Take care of the robot's arms like the eyes of a purple dragon

Rhea 2022-03-19 09:01:02

A TC version was released before, and I skipped watching it for two minutes and turned it off decisively. Normally, if a movie is shown in the same period in China and Kangaroo country, then I would never go to the theater here, because when I think of the old folks in my hometown, I can spend less money to see the subtitled version (although there are many People criticize the translation of the subtitles of this film, but looking at the subtitles of my English lottery will always help understand), I will feel that watching the movie here is a loss. But for this film, I think that if you don’t go to the theater to watch it, it’s the same as if you haven’t watched it before. That’s a real loss, so I bought a ticket with a little bit of money I earned from doing chores at the end of get out of class on Tuesday.

As soon as the film came up, the passionate interaction between the two brothers failed to delay the footsteps of the soy-smelling protagonist, his brother leading a bento. As soon as I saw his brother, I felt familiar, but I just couldn't remember where I saw him, but in my impression it should be a character I don't like very much. It was only halfway through the acting that I suddenly remembered that it was the little officer in Homeland who treated the protagonist's wife "you are welcome".

When I’m running now, the singles in the headphones loop are the theme song of the film. Will I talk nonsense about it? When I heard the theme song sound in the theater at that time, I was thinking that I finally found a music that could replace the opening song of the "Game of Thrones" ringtone on the phone. It turns out that after seeing the ending subtitles, I discovered that the composers of the two pieces were actually the same person. After I came back, I found out on the Internet that this gentleman was still a lonely student of the soundtrack master, and he was really a great apprentice from a famous teacher.

There is a long list of acknowledgments at the end of the film, but the only one I am familiar with is Hideaki Anno. Before the film was released, I would simply describe the film as "eva vs. Godzilla" when recommending each other with friends. The Jaeger in the story of this film is developed and manufactured with funds from various countries, and the settings such as the operation of the driver through the spiritual connection with the body are easy to think of EVA. When I first saw the introduction of this film mentioning the setting of two people driving one machine, I still found it a bit awkward. Just like EVA, one person and one machine save more trouble. But after I watched it, I discovered that the soul of the whole film lies in this multi-person driving. As a pilot of the same body, he must communicate with each other and open his heart's defenses. This is not exactly what human beings are trying to remedy...I mean, the replenishment plan (sorry, occupational disease) is what they are pursuing. Although most of the audience came for the robots and monsters in the film, the real actors also contributed to the completeness and richness of the film’s story, and a considerable part of the most important opponents of the protagonists They were all deployed in the Jaeger cockpit. Although the cockpit can only accommodate two or three people, the relationship between the pilots is rich and varied. Lovers, brothers, father and son, comrades in arms, it is the deepest bond between people who pulls Jaeger to wave an iron fist to guard mankind.

The shortcoming of this film is that although the ending battle is tragic, but the limelight was completely overwhelmed by the previous Hong Kong urban battle. Since there was no one around me at the time, when I was watching the Hong Kong battle, I was completely infected and excited by the plot and unscrupulously swayed my body on the seat left and right. Although excited, but at the same time thinking in my heart, this battle is so exciting, and it took such a long time, will the movie end after the movie? If that's the case, I feel that the story is not complete enough. Sure enough, there is still a big decisive battle behind, and some of the foreshadowings buried in the front will also be used in the end. After the Hong Kong war, most of the audience was a little bit aesthetically tired. At this time, unless the subsequent battle can be more exciting than the last one, it will be difficult to mobilize the audience's emotions. One of the great pleasures of watching monster movies is to see how the city is destroyed, so the final battle that moved to the bottom of the sea is far less perceptive than the previous one in the city.

Finally, a little bit about the "broken arm" plot of the robot movie. From the T-800 in "Terminator 2" to the pillar brother in "Transformers 3" to today's Gipsy Danger (in fact, I have always heard of it as a dancer...), robots will always lose one in the final battle. With only one arm, and then turned defeat into victory under such unfavorable circumstances, it felt like a small universe exploded every time Zilong blinded his eyes.

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Pacific Rim quotes

  • Raleigh Becket: This is worth fighting for. We don't have to just obey him.

    Mako Mori: It's not obedience, Mr. Becket; it's respect.

  • [first lines]

    Raleigh Becket: [narrating] When I was a kid, whenever I'd feel small or lonely, I'd look up at the stars. Wondered if there was life up there. Turns out I was looking in the wrong direction. When alien life entered our world, it was from deep beneath the Pacific Ocean. A fissure between two tectonic plates. A portal between dimensions. The Breach. I was fifteen when the first Kaiju made land in San Francisco.

    [pause]

    Raleigh Becket: By the time tanks, jets and missiles took it down, six days and 35 miles later, three cities were destroyed. Tens of thousands of lives were lost. We mourned our dead, memorialized the attack, and moved on. And then, only six months later, the second attack hit Manila.

    Newscaster: [on TV] The acid factor of the Kaiju blood creates a toxic phenomenon known as Kaiju Blue

    Raleigh Becket: Then the third one hit Cabo. And then the fourth. And then we learned this was not gonna stop. This was just the beginning. We needed a new weapon. The world came together, pooling it's resources and throwing aside old rivalries for the sake of the greater good. To fight monsters, we created monsters of our own. The Jaeger program was born.