The failed mix and match of realism and commercial films

Destini 2022-01-23 08:06:16

Plot:
The Lion of the Desert is a legendary hero who was domineering when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan. After returning to the countryside for many years, he suddenly appeared and met a desperate father man and other American soldiers. He retreated from the chasing soldiers with the words of Ji Wei and saved the father-in-law and his party. The intelligence uncle analyzed that the desert lion must have a plan to return to the arena.
(In the end, there are no pictures...this plot is designed to specifically enchant cinema audiences-the first half is not suspense enough, use this foreshadowing; the second half does not go back, so use other plots to divert attention; plot There is a big loophole, but the rhythm of the film has been saved. The theater audience is dizzy and will be deceived if they are not paying attention.)

In the early years, the desert lion humiliated BDK for enforcing military laws, and now BDK, who has risen to a warlord, takes the desert for revenge. The two granddaughters of Lion were sold. According to the intelligence uncle's understanding of the local area, there is no hope of recovering the second daughter. It just so happened that the uncle intelligence wanted to get rid of the BDK that was eaten at both ends of the coalition and the Taliban, but the CIA needed BDK, so he hoped that his hand would be the lion of the desert.

But the Desert Lion had other plans-he secretly executed BDK's beloved son, and showed BDK the head in his hand. The intelligence uncle heard this report before he knew that the desert lion wanted to die, and the intelligence uncle who understood the local culture wanted to fulfill the desert lion's only choice: honor death. But the father-in-law at the scene killed BDK and saved the lion of the desert. The BDK reinforcements came and surrounded the American troops and the Desert Lions. When my father’s male comrade-in-arms were all wiped out and the ammunition was exhausted, he called to fire at me. In the situation room, the child who was an intelligence officer could not persuade him so hard that he and the intelligence uncle watched as the scene was razed to the ground by 155 durians. The lion of the desert finally seeks for benevolence and benevolence.
(This is irrational: BDK already breaking out, why there is no secondary preparation, only to evacuate unsuspecting sniper point, it was confused forces rushed reinforcements wrapped around BDK)

in hand-eye sky With the help of the Afghan spy man in Afghanistan, the two Xiao Luos were also rescued along with many abducted children and returned to their father, the son of a desert lion as a farmer. This scene is moving.
(Doesn’t it mean that there is no hope to find the second daughter? This is another deliberate pen: the hopelessness of finding a girl can explain the desirability of the lion in the desert; it is too cruel to not save the little girl. Both sides please, not sincere.)


Modern infantry-themed film :

This is not advocating war, but purely examining war from the perspective of violent aesthetics and from the perspective of viewing experience:
most of the modern infantry-themed movies in recent years are as trivial and boring as the modern war itself in recent years. In the early years, World War II, the Fukushima War, the Gulf War and even the Iraq War had opened up one after another. In any case, the narrative can make countless military enthusiasts bloody. But today’s war, that is, the war on terror, lacks suspense in the ending, and there is no tension in the process. In any case, the narrative is full of trivial details. Even the war machine has been degraded from the giant ship Kunpeng into a pair of infantry soldiers, and sharpshooters are recruited. Soldiers.
The moral perspective of war has degraded from loyalty and traitor to obscurity, and the igniting sense of justice gives way to the inexplicable Bai Zuo morality (According to the ancient Chinese concept, the crime of slinging the people is correct, and whether it is necessary to eliminate the evil and do everything Blind spot).
Modern war films also adopt small perspectives, and often see infantry (especially special forces) themes, and the style is so cold and realistic, the shots have a sense of triviality, there is no overall situation and overall picture, and even lacks a clear sense of honor, regardless of whether the intention lies in anti-war. This is true of the right-wing view (the latter refers to Eastwood’s American snipers). The only particularly brilliant "Warrior (writing the SEAL Team Six in South America to suppress bandits)", on the contrary, happens to be the best way to go to the bottom of the details and to the technical flow-abandoning literary drama, martial arts pursuing the authenticity of equipment, action and bullets.

The skin of the first half of the film is this typical austere, realistic, and trivial style, but the second half reveals the stuffing of commercial blockbusters: the soundtrack is sensational but not restrained; the ending pleases the mainstream audience; the plot is inconsistent with the rhythm of watching the movie. It destroys the sense of reality; the human setting pursues gimmicks and serves the plot, and its overly legendary color is extremely inconsistent with the cold realism remaining in the latter half.

So I can only play Samsung, although the scene of the little girl being rescued made me burst into tears.


The main flaw in the character design:
Afghan spy men can recognize a god-uncle everywhere in Afghanistan, and will be close to the demon if he asks for it.
The lion of the desert is too idealistic.
—— These two characters are very facial, legendary unrealistic, inconsistent color matching with the cold reality of the film mixed with commercial blockbuster style, coupled with the insincereness of the screenwriter, such a setting is a drama.

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Hyena Road quotes

  • Travis: Name me one thing I've ever been wrong about!

    Ryan: ...thinks for a moment... My sister?

    Travis: ...pause... Yeah, that was bad...

  • Pete: Alexander the Great marched into this graveyard about 2,500 years ago. Easy to march in, hard to march out. His words. He and his mother wrote to each other all the time. One day, he got a letter from her saying: "What the hell? You conquered most of the known world in a day and a half, what are you doing bogged down in Afghanistan?" He grabbed a bag and shoveled it full of dirt and had it sent back to Greece with a message to his mother: "Take this dirt and dump it around the palace, see what happens."

    Pete: So Alexander's mother spread the dirt all around the palace. Later that night, a couple of attendants showed up to make sure she was alright. One says: "Go ahead, after you." And the other says: "No, after you." And the first one says: "No, I insist." And the second one says: "Don't you tell me what to do." They pull their swords and go at it till they kill each other. Alexander's mother watched all this and wrote a note to him saying: "Okay, okay, now I get it." And he wrote back saying: "Even the dirt is hostile." In Afghanistan, dogs fight dogs, birds fight birds, men kill men.

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