Lian Po is old, but fortunately he can still eat

Fay 2022-03-22 09:01:11

[Already published in "Beijing Youth Daily"]


Reason for recommendation: The most literary action film

title: "007: Falling from the Sky"
Director: Sam Mendes
Starring: Daniel Craig, Javier Baden, Zhu Di Dench and Ralph Fiennes
Production time: 2012
Reader: The Showgirl in Stone Garden.




This movie was released early in Taiwan. She had already watched it when she met with her girlfriend Xiaoling before Christmas last year.
I asked her how the film was. She was very ethical and refused to spoil it. She only smiled slyly, "Not bad, but as an action film..., you know, the director is Sam Mendes." The

50th anniversary of the 007 series has been so far . , Know the destiny.
After the Cold War and the post-Cold War, and today, capital is above politics, the camp has disappeared, the distinction between good and evil is becoming more and more blurred, and the profession of spying is often unknown, and it is really not very loud.
Even Mrs. M, who is incapable of anger, anger, sighed viciously, "For God's sake, I miss the Cold War."
Therefore, in the shadow of realism, in the anemia of universal value, in the "Dish Zhong Under the double attack of "The Spy" and "Identity of Byrne", it seems that it is not too unexpected for 007 to call for the blessing of Mendes, the master of literature and art.

"American Beauty", "Boiled Pot" and "Road to Revolution" told me that Mendes is by no means good, he is best at expressing the countless ash at the junction of light and darkness.
And in this "Fall from the Sky", when I saw Turner and Modigliani's paintings and heard Tennyson's poems, I was half excited and half sweating for this movie, because I knew , This will be the most literary action movie I have ever seen.

Less than five minutes after the opening, 007 jumped onto a gray Land Rover, and the journey of saving the country kicked off.
Tsk tsk, it's really gentle and sweeping. James Bond of the golden age always drives Aston Martin. He travels for years, a woman of wine and a BMW car. Has it ever been so rough?

But how strange, I love Daniel Craig's version of Bond.
Uncle Dan has a small head, broad shoulders, long legs and a slender waist. He is in the shape of a leopard, wild and strong.
His two predecessors-Roger Moore and Brosnan are both exquisite, fighting and picking up girls also emphasize lightness. The so-called "passing through thousands of flowers, no leaves will not touch clothes". In contrast, Uncle Dan is too cumbersome and often uses too much force, but within his vigor, there is another kind of unrecoverable affection.
It's no wonder that everything has just begun. Bond hasn't practiced peerless magic at this time, but he is more like some dead men in Gu Long's writings. Others can't do him, it's because he is not afraid of death.
Uncle Dan is certainly not the handsomest Bond, nor the most elegant, or even the most mighty, but he impressed me because he is the most human.

The whole movie is a process of traceability.
The audience traced back to the 007 series of the past fifty years, while Bond traced back to his birthplace-Scotland in the Stars and Plains.
The stag statue at the entrance of Tianmu Manor is almost a symbol, symbolizing all the people and things whose dignity is no longer there.
The old ways have long been swallowed by the cold and dazzling high-tech, but at certain moments it still shines, and even the way to solve the big villain has returned to the cold weapon era, with a dagger.
Tennyson’s poem read by M has a special meaning. It is the aria of all "martyrs in their twilight years, heart-warming"-time and destiny have worn us away, but the will is still strong; fight, seek, pursue, and never Never give up. (Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will. To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.)

The setting of Bang girls has always been right and wrong.
Qian Banning's return (or his first appearance?) is a small easter egg.
The wicked one is said to be of mixed Chinese and French, and his backless appearance is also amazing. Especially in the casino scene, the eye makeup is so heavy, a pair of eyes seems to have independent will, floating on the face, they will fly away at any time. The fault is that the proportions of the body are too poor, the legs are short, and it seems to be squatting in high heels.
It doesn't matter. Anyway, none of the Bond girls who have been hustling and bustling for fifty years can compare to Mrs. M.
This time Judy Dench’s exit is also considered graceful and decent, although she clamored in an inelegant manner in the film "Let the decent go to hell."

There is Aston Martin who came across from "Goldfinger". To drive away, there is an elegant suit designed by Tom Ford on the sidelines, the plot of this 007 is actually not so important.
I only remember the bottle of wine that Bond and the villain drank on the deserted island. The camera was taken to the past, and the bottle had 1962 written on it.
1962, the year when the first 007 movie "Dr No" was released. Who would forget Ursula Anders who walked out of the sea in a white bikini? That was Ian Fleming's first spring dream for the world.

It's really a miracle that a film series has been shot for half a century.
Today, Lianpo is old and Huafa is born, but Mr. Bond is still alive, able to pick up girls and desperate.
Anyway, uncle, happy birthday.




2013-1-24

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