watching "GRINDHOUSE" co -produced by Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez, the first reaction was to shout to the sky: "How can How about this?! How can a movie satisfy my love of violence so nakedly?!"
Even a broad Chinese audience who lacks background knowledge of B-rated movies and Cult Movies can be without barriers. Enjoy the invigorating vulgarity and violence rendered by the film. Imagine the summer nights of the 1980s and 1990s, walking into a dark video hall on the side of the road and huddling with many shirtless proletarian brothers. Watching a Hong Kong-style bad movie with heroes flying all over the sky and zombies crawling all over the world... Two posters of "Ring Room" were found on the Internet. In addition to the deliberately outdated poster effect, those Hong Kong-style Chinese titles are also fully displayed. It has gained the comprehension and creativity of the Chinese people, especially the translated titles of the two films: "Death Proof" (Death Proof), and "Zombies·Sor Girls·Machine Guns" (Planet Terror). This is a parody. KUSO is a kind of folk art.
The reason why I chose Death Proof in "Ring Room" to write a film review is because my roommate (a hardcore zombie film lover) chose Planet Terror, and more because, in contrast, I prefer the Death Proof. Quentin’s perverse grotesque and wicked taste, in connection with his legendary creation process, "Pulp Fiction" is hailed as the bible of postmodern movies, and "Kill Bill" is It pays tribute to the Hong Kong-style martial arts and cult movies that he loves, and this Death Proof is at least reduced in form to a B-rated film, violent, vulgar, sexually provocative, and even deliberately made those film scratches and jumps with nostalgic colors. Frame, black and white, and color are mixed. This is the path of a successful uncle who consciously "flows down". Obviously, he is "playing" and he will play the part that he loves and is good at as much as possible. .
The film can be divided into two parts. The first half talks about the four girls being called "stunt Mike" while driving on vacation.
The perverted old man stared at him. The latter drove his modified "Death Proof" vehicle and crashed several people into flesh and blood; in the second half of the story, the perverted man caught sight of another group a year later The four girls didn't want each other's drag racing skills to be inferior, and they killed him after some road chases.
There are always distinctive Quentin movie elements in the film, bar scenes, vinyl records, country music, and chattering, long but vigorous dialogue, paired with two tight and exciting car crash and car chase scenes, which can be described as dynamic. The combination, the ups and downs, and the interesting thing is that from the comments collected on the Internet, male and female audiences have quite different attitudes towards those narration scenes. An uncle said in the original words: "What is the source of the uncomfortable is that these women talk too much (" There is a secret idea that being killed is a reasonable idea, after all, it is a movie).” And another female audience said: “I like this scene. Including the chattering dialogue. In the past, there were always gangster men. In the movie, every sentence is swearing nonsense. Now seeing women do the same, the effect is not the same."
This is the most interesting part of the film in my personal opinion , and it also uses sex and violence as its selling points. , The same is to make the audience feel refreshed. There are two aspects of Death Proof that are anti-traditional compared with general B-level movies, cult movies and Hollywood genre movies. The first is that the protagonist is a group of fierce women instead of fi The second is that the climax occurred twice instead of once, which led to a decidedly different way for the audience after watching it.
At the beginning of the second part of the film, the stuntman Mike appeared for the second time. He drove a black car sturdily around from the parking spaces of a few girls, and took the thick black smoke away. The blonde smiled contemptuously. , Said to his companion: "Incompetence." This evaluation accurately summarizes a slightly obscure definition of white male perverted murderers in American society. These people attack young and beautiful women with extremely cruel and bloody methods. However, its purpose is not pure sexual assault, but to seek some kind of pleasure similar to physiological stimulation from violence against women. There are also several obvious hints in Death Proof. The close-up of the metal duck on the front of the stuntman appeared more than once, and once more, he simply asked Mike to straddle the front of the car with the duck sandwiched between his legs. Obviously, this The "anti-death" black car is the indestructible sex organ in the imagination of stuntmen, and the most powerful weapon against women.
The first episode is very interesting. Four beautiful and sexy chirping girls drove into the town all the way, drinking, flirting with boys, full of swear words, talking about meat, dancing, and smoking marijuana. They are cool for young women. And Zhang Yang, in the final analysis, these forty minutes of bad girl scenes are spurring the audience. When they drove away while listening to radio music, when High reached a state very similar to drunken chaos, all audiences were waiting and waiting. A stunt man hidden in the dark appears on the scene. This is a traditional horror film narrative mode, full of spring, accompanied by sudden violence.
The stunt man’s black car drove from the front, the classic parallel cross-cutting, on one side was a girl shaking her head intoxicated by the sound of music, on the other side was the roar of the engine, slammed on the accelerator, close-ups of metal ducks and suddenly turned on lights. I gave it four times from different angles and explained the tragic scenes of the four people being hit. Considering that the scenes of hitting their legs and getting their faces shaved off are computer stunts, there is no doubt that this repeated editing is different from the simple high-cost action in Jackie Chan's action film. Repeatedly, but the director deliberately asked the audience: "Is it cool? Is it cool? Is it cool? Is it cool?" Repeatedly asked four times, making the scalp numb and chilly.
