This is the most important line of the old spy Colin Firth (Colin Firth) in the film. It is the finishing touch to the theme of the entire film "Kingsman: The Secret Service". It is a movie about what is made.
What kind of etiquette should be used to create what kind of hero? The answer given in this film is so wonderful. The beauty of "Gold Medal Agent" is exactly how to manage its magic. Whenever the audience is in the clichés of action movies where everything seems to be expected, they can always find some ingenious details to play slowly.
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Hero stories always start from youth.
At the beginning of "Gold Medal Agent", our protagonist is not special. He is a parkour guy who can be seen everywhere on the street. His biological father died young, he was over twenty, and he was not seen in the army or among the people. Until the senior agent and uncle of the secret organization came to the door, he was just a boy who did not necessarily grow with age. The old spy took over in one fell swoop to bring up the young man, and he hoped that this young man would inherit the spy qualification of the spy organization he belonged to: Kingsman. The Kingsman agent has the responsibility to save the world (as is the practice of this kind of movie, isn't it?), the tougher the responsibility requires the stronger the shoulders, the old agent must make the boy no longer a boy, but a man; and The way he can reincarnate the boy is not wealth or blood, but supporting him to learn etiquette (Manners).
The story started playing tricks from here.
The Kingsman Stream Manners in the film has a special content. In the one-hour training introduction, we know that Kingsman agents can kick, play guns, and bounce high; at the same time, they must also know how to tune martinis, know how to wear gents, and know how to find them in London. The most tasteful tailor shop. This set of Manners Code is like a mixture of a samurai and a gentleman. The exquisite beauty and beauty, of course, cannot be the way to develop a real spy in the real world, and all are imitating the performance of the actors in the past spy movies.
This is a metaphysical, but also a traversal. Kingsman's so-called making a good spy is actually the process of making a good spy movie protagonist.
Etiquette, to put it bluntly, is accumulation, which is the result of the accumulation of exquisite culture over a long period of time. Etiquette is concrete. When the rituals are manifested as rituals through utensils and body, we can get a closer look at the source of cultural exquisiteness and experience it through reflection. This is a tribute.
This is true in reality, and so is the movie. "Golden Agents" put this set of tribute ceremonies on the screen completely, and used the set of Manners that made Kingsman agents to tell the audience what made spies movies for more than 50 years. brilliant.
Although there are subtle differences in interpretation between the actors and behind-the-scenes personnel for the power and elegance of Kingsman’s agents, its model is derived from the source of the spy movies: it is the appearance of 007 movies that were mature in the 1970s, and it is not Maugham’s novel. The model consciously circulated is the original appearance of Mr. Doudou before teasing, the ancestor of domestic Ling Lingqi's almost misunderstanding, and the essence of the accumulation of countless backup movies that continue to this day.
The one-hour training performance of "Gold Medal Agent" is a huge order to dispatch a trainee. What the audience sees is not that the protagonist becomes strong, but to see how the protagonist becomes a protagonist of the movie.
In the final battle of the movie, the trial of the world crisis forced the boy to become a man overnight. Prior to this, all the thrilling actions were taken care of by the old spy, Collin Foss, who used his fists and his brain; after the veteran Lianpo retired, the protagonist was struggling to avenge the murderer, but can he do it? ? The audience who accompanied the protagonist through various spy movie traditions is really curious: Will he become a hero of the role?
At the end of the story, the protagonist did it. He saved the world; and saving the world is the crown that all heroes must wear more than once. When the protagonist proves that he has been created, it is also equivalent to announcing to the audience: Look, I am now a new post after having experienced countless spy film seniors' training. At the end, the new kingsman was born under the blessing of the elder Merlin, and the inheritance meaning that "Kingsman" wanted to express was naturally apparent at this moment.
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Of course, the other senior Kingsman agents were not idle either. They are looking around handsomely, stealing the limelight.
I absolutely believe that the director Matthew Vaughn, if he is not a suit-controller, is a genius who knows what suit-control audiences want. Which of the group of actors he found to play senior actors is not the human flesh hanger familiar to suit control? The director’s "British Gentleman's Model" does not need to mention Collin Fosty. The middle-aged mature man is Mark Strong (Mark Strong), and the old and strong Michael Caine (Michael Caine) is a temporary choice. The weak-crowned actor Taron Egerton, who made his first film debut, has been tuned into a black-framed gentleman with a special flavor. Obviously he really understands what the audience wants.....Because the men in suits dress in battle, they can be said to be spies. In the history of action movies, the golden visual formula that never fades! What is more worthy of revival than this?
Except for the arrangement of actors, costumes and martial arts with retro intentions, the ingenuity of titles and dialogues is relatively subtle but important. The title inheritance is the beginning of the story. Kingsman’s secret agent’s code is all derived from the titles of the British round table warriors (Lancelot and Merlin). This corresponds to the metaphor of Kingsman being a modern knight. This group is replaced by suits. Silver armors, iron umbrellas replace spears, and newspapers replace medals. Contemporary fighters are linked with history. There are a lot of details in the dialogue part of the whole film, but I think this part is a bit too much, and I directly let the actors say "Nowadays spy movies are getting more and more boring", "This is not the kind of (old-fashioned) "Movies" and other dialogue methods, the intention of retro is to talk about it, but it is too explicit and has no charm.
