The reason why I talk about dressing first is really because the movie "Ace Agent" has too much ink in this regard. In addition to the secret phrase "Oxford is better than Brock" used by the host to clear the level, Colin Firth also showed the audience a set of gorgeous tabards like Maggie Cheung, and emphasized that "good suits must be made to order, and ready-made clothes are absolutely no". There is also a display of various props from pens to umbrellas. The intention of the director is obvious to imprint the film with the British brand.
Can a suit perform this important task? That’s great. As the "old trump card of the dying breath", the British can't actually show any fashionable gadgets to the world, and suits are one of them. The confidence of the British in the suit culture can definitely match the arrogance of the elder Jin Chi in the cassock. For the British, a suit is no longer a piece of clothing, as Colin Firth said in the movie: "The suit is the armor of the modern gentleman, and the royal agent is the knight of the new era." The suit embodies a certain A sense of ritual, like the wigs of British judges and lawyers, is very important for the inheritance of traditions. It tells us that Colin Firth is not fighting alone. He inherited the glorious traditions of Sean Connery, Roger Moore, and Pierce Brosnan. Although the film ridicules James Bond from time to time, and even put him with the raunchy Jason Byrne and Jack Ball, the dazzling props still remind people of Dr. Q.
There are many places to pay tribute to tradition in the film. Although it is through funny methods, it also makes me look in awe. For example, in this trump card organization, the movie introduces that it was established by a group of queen tailors who lost their heirs after World War I with their life savings. Behind this brief introduction is an epic past: the list of the dead in World War I included six upper house nobles, 16 barons, and nearly a hundred sons of upper house nobles. Among the thousands of Eton College students who participated in the war, the casualty rate was as high as 45%. In addition, during the First World War in history, more than 10,000 teachers and students at Cambridge University participated in the war, and thousands of them were killed in battle. A war almost ruined a class of Britain, but for the British nobles and gentlemen, it was an honor and responsibility.
Another example is the naming of this organization, the king's men, as the name suggests, are the round table warriors of King Arthur. Every agent will inherit the name and honor of a legendary warrior, Lancelot, Galahad, and Merlin the magician... Then fight, sacrifice, and inherit again... The victims are gone, only the honor will last forever. . In the movie, Colin Firth said that a true gentleman should only appear in the newspaper three times in his life: birth, marriage, and death. Hello. This is what Li Bai said.
There is also the setting of the Swedish princess, why arrange such a stage close to the plot? Because this is too important for the knight culture. Imagine a brave knight rushing into the Great Demon’s castle and defeating the Great Demon. Can you imagine that there is no Dorsinea waiting for him to rescue him? It's like a fairy tale without the words "from then on the prince and princess have lived a happy life", which is simply unthinkable.
These details are the necessary elements for a movie, but these alone are not enough, you have to have three views. If the three views are not correct, even the details will look annoying, such as Zhang Yimou's "Hero". In the film, the directors expressed their ideas through the shaping of the enemy. There are three main types of enemies. One is the group of skinheads who bully the protagonist and his mother. For this kind of social scum, the gentleman's view is to beat them gracefully. But that's enough, little hooligan, not guilty of death. The second category is concentrated in the small church in the south of the United States. These are a group of loyal and paranoid guys on the outside, and they are much scarier than the skinheads. The gentleman's approach is to kill, of course he didn't mean to.
The third type of people is gorgeous. Samuel Jackson plays the great hip-hop demon. He naively feels that he shoulders the heavy responsibility of saving mankind. The Hip-Hop Demon delivered a very naive piece of nonsense to Arthur, saying that human beings are the worms of the earth and that humans should be eliminated in order to protect the earth. Then he did it, manipulating the world through high technology to fight each other. However, he and his friends are watching the fun as "human saviors". Is this situation unfamiliar to us? In the name of noble, get a set of views that seem to be done once and for all, and then let everyone be ruined. That's what Hitler did. Compared to the previous two types of little bad guys with limited destructive power, this is the big bad guy. The ending of the choreographers for such people is to turn them into fireworks of different colors.
The next step is my over-interpretation. In my opinion, compared to those gorgeous outfits, these values are the British style in the bones. I think the unique tradition of the British is not freedom and pluralism, but conservativeness. This kind of conservation is embodied in the cherishment of traditional values, and more embodied in the prudence of trendy ideas. The British pay attention to the accumulation of experience. When rationalism swept everything in continental Europe, the British played empiricism on their own. In Britain, there are very few German philosophers who are far-sighted and instruct the common people. Instead, they have emerged many political scientists and economists who are good at solving specific problems. The disadvantage of this kind of conservativeness of the British is that they can't keep up with the situation, and they look dwindling. The good thing is that the society is developing steadily. Looking at the history of the British, there is basically no such thing as a mess.
Over time, this kind of conservative accumulation has developed a demeanor, like Oxford shoes, heavy and steady, enduring, and set off the people of the world like a hillbilly. The British suddenly discovered that our gadgets are so rare that crooked nuts are so rare that they can be sold for money. Therefore, the British fan has become a must-have material for British film and television works. Even if it is the same spy movie, the same comic adaptation, add a little British fan in, this style will immediately go up.
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