When I think of it, Ge Ge is still stunned...
Time is pushed back 24 hours. A post-90s girl came to chat at noon and talked about the recent popular film and television phenomenon. In fact, Ge Ge mainly wanted to understand from the perspective of her girl. Here is the most popular and most IN topic, so that it can be used as a reference for topic selection.
Although I am busy with work these days, I boast that I can still use my few personal time every day to pay attention to the latest popular works, in case I am too out of touch with the times. Unexpectedly, the girl talked about her feelings well, but I can really describe it as ignorance...
I asked: What celebrity do you all like the most after 90s?
Sister: Song Zhongji. Has Ge Ge ever watched "Descendants of the Sun"?
Me: It seems...heard of it. Didn't I mean that I was recording "Happy Camp" on Hunan Satellite TV and was blocked by fans during the past two days. But "Descendants of the Sun" doesn't have time to watch. Is it a costume myth?
Girl: Oh my goodness! ! Don't look at this, Ge Ge, you are out!
Me: ...
Sister: Then can't Wang Kai look at it?
I have no idea.
Girl: Oh my goodness! !
Me: ...
Sister: Does Jin Dong know?
Me: ...
Sister: My God! !
Me: ...
Sister: Don't watch "Langya List", "The Pretender" and "Ode to Joy"? ?
Me: Hmm...
Sister: Oh my God! ! I can't talk to you anymore. Goodbye, Greg.
After four consecutive "oh my god" sisters, I suddenly realized that I was really old.
That's it! Those of us who are in the middle of life are forced to sit in the party, how can we have time to play TV series one by one!
In the evening, holding a heart that was hurt, I walked into the theater, looking forward to the high-sensitivity electric chair of the Paragon. The high-sensitivity electric chair in the action movie would sway passionately along with the crashes and gunfights in the action movie, and massage the body after a busy week. Just watched the movie "Ultra Brain 48 Hours" which was released on the first day.
Why did I choose it in the theater? In fact, the current mainstream cinema chains are really nothing to choose from. Apart from it, the new film is "Goodbye, I'm Gone".
The mainland version of "Super Brain 48 Hours" poster in the movie theater looks like this:
Hey, it looks different from the original poster I have seen in my impression:
same film, but think about it. , There are really many ways in it.
First of all, the super-luxury "five-star" lineup is highlighted in the Chinese version of the poster, and the representative works of these stars are also attached to the star's representative works: "Wolverine" is also "Deadpool" Ryan Reynolds, acting Kevin Costner in "Superman", Gal Gadot in "Bat", Gary Oldman in "Batman" and Tommy Lee Jones in the US team.
The emergence of groups of these celebrities and Lu Shu's works is a kind of genre positioning and a warm reminder of promotional strategy: "Ultra Brain 48 Hours" is also an action/sci-fi popular blockbuster of the same style.
Secondly, the difference between the two posters is that there is a big difference in the rankings. The American poster follows the path of number of dramas and seniority, while the Chinese version is a hot spot-so Ryan disappeared from the American poster. Reynolds appeared again.
Finally, the style of the poster itself is also an identification of style. The Chinese version creates the momentum of a blockbuster: high-tech, skyscrapers, and the American version is introverted and quiet. If you have seen the movie, you will know that it emphasizes the visualization of the concept of "super brain".
This article is certainly not a poster contest or appreciation post. I just want to explain here: From the perspective of the audience, the poster outside the film also participates in the shaping of the film's temperament and further influences our choices. At the same time, it can also be used as a reference for the direction of the film culture in a certain place.
At least based on the poster, even if "Ultra Brain 48 Hours" does not have a different way of publicity in these days, it will still not sell too badly in the Chinese market. Because at the beginning of the filming, it has followed the ultra-stable commercial controllable expectations: star lineup, action/sci-fi-are all the biggest intersection of theater audiences; the airborne release period is not a small holiday schedule, but within a week Also avoid the fight of the new film rivals.
Therefore, under certain circumstances, "Ultra Brain 48 Hours" cannot and does not need to have the novelty of slanting the front in art. It only needs to safely go through the whole process from production to distribution under the basic cost budget. ——Of course, this is a bit of a routine today, when sincerity is always on the lips, but it is also a solid and solid example of the Hollywood industrial system.
Let's take a look at what this work says.
In the film, the CIA who is eager to solve the case transplants the memory and skills of the accidental death agent (Ryan Reynolds) to the criminal played by Kevin Costner. He wants to use this human mobile hard drive to find clues and destroy the attempt to seize national weapons. Confidential anti-government criminal organization.
This is a typical plot-driven film with a clear linear goal. The setting of 48-hour memory disappearance should be like an alarm clock to blow up to disturb the mind. At the same time, thanks to the blessings of the villains, the power of the villains is growing. The stronger it is, the stronger it can compete with Costner and maintain the suspenseful tension of the film.
The beginning of "Ultra Brain 48 Hours" is a scene of urban chasing with very good rhythm and emotions, and it was even reminiscent of "Tracking" (2007) in the galaxy image Yu Nakai.
Ryan Reynolds's performance was very cool and handsome, but he never thought that the film didn't pay much attention to him, and the main line quickly shifted to Kevin Costner, an old drama player.
The film can have the advantage of being lazy in the protagonist setting-Costner has two kinds of memories at the same time. This emotionally turbulent Gemini man can take three steps and take a step back because of the unstable performance of his memory and abilities, instead of having to bother to manage evil The growth of power is enough to have tension.
