"Men in Black: Global Pursuit" as a new series has completely collapsed. At present, the domestic network score is only 5.8 points which failed, which is a tasteless. Recalling the first part of the series, "Men in Black" released in 1997 still maintained a high score of 8.1 on the Internet. For a purely commercial science fiction film, this is already a super high score. Many people owe the success of the first film to the young and old pairing of the two protagonists Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones.
In the new work, the two agents are replaced by the male and female "Thor" and "Valkyrie". The replacement of personnel has been questioned by many old fans. Ordinary movie fans also expressed their insensitivity to the performance of the two without any chemical reaction.
In "Men in Black", Will Smith also joined as a newcomer in order to become the later Hollywood brother "Historical Emperor." It's even lower by 2 million. The low salary and high performance in terms of film remuneration made the film cost less than 90 million US dollars, and finally received nearly 600 million US dollars in box office revenue worldwide.
Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones's combination of young and old agents, hot and cold, is a typical Hollywood detective combination. But the novelty is that Will Smith's arrogance and indifferent face are very in line with the values of young Americans at the time, decentralization, and hope to break the shackles of the previous generation. Coupled with Will Smith's continual black jokes, it has made the majority of movie fans continue to laugh.
On the other side is a strict, old-fashioned, and dogmatic old agent. Tommy Lee Jones’s classical performance style is a good synthesis of the partner’s sadistic style, and the nostalgia for his wife that he sometimes reveals is given to him. The melancholy romantic feelings. The huge performance contrast formed between the two provides a steady stream of dramatic tension for advancing the narrative. It is even more exciting when the two suddenly jumped out of the established personality category due to an accident and showed the opposite of their own personality.
For example, arrogant newcomers are also afraid, and are tortured by a small pistol crying and grabbing the ground;
And the old predecessors also had crazy moments. They drove the fast car to scare the newcomers to grab the handrail and dare not let go. Hearing that Elvis could still shake his head and drive the car faster and faster.
Indeed, the character set of Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones, and their performances add to the film a lot, but the root of the true success of "Men in Black" lies in its cult temperament in its bones. It is definitely not a traditional sci-fi blockbuster such as "Star Wars" and "Alien". From the beginning of the film, an insect that shuttles on the road, to the end when it is crushed into meatloaf by a galloping car, you can vaguely smell the evil. The temperament of classic movies.
Sure enough, in the next scene there was an exaggerated alien pretending to be an earthling, and finally he was beaten by agents with weapons to his internal organs, and the sticky objects were covered with human policemen. This kind of cult picture appeared in the Cult movie. The elements of "Men in Black" are all over the place.
The scenes including the murderous Zerg people hollowing out human beings, using their skins as disguise, and pulling their faces carelessly, are typical cult movie scenes.
Its origin can be traced back to the "weird movies" of the 1980s that advocated the division and dissolution of the body, such as "Weird Shapes" and "The Fly". Anyway, after finding a novel cause, I hurriedly started to sprinkle plasma and solution. If you need more B level, you will have more B level.
In the climax part of "Men in Black", the old agent directly transferred into the huge Zerg body, relying on the laser swallowed by the Zerg, an "implosion" came to complete the counterattack. This was not enough. The monster that was blown into two pieces wanted to sneak attack on the only remaining upper body, but it was blown to pieces by the female forensic doctor behind the oriole. This is really Cult enough, B-level enough. The hot and cold performances of Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones are magnified by the strong cult style, presenting a different look and feel.
Therefore, the success of "Men in Black" actually comes from its unruly and cult temperament in its bones. In contrast, "Men in Black: Global Pursuit" is both routine and orthodox. It is really lackluster and tastes the same.
The cult elements incorporated in the alien sci-fi theme make "Men in Black" without a grand format, with its cute and hilarious humor, novel ideas and alien images, and it is still memorable. It also successfully broke the inherent mode of science fiction movies, so that many Hollywood blockbusters after that have found inspiration in "Men in Black". As a commercial film, "Men in Black" is undoubtedly a success. .
In fact, at the beginning, Columbia Pictures decided to invite Quentin Tarantino as the director of "Men in Black", but the other party did not agree, and then found the guidance of the Coen brothers classmate Barry Sonnenfeld. It can be seen that the film crew deliberately turned the film into a science fiction film with cult meaning from the beginning.
Finally, it is worth mentioning that "Men in Black" completely changed the fate of the two actors. The huge commercial business allowed Colombia to pay a huge price for the second part of the series. The remuneration offered to Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones has reached 20 million yuan per person. In addition, Will Smith 20%; Tommy Lee Jones 12.5; Director Barry Sonnenfeld 10% of the box office dividend.
After this film, Will Smith prospered, creating more various screen images, typical performances such as the agile pilot in "Independence Day" and the cowboy-like president of the Midwest in "The Windman" The bodyguard gradually became the premier black actor in Hollywood.
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