These three veteran actors are so familiar that they have won a total of 4 Academy Awards and 18 nominations. Among them, Michael Caine owns two statuettes, one for Morgan Freeman and one for Alan Arkin.
When "Three Old Guns" was filmed in New York, because a large group of actors were too famous, there were too many onlookers and fans, which finally caused a traffic jam.
The film is the sixth time Morgan Freeman and Michael Caine have co-starred together, best known for Nolan's "Batman Trilogy" and "Now You See Me 1 and 2."
"The Three Old Guns" is humorous, leaning towards comedy, but at the same time desolate, making people sigh reality. Director Zach Braff is kind, innocent, and childishly used the dream-making ability of the movie to resist the real sadness and helplessness, and staged a laughing and tearful "Old Man Is Crazy", "Flying Bank" !
The film still has a well-established old three-act structure. The first scene puts down a blockbuster in a timely manner, triggering an incentive event, triggering the protagonist’s public outcry, and laying a logical foreshadowing for the future, and the fuse of emotional excitement.
Joe, played by Michael Caine, who came to the bank in his hometown early, doesn't know how to queue up to collect tickets, and how to deal with these modern machines and people who believe in business laws.
Those seemingly ergonomic chairs are not designed for an old man like joe, who finds it difficult to even stand up when he sits down. He was fooled by the administrator and lost his own existence. The arrears of his pension made him unable to pay the mortgage. The bank has sent a notice.
At this time, three gangsters came to the bank and swept away millions of dollars.
This event, like a bomb thrown into his heart, reverberated in Joe's heart for a long time.
The second-act story uses cross-cutting to describe the embarrassing living conditions of the three protagonists. There is only one purpose, to force them to change their current way of life and take risks.
Joe's two friends, Morgan Freeman as Willie and Alan Arkin as Albert, are also suffering from the squeeze of life.
The first is the bankruptcy and reorganization of the business where the three worked, their pensions will face endless arrears, and they suddenly lose their only source of income.
joe has received a payment from the bank, and after a month, his house will be confiscated. And his divorced daughter and granddaughter who is studying need to rely on this house to shelter from the wind and rain, ready to deal with the future.
Willie hides a big secret, dialysis has no effect on him, he must find someone who is willing to donate his liver in a short time, he is racing against death, worrying about his family on the one hand, and friends who are at the bottom at the same time , he can only rely on himself.
Albert had been living for more than 20 years, he was avoiding life, he was avoiding society, he was trapped in that easy chair, he thought he could live to be 100 years old, but he was just waiting to die. Although Annie, who loves him, has frequent surprises, but he understands that he can't afford this love, and still chooses to escape.
The story keeps falling, and joe proposes, "Let's rob a bank once"! Only take what belongs to our pension and donate the extra money.
The other two felt that Joe was crazy, looking at a room full of elderly clubs, dementia, slow moving, eating expired food, although a large room of living people, but the room was full of the smell of death.
The three practiced once and robbed a supermarket once. The process was full of laughter, and the ending was heartbroken, a failure of failure.
The story fell to its lowest point. Joe began to seek professional help planning, Willie must get a sum of money, for his own life, while taking care of his family. Albert really fell in love with Annie and wanted to take care of her and take responsibility on his own.
The three old gunmen, after careful planning, finally put their guns on the horse and completed the bank robbery.
The entire third act is a hilarious drama of how they escape the police pursuit.
Three precise alibi.
The three rely on their own age to rely on the old and sell the old.
The most attacking part of the whole film was sent by Willie. The robbery was an accidental appearance of the little girl because she cared and comforted the little girl, and the police caught this and made the little girl a witness.
Everything is too obvious. The exclusive watch sent by Willie's friend, the skin color and beard make his identity too easy to identify, just at the moment, the little girl says it is not him.
In the hallway from which they left, the little girl saw Willie's granddaughter and gave a knowing smile.
Yes, "The Three Old Guns" is a comedy genre, but the film sublimates the theme, and the part that bakes emotions comes from the characters' adherence to family and friendship.
The little girl who recognized Willie's true identity and concealed her identity was when Willie's feelings for her granddaughter touched the little girl. In reality, in order to restore the family to the past, joe also tried his best to match his divorced daughter and ex-husband to rehabilitate, and persuaded the man to reform and help her granddaughter realize her dream. Although Albert had no family, when Willie needed his liver, he decisively donated his part. For Albert, Willie was his family.
The ending of the film is warm, and the three continue to enjoy the nourishment of love, friendship and family at the end of their lives.
In order to make the behavior of the three people robbing the bank seem reasonable and in line with the moral premise, "Three Old Guns" has given a number of plot arrangements.
The first is that banks seem to be the vampires of society, taking their homes and lives. The collapse of the three companies and the loss of their pensions are all related to the bank's greed.
Secondly, the three people only took their share of their pensions, and the extra part was donated to the elderly club and given to those in need, as if they had become the elderly version of "Robin Hood", and staged a "thief too" Dao"'s line of knights.
In the end, under the great protection of family and friendship, this robbery seems to be logical, and even the first robbers have
become righteous and have a moral shield because of the phrase "caring for the elderly is everyone's responsibility".
The director used a movie to stage a fairy tale, but the reality is mostly cruel, and the reality will not have so many jokes, either indifference or clinging, and the final ending can mostly be summed up in two words:
wait to die.
The old man cannot rely on his offspring to take care of him. His friends have passed away one by one. He usually has few contacts due to various reasons. When he receives a phone call, his first thought is to ask, "Who passed away?
" Love, poetry and distance. In the minds of the younger generation, what most elderly people need to do is not to cause trouble or cause trouble.
How to take care of the elderly has become a huge proposition that every country needs to constantly ask itself.
From the will of the state, to social organizations, and finally to family members, the life of the elderly should be regarded as a responsibility that cannot be forgotten and compromised.
Because, we will all grow old, because our family has grown old, and our children will also grow old. They can't solve all the problems in a frolic like the three old men in the movie.
Does every old man have to rob a bank to change the fate of this tragedy? It is not their tragedy, but the tragedy of society, the tragedy of each of us!
Finally, let's talk about an anecdote on the set. Director Zach Braff has admired the 76-year-old goddess Ann-Margaret since he was a child. It is said that when she is present, Zac will become very quiet...
Finally, send the goddess Ann. -Beautiful photos of Margaret!
Every old man has a glorious past and contributed to the society, and they deserve a stable old age.
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