But "Ultra Brain 48 Hours" uses this setting not in action scenes, but in emotional scenes-this is a very different place between the film and other crime movies in recent years.
Everyone, please pay attention to the original English name of "Criminal" in "Ultra Brain 48 Hours."
Facing the detective’s widow, Galgado, Costner’s primitive animality and warm memory strangled each other, gradually possessing his own feelings instead of just letting the feelings of the subject’s memory occupy him-this is simply a female essay The plot of the Qing pioneer drama "Soft"!
Ever since, Super Brain has evolved into an emotionally-driven warmth drama, and the final rescue of heroes to save the United States has shown signs from the beginning: the bundled PLAY has come up, and it has summoned the pure love conscience!
When I watched it, I was thinking that there is also a vague meaning of Stockholm syndrome.
But more importantly, this kind of processing brings a movie that seems to be based on science fiction and action back to the classic style! There is a rare retro style in the 90s in "Ultra Brain 48 Hours"-not only because of its reliance on emotions, it is not only because of its reliance on emotions that it urges the action design to avoid complexity and simplify, and there are few expected indiscriminate bombings, but it is based on the main theme. It has gone back to the core values of returning to the family again.
Today, when Deadpool is popular, Costner is not enough to be a pornographic bastard, and even completes the task of returning the soul of the dead detective to his family because of his work by carrying his memory.
It is estimated that no matter how bad the character is, the goodness of human nature will be apparent when encountering a super beauty like Galjador.
From the perspective of the completion of the play, "Super Brain" is smooth, with few flaws. It's just that its bridge sections and actions are a bit old-fashioned in my opinion.
It is hard to say that this is the fault of the work itself. The audience always has a desire for new things, and this kind of freshness should not challenge the audience's daily experience of understanding things. Therefore, only those artists who can create tension in commonality and uniqueness, familiarity and originality can subtly promote the aesthetic change of genre movies. This is simple to say, but it is really not an easy task.
Therefore, although "Ultra Brain 48 Hours" uses the method of transplanting memory to raise questions about human subjectivity, it has no ambition to become "Brain Burning 48 Hours" after all. It uses strong stylized structures to support its conclusions like "Memory Fragment" and others. itself.
"Super Brain" has its own mission: to take care of the majority of people who have been tortured by work for a week with a smooth plot and industrial-level pictures, release them with action, send stars to seductively, and promote the positive energy of love. As a regular popcorn movie, "Super Brain" still tried its best to satisfy us at the moment we watched it, but in the end, the dust returned to the dust, the soil returned to the ground, the update and establishment of the film's aesthetics was a difficult wave.
But "Ultra Brain 48 Hours" still brought me a surprise.
This kind of surprise comes from Kevin Costner, a veteran superstar who seems to have long been far away from our movie-watching life, but has brought us countless beautiful memories.
This allows "Ultra Brain 48 Hours" to add a bit of "defamiliarization effect" in today's superhero blockbusters flooding the market, just like its retro 90s warm style.
If my memory is correct, the introduction of the movie starring Kevin Costner to the Chinese market can be traced back to "Future Water World" (1995) in the mid-1990s. Although the film suffered a fiasco at the world box office that year, Costner is really one of the most watched Hollywood male stars of our time, and I personally think that the most handsome and handsome male star.
He played the righteous detective in De Palma's "Ironless Selflessness" (1987). The soundtrack that Morricone wrote for this work is still one of my favorites.
"Dancing with Wolves" (1990), which he personally starred and directed, is the greatest reflective work in American Western films, and it has also achieved the pinnacle of his directorship: Oscar for Best Picture and Best Director.
He played the role of a sparing prosecutor in Oliver Stone's political thriller "Assassination of Kennedy" (1991). A few years ago, I revisited this film in the Stone Retrospective of the Shanghai Film Festival. Director Stone came to the scene in person. It took 189 minutes to complete it in one go. The director's techniques and skills are dazzling, and it is really enjoyable.
"The Bodyguard" (1992) co-starred by him and pop star Whitney Houston. The Houstonians have gone, but the melody of "I Will Always Love You" is still echoing today...
Also He has his most warm and touching work, the image of a criminal (and also a great "father") played in Clint Eastwood's film "The Perfect World" (1993). In 1998, I watched this film for the first time through the VCD of the Chinese-recorded Degalla. I was moved to the ground.
If we compare it, don't you actually think that "Ultra Brain 48 Hours" is to some extent a continuation of "Perfect World"?
He is a criminal and a member of the warmest family.
I don't think this is an outdated performance. This traditional sentiment can still move people's hearts.
It’s just that I didn’t expect that Kevin Costner, the most handsome guy in Hollywood ever, would appear in "Super Brain 48 Hours" with such a downright image. A few days ago, he had a small role in "Superman vs. Batman". At present, it seems that he is still "very old and well-fed" and has considerable market appeal.
Finally, I recalled the conversation with my sister at noon yesterday.
Yes, I am not very familiar with Song Zhongji, nor Wang Kai and Jin Dong, nor do I have time to watch the popular "Descendants of the Sun", "Langya Bang" and "Ode to Joy". However, there are talented people from generation to generation, how can a star in the fierce market competition, always firmly grasp our memory with great works, that is eternal.
Do you still remember Professor Du and the long-legged Oba Lee Min Ho who were once all the rage? Where are they now? Which new star has their avid fans turned to?
So, I really applaud Kevin Costner's old age. He is 60 years old, but he can still take the lead and return like a hero.
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