If the first movie related to magic that I watched was "Fatal Magic", it would be easy to feel that "the ocean was once a disaster, but Wushan is not a cloud". Later, I saw Edward Norton's "Magician". The story and the actors were good, but it was not surprisingly successful by structure and narrative. Therefore, according to my personal standards, I tend not to classify it as a "magic movie." of. As for another magic movie released this year, "Super Magician" starring Steve Carrell, it could have used the gimmick of magic with humor, but unfortunately, the original few advantages have been perfunctory. The ending was ruined, and it was eventually reduced to an anticlimactic movie. Finally, when it comes to this film, although the plot is also reversed, the biggest selling point is still the areas where the director is better at visual effects, action scenes, etc., avoiding direct comparison with movies such as "Deadly Magic"; at the same time, if the film is Putting it back into the genre of popcorn movies will make people feel that this film is a bit "smarter" than most similar movies.
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The simple summary of the story of this film is the "voting certificate" handed in by several magicians in order to join a mysterious organization that holds the ultimate secret of magic. The reversal at the end has been criticized by many viewers, but I think it's pretty good. The film puts three smoke bombs to divert the audience's attention from the real behind-the-scenes master, especially the role of the French beauty, which is very good. She can be said to be the assistant of the beauty in the magic show inadvertently. Role. Therefore, the film can be reluctantly classified into the category of "magic movies", but this film does not resemble suspense films such as fatal magic. The whole story is in the reversal of the ending layout. The plot in the front of the film is more of In order to take care of the presentation of the visual effect, even though the final reversal can also be called "unexpected and reasonable", it lacks aftertaste. Fortunately, the film is quite interesting because of the combination of suspense, action, conspiracy, love and other elements.
Many viewers couldn't understand why the character played by Morgan Freeman became the last sacrifice. He felt that his crime seemed to be lighter than the previous ones, and why he was punished the most. We must understand that several of the protagonists in this film, including the behind-the-scenes master, are all magicians themselves. Of course, the ones who hate most as magicians are those who are unauthorized to reveal the magic of others. Magic is a craft, called "juggling" in our ancient China. Whether it is Chinese tricks or Western magic, this craft has been handed down from generation to generation before it is today. The mysterious organization "Eye of Horus" in the film, in order to protect this craft, must have fought countless struggles with people who want to harm this craft in thousands of years of inheritance. The magic reveal itself is an act full of malice towards this craft. From the dialogue between Morgan Freeman and the main messenger behind the film, we can know that Morgan Freeman, who was also a magician when he was young, was not recognized, so he hated magic and began to retaliate. Magic revealers are often out of a show-off mentality. They are jealous of the applause that real magicians get on stage, but they don’t have the tools needed to become real magicians, so they can only get satisfaction by ruining other people’s works. By the way, some blind audiences are sought after. Technology is becoming more and more advanced. On the one hand, magicians’ performance methods can be more colorful, and on the other hand, the threat of magic revealing becomes more powerful, because the videos and texts of magic revealing can be spread wildly on the Internet in a short period of time. . It's not that magic revealing is totally impossible. If a few friends like this, it is of course no problem to communicate with each other, but it is not guilty to go to the Internet to post a post or make a video to sensationalize. This kind of behavior itself is boring enough, and it would be too much to profit from it. Magic is the crystallization of the wisdom of magicians, and only magicians have the right to reveal their magic. Most of us are now slowly beginning to understand the respect for the copyright of books and film and television works, but why do we think that trampling on the copyright of magic is justified and even worth showing off?
From the poster, the film gives people a sense of sight of "Magician's "Eleven Arhats"", and the first third of the film does indeed feel this way. After that, the story began to unfold from the perspective of an FBI agent. The story of this film is divided into three sections. Because the first section was shot too high, the audience expectation value was suddenly raised. As a result, the second two sections failed to push the audience’s emotions wave after wave like a stack of Arhats. high. Perhaps considering this point, the director added another big reversal at the end. He wanted to increase the strength of the last wave. As a result, he tried too hard and did not respond well to the front, so that part of the audience would feel abrupt. Similar problems existed in "Pacific Rim", which was released at the domestic box office this year. It was also exhausted before the end. The long-awaited final battle turned out to be the end of the battle. Of course, at least the film didn't light up the bullets as soon as it came up like this film, anyway, the front was flat and straightforward to slowly push the climax up.
Speaking of magic + crime, in fact, the first thing everyone thinks of is Kidd, the thief. The film gave you five thief Kidd in one breath, which made the audience enjoyable. If Japan's cheating live-action version of Conan can have this kind of visual effect, the audience will be able to tolerate it no matter how weak the plot is. After Fu Lanlan, his younger brother also ran to the big screen to perform magic tricks. I was taken away by my wife who had eaten my brain before and was robbed by the guy who ate my own brain. I was thinking that this time I would never let him act the most tragic one again. It was a false alarm, and he was the youngest one. In the overall plan also played a very important role. The two men behind Batman appear in this film, as well as the Hulk Bruce Banner, which can be said to have a deep connection with superhero movies. I was thinking that it would be nice for Dave to play the role of Harry Osborne in the new version, um, so that the role of Spider-Man's friend will become their family business.
Not long before watching this "high IQ crime film" that many viewers said, I was fortunate enough to watch a "low IQ crime film" "The Strong Men Robber Group". The styles of the two films are quite different. In this film, the protagonist has various madness and cool cock bursting into the sky, while the other is the protagonist who is dumb and stupid. Nevertheless, I have summarized some similarities between the two films. Except for the five-character Chinese name and the word "团" at the end, the biggest commonality is that the criminal gangs as the protagonists are all cross-border. The protagonist of "Jian" is a group of fitness coaches, and the film is a group of magicians. I think this kind of crime film developed by using certain professional characteristics is very interesting. I hope that in the future, practitioners in other industries can also join the crime army that audiences love to see.
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