Every good movie has its own "techniques", and these "techniques" are what attracts the attention of movies. There are many "techniques" in science fiction movies, the vast universe, magnificent battleships, strange planets... These have become the common standard of all science fiction movies, but each science fiction movie has its own unique label. His own "technique" has carved up its own market segments in the big market of science fiction movies. Even the magnificent space epic of "Star Wars" also contains the way of art-use doctrine to bring the warriors of the East. The spirit has been packaged to shape the classic Jedi image in science fiction movies. Since then, the Force and the lightsaber have become the symbols of Star Wars and the "skills" of Star Wars. In fact, "Star Wars" is really helpless. The movie story itself does not have the atmosphere of "Star Wars" nor the depth of "Blade Runner", but fortunately, the person who directed the play is Paul Van Hoeven. The Dutch director incorporated some side tricks into this sci-fi movie, which became a classic for a while.
Violence, this is the first "technique" given to the film by Van Hoven. There are many shots in the film that directly render the violent colors, especially the clip where the instructor throws a dart to nail the recruit's palm. The whole clip is taken with a long shot, naked. It shows the whole process of the dart sticking into the palm of the hand, giving people an intuitive and bloody stimulus. Disgusting, this is another technique in the movie. Almost all the disgusting pictures in the movie come from the Zerg, whether it is an ordinary Zerg soldier or a Zerg tank. The various colors of liquid sprayed by these bugs after being shot are enough to make your appetite uncomfortable. The image of the wise worm that appeared last was disgusting enough, and the image that attracted people’s brains was even more shocking. Having said that, when the two "arts" of violence and nausea come together, it can not help but remind people of American horror movies. It is true that although the background of this film is science fiction, it is full of traditional American horror film techniques. "Star Wars" is a sci-fi horror film, but it is not as good as "Star Wars" in terms of imagination and "Alien" in terms of thrilling atmosphere, so the film simply follows the path of American horror films, shocking the audience with violence and nausea. Of course, as a director who has filmed "Instinct" and "Showgirls", how can he not show off some erotic sections in this "Starship" to stimulate the audience's hormones? So there is a large-scale mixed bathing for men and women in the movie...
If the movie is purely violent, disgusting, and erotic, then "Star Wars" is destined to become a bad movie. The biggest "technique" of the film is also the most controversial part of the film-the Nazi plot. The film is full of fascist elements. Zergs are low-level creatures and they should be eliminated. It is easy to think of Nazi Germany's treatment of Jews. Genocide carried out. The protagonist in the movie repeatedly mentioned the difference between citizens and the people before joining the army to become a real citizen. Isn’t this the theory of Nazi Germany? The idea of war even spread to children. The military uniforms of the high-ranking officers in the movie are very similar to those of the Third Reich. Especially the black dress when Karl appeared at the end of the movie immediately reminded me of the black uniforms of the German SS. The more obvious thing is that the military emblems of the federal forces in the film also completely imitate the Nazi German military emblems.....The numerous Nazi plots in the film have made this science fiction film much criticized, but this is by no means that the director is really promoting the Nazi army. Well, although Paul Van Hoven always likes to do some "body art" and "physiological enlightenment" on the screen, I believe he is not crazy enough to worship fascism. These Nazi plots in the movie are actually a kind of irony, human The technology can be developed to explore outer space, but the desire of human beings is also expanding with the deepening of cognition. The stains in human history such as colonization and genocide are still continuing, which will bring the ignorance, barbarism, primitiveness and human treacherousness of the Zerg. Contrast between greed and violence. On the surface, it seems that human forces to destroy the Zerg is to defend the home and the country, but it is actually a satire of human infinite desire and sense of conquest. Paul van Hoeven’s irony technique became the most exciting "technique" in the movie, saving the clichés in the movie story, and making this science fiction film a topical work for a while, and its controversy has continued to this day.
PS: "Star Wars" is an old movie more than ten years ago. The plot of the movie will always make me associate it with the classic Blizzard game "StarCraft". It makes me involuntarily recall those first contact with computer games. In the days when I was watching movies in the videotape era, in the era when computers were not popular, in the era when Internet cafes were still called computer rooms, in the era when people were still using windows98 and 3.5-inch floppy disks. The things I have been exposed to in those years are not as rich as they are now, and the movies I have seen in those years are not as many as now, but every movie is unforgettable for me. The same is true for this "Star Wars". The violent rendering and sensory stimulation in the movie deeply shocked me. Although it cannot become a monument of science fiction history like "Star Wars", it is also an eternal classic in my heart.
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