Every release of Quentin Tarantino's film is an unstoppable enthusiasm in the film industry. There are fierce disputes between film critics and even verbal criticism, as well as obsessions and screams from the media and audiences. To borrow the title of his latest movie "Liberated Jiang Ge", Quentin is actually a "liberated director", of course he has not been tamed since the day he entered the director industry.
As early as the owner of the video rental shop, Quentin consciously turned all cult movies into a part of his memory, and was deeply intoxicated in the weird themes, grotesque styles, and genre films with strong emotional colors. After becoming a director, Quentin followed "Falling Water Dog", "Pulp Fiction", "Kill Bill", "Shameless Bastard" all the way down, and in the process of paying tribute to his predecessors, pushed the cult film art to a new level. The peak, he has also become the object of tribute.
"Liberated Jiang Ge" is about the German bounty hunter Kim Schultz (Christopher Waltz), who used all means to buy the black slave Jiang Ge (Jamie Fox) from the slave dealer and let It regained freedom. Due to fate, Schultz is determined to train Jiang Ge into a witty and bold bounty hunter, arresting various wanted criminals in exchange for rewards. And Jiang Ge’s only condition is that Schultz will help him rescue his wife Bloom Hilda from the tyrannical Candy Manor Calvin Candi (Leonardo DiCaprio). (Played by Kelly Washington).
Although "Liberated Jiang Ge" is a tribute work, it far surpasses the old version of "Jiang Ge" in terms of theme rendering, artistic techniques and box office reputation. More importantly, Quentin moved the background of the original story from Italy to the United States, which allowed slavery before the Civil War. This provides a fertile soil for the reality of the film, and at the same time it brings the theme of "rebellious justice" to its extreme.
The original version of "Jiang Ge" is a standard Western movie, and "The Liberation of Jiang Ge" also has mysterious and cold heroes, defeating cruel and evil opponents, and saving beauties who are hanging by the thread. As a result, it fails into a kind of stylized... The plot, but there are also large-scale descriptions, ironies, and even subversion of slavery and racial discrimination. Therefore, in Quentin's own words, this film should be classified as a "southern film."
The best performer in the movie is undoubtedly Christopher Waltz. His role as Dr. Schultz reproduces the language talent of the Nazi officer in "Inglourious Basterds", such as switching the left, center, and right channels of a DVD with precision. And speak English, German and French fluently. Of course, he also won the Oscar for the second time because of his outstanding acting skills.
The biggest breakthrough in performance was Leonardo DiCaprio. When you have just watched "The Troubles of Growing Up", the modern version of "Romeo and Juliet", "Titanic", "The Gang of New York", suddenly jump to "Liberated Jiang Ge", you will really have a tree The sapling suddenly appeared to be a towering tree. In this film, Leonardo's slave owner Calvin Candi does not understand French, but asks others to call him "Mr." according to the French pronunciation, indulges in gambling games where slaves beat each other, and abuses lynching against black slaves... …Leonardo portrayed the character's brutality, greed, vanity, affectation, and stupidity.
In addition, Steven, the butler played by Samuel Jackson, as a black man, he desperately exploited and tortured black slaves in order to cater to his master. He is hateful and pitiful, and is full of criticism; the black slave Jiang Ge played by Jamie Fox will treat his wife The infinite persistence of love, the forbearance of the perpetrator, and the delightful gratitude of retaliating the teeth are breathtaking.
Frankly speaking, in the eyes of Quentin’s die-hard fans, "Pulp Fiction" has become a myth. In addition to Quentin’s works, regardless of commercial considerations, they can only be regarded as "exercises." Jiang Ge is no exception. However, his distinctive and self-cult style, no one can match it so far. Quentin, like a highly skilled acrobat, cleverly walks between the audience's psychology, commercial success and artistic level, telling atypical stories, earning word of mouth and box office.
[Media contract, reprint, please also inform below]
View more about Django Unchained reviews
