream-in-a-dream" structure used in the narrative method is the trend that has become more and more popular after "Inception". In this regard, the structure of this film is at least above the standard.
The film opens in slow motion, with no dialogue lines, but clearly explains the background of the story. The combination of speed and slowness of action shots in close-up fights is exactly the same as that of "Watchmen", which clearly shows the style of American comics. The dialogue in the whole film can be said to be very small, and the plot can be understood almost through the video and sound effects, just like the excessive amount of text in a comic book may be annoying. The linear imagination that could only exist in the second dimension has now been gradually restored to perfection in the three-dimensional dimension, making the genre of comics and movies popular.
After watching the movie, I noticed that the director was exactly the Zach Snyder who directed "Watchmen". It seems that he was really suffocated before. He clearly had a superhero theme back then, but was limited to the original content. It is an apocalyptic elegy depicting heroes, and can only be seen in the interspersed memory scenes to show the battle scenes of the past. When Schneider launches his first self-written and directed work, he can finally enjoy himself. It is probably the common pursuit of anime fans all over the world to show the scene of girls fighting with swords and guns. Last year's Japanese animation "Black Rock Shooter" is the best example. It was originally an original illustration character created by illustrator Huke. Later, it gradually expanded its world view, and finally formed a battle that represented the daily life of school girls and the inner world symbolized inner struggle. dimension. Schneider's went even further in the film "Pretty Girl", setting up a double fantasy for building a stage for girls to fight, forming a three-layer world.
The three-layer world meets the different needs of various types of audiences. The innermost battle fantasy is the ultimate feast of visual effects. Just looking at the scattered bullets and destroyed buildings is worth the price. The middle layer conveys the topicality of freedom and resistance, which is enough for those who borrow the topic to talk about various sensitive words for a long time. The outermost real world can allow the interpretation parties to make up their own speculations: which ones are real, who survived, and who are insane.
Of course, each has its own eyes, and different people can interpret the same content in different ways. For example, the comment is just a brainless movie, the theme of the blame is not deep enough, and the character image is not full enough. But there is a saying that I must unswervingly oppose, this group is definitely not the loli who can satisfy the otaku-because they are all significantly over-aged. As far as my aesthetics are concerned, the appearance of the heroine is the most unacceptable. Gaoyuan's red cheeks are matched with the original high cheekbones, and the image of a village girl is full. The appearance of the other supporting roles is obviously much better than her; Safflower", but now the safflower in the supporting role is more prominent and the heroine is red, which is really unpleasant.
The most familiar face among the actors is Vanessa Hudgens, the heroine of the "High School Musical" series. Director Zach Snyder was originally from shooting MVs, so naturally he couldn't miss the part of singing and dancing. The knife dance performed by Hudgens in the movie was really amazing, and the waist was twisted in a breathtaking way, but it was a pity that the time for the show was too short. In addition, her makeup looks a little inferior, and the makeup of other actors has the same problem. While inheriting the dark core idea of "Watchmen", the characteristics of excessive makeup are also retained, at least for It's not very eye-catching for me.
It is appropriate to use the fashion word "mix and match" to describe such a film: combining elements that have traditionally not been combined due to different geographical conditions, cultural backgrounds, styles, etc., to form a new combination with individual characteristics. Just as there is a combination of Chinese and Western in the field of architecture, Manchu and Han banquets in the field of gastronomy, and steampunk in the field of science fiction, this film can give a dark tone background and a three-layer world structure while integrating a variety of fantasy genres at the same time, which has exceeded the task. If you have to accuse the plot of not being profound, then I can only say that there are not so many types of mashups in movies with deep plots.
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