In today's era of sequels and IP rampant, a single type of film is rare.
Especially war movies, not only the production cost is huge, but there is basically no possibility of sequels, so there are very few war movies on the market.
It is also because of this that when the war film "Battle of Midway" was released, many people were looking forward to it. It is very rare that there are still people who are willing to make war films these days.
In fact, when it comes to the film itself, although it doesn't have the potential to be a big hit, the quality is still okay.
The Difficulties of War Movies
With the changes of the times, the most popular in the film market today are the entertainment-based comics, sci-fi and action films. Most of these films have a characteristic, that is, the story is relatively simple, but the visual effects are very good.
In fact, ordinary war movies also have these two points. The stories of many war movies are not complicated, and the visual impact caused by various dazzling artillery shells and aerial battles during wars is also very interesting.
However, although war films can also have these two elements, it does not mean that the audience can become as broad as a comic film, because it has three unavoidable disadvantages at the same time.
First of all, most war films are group scenes, and the scenes are generally very large. From the production point of view, the difficulty is actually quite high, which is a test of the director's level of scheduling of scenes and control of group scenes.
However, in comics, sci-fi, and action movies, you can play big scenes, but you can also play small-scale stories. There are big fights and small troubles. The range of choices is much more, and the difficulty is higher than that of war movies. Low.
Secondly, war is a very serious topic. In other words, most war films are filled with a tragic or even depressive atmosphere. For audiences who want to go to the theater for relaxing entertainment, it is very rushing.
Some children's shoes asked, wouldn't adding entertainment elements to war movies solve it?
But if you really do this, please refer to the domestic anti-Japanese dramas for the consequences.
Finally, because war films are realistic films, they have high requirements for design, because the more realistic the film, the lower its commercial elements.
For example, in real fighting, the winner will usually be decided in about 1 minute, and there are still 50 seconds in this minute when the two sides are testing or confronting each other, but if a kung fu film dares to shoot like this, it will definitely be finished.
The same is true for war movies. People can play all kinds of imaginative designs in sci-fi, comics and even action movies, but you can’t do war movies. Your design must comply with authenticity while ensuring viewing, and the commercial element cannot be too low.
Because of this, it is difficult to make war movies, and there are only a handful of good war movies. The movie "Battle of Midway" can be said to be passable in dealing with these difficulties. Not much.
History background
"Battle of Midway" mainly tells the story of the Pacific War during World War II, that is, from the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 to the United States' defeat of the Japanese naval fleet in the Pacific in 1943.
For war films, another key point is how to quickly let the audience understand the cause and background of the war. After all, not all audiences learn history, and they may only know a general idea . Quickly understanding the ins and outs of the background of the entire story is a top priority.
Different from ordinary war films that explain the background in a few lines at the beginning of the film, "Battle of Midway" has spent a lot of effort in this regard.
At the beginning of the film, the cause of the Battle of Midway Island, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, is described in detail. Pearl Harbor?
However, in this way, although it is indeed more detailed and the audience can understand it, it is actually a bit too run-of-the-mill.
And several main characters in the movie basically just act as tools to promote the plot at the beginning, and they don't have many features. As a movie of a group drama, this is actually a fatal point.
have everything
As mentioned above, the group portraits of the movie "Battle of Midway" are actually handled very generally.
There are children's shoes to say, there are a few characters that are quite interesting. For example, the male protagonist is a very brave soldier, and the people in the intelligence team are also very responsible.
Yes, but brave fighters and dedicated soldiers are actually standard for war movies. In other words, as long as it is a war movie, you can see such characters.
Therefore, for "Battle of Midway", it has all the characters it should have, and that's it. In fact, it did not deeply shape and excavate certain characters, even the male protagonist. Because of the death of his roommate, the matter of taking down Japan as his heart's goal was handled only on the surface.
Of course, the story of "Battle of Midway" itself is not a mode that focuses on a certain character like "Blood Battle Hacksaw Ridge", so it is impossible to spend too much space on the character group, but it is really nothing to talk about its own design. Highlights.
As for the combat effect of the movie itself, it is still very good, including the scenes of dive fighters dropping bombs in the artillery fire to blow up the aircraft carrier, which is still very exciting.
And the characters in the film are not plug-ins with the protagonist's halo. Several important characters were injured in the battle, and some were even killed in battle, and the information handled by the captain of the intelligence team was not 100% accurate.
On the whole, the entire film of "Battle of Midway" belongs to the type of "everything you should have", from the character design to the war design, the story frame and the plot promotion are all passable, but there is not much special Brilliant place.
Intelligence Service
Although many parts of "Battle of Midway" are relatively standardized, there are still dazzling points that are different from traditional war films.
That's right, it's the intelligence department .
As the war becomes more and more modernized, the importance of information continues to increase. However, in many movies, intelligence processing is usually simplified, so that in the eyes of many audiences, the intelligence department has a very low sense of existence . When the basic protagonist group needs information, they can directly provide it, and even the protagonist group can easily obtain all kinds of information they need.
And in "Battle of Midway", it was a time to correct the name of the Intelligence Department.
In the movie, the role of the intelligence department is very important, and even directly affects the promotion of the plot.
For example, all the actions of the U.S. military must be set according to the intelligence collected by the Intelligence Department, and the information collected by the Intelligence Department itself needs to be deciphered, and the information can be divided into true and false.
At the same time, the Intelligence Department also needs to convince the superiors of the authenticity of the information obtained, and also needs to ensure that the error is within an acceptable range, etc. The work is really complicated and difficult.
The true restoration of the difficulty of the work of the Intelligence Department can be said to be the biggest bright spot in "Battle of Midway", and it is also the most eye-catching place in this war film that "follows the rules" everywhere.
For a war movie, "Battle of Midway" is actually not bad.
But limited to the subject matter and its overall handling is relatively bland, so it can only be said to be a passing film.
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