Some movies, especially some Hollywood movies, make people want to watch the outline of the story. For example: a group of terrorists occupy the White House, and only one agent is left. How to deal with a powerful enemy? Can he save the life of the President of the United States? So there are two films with very similar plots and even the same names-"2012" director Roland Emmerich's "White House Fall" and "Life and Death" director Anthony Fouquet's "Olin" The Fall of Pace!
Americans love to destroy their country's landmarks in movies, and this is already a well-known thing. The Statue of Liberty, the Empire State Building, Wall Street, the Golden Gate Bridge, etc. are all hardest hit areas, and they will be ruined by superheroes, alien visitors, giant monsters, or powerful weapons of hostile forces. The White House is undoubtedly the most conspicuous pearl in the crown in the eyes of Hollywood saboteurs. It is not the first time that Roland Emmerich has stared at the White House. In "2012", he let the American aircraft carrier smash the White House into the water. There is also a fake news about the bombing of the White House broadcast by terrorists in Die Hard 4. This time "The Fall of Olympus" straightforwardly captured the White House, coerced the President, and prepared to engage in a nuclear explosion in the United States. How can movie fans not buy it?
The old beauty looked horrified and enjoyable, while foreigners (such as us) looked happily and excitedly. This is the essence of commercial films: adult play! Use movies to show all kinds of impossible or extremely unlikely situations in reality. Since it’s a playhouse, one can imagine that the film is just like that, and there are so many bugs and loopholes. Needless to say-the director and screenwriter must be very troubled: if I shoot too realistically, wouldn’t I be a blow to others American textbooks. Therefore, in the film, the C130 can be modified to fly into the Washington no-fly zone. Not only can the two F22s be shot down with the Vulcan machine gun, but even the anti-aircraft missiles are not a problem! The President, the Vice President and the Secretary of Defense have actually become eggs in a basket, making everyone ready for it! The terrorists are so powerful that they can make small teams with various light and heavy weapons gather for a walk at the gate of the White House!
The director and the screenwriter boldly imagined and imaginatively, in fact, he is a boy who is fighting with a toy airplane and a toy tank. But it is a skill to bring the audience into the context of the house. Although there are many exaggerations and absurdities in the plot and setting of "The Fall of Olympus", it wins in the smooth story, compact rhythm, and clean action scenes. It will not make people feel visually fatigued like "Die Hard 5". Enough to make you look pleasing to the eye and scream for fun. Brainless action films do not need to focus on the plots of why one agent can kill all the enemies, but countless agents were all targets before, or how terrorists can buy high-level agents around the president. The process of having a house together is very cool and it's OK.
The most regrettable thing is that we have only watched other people play at the house, but we can’t and dare not use the energy of the house to make a movie, and treat the things at home as holy things. Even if Lao Mei plays ridiculously, it is better than not dare to play.
Note: Old text in 2013.
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