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As for those viewers who are not interested in awakening the retro sense of spy movies, I can still appreciate another highlight, which is the massacre show of the old and one young spies in the film "Golden Spies".
To dare to film these two massacre blood sacrifices, and to film the massacre so "flourishingly" is absolutely bold. I couldn't think of it, I could see good people killing innocent people in a commercial movie that should be calculated precisely; the jealous junipers are not others, but the two protagonists who should be the most upright and awe-inspiring.
In the first massacre, the old secret agent went crazy in the cathedral. When the whole house was taken with a zombie-like mental anesthetic and used to fight each other as a way to increase friendship, the old spy Colin Foss played his lifelong learning, swinging guns and sticks together, and fired a group in the chaotic crowd. The human body Red Sea. Single-sided shooting, fast-forward, with a provocative action game soundtrack, Collin Foss and the hundreds of actors used one shot to the end, and showed how to move the house together in two hundred seconds. They all kill a piece of body art without leaving a piece of armour.
The second massacre occurred in the detonation of the protagonist in the air defense trench. He obtained the brain chip switch of the fleeing dignitaries and pressed it when he was in danger. In an instant, all the people with the chip in their heads turned into flowers, springing up on their foreheads, and then colorful fireworks lifted off; the entire screen dance hall was instantly turned into a scene for the Spring Festival by the protagonist, which was more than bloody flowers. A head spark of gunpowder smoked the dry scene of the snow-air-raid trenches.
Yes, the protagonists killed people, and none of them killed bad people, but mortals. Violence is a taboo in all theater movies. No matter how heroic the protagonist is, they have to bear the heartache to make up for the price of violence. Unless their fist is hit by a heinous villain, they can escape the crime and the audience outside the theater. Public opinion. But in most cases, even if the protagonist has a legitimate reason, he can kill people without acting. "Gold Medal Agent" did not have a unique chance to do it twice.
Is this a reaction to the high morality of heroism? Obviously not. I am afraid, this is the most dangerous sense of humor that is born in the most serious moment in alternative humor.
The blood sacrifice of the massacre of a hundred people bursting with sauce is not treated as bloody in the film, but replaced by funny and funny. Fast forwarding, light music, and fireworks special effects of mirroring are of course the technical heroes that dilute the bloody effect; but how to handle these two dramas properly in the tonality of the whole play, the difficulties encountered are not only technical . If the film is too funny, it will make people think it is a farce; if the film is too real, it will make one realize the seriousness of the protagonist's murder. This is a humorous method that attempts to step on the blade, and if you don't pay attention, you will even see blood on your heels.
But it was finally filmed. In these two bloody battles, in addition to the wonderful fights, the director and editor have even completed the balance between funny and real without any trace, which makes people have no lack of humor in the experience of serious drama.
With these two dramas alone, this drama deserves to be highly praised. The only two episodes in the whole film are not like a tribute to spy movies, but more like what Kubrick would do in "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb": The most serious things make the audience dumbfounded. The difference is that Kubrick’s sense of humor is based on ridicule, but the humor of the film is not, just a knowing smile. It's not complicated or critical, it's pure entertainment.
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Finally, let's talk a little behind the scenes.
In order to make this film, director Matthew Fann can be said to be crazy. How does this man want to let the traditional spy movie come back to life in the 21st century, but since he gave up the right to sell the money comics (Fox's X-Men series) in 2013, he returned to the UK The crazy act of taking the helm of another comic that doesn't sell much money (the original film by former partner Mark Millar) is just plain. His box office performance in several works in the United States has become his dream capital, allowing him to hire his own golden team. It is still too early to say whether "Gold Medal Agent" can restart old-school fashion as he wishes, and even make it into a series of movies. However, the film has been in theaters in the UK for four weeks, and its unrelenting momentum seems to have proved that this ancient dream he realized is still well eaten and fattened in his hometown.
For me, a movie, especially a commercial movie, is actually good enough as long as it can make an amazing scene. Just like Matthew Fann’s "X-Men: The Future and the Past" in which Matthew Fann released the bird himself, every link is mediocre, except that the fast silver feet cross the speed of sound and the two fists break the ballistic scene. Xiao Miao is extremely wonderful. In an instant, I maintained a favorable comment on the whole film. The same is true for "Gold Agents". Just watching Matthew Fann rush to shoot those two blood sacrifice performances with boldness and control, as well as the power of Collin Firth's own deity, "Golden Agents" is definitely worth the ticket. The price is excellent.
This kind of things may be attributed again to the success of the tribute to the retro formula.
Manners maketh Kingsman.
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