Terrorism is a topic on the cusp of the storm. Everyone living in the shadow of terrorism is more or less worried and frightened. Therefore, the British who dare to film "British Showdown" are quite kind. The basis of the whole story is the historical issues left over by Britain and Ireland over hundreds of years. Whether Northern Ireland should be independent or continue to stay in the UK, populists, Japanese The imperialist politicians and speculators are making waves under the coercion of this unsolvable issue, and there will be no peace forever.
The English title of the film is literally translated as "foreigner", referring to Jackie Chan, as a Chinese, involved in this political struggle that seems to have nothing to do with him. Taking a foreigner as a clue to the theme film of the Northern Ireland incident, the film brings a new cognitive perspective to the audience at the story level.
In "Kung Fu Yoga" at the beginning of this year, Jackie Chan has already started to take the line of the older heroes. During the fight, he arranged a lot of plots that are not enough to his heart. However, on the whole, he is still a martial arts star. Jackie Chan in "British Showdown" challenges an older role and plays a 70-year-old retired special soldier. His legs and feet are not as flexible as when he was young, but he still has the physical strength to complete combat-level combat and tactical field combat. It's hard to be a star, and it's even harder to break through your comfort zone.
Under the persuasion of director Martin Campbell, Jackie Chan can take this role, which shows that he is fully prepared to appear in the film not as a star, but as an actor, although he is alone in the scene of fierce battle with Irish terrorists. There are many, but the most frequent appearance in front of the audience is the gray hair, sunken eye sockets and desperate expression of a widowed old man who has lost a loved one.
It is of course a kind of courage for Jackie Chan to actively give up the role type that allows him to gain status in the movie world; at the same time, it can be regarded as Jackie Chan to provide audiences with a channel of psychological transition on the big screen. Any martial arts star is not a god, and it is impossible. In the film and television works reaching his old age, audiences who like Jackie Chan should also accept the fact that he is 63 years old. Such an old age is still willing to make breakthroughs and innovations, which is worth cherishing.
Maybe only Martin Campbell's genre director can convince Jackie Chan. The director can be called a master in the field of genre films. He has filmed two episodes of the 007 series of films "Golden Eye" and "Casino Royale". He has won two generations of 007 actors Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig. 007". Pierce Brosnan once again collaborated with Campbell 22 years after "Golden Eye", and played a rivalry with Jackie Chan. After listening to Brosnan’s proficient and authentic accent in "British Showdown", I knew that the home of the elegant actor who played the British agent was in Ireland.
The so-called master of the director’s line means that I am absolutely not worried that you will not be able to grasp the contradictory points of the story’s emotions, so I shoot very calmly, and I don’t use some very deliberate means, such as very out-of-place editing and out-of-the-box sound effects. , You can successfully create tension. The rhythm of Campbell's works is very stable. The film opens with a blasting accident. The director did not use music to enhance the transmission of emotions, because in Campbell's well-established view, the story itself is enough to impress the audience, and all other unnecessary factors are completely discarded; the story; The pattern of the movie can not be fully seen until the middle and later part of the film. Most of the time, the movie can convey freshness to the audience in terms of plot. Campbell is also unambiguous when it is time to take it off, there is no redundant plot, no pee.
Where it is time to strengthen the tension of the plot, Campbell does not hesitate to film formalism. A scene in which Pierce Brosnan and his colleagues quarreled revealed the true faces of the two speculators. Campbell pushed up the camera and gave them a close-up of half of their faces. This was the only time such an extreme was used in the film. Face lens. In an important terrorist attack in the story, Campbell's crew blasted a bus without notifying the pedestrians on Lambeth Bridge in London, and snapped a photo of the real reaction of the innocent people eating melons at the blasting site.
"British Showdown" is a very good model, telling us that there is no need for special effects, no tricks, only the breakthrough and persistence of a martial arts legend, and only the most basic lens combinations can make a quality. Superior type piece.
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