Today's commercial films are cautious

Beth 2022-03-17 09:01:03

I think the beginning of the film is very interesting: World War II is over, it is booming again, satellite biotechnology is advancing by leaps and bounds, the time comes to 1973, and the scientists are arranged with a line "Remember my words This is the most chaotic time in Washington". Then the scientist carried the box and asked for approval of the project, "just give you five minutes", it is really a business society, efficiency is the first, this is the feeling of the wolf of Wall Street, the style of the 1970s. At that time, people explored unknown areas and used satellites to take pictures. For the sake of the Cold War, the reason was scientific and technological research. King Kong was not encountered by adventurers, but by the strong desire of scientists to explore. Although I also encountered primitive people, from the perspective of presentation, it is more of a Westerner's curious imagination of the East. Other classic shocking scenes, such as being surrounded by planes as soon as they came up, and King Kong vs. Dinosaurs, I think these wonders have been proven by the market to be effective and feasible, and they can be repeated again and again. In this way, the various plots, settings, lines, and pictures we have seen are all connected to the present.

Now public opinion will not allow Beauty and the Beast to appear anymore. Not only that, all roles should involve as many identities and occupations as possible, and have different positions to speak, so as to unite most people. Really careful. The interesting thing in the movie is that the team is divided into two, because different experiences have different positions, and there is a conflict at the end. And then there's the heroine Brie Larson, the world-saving Captain Marvel, who comes here to play the anti-war photographer, sort of like Peter Jackson's version of the avid photographer who's in charge of documenting the spectacle. But what Larson shows is that the years are quiet and the love of the world. There is no Beauty and the Beast anymore, women are no longer weak, silly, sweet, no longer admired, no longer waiting for rescue, but comrades in arms who fight side by side with us. Everyone even cared about nature together, and then saved King Kong, the guardian of nature. So the first time the beauty and King Kong met was because of caring for the common people, the second time was to take the initiative to reach out (to give heart to a strange world with open hands), and finally, King Kong was only picked up from the bottom of the water. There is also Jing Tian, ​​who represents Asian scientists, and a speech on behalf of indigenous people, "You can't drop bombs as soon as you come."

The movie's Vietnam War setting is clever. With this background, the military representative will also speak: "We are soldiers, we want to kill, for my family and country to be no longer afraid" "We didn't lose, we just gave up" "The US military is not an irresponsible father , Pennsylvania Steel Never Melts". The main theme of this wave is of a high level. Plus a jovial rock soundtrack, and saving Private Ryan from leaving a man behind. These movies in the United States are all conscription propaganda, but they can't make romantic movies like Top Gun. I think to a certain extent, it restores the US military's operations in Vietnam, bombing jungles, sunsets, gas bombs, and gunpowder guns. What we need to think about is how to give the audience a feeling and how to treat these casualties. It can be brought into the Vietnam War, and what makes people reflect is: King Kong (Vietnamese) killed my people and destroyed my plane, and I want revenge. That's not the bomb you dropped first.

The first World War II air force was originally to stage the story of Peach Blossom Land. The world was turned upside down, and he knew nothing on the island. Judging from the age of the story, the age distribution of the team should be 20-year-old, 40-year-old and 60-year-old, with three generations of old, middle and young. But I think that apart from the old news discussed, it is more like today's situation, and the young population is unobstructed. Just the last two years of movies, there is a kind of complex force. Xiao Xianrou took out a knife and was about to start living in the jungle. I was looking forward to paying tribute to Rambo, the god of war, but it was gone. Finally, there is a pseudo-documentary of the old man returning home, which also creates some sense of history. But the overall sense of grandeur that speaks of past glories is gone.

The costume scene is the style of today's Netflix drama, with a false sense of sophistication in the studio. I should have a new understanding of the American film and television industry. Is it because they were produced on an assembly line from the very beginning of their birth, and none of them escaped? In addition, I feel that Peter Jackson's King Kong doesn't have much content for four hours. This movie talks about this and that, and it only lasts for two hours. Some of the content is too much, too messy, and too messy. And the acting is to cooperate with the music and put on a pose.

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Kong: Skull Island quotes

  • Hank Marlow: Hey, what happened with the war? Did we win?

    James Conrad: Which one?

    Hank Marlow: Uh-huh. That makes sense.

  • [after credits]

    James Conrad: You just gonna sit there? In the dark? You're enjoying this, right? Is this fun for you? I promise I won't tell the Russians.

    Mason Weaver: I promise *I* will tell the Russians.

    James Conrad: She's gonna tell the Russians.

    [throws pencil at the reverse mirror]

    James Conrad: Why are you keeping us here?

    Mason Weaver: I want to go home.

    James Conrad: We get it. There was no island. We were never on an island.

    Houston Brooks: [enters the room] Island? What island?

    James Conrad: Brooks, what the hell is going on?

    Houston Brooks: Welcome to MONARCH. This island is just the beginning.

    San: There's more out there.

    James Conrad: What do you mean more?

    Houston Brooks: This world never belonged to us. It belonged to them. The question is, how long before they take it back. Kong is not the only king.

    [Godzilla roars]