When Schwarzenegger’s back is far away, but suddenly looking back, you can’t think of the classic look back in "Terminator 2", that unique and biting eyes, that classic body, that step, Suddenly pulled people back to 15 years ago. When Stallone ridiculed: "He wants to be president," he could only smile reluctantly. Looking at Terminator's wrinkled eyes, he couldn't force anything.
This is the greatest value of "The Expendables" to me. Just like the old saying of MacArthur: "Old solders never die, they just fade away."
This may be the last movie dedicated to action movie lovers. The era of relying on muscles and individuals to save everything is gone forever.
When I was in elementary school, I would go back to my little home from my grandparents' house on Friday. When I got home, it was 8 or 9 in the evening. At that time, what I was most looking forward to was to go home and heat the hot dogs and hamburgers that Dad bought in the microwave, then take a hot bath, then sit in front of the TV, turn on the VCD, and watch the prepared ones. Movie.
Just like when the Premier League was booming in Asia, it was precisely when the TV penetration rate in Asia was high. When I watch movies every Friday, it is the time when Schwarzenegger and Stallone became popular. "First Drop of Blood", "Second Drop of Blood", "Third Drop of Blood", "True Lies", "Evaporation Secret Order", and "Predator" are all of their classic works in decline. Coupled with my dad's love of action movies, it deepens the memory of them. Although in the following years, their names gradually disappeared.
"The Expendables" may not be able to replicate the essence of the action movies of the year, but her greatest contribution is to provide an opportunity to remember, so that we, once action fans, can proudly show off in this technology-dominated film era! Let us proudly say the identity of an action fan. Take a look at the film reviews of these years. Which one doesn't criticize action films as badass? It seems that those who give high scores to such films are mentally handicapped.
Just like when a variety of books born in the 1980s introduced cartoons that we watched when we were young, we all felt very moved. Seeing the veteran on the screen is still alive, the heart of the worm shaking the tree is still beating, my thoughts are full of thoughts. Those are heroes who are more personal heroism than Superman, Spiderman, and Batman. They have no special abilities, no high-tech equipment, just a body of tendons and a restless heart. They can't understand the degeneration of society, they are not used to ordinary life, where there is injustice, where there is turmoil, they will appear wherever there is. The veterans are lonely, always alone, but they are full of hope and peace in their hearts.
With the advancing of the times, Schwarzenegger and Stallone will inevitably be replaced by other things. Multi-line narrative, fast editing, CG animation, face capture, green screen and blue screen, these derivatives of the development of film technology slowly occupy the entire market. Nowadays, movies with a cost of 200 million yuan are everywhere, technology has replaced characters, and epic movies are pitifully rare. Some people say that James Cameron is a technology madman, but this completely ignores his talent for storytelling. His movies are always based on stories and supplemented by technology. So he can call himself "the king of the world". Now, you will never see that kind of retro-style personal heroism movie anymore. Schwarzenegger switched to science fiction films before the fall. "Terminator 2" became a classic among the classics, but it also became his reflection; Stallone has never given up the style of "First Blood", and is still in the process of transformation of all tough guys. Persevering in self, relying on the inherent literary skills to write and direct "The Fourth Blood" and this time "The Expendables" and "Rocky" series, the result can only be that they can no longer replicate the scenery of the year.
But just like the "First Blood" series of movies said, ordinary life is not attractive to Stallone. He belongs to that age of war, where he drove tanks and steamboats, and fought his brothers to death. So "The Expendables" came into being. Going back to the beginning of the article, when he saw him being beaten up by a big guy, who wouldn't want the former Rambo to show beautiful muscles and knock down the enemy in a few seconds? From some perspectives, Schwarzenegger's works are more classic, represented by "Terminator 2" and "True Lies", but Stallone's spirit is the most precious, and he connects movies with his life perfectly.
The good things will not stay for long, everything will pass. The goodness in the past does not mean that there will be no matching things in the future, but it cannot be restored like first love. People watch "The Expendables" for nostalgia, to awaken the macho complex deep in their hearts, and to pay tribute to the age when they were once fanatical. Just like someone said: Nostalgia is not because of how beautiful it is, but because it was young.
Let us borrow MacArthur’s famous saying again:
"Old times never die, they just fade away."
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