What is told is the story, and what is pushed is the plot.

Josue 2021-10-13 13:05:30

The thin colors, the serious atmosphere, and the style of political thinking full of implied meaning, I really didn't expect it to be a comedy.

What is told is the story, what is pushed is the plot, and the famous saying is "the ring sets the ring". When shooting, the camera was switched in a fluent manner, and dozens of sections were sprinkled to present a complex event with multiple branches to the audience clearly and coherently. In terms of rhythm, it can be said to be able to retract and release freely from time to time. At the beginning, the background and location of the characters in the story were introduced like a military parade, and a bird's-eye view was drawn for us without any haste; when we slowed down our thinking, suddenly a famous person became active one after another, one location after another. Continue to boil constantly, just feel the boom, change and development will be overwhelmed, like going to layers of disguise, naked thriller suspense, but you feel more nervous and curious. In addition to these thoughts, humorous lines and actions are also available everywhere.

Looking at it now, movies with this kind of structure are not rare, but there are still immortal figures among the masters, and there is still a lone lonely person above the supernatural powers.

After watching, I couldn't help thinking about the refined script of the film. The so-called fate is a coincidence, and it must be accidental. Life is really like an extraterrestrial planet, easy or difficult, we can calculate or even design our own orbits, and whether we can really do what we expect depends on whether the universe is so wide that people can't collide.

Like most people, I know that this film is because of "Crazy Stone". They are all films that make me laugh, just a superficial face, a three-pointer into the woods; one that makes me praise the dialogue performance, laughing from start to end, and one that makes me marvel at the wonderful content, but I can't help but only the corners of my mouth lightly. Putting aside the plagiarism, in contrast, "Stone" is indeed a stone.

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Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels quotes

  • Gary: So who's the gov'? Who we doing this for?

    Barry the Baptist: You're doing it for me, that's all you need to know. You know because you need to know.

    Gary: I see. One of them "on a need to know basis" things is it. Like one of them James Bond films.

    Barry the Baptist: Careful. Remember who's giving you this job.

  • Tom: Listen to this one then; you open a company called the Arse Tickler's Faggot Fan Club. You take an advert in the back page of some gay mag, advertising the latest in arse-intruding dildos, sell it a bit with, er... I dunno, "does what no other dildo can do until now", latest and greatest in sexual technology. Guaranteed results or money back, all that bollocks. These dills cost twenty-five each; a snip for all the pleasure they are going to give the recipients. They send a cheque to the company name, nothing offensive, er, Bobbie's Bits or something, for twenty-five. You put these in the bank for two weeks and let them clear. Now this is the clever bit. Then you send back the cheques for twenty-five pounds from the real company name, Arse Tickler's Faggot Fan Club, saying sorry, we couldn't get the supply from America, they have sold out. Now you see how many of the people cash those cheques; not a single soul, because who wants his bank manager to know he tickles arses when he is not paying in cheques!

    Bacon: So how long do you have to wait for a return?

    Tom: Probably no more than four weeks.

    Bacon: Well what good is that if we need it in six... no, five days?

    Tom: Well it was still a good idea.