Thick Steampunk Flavor - "Predator City"
**The title of "Predator City" is Mortal Engines (2018), alias Mobile City: Deadly Engine (Hong Kong/Taiwan) / Traction City / Deadly Engine / Predator City: Deadly Engine.
American/New Zealand sci-fi film.
The film relies on the magnificent pictures to create a grand apocalyptic scene, telling the next steampunk story about love and love in the apocalypse.
The biggest selling point of the film is the production team. I believe the audience will still remember the feeling when they saw "The Lord of the Rings". It was an unparalleled shock. This film is responsible for the special effects of the "Lord of the Rings" and "The Hobbit" team, so it is absolutely top-level in terms of visual effects and epic creation.
Peter Jackson, who created "The Lord of the Rings", is known as Peter the Great, and he holds three golden statues. "The Lord of the Rings Trilogy: The Return of the King" was nominated and won 11 of 11 awards at the 76th Academy Awards.
Just as "Lord of the Rings" was filmed in New Zealand, this "Predator City" was also filmed in New Zealand. Peter Jackson's chief disciple Christian Rivers served as the director, and Peter Jackson signed the screenplay. Christian Rivers was the special effects designer for the "Lord of the Rings" series back then, and now as the director, he has brought the visual effects to the extreme.
The shortcomings of a director with a background in visual effects are also obvious. Except for the picture, the rest of the film is relatively weak. In particular, there are no small problems in the storyline and character creation of the film.
"City of Prey" is adapted from Philip Reeve's science fiction novel "Deadly Engine", also translated as "Deadly Engine", the inspiration of the novel is a city built on wheels, a city that can run around is The most basic setting of the novel.
The story takes place 1700 years after mankind launched a quantum war, and the surviving mankind lives in the apocalypse where technology is rapidly regressing. People rely on the documents left by their predecessors to develop technology, and the technology tree is crooked when it is clicked, and the new world becomes a world full of steampunk style.
Quantum warfare is called "Sixty MinuteWar". Human beings use quantum weapons on a large scale, and it takes only 60 minutes to turn the earth into a pile of rubble.
Survivors form large and small mobile cities. The big city is like "London" and belongs to the monsters of the giant level. The small city is like a Bavarian town, which is miniature and pocket-sized. The film opens with a chase scene. London is frantically hunting Bavarian towns, destroying the weak and plundering resources so that they can continue to survive.
The plot of the film is similar to the behavior of the imperialist powers in the early days of the Industrial Revolution. London, which was the first to complete the transformation and upgrading in the steampunk era, began to continuously annex and nibble the surrounding small towns, gradually unifying the European continent.
Then London began to march to the mountain country, ready to open up a wider market. In order to break the powerful barriers set up by the mountain country, the London side found a feasible big killer, using weapons with higher power and higher technology level to knock on the walls of the closed country and the mountain country.
The biggest feature of the film is steampunk. Steam pipes, long-barreled turrets, multi-joint robotic arms, large gears, dense rivets, airships... classic steampunk elements are all available. Judging from the picture, "City of Predation" is magnificent, imaginative, and the visual effects presented are also excellent. But from the point of view of the storyline, the essence is still the rebuilt steampunk world in the apocalypse, which is largely selling the setting, and lacks a deeper discussion on the core of the story.
Maybe the new director looks like everything, but lacks the courage and ability. As a result, he wants to shoot everything and fails to shoot well.
The grand story setting is interpreted as a fashion film where boys and girls show their personal heroism, which is a pity and a waste.
The background of "City of Predation" is very huge, and there can be unlimited space in the novel to express all aspects of the apocalypse, but the movie can't play like this.
If the various clues in the novel were filmed as they were, the audience would be distracted. Many clues appeared at the front and disappeared at the back. This is a taboo in storytelling.
The film only has art and settings, and lacks the core story core. You must know that the most basic task of a movie is to tell a good story. If the story is not told well, there will be only pictures left, and the audience will not buy it.
There are two clues in Hester in the film, one is to stop the villain Valentine, and the other is to avoid the adoptive father Shrike. The two clues are not very related, and they can concentrate on telling Hester to stop Valentine and cut off unnecessary branches.
Shrike chasing Hester seemed very abrupt, and the whole clue was like a joke. The result of the chase was eye-popping, and it felt like generating electricity with love.
The plot is weak and the clues are mixed, and there is a lack of choice story water.
The setting is grand and beautiful, with a strong steampunk flavor.
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