I don’t know that this phenomenon is the plot and logic of the spy war popularization campaign of the whole industry's screenwriters and directors on the public's aesthetics? Or is there no breakthrough narrative method from filmmakers to movie viewers?
Spy warfare has become a means of incorporation, unified arrangement into films in various fields. Dan Brown’s Science and Religion series, Harry Potter’s Witches and Demons series, "The Wind" and other country-and-communist series, "Tang King" and other police and bandit port series, and even "Deserve You Single" waiting for him The romance series with her, as well as the current "Agent Shao Te" series that simply talks about spy and spy. Without exception. If you watch too much, you will gradually discover the pattern.
Rule 1: Spy warfare must occur in the development of a story where there are two opposing forces between the enemy and ourselves. This is the soil into which the spy war plot is placed. If there is no contradiction, there is no need for spy warfare. From this perspective, it is not surprising that the wide range of materials used include those series just now, because the existence of contradictions is the most common existence in the world. In this film, it is the United States and Russia. Of course, these two forces are also used by the same group.
Rule 2: Spy warfare, like a big reversal in the plot, which basically happens at the end of the two-thirds of the whole story. The good guys and the bad guys reversed in an instant. The more wonderful and perfect the spy wars, the more the reversal is placed near the end infinitely. It is precisely this characteristic that calls it "spy" warfare, otherwise it is called gun battle, love war, or something else. In this film, when Salt's husband is tentatively killed, the moment she kills her head with a bottle, the plot begins to reverse.
Rule three: spy wars, the protagonist's psychological drama will become a highlight, success or failure depends on him, it can be said that everything will be accomplished. Because of his multi-faceted identity, he will inevitably deepen his character on the psychological level and cause depression. In the end, he may act in a fake show, or collapse into a frenzy, or be tenacious. Some films also arrange the role of a godfather and godmother to lay a plausible reason for this kind of psychological growth. This is the case in this film, Angelina Jolie embodies this psychological impact in multiple shots of her past memories.
Law four: Spy warfare tends to end in a calm and peaceful way. It seems to be the need for comparison in the entire plot. After a long time of trouble, it must seem that nothing happened in the end. The hero is also unknown, which makes people feel a little bit afraid of being cold behind. This may be borrowed from some horror films. The result of ghost film style. In this film, when Salt jumped out of the helicopter, what swallowed her was a jungle full of heartaches. Her sprint seemed to have become an inertial reaction to get rid of troubles.
The last rule: After watching spy films, especially after watching a lot of spy films in a row, you will be more eager to see those warm, conventional narratives, not so thrilling, and even cute and loving. A spy movie. I hope the filmmakers will hold their hands high, and there will be no more spy plots in these films.
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