A life that stops dreaming is like a dead body, a machine that works mechanically, a candy that has lost its sweetness, and a face without a face.
Unfortunately, in this numb and cruel world, the drama of shattered dreams is being staged day by day, and people with dreams are walking into "reality" one after another like a death squad.
This is helpless.
Fortunately, there are movies.
Allowing people to see all kinds of dreams in an illusory film and painting—maybe one of them you once had but has forgotten—is the most fascinating part of the film.
Movies can be magnificent, dark, violent, bloody, accusatory, and eulogizing, but they cannot be divorced from dreams, and they cannot make people feel hopeless in their hearts. Yes, this is the real movie, this is the real spirit of the movie.
As one of the many types of movies, entertainment films should be even more so.
Although there is nothing scarier than giving up dreaming for movies, however, like people, there are always some soulless movies that keep popping up on the big screen.
Such as "Percy Jackson and the Fire Thief".
This is an expensive but all-round copycat movie, a work in which the director completely gave up his self-esteem and artistic pursuit, and a pirated image projected on the big screen of the cinema.
The title of the movie is enough to make people feel outrageous. Not only is it a naked imitation of the Harry Potter series, but it is also unabashedly proclaimed in the trailer that this is the new work of the former director of Harry Potter. If this kind of imitation is just a means of propaganda - and I did think so at the beginning - it is not completely incomprehensible and acceptable.
Regrettably, even the whole story is almost the same as Harry Potter: ordinary people have unusual fates, unhappy families, are secretly concerned and guarded, enter magical schools, meet the opposite sex they like, study, fight, Grow up, then fantasize about the box office boom and the start of the sequel...
If this is a complete remake of Harry Potter, it won't be too ugly as long as the work is done properly. What's really great about the director is that he makes Harry Potter's story structure bear countless roughness and lameness.
The whole script is unbelievably rough, everything starts inexplicably and ends inexplicably, with inexplicable character relationships driving an inexplicable storyline! Unconvincing characters play unconvincing love-hate, unconvincing lines weave unconvincing lies!
The protagonist is amateur to earth-shattering, and the male protagonist who behaves like a passerby is full of disbelief and detachment about the whole story, especially when her mother "dies", his understatement is not as good as a dead pet It really leaves my mind blank.
Just as I think the positioning of this movie is not entirely unacceptable to humans if it is a child.
But when I saw the protagonists running around carrying a human head, I understood that the positioning of this film is definitely not a children's film, it is just a single-minded attempt to touch the bottom line of human receptivity!
Movies can suck because not everyone has the ability to make a good enough movie. But a film is unforgivably bad if it's not made to please the audience.
This film is exactly that. To put it bluntly, this film is purely a self-defeating speculative work.
Although the film mimics Harry Potter throughout its setting and storytelling, the film it really emulates is the Twilight series.
The two films currently released by Twilight are typical works of small investment and large income in recent years. The improved vampire theme and the script of youth love Qiong Yao have made countless crazy men and women crazy.
And this film self-righteously believes that as long as it is a modern fantasy theme and a little college student love story, it can be copied successfully and copied at the box office. Not to mention the large investment of nearly 100 million US dollars and rich visual effects, it is almost guaranteed. From this point of view, "Percy Jackson and the Fire Thief" is really a work that completely dreamed of sleepwalking.
The film's 80 million box office in the continental United States reminds itself all the time that the success of Twilight is not how good he is, but that he has given people a diamond-like gorgeous vampire-like tangled love that real life can't match. , because he fully embodies the dream-making spirit of the film, and any dream that touches the heart must first be serious and sincere.
"Percy Jackson and the Thief of God" has completely abandoned the seriousness and sincerity from the beginning of the shooting motive. With the mess of the script and actors, it has achieved a gorgeous and expensive play. And paying to go to the cinema to watch a play that you don't even believe in the movie is obviously not what people want.
If there is a sequel to "Percy Jackson and the Thief of Fire", I hope the director can be more sincere, regain his self-esteem, and let us see a dream that is moving enough, even if the special effects are few.
Because dreams are the last line of defense for self-esteem.
Especially in the country we live in.
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