Smart, don't be too greedy

Robin 2022-08-15 23:56:22

I have no way to start double-speed playback of this movie. Because the screenwriter is indeed very exquisite, but the "chain robbery" from the beginning is like this. Not to mention, the subsequent "thief pretending to be a policeman" committed another crime. Of course, in the end, there is a game outside, and the design of a story outside the story is also good. Although old-fashioned, high IQ movies are unavoidable.

The movie is indeed very smart, and it is estimated that the screenwriter team has also lost a lot of hair. However, the movie is too greedy. In addition to the must-have song and dance teaser for Indian movies, there is also a particularly luxurious romantic background (pink sea, plus flamingo); in addition to Hollywood’s usual speeding car, Wu Yusen’s ultra-dense bullets, hunting in the "Avengers" The wings of an eagle, the plane crashing into a building in "True Lies", the love and killing of "Smiths", the barbaric fight of "Mad Max", the mutual infiltration of "Infernal Affairs" and the confusion between ourselves and the enemy; there is also a detailed psychological analysis (Especially those who design extraordinary crimes, even ordinary clothes will pursue particularly ingenious details and deployment); there is also a love story of you betraying me and I dying for you...

Yes, it forced me to double the speed. I had to spend some brain power to understand the plot after watching it patiently. However, the high box office and low rating of the movie also explain the problem-the picture is just a lively picture, and then it is nothing. Of course, we can also think about it the other way around. If it's just high IQ, just love, just action... This movie is just plagiarism, copying, and no matter how expensive it is to produce, it will still fall into the old fashioned. At least this movie can be said to be a "platter", it can be regarded as spelling out a lot of different things. Then the box office made a lot of money.

However, I think, don't be too greedy, don't be too confused. Because there are too many plots, the audience will feel exhausted and it is a bit difficult to string together. Keep high IQ and action movies, add a little love adjustment, in fact, movies can still get a good score.

The specific and good plot ideas are summarized as follows:

The protagonist Saho, through some small interests, controlled a group of civilians, including: three couriers swaggered to the bank to pick up the goods (the money in the vault), and used the high-end goods in a suitcase to make a few big men stare at the bank Look at the manager (because someone gave the bank manager a note and asked him to quickly take out all the money in the vault and put it in a big bag to wait for someone to get it, otherwise look at the people around and the explosives in the suitcase , And a man in the house fired twice for electricity bills and TV shows... Then he just drove the sports car, and the money was delivered by the courier outside.

Saho and his men pretended to be "lone policemen", and they also found a super policewoman as their partner, organized a team to help catch the "thief" (bank robber). On the other hand, the real "lone policeman" is guided to catch the "thief", which actually makes the "lone policeman" the police target. Then he took the money from the vault again. Then he used the tactic of "Mingxiu plank roads to cross Chencang secretly" and used two large trucks to transport the money in the vault. Turning back, he induced the police to hunt down himself and two other empty large trucks.

The real brilliance is that Saho, as the heir to Roy of the underworld empire, does not like what his father did, and his father was murdered by someone trying to seize power, and he needs revenge. As a result, he created a series of revenge plans to steal the empire (the wealth obtained through various illegal means) that the enemy had built hard. Then let the son of the father's right-hand man pretend to be himself, and then as the "king" he fights him personally, as a "thief". Then, he used the wealth he got to benefit the people.

Of course, we can also speculate that this kind of "high IQ" plot conception is actually not difficult. Only a few people are needed to be responsible for the "extreme ideas" of several characters (as stated in the film, it is not difficult to win the game, the key is to win the game on this field, and it depends on whose field it is), several screenwriters They both regard themselves as gods to set up the story, and then the two sides and even multi-party games, conflicts and contradictions are generated and then adjusted. Anyway, there is a core of adjustment: reversal and reversal, the protagonist must win. Of course, the story cannot be rounded up, so go back and add more details, or round the story with the "hands of God".

Of course, the point is not to be too greedy, this movie is really too messy. 2019-10-28

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Saaho quotes

  • Devaraj: When kids don't obey, we tell them stories. When adults don't obey, we tell them secrets.

  • Ashok Chakravarthy: Everyone is a Tendulkar in gully cricket. The actually talented person is the one who can smash a sixer right out of the park.