It's not that screenwriter Jiang Lang's talents are exhausted, it's that human nature is difficult to achieve

Kaylah 2022-04-19 09:02:09

How many steps can be taken to put an elephant in the refrigerator?
How many ways can a person be killed? How to design each step reasonably in each method? This is the problem of screenwriters' deduction, and it is more convenient to push backwards than forwards.
The screenwriter of this film seems to be completing the script according to the problem of the elephant.
To say that the film is good, I feel that there are too many flaws, too few feelings, too many fights, and human nature is too dry. The reason and love for the murder are too far-fetched, the method of murder is too mysterious, and if he
is locked in a cage and allowed to be killed, the male protagonist will try all kinds of methods and never get into the cage. And don't worry that in the process of gang fights (whether gunfights or melee combat), he will die inexplicably, he is invincible.

This is a film on the Hollywood assembly line, especially representative. There are big scenes, there are brain-burning killing links that are hard to piece together, and they are designed to be reasonable and good-looking. Although the four killings belong to the type of "digging deep holes and accumulating food", it can be seen that the screenwriters are trying hard to avoid similarities.
The proliferation of high-tech, the unbelievable entry into the "impossible secret room" to kill, the hero's amazing fighting skills, but the backside of the flooded Kermon looks pale, and it is difficult for the audience to find spiritual resonance. I just want to use the picture to impact people's vision. Using characters and pictures to impact people's hearts, after reading such a work, of course, what is left is pale. The screenwriter and director will also be rated as "not distracted", "dazzling skills", and "Jiang Lang's talents are exhausted".
After all, it is a film on the assembly line. Because the first one was relatively successful, it accumulated some popularity, and the pattern of killing high-tech muscular men was copied in exchange for it. As some people also realize, every episode of "The Fast and the Furious" is drag racing and beauty, but why do people still pay for it again and again.
The writers can catch the difference every time.
However, the films that have been poorly reviewed are portraying human nature too lightly. Love at first sight, life and death, which fool can do in this era? In the past this was called a hero, now it is called a "brainless man". When the screenwriter underestimates the audience, it is giving up the quality of the film. Such a film of a bloody man, human nature should be able to be tapped, alas, let's not continue to stand and talk without back pain.

Summary: This film has a compact structure, hard fighting, and every killing story is complete. The screenwriter also strives to give us a reasonable reason for killing - the power of love - selling arms, controlling the regime, etc., but I didn't buy it! (It took a week to read it)

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Mechanic: Resurrection quotes

  • Courier: Five months in Brazil. You're a hard man to find.

    Arthur Bishop: [in Portuguese] I don't speak English.

    Courier: You even have the accent right.

    Arthur Bishop: [in Portuguese] If you say so.

    Courier: I do say so.

  • Arthur Bishop: Tell your principal it never pays to fuck with the dead.