Love desserts with George Clooney ingredients, such as chocolate sprinkled with truffle powder, naturally have the capital to land on the Michelin level. Suitable for all ages, modern and nostalgic. Hair combed neatly with wax and paired with eyes that are so gentle that one can drown; from the rugby stadium full of power and boldness, and landed in mud, turned to the lobby of a high-end hotel, dressed in fine clothes and beautiful The female reporter of the newspaper office flirted with old-fashioned humor, all of which he knew very well.
In real life, falling in love with someone may be difficult, but falling in love with a romantic movie is easy. Universal Studios also thinks so. As a mainstream commercial film, "Leatherheads", with George Clooney and Renée Zellweger teaming up, can recover at least 58 million production costs. However, George Clooney can indeed summon a large number of fans as a visual dessert, but when he cooks "Clooney's Love Story" himself, the finished product is not so satisfactory.
"Love Touchdown" attempts to mix three materials: the state of the early days of the NFL, the lies of a war hero, and the love between George Clooney and Renée Zellweger. The "sweetness" of happiness is not enough.
The film's screenwriter, Duncan Brantley, although ambitiously set in the Great Depression of 1925, intends to weave historical significance for the player-journalist love affair: the development of the rugby league. In the actual movie, the story covered by the camera only describes one team. Or put aside the sporadic involvement of other members, the entire team has only one war hero who lies in his heart, and the star and director George Clooney who looks in the mirror in the camera. In addition to the nostalgic costumes such as newsboy caps and English dresses, the audience is reminded from time to time: this is a film that tries to provide the American flavor of the 1930s. Other historical background depictions, including the dark bar culture during the curfew period, are too deliberate because of the setting of the closed scene, which seems artificial and lame.
The painting Saint Qi Baishi once had a eight-character motto for his younger generation: "Learn from me and die like me." George Clooney borrowed inspiration from film predecessors Preston Sturges, George Stevens, etc., and performed old-fashioned comedy in train cars, old-fashioned bars, and leisurely stairs. , but only learned the "movements", and did not have the skill of "seeing the tricks and dismantling the tricks".
The plot booster set between George Clooney and Renée Zellweger: John Krasinski, an asteroid from TV to film, slowly revolves around the two protagonists without a doubt in Touchdown. It was bad enough to let the audience guess the ending of a love movie early in the morning, but the screenwriter actually gave John Krasinski a "lie" with a stronger sense of suspense in the character setting. In the pitiful curiosity space left by the film, the audience's attention cannot help but join the army of "debunking lies", although even this so-called "lie" is suspected of insulting the audience's wisdom.
Wrong recipes, unfamiliar techniques, and screenwriting mistakes, George Clooney's third film has disappointed even the least demanding dessert eaters: there's no way to create a meaningful background of love, so why not take a simple and pure route and let beauty and beauty Romance directly captures all taste buds? What made the audience even more complaining was Renée Zellweger's visibly incongruous and rigid face in the film, which looked oddly smiling. It has to be reminiscent of the rumors that she, holding the Oscar statuette, was injected with too much Botox.
Of course, a single loss can't overshadow George Clooney's blazing directorial talents. In 2005, "Good Night and Good Luck" interprets the glory and dreams of the age of suspicion, and reproduces the glory that black and white films won at the Oscars after "The Elephant Man" in 1980. "Burn After Reading", which will be released in the second half of the year, is his third collaboration with the Coen brothers, and has higher artistic expectations. As for this "Love Touchdown", perhaps, it's really like what he said: it's too awkward to be your own director! What's more, no matter how you look at yourself, you are still so pleasing to the eye.
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