Many French films are of the same style as their national characters, known for their slanted and oblique skills, but Public Enemy No. The story of the robber Jacques Messlin, a well-known criminal who committed many armed robberies and murders, and escaped from prison many times. face thieves". He was shot dead by a SWAT team on November 2, 1979, at the Clinyan-Gouré gate in Paris, after a bloody 18-month escape.
Another bizarre legend, a box-office miracle, or even the creation of a heroic symbol, has already had too many precedents in the history of movies. In a sense, the inner core of gangster movies and American westerns is this.
"Public Enemy Number One" is planned to be released in two episodes. The actors are almost all the most popular and popular movie stars in France. If the big business investment comes from the confidence in the box office, the reason for the confidence is that, on the one hand, the legendary story of Meslin, Indeed, it has become a household name in France, and investors, on the other hand, foresee that there will never be a shortage of audiences for such films.
At present, only the first episode of "Public Enemy Number One" can be seen, and the next episode will not be continued until November; the first episode describes Meslin's early experiences. In 1959, Messlin served on the battlefield in Algeria. By shooting his opponent, he quickly ended the "naivety" ” period, and after being discharged from the army, became a man who left the family, hung out with friends, and carried out illegal activities such as robbery. The background of the veteran's identity may be reminiscent of "Taxi Driver", but the reason why Travis, a Vietnam War veteran played by Robert De Niro, has become an immortal classic image, is largely because It stems from the fact that this character has created a depressed and idealist character behind his dissatisfaction with the dirty society. However, in "Public Enemy Number One", the rough handling ignores the shaping of the character's heart. Most of the time, Meslin is running around. Botu, like being chased by others, keeps running forward in the movie. Since the movie was born out of a memoir, and the director's faithfulness to the original book has reached the point of step by step, he wants to perform in the 100-minute movie for a long time. With a complex story of a legendary character, one could not wait to build the skeleton of the story, but it was too late to put flesh and blood on the skeleton.
Rudeness has become the biggest problem of "Public Enemy Number One". With the progress of the plot, rudeness has broken the audience's expectations many times. In the first 30 minutes of the film, I thought I would relive the story of Melville's "Lone Killer" style, but later It began to lean towards road escape films. Messling got married after meeting Spanish girls, just like those gangsters with strong family values in Scorsese films; but all this was just a flash, as if the director himself was not sure about the film. style - when Meslin met Jane, the organized crime gang, I expected to see a Bonnie and Clyde-like story, how poetic "Romeo and Juliet in the getaway car" is, but It ended so swiftly; when Meslin traveled the world and made a friend in Canada, the form of "Dragon and Tiger" was revealed, but it was quickly dodged, and there was always a sense of itchiness to look at.
Australia once had a legendary criminal named Ned Kelly, but because Australia was a colony, Kelly was later called "the national hero and freedom fighter in the hearts of Australians", according to the famous writer Peter Carey. The novel "True History of the Kelly Gang" is also known as the song of Australia; India once had two famous female bandits, Shima Parihar and Puran Devi, the former is said to have killed more than 70 people, and later Based on his personal experience, he made a movie called "Injured", and the latter surrendered to the government after doing some burning, killing and looting. After being imprisoned for 11 years, he began to enter politics and became the spokesperson of the low-caste ethnic group. Member of Parliament. Devi was assassinated in 2001. The stories of these "prohibited" people have been repeatedly made into movies and revered as heroes who rebelled against the social order.
Meslin may also have such a temperament. In fact, in reality, he has repeatedly used political slogans to escalate his criminal crimes, which makes his identity more charming, but when the director was filming "Public Enemy", Always "rushing" with a kind of anxious mentality, which makes the tragic temperament of this hero unable to be refined and carved. On the other hand, those classic gangster movies are often known for their slow rhythm, such as "The Godfather". , "Once Upon a Time in America".
On the poster of "Taxi Driver", there was once written such a sentence, "In every city, there are loners." This sentence can also be used as a footnote to "Public Enemy Number One": every city, There are rebels.
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