After reading 2, the more I think of 1's good
This 2 is almost the same as the original cast of 1. The only change is that the director has changed from one of the two co-writers to the other. However, the quality of the finished film has declined in more aspects, as if a dish was changed because of the change. Even though it is still the original recipe, it is no longer the familiar taste. So where is the problem? It should be because of the change of director. You see "A Quiet Place" next door, the original lineup has been maintained, the reputation and box office of the sequel have been maintained, and it has been improved, so it's not good to change the director, an excellent You can change the blood of the team but not the head! So it is said that governing a big country is like cooking small fresh food, and shooting big movies is like frying small dishes. Even if you have a table full of top-quality ingredients and a full set of stoves and fire utensils, not everyone can be this master chef.
To be fair, a sequel to a surprisingly successful low-budget movie is really difficult to make, because the first stunning setting is outdated, and the beauty who has unveiled the veil can't always cover the veil after winning the cheers of the audience. Go back and count on people's second ovation, right? Taking this film as an example, the biggest reversal is that this white-haired, blind-eyed, lonely old man turned out to be a soldier who has experienced battles. You look like a withered stake, a young man and woman who can be burglarized. It was the three unlucky rabbits who collided with this old wood lump one after another, killing or injuring them. This anti-kill is undoubtedly very refreshing, old to young, one to many, the victim to the perpetrator, and the most important thing is the hunt of the blind against the able-bodied, which is the core setting of the whole film , the wonderful place. The director of 1 squeezed out all the value of this setting, and the degree of completion is very high. The director of Poor 2 racked his brains on the subject of being chewed into slag, but he couldn't suck up much oil and water.
1 has two advantages, tension and reversal. Let’s talk about tension first, but also in space and psychology. The scene in space is always limited to the interior of a small house, a mini dark jungle. It is said that escaping from this spooky ruined house is a victory, but it has been unsuccessful again and again. Later, after he really escaped, he was forced into the carriage by the vicious dog - a narrower space, plus the previous female protagonist after the pipe fell The body that was squeezed and deformed, it is not difficult to understand the director's ingenuity that the tighter the space is, the stronger the sense of oppression. At the psychological level, no one side has an obvious advantage in the film. All the rounds of the confrontation between the invisible one and the visible three revolve around the core of light and darkness, blindness and vision, and repeat. The old man pulled the switch, and the situation reversed in time. The thief could also confuse the old man by using the sound of the sound to hit the east and west. The old man can't see, but he is familiar with the terrain (it's his home), the thieves can see, but they dare not speak out, and it's also very uncomfortable. The film has been creating an unstable balance for the two sides. The old man looks old, but his muscles are knotted, and his strength is amazing. When he finds that a thief enters the house, he does not choose to call the police (can't call the police, there are girls who have been kidnapped), but directly kills; Qian's not forgetting his original intention is also admirable. In a situation where he will be killed and tortured at any time, he will steal the money, and incidentally kill the imprisoned girl, leaving the blind old man with no money. I really can't tell who is more ruthless than the other, the two sides have always won each other, the balance of advantages and disadvantages has been swinging back and forth, the tension of the plot has been tense, and it is difficult to tell the winner until the end, because the old man is not dead, everything is not finished. Speaking of reversal, almost every plot in the whole film is reversing, until the end, every step is reversed. For example, in the first scene, three thieves broke into the house and smashed the glass with a stone before leaving. It turned out to be a suspicion. , Although it is clever, it sets the tone. Every step in the future is beyond normal prediction. The boyfriend who seems to be fierce will die first. , including thinking that he is a single old man, that there are hostages in other people's dungeons, thinking that it is a sexual crossbow, but it is not, thinking that the old man wants a strong heroine, but there is no waiting, there are countless, of course, there are places that go too far, small fresh meat is used by blind old men Even if the hammer hits the skull, it will not die, but it is also reversed for the sake of reversal, but the director's efforts to uphold the reversal in rhythm are commendable.