So far, what we have seen is the narrative mechanism in traditional horror films: "Sluts are punished." Sexy, beautiful, and indulgent female characters are always the victims of mysterious violence, especially Butterfly and a blonde beauty named Bacon who tease the stunts, and die so badly that they can only be described in four words.
However, after entering the second half, things are different. There are also black girls with bare feet and blondes with simple minds, but what about the remaining two? A car with a gun is very skilled, and a cat is not only immortal like a cat, but also an avid fan of extreme racing. In addition, they are also chattering, indulgent, swearing, and dirty. In a word, they are definitely not good women. , But Kim and Zoe, they will drag racing.
From the time Zoe started playing stunts in the car, to the appearance of the stuntman, crashing, chasing, dodge, and almost being killed, Kim shot, and then a few people chased, and after catching up, there was a violent beating. The 20-minute scene was dealt with ups and downs. The ups and downs are thrilling, especially the 180-degree emotional reversal, which can be called hearty. Zoe jumped up unscathed, a few people wiped their tears and thanked God, then Zoe raised his eyebrows and said, do you want to chase that bastard?
The music changed, and the girl was sitting on the window of the car with an iron rod, like an Amazon warrior, turning around in the face of the sun and smoke, so the audience finally realized that the burden was here!
A very ingenious role dislocation, with the punished mode of slut in the front, the audience inevitably followed a few women all the way to fear, and the depression for more than an hour was finally released at this moment, and the girls suddenly changed from female victims. The heroine, turned into a dead end mad flower, vowed to beat the pervert who underestimated their car skills. At this time, looking back at the long chatter in front of him, she actually laid a good foundation for the personality characteristics of several people, accumulated emotions, and said nothing. In vain.
So everything turned abruptly. Compared with the pleasure of being abused in the first crash, the second time the audience was completely replaced by the role of sadism and avenger. Quentin’s violent scenes and perfect soundtrack vented his emotions heartily, and finally The girl in the short skirt raises her legs and heads high, which is the essence of violent aesthetics. "Using violence to control violence" has always been a common mode of operation for all action movies, and it is also an inevitable psychological mechanism that brings satisfaction to the audience. The greater the disparity between the strength of the enemy and ours, the more pleasure the protagonist will bring to the audience. Strong, and Quentin uses the transformation of male and female identity, the transformation from abuse to sadism, to effectively strengthen this psychological mechanism. Unlike the tough and brave Uma Thurman in Kill Bill, this kind of change from victim to The transformation of the role of the Avengers was suddenly completed in the last ten minutes of the film, and the world moved on the cusp of the storm, just like a serf who turned over to become the master, stunned.
From the man scenes in "Reservoir Dog" and "Pulp Fiction" to "Kill Bill" and this Death Proof woman scene, look at Robert Rodriguez's previous "Sin City" and this Planet The same sturdy heroines in Terror, the entire "Ring Room" is enough to become a rather interesting case for feminist criticism.
In the past, most of the violent scenes of flesh and blood were mostly for men. Girls might watch them, maybe hold their breath, and admire those muscular heroes, but they have no reason to love such films, how can they love them? ? They can never imagine themselves driving a sports car, smoking a Havana, and carrying a spear like a boy. They can only choose to be the girl placed in the back seat of the car, sleep with the hero, be captured by the enemy and wait for the hero. Come to the rescue, or be used by others for crimes such as not understanding the hero’s life value, preventing the hero from taking risks, selfishness and greed for vanity, messing up the relationship between men and women, and suffered a tragic end.
It's not because girls can't watch violent movies, but because the past violent movies, B-level movies, model guns, model cars, dim midnight scenes, etc., were not originally prepared for girls.
However, for this Death Proof, even those fanatics of Jackie Chan and Bruce Lee, I am afraid I will not be so happy and satisfied as a young literary girl. It’s wonderful that Quentin tells you that women can explode. Talking about meaty jokes, showing thighs, sexy, sassy and messing up the relationship between men and women, but as long as you can drag racing, shoot, raise your legs and make a headshot, you can not be hit by a man but squash a man, and you can live like Kim and Zoe. Free and unrestrained, no longer play the victim of horror movies running and shouting, not even the oppressed and abused housewife in "The End of the Wild Flower", you can show up if you want to show up, free from male violence and sex No one can make irresponsible remarks about the double infringement, it's that simple.
I like the logic of the old guy Quentin. Although it is so simple that it is almost a daydream, but then again, the movie itself is just a daydream. This is true for Jackie Chan, Bruce Lee and Stallone, and it is also true for women who can drag racing.
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