"The Expendables 3" is a "male film" with the theme of "violence and anti-violence", with strong masculinity. The all-male characters in the film are the most famous action film actors in contemporary American and international cinema. Since the launch of the first "The Expendables", the main creators have been tirelessly opening up new ways for the development of modern action film language. It can be said that the constant innovation in the film has played an important role in the reshaping of the aesthetic characteristics of the "violent film".
When the first subtitle of the film appeared, the first music sounded, and the audience's first nerves were tense due to the first set of actions, the theme of the film was revealed: "What will happen?", this "What will happen?" "It is the theme that the director deliberately leads the audience to pursue. And the multiple references that are banned in the interpretation of the theme are the ultimate use of cross-genre films - animation-like beauty.
This animation-like beauty undoubtedly stems from two points: in terms of content, it created Barney, the protagonist with the most simple and clear inner world in the history of the action film of "counter-violence with violence", and transformed his energy into a strong desire for war and anger. As a result, the struggle between the good and the bad is born, and the secretion of hormones that fight against each other between "civilization" and "barbarism" is intensified. And based on this, the narrative structure of the whole film is formed. This kind of narrative makes the wild hearts in the hearts of the actors disturb the inner world of the audience, especially the male audience.
Such a reaction is not surprising. This film, which is full of energy due to its impact, instantly establishes the central point of the whole film. The positioning of the characters, sufficient dramatic motives, standardized narrative logic, and clear plot clues make this "violent film" break out without cracks, leaving the audience at a loss, losing the autonomous control of the body and limbs as much as possible, and letting the original inner heart break out. The audience under the pressure of contemporary society provides hypotheses and reverie about the corresponding relationship and interaction between personal ideology and social thought. And all of this only conforms to the "facts" of cartoons, giving the public a brand-new social-cultural value attribute in that it actually denies the "facts" that can be "narrated". But the deeper meaning is that this denial is at the same time emphasizing to the world public: in the face of a powerful villain, animation-like violence and bloody exaggeration are also possible. Like their own country's role in counter-terrorism operations. Although these violence and deaths have no political or human metaphor in the film.
Whether it is for the characters in the film to survive in life, or because of emotional restraint on the moral level, this kind of surreal scene formed by the strong impact effect, the director not only uses each frame in the animation to give his own "violent film" makes a new interpretation, what else can it do? ! And what could satisfy the quote made by the film—a heroic world where peace does not mean security, and where there are no heroes? ! Whether it’s a fist or a gunfight, it’s animated with finesse and perfection—and at the same time conveys one of the aesthetic qualities of Hollywood action movies, that is, in an audiovisual image that combines technology and technology against the backdrop of a “native” cultural background, artistic Creation is also increasingly grasping the function of the image and its own integrity. It becomes a combination and collage of virtual and reality, traditional value and contemporaneity, good and evil, beauty and ugliness. Its sense of depth lies in appealing to the beauty of the senses, which is in line with human nature. The key point is that the re-creation of art fully proves the director's rich perception of contemporary visual culture, making the scene highly artistic, and the comic-style sturdy actors create a screen world full of rich visual effects. At the same time, the uncles who held heavy firearms and set up helicopters to fly across the wilderness merged with the hostile forces, and sublimated the creation again. At this time, a new myth of "violent movies" interpreted in animation was born.
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