William Cooper is certainly not a loser, but a rookie, and a fighter among rookies. This evaluation comes from Henry (Ernest Borgnine, RIP), the archivist who is estimated to be older than the CIA-even though he thinks Frank Moses (Bruce Willis) is "the best ever", he still reminds Frank, there was a "new guy" who came here. Frank immediately thought of who it was (this shows that he did not underestimate this young man), so he asked: "6 feet 1? Cute hair?" The old man tilted his head and said, "His hair was cute!" The two immediately looked at each other. laughing out loud.
This is a typical dialogue between Grandpa, with tacit understanding and responsibility, and what is not missing is the teasing of young people. 6-foot-1 is not height, but ability. Cute is not hairstyle, but experience-the former is a weapon for young people, and the latter is a conversational resource for people who come over.
The last two shook hands and said goodbye, Frank said: Take good care of yourself, Henry.
You too, Mr. Moses. The old man replied.
If I was young, I would say: People who meet will meet again after all, in some way, just like the endless singing on Qinghe.
But now, I am just silent.
Having said that, for the teasing of the Grandpas, young people with extraordinary skills were always disapproving at first. When William Cooper heard the old man's evaluation of Frank, he looked disdainful and even bothered to refute.
There may have been glories, but the era that belonged to you is gone forever-this is the conceit of the William Coopers. For the Grandpas, this conceit is not bad, just cute, just like a young self.
In the call after Sarah was captured, Frank said to William Cooper: I was just like you, with blind ambitions and false beliefs... But if it weren't for tracking Frank's location, William Cooper would never have the patience. Hearing this lesson-this is actually natural, how many young people are willing to turn the old calendar of the Grandpa? I can’t help but think of the elder of Tristram in the dark world, Kein, always standing at the entrance of the village and beckoning to the passing young people: Stay a while and listen to me... But one by one young warriors passed in front of him, Embarked on an adventurous journey without looking back.
But thinking about it conversely, although young people are not convinced by the small, how can people overtake the old? The old man holding a pink pig, Marvin (played by John Malkovich), showed up singled out just because of the phrase "old man". After he killed the opponent, he didn't forget to add a sentence: Old man my ass! And Joe (Morgan Freeman), who retires from the nursing home, laments: I never expect this would happen to me.
What? Frank asked.
Getting old. Joe answered. It used to be Vietnam, Afghanistan... but now? Green Spring Retirement Home?
Mentioning this is the name of the nursing home. Two old friends laughed, but this time, it was not the young people who laughed, but themselves.
Speaking of which, Frank, Marvin and Joe, the three Grandpas represent three different ways of getting old. Marvin is pretending to be crazy, pay attention to pretending to be crazy, not really crazy. He once pointed a gun at the fat woman's brain and said: You smell like Woshington! Frank and his little girlfriend thought he was ill, but later his sense of smell was fulfilled-quite a smell of "the world laughs at me too crazy, I laugh at the world can't see through".
Joe is wretched. He asked the nursing girl to fix the TV and took the opportunity to peek at her ass. He did so by his means. Even Frank, who saw this scene, shook his head and sighed "Unbelievable". But wretchedness is not really wretched, but self-defeating, letting go of the talents and ambitions that hurt others, and succumbing to everyone, before they can reverse the blow at the critical moment, or have the calmness to die.
And Frank is the most like an agent of the three, but it's a pity that it's just appearance. The hostess of the Eagle's Nest said: You look strong, but you are melancholy, and this is why I have always liked you. By the way, when it comes to the Queen Victoria (Helen Mirren) wearing a white evening dress, she can be counted as the fourth type, cooking, flower arranging, and acting well, but when she turns around, she uses a long sniper and a heavy machine gun.
"I like routine." She said.
Frank didn't speak, but looked at her teasingly.
So she confessed vaguely, secretly she also occasionally engages in "private work."
Frank smiled.
They are all getting old in the years, but they are also unwilling to get old. The Queen of the Eagle's Nest said: "You can't turn the switch and become another person." But under this "retirement syndrome", Grandpa's There is another deeper reason for unwillingness.
The old man from the archives said to Frank: Since you left, everything has changed here. Of course it has changed. William Cooper said to himself when the iron door of the archive room opened: I don't even know this place! In "Barbarian Invasion," the old professor complained: My son has never read a whole wall of books! Speaking of it, I have frozen the picture and carefully inspected the old professor's collection. I have to say that most of them are works filled with the glory and dreams of the old daylight, but now, they are no longer cared about, just like the dust in the cave. The Elder Scrolls.
Fortunately, there is William Cooper, which is why I said at the beginning of the article that he is the real protagonist of the film. If there is no William Cooper, those old guys will be meaningless even if they are awesome. They all gonna die, sooner or later, and the times will die with them. But because of William Cooper, everything is different. To borrow the words of the old professor at the end of "Barbarian Invasion" (he looks at his son who walks over): Here comes the prince of barbarian.
At the end of the film, Frank is still Frank. Looking at the mess in front of him, he seems to ask casually: Is it gonna a problem?
William Cooper frowned: Na, I got it. Then he turned his face and added: Grandpa.
Frank squinted at him, saying nothing.
Although the people who have passed by are old, the glory is still there; the young people have grown up, and the arrogance still exists.
This is the best ending.
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