From Lumière’s one-shot trick to Mélière’s stunt shooting, film, whether as an art carrier or as a profitable commodity, has made strides towards completely different poles. In my opinion, "Transformers" is a milestone in commercial films. If you compare "Transformers" with Mélière's "Moon Journey", the shock to me is no less than that of the first people who watched "Moon Journey" nearly a hundred years ago. This shock naturally stems from the visual effects in the film. When I learned that I was preparing to shoot "Transformers", I was always guessing how to shoot the deformed scenes. At the same time, my visual experience only stayed in "Lord of the Rings" and "Harry Potter". There is the level of a dragon flying in the air and fighting. When I saw the unprecedented shot of a fighter jet flying quickly under the bridge and then deformed and jumped onto the bridge head, I almost exclaimed. It seems that there is no imagination that cannot be realized in the movie. This is the power of technology. In other words, since the current movie has surpassed people's visual imagination, is it considered to have come to an end on this pole? Will the next movie bring us new visual miracles?
Technology is always a double-edged sword. On the one hand, it exerts the imagination of mankind in a wild and unconstrained manner, but on the other hand, it makes people rely too much on them and lose their creative minds. "Transformers" is undoubtedly the product of borrowing chicken to lay eggs, and its biggest selling point is the deformable robot alien. If you strip off this layer of imagination, maybe this old-fashioned movie will be ashamed of seeing people. From the screenwriter’s point of view, the whole story is based on the behavioral events of the earthlings as the main clue, which greatly weakens the personality of the Transformers character itself. Except for Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, and Megatron, the rest of the members have almost no personality. , It's just a fighting machine. If you weren't familiar with the story of Transformers as aliens when you were young, you might be mistaken for thinking that someone is manipulating these machines.
Although "Transformers" is a purely commercial movie and hardly finds any aesthetic value, it still has a more interesting aspect in terms of form. This point of view is naturally not a patterned dramatic structure, but a manifestation of commercial advertising. Chevrolet, Nokia, etc., let these products directly serve as roles, at least one step more advanced than props, and maybe this will become a new branch of commercial film development.
Finally, I hope Hollywood screenwriter brothers, the small universe burns! Don't think about editing any sequels, just buy and process the Japanese "Saint Seiya", at least Chinese audiences are waiting for nostalgia.
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