The last action hero

"The Expendables 2" is much better than "The Expendables". As a director, Simon West is more proficient in rhythm control, atmosphere rendering and bridge design than Stallone, so that the film has the most basic qualities of a conventional commercial film. The opening battle is particularly shocking, and the rest is The dead woods and the old people in spring are the icing on the cake. Most importantly, there are more self-deprecating and cute-looking old guys. At the end of the film, Stallone said that the new plane Bruce Willis gave them was "old enough to enter the museum." Schwarzenegger took it. One sentence: "Aren't we?" This posture is more calm than the blindly showing the uncles' oldness and firmness in the previous episode, and the literary drama is more interesting.
About 20 years ago, when Schwarzenegger was still playing, he starred in a fantasy action movie called "The Last Action Hero". It was not a very successful movie, but it was also because of the movie. The self-deprecating action movie shown in the movie has its own value, and the title of "Last Action Hero" now seems to have a meaning to the truth.
"The Expendables 2" represents the Mesozoic action star Jason Statham, he is also the most appealing action actor in Hollywood to take the muscle route, and his action scenes in this film are also very standard, especially in disguise. A scene in which a priest kills a San warrior. But with his current status among Hollywood actors, he can only be a second-line actor. It is no longer possible to have the superstar status of Schwarzenegger, Stallone, Bruce Willis, Mel Gibson and others. The mantle and influence have not been passed on among the new generation of actors, which means that they actually have no successors. This is not just because of the changes in audience tastes, but the deeper reason is the evolution of expression techniques brought about by the development of the film industry system and the renewal of the audience's taste added by this evolution. Superhero movies with the background and support of film technology are popular now. The consequence of the development of technology is that the requirements for the relevant qualities of the actors themselves are reduced. Artistic stars can still complete the action scenes with the assistance of technical means, and they are in Interpreting the character's personality also has advantages that a pure action star does not have. It is also inevitable that action actors who rely solely on their muscles to beat the world will decline. Nevertheless, those action heroes who used their own flesh and blood to make us enthusiastic will never and should never be forgotten. That represents the most primitive and true aesthetic experience. This B-level film style is also the current one. A bloody call that cannot be replaced by the so-called PG-level action movies flooding the market.
Maybe after these uncles really fade out of the screen, all the golden horses can only be experienced in dreams, so the actual elegy meaning of "The Expendables 2" is not experienced by many post-90s audiences. Arrived. There are a few places in the film that really touched my G point, such as Loris walking in the music of "Red Dead Redemption", Schwarzenegger's iconic "I will be back!", Shang Geyun The signature flying kick, Stallone, Bruce Willis, and Schwarzenegger shot side by side, and so on. It's just that when these images appeared, the dark theater seemed calm, and my cheers and laughter were submerged in the roaring sound effects, and I still seemed a bit lonely. However, I was more looking forward to the scene where Shangge Yundun and Jet Li did the ultimate showdown.
Maybe this "The Expendables" series will continue to be filmed, and some will continue to join and some will fade out to confirm the past and present of the action movie and the ebb and flow of the tide.

ps: Who can give me a word? I hope to see Steven Seagal in the next episode. . .

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