Every man has a heroic dream, whether it is to save the world or protect the family, in fact, the man is in the sky. When we are fathers, it is our greatest mission to be the strongest refuge for our children. In particular, fathers always have a kind of warmth that is different from father and son to their daughters. This kind of warmth is gentler than water, but stronger than anything else.
I have this daydream too: to be a dad who can do anything for her in the future. But I still have some hidden worries in my heart. Under the background of my surname, the one who made the wedding dress for my heroic father's dream is probably the death of my daughter's Xiangxiaoyu.
Looking at the "father saves the daughter" in Chinese and Western movies, it is also a personal heroism and the halo of the protagonist. In European and American movies, the drama of "riding a thousand miles to save a thousand gold, and leaving the whole body for family fun" has turned into bitterness in most of China. After the father was tortured, the daughter may not be able to be rescued. Some died as soon as they appeared, and some told the bruised father at the end that everything was in vain.
The Western masses with the capitalist surname have long been immersed in the conceit of cultural export. One of the core of their "personal heroism" is that the protagonist's great light is making him unable to hurt or die, and the export to the enemy is still on the table . The ones that left the deepest impression on me were the three "Hurricane Rescue".
In the story, the former agent's father made a mess of Paris in the first part, and the second part made Istanbul into a haze. The third part also easily played with the FBI and the CIA. If there is a fourth part, maybe Can handle KFC, MMC and HVDC. Although the murderer is finally done by cutting vegetables, who will pay for the taxpayer's loss? This is ignored by the audience in the European and American environment that emphasizes the rights of taxpayers. The total box office of the three films exceeding 700 million US dollars shows that "political correctness" may not always be correct.
In stark contrast, Chinese fathers with the surname She were not so lucky.
Also a former special forces soldier, Denzel in "The Avenger" let the blood of gangsters and traitors fill the room and finally rescued Chloe Moretz easily . Soudi resisted the government's counter-encirclement and suppression campaign, and when he finally hugged and cried with old Liu Tao, he was almost killed by someone from the CIA.
It is also a policeman. In "True Lies", Schwarzenegger can drive a Harrier fighter at will to beat the bad guys. In "Slaying the Wolf: Greedy Wolf", Gu Tianle went all the way to the pork factory and slashed the machete with the gangsters, breaking his arms and legs. After that, he could only collect the corpse for his daughter, and finally committed suicide to save the happiness of others.
This reminds me that the films of the surname Zi focus on a present-day newspaper, people in this life will be saved in this life, and at the same time, they are also imprinted by the culture of monotheism. View, hard work does not seek purpose, although bad people are cleaned up, but daughter also died, it is not as simple as monotheism, black and white, bad people do not necessarily die clean, good people may live a long life, just halfway through the film , the protagonist has been bruised and bruised, and the result is often "injuring a thousand enemies and self-destructing eight hundred".
The biggest selling point of this type of film is not the father-daughter warmth or family ethics, but the clues that make all the dizzying and gorgeous fights meaningful. If there is neither a hearty fight nor a witty pursuit of the murderer, then such a movie must be inferior to "British Showdown".
Three weeks ago, when I finished Brother Long's "British Showdown", I felt: Big Brother is old, and his drama is not as good as before. He has one Han Han and five Guo Jingming in his transformation road. Make him more and more stretched. As mentioned above, Jackie Chan's action scenes are too small, the design is almost insubstantial, and the terrorist pattern of Irish background is too small, so the martial arts drama is so discounted; and the whole film The logic of the story is loose and abrupt. Compared with the movie "Invisible Guest" of the same period, it is completely different.
After watching the whole movie, I didn't feel full, only the suffocation in my arms, towards the beauty, the government, the years, and the reality. This kind of joint venture film with the blood of Hollywood action movies is written with a Chinese-style tragic gene core. Presumably Americans are not very willing to buy it, and the Chinese are even more embarrassed by Jackie Chan. Everyone is unhappy. , is simply a sad song for Jackie Chan movies.
(Here I specifically searched the box office data and found that the news was exactly the opposite of what I expected: "Overseas reputation is better than domestic", but when I clicked on it, the top countries at the overseas box office included Thailand, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. It was released for nearly a month. , the global box office is less than 150 million US dollars, and the performance is worse than the worst one of "Hurricane Rescue". It can be seen how big the gap between media marketing and reality is, which further reflects the sadness of Jackie Chan.)
So I think of the embarrassment of co-productions that Long Bin often mentioned in the show: Up to now, there are almost no Chinese-Western co-productions that can be used as examples (at least I can't think of it). Perhaps the biggest reason is the conflict between the cultural cores of the two parties. If the producer wants to please both sides, it is more likely that they will not please both sides and barely earn back the cost of shooting. In the past, we all said that we must localize excellent experience, but occasionally there are tragedies like "Golden Arches" that are handled rudely . Innovating again, and then launching it overseas, will really open up the situation for Chinese films.
Despite being in my father's shoes, I'm daydreaming about a happy ending. But from the perspective of the movie, if the daughter's life or death is born out of the core of culture, it is understandable. Whether the film itself is beautifully shot and whether the story is told beautifully is the key to whether the audience appreciates it or not.
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