In contrast, watching 2 again, the tension at the psychological level and the visual level is all discouraged. From the first shot to the last shot, most of the film follows the blind old man closely. It goes without saying that the blind old man is the absolute male protagonist. , At the beginning, I still used a lot of space to describe the character of the loving father. We have empathized with the old man, and after reading 1, we know that this is a master whose strength should not be underestimated. Then after the bandits got started, we neither did It’s a moral pull (the guys with bad guys written on their faces deserve to be killed), and they don’t worry about the safety of the old man (they can’t be killed in 1), the rhythm of the film, the high density in 1 almost every five minutes There is no reversal, replaced by a simple setting of wanting to promote first and suppress it. Speaking of space, the reason why the blind old man in 1 can fight back is because it is his own home. With his eyes closed (well, no need to close), he knows the location of every corner and everything. The room is dark and the lights are turned on. In the first pass, he felt like a mirror in his heart. The enemy became blind, the bastard in the urn, waiting for him to attack. On the other hand, in the first half, the old man was almost killed in his own house, and was rescued by the dog at the critical moment, and then it was the full blood resurrection in the first blood Rambo mode, or the dog came to the enemy's base camp, and came a big kill The four sides, and most of the fighting venues are quite wide, which is very disadvantageous for the blind old man who relies on the sound to distinguish the environment and can only be lethal at close range, but it seems that he chose it deliberately, This loses the basic authenticity and rationality. It is the way of superheroes. For example, in the most important action scene, the old man knows the location of the gangster by sensing the ripples of the water, and immediately shoots the gun at a long distance, wow. , Are you sure it's not the Blind Man and Daredevil rushing in? Even such a surreal idea is just barely coming up with one or two, the final duel troops have no technical content in hand-to-hand combat, and there is a stinky street section where the enemy is not completely dead, and they come back to life and give you all at once. People hide their faces and sigh.
The big difference is the temperament of the film, the despair that pervades the story of 1, a mutual killing between the bottom of the ruined car city of Detroit, whether it is a young girl or a blind old man, it is People without hope, there are many empty shots of ruined cities in the film, a ghost town with no future, and a group of people who can't see tomorrow. This is a cruel and cold murder case, but the core of the characters in the case is very full, good and evil coexist, and it is difficult to dismantle. The heroine knew that the other party was a lonely, widowed and blind old man who had lost her only daughter, but she still cold-bloodedly planned to steal a little pension from the old man's daughter's life. Why, on the surface, it is for my daughter, but in essence, I want to seize a little hope, relying on this money, to escape this suffocating city with my daughter and live better, it is a selfish and primitive desire, very fiery . You'd think this girl was outrageous and a little sympathetic. As for the blind old man, he imprisoned a young woman in the basement in an attempt to "artificially inseminate" a child, which is simply a perverted erotic maniac. To cover up this incident, he murdered casually, which is even more violent. At the same time, he is a war hero tormented by PTSD, the woman he imprisoned was the perpetrator who escaped justice after hitting and killing his only daughter, he didn't want to kill her, he just wanted her to "give him back" a descendant without being rude With the more brutal "artificial insemination", there seems to be some ancient justice in the madness. It is precisely because both the heroine and the hero cannot be defined by simple good people or bad people, we don't know which side to stand on, watching the two sides fight for life and death, but the moral sense has never been settled, this is a very wonderful movie watching. feel.
Look at 2 again, the screenwriter also seems to be trying to add some moral dilemmas, so that the villain is the little girl's biological parents, and it is legitimate for them to take back the little girl, but the effect is too embarrassing, and the biological parents can't kill the child to treat themselves. There is nothing to tangle about morally, Qing is waiting for the blind old man to cut you off. This time, the blind old man occupied the absolute moral high ground, wielding a machete of justice, and slashing the people around the little girl clean. This emotional vent is given directly, and it is also cheap and no surprises. After an orgasm that is not an orgasm, all I feel is emptiness and boredom.
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