This movie is called "Real Steel" in English and translated into "Steel Fist" in Chinese. I first saw a poster on the subway that said "Change 3" production team and Spielberg supervised. Combining the title of the film and this poster, I got a one-sided first impression: it is another pure man film, a typical Hollywood blockbuster, and a noisy film. Note that my term here is "one-sided impression."
The fact is: this is indeed a pure man movie, it is indeed a blockbuster, and it is indeed a noisy movie.
When you see this, you will definitely feel that I am looking for a fight, and what I said twice is the same. How can you compare? But believe me, the reason why I use the same adjectives to describe their differences is because they are consistent in the results of the expressions, but the expressions are very different. Just like watching "Steel Fist", you can download it from P2P to your computer in your dormitory, or you can experience the most realistic D-BOX dynamic seat coded version of "Steel Fist" at China Film International Studios. (This is implanted advertising).
Then let me tell you where they differ in their approach. Those of you who haven't watched the movie and plan to watch it, please stop here, because if you discover it yourself, you will get a great surprise and enjoyable movie-watching experience that is much higher than watching this bad spoiler.
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First of all, this is indeed a pure man movie, because the two protagonists in the play are both men. They were together at first but separated for many years. They may still have some grievances, but in the constant fighting, they gradually became brothers and sisters, and they truly "do not fight or know each other." The difference is that one of them is a 10-year-old child, and the other is his father. And this fight is not between the two of them, but between them and the boxing robots. From the original Western Bullring and the underground black boxing market, opponents one by one to challenge the robot boxing league championship and ultimately win the legend. course.
The film opens with the accompaniment of peaceful country music. It should be said that the first five minutes, or even ten minutes, did not have any plot, just explain the scene and the emotional paving, but the paving is the road scene of Texas and the rich and quiet country music. I thought this was an audience of works like "Transformers", but it is no exaggeration to say that I have entered the wrong theater at this time-yes, I have to tell you plainly at the beginning: you were cheated and you were taken by the movie. The name and poster promotion, as well as your own preconceived perceptions are fooled. Real Steel, real steel, but the heart is very soft, by no means a stone heart.
After walking for ten minutes, the image of our father was clearly on paper through a few sketches: he had no career, he was divorced very early (or did he not get married at all?), and he had no money. Borrowing to survive and even deceived the person who lent him money (lied to his friend who called to collect debts), it is completely a corrupt and irresponsible father image, and this is similar to many American movies and TV shows. The depreciation of the father's image is exactly the same. The only hobby of this father, which is definitely not a career, is robot boxing, and he owns a boxing robot himself. However, the only robot that he possessed didn't make it out, but when he came out, he was covered with potholes and rust, which looked like broken copper and iron that could move. In order to pay his friends back, he could only take his robot to the bullfighting market to gamble his luck and let his robot fight the bull. However, he was accidentally knocked down by the bull and became a real broken iron. So far, not only was he unable to repay the money, he also owed a higher debt.
At this time, the old acquaintance of the former wife suddenly came to him and told him the fact: Your ex-wife died, and your child's custody lawsuit requires you to appear in court.
This silly and cynical father came to court like this. Also in court are the sister of his ex-wife who is struggling for custody, and her husband, a rich man. The father, who was in debt, immediately thought of a way to get himself money. Because in Texas, the transfer of guardianship requires the consent of the direct guardian, that is, his husband, so he reached an agreement with her husband in private out of court: give me one hundred thousand dollars, and I agree to give her the guardianship of the child; I Get the money I want, she gets the child she wants, and if you win the child from me for her, you will naturally get her double trust. Her husband is an honest man, and he does love her very much, so he agreed with the balance. However, because they are going to Italy for a holiday, the children will be taken care of by him temporarily for two months.
So our little cute kid (really cute) got out of the car with his schoolbag, and stood on the same side of the road a few meters away from his father, whom he had never met in ten years. This purely side-view shot appeared three times and lasted for more than five seconds in total, and the two were motionless, which is really meaningful.
After embarrassing self-introduction, the child's first sentence turned out to be a complaint, complaining that his dad had picked him up and prevented him from going to Italy with those two people.
However, when they arrived at the residence, the father and son discovered their common hobby: robot boxing.
So, around this only hobby, our father and son started a series of robot careers that belonged to them described in the next movie: They went to the black market to fight with this robot to challenge more opponents. There are successes and failures, ups and downs, just like everyone's career; and the father and son, who didn't recognize each other in the past, gradually became the best partners in the process.
I said this is a noisy film, because in some passages of this film, there are various pop cultures belonging to young people, such as Hip-Hop mechanical dance, hardcore rock and even death metal music; however, the clever thing is that the film However, the tone did not become noisy because of this, and it still maintained the quiet as always. This point is very precise, and many Hollywood blockbusters that have been dazzled by sound effects and music are dwarfed, including "Change 3".
I say that this movie is a blockbuster, because in the final battle with the championship of the Robot Boxing League, it produced an epic effect. When the boxing robot known as the undefeated myth of Zeus jumped into the ring under the spotlight, its overwhelming momentum completely surpassed the appearance of the boss of "Change 3"; the former was based on a well-designed camera angle. And lighting, and music with a great atmosphere, while the latter relies on pure CG and metal sound effects.
I said this is a pure man's movie, because it is a pure fighting story between men. However, this story is neither a brainless sparring nor a broken back, but the most common and touching affection between father and son. When our child is standing with a robot that is many times taller than him, the robot named Adam always looks at the child with his blue eyes. The soft blue light looks like a father’s gaze; when Adam and the child’s father When he stood together, he seemed to have become a child again, listening to his father explaining the essentials of boxing while imitating his father's movements. This robot appears in this movie with such a polysemous role, like a character with human nature, fighting for the father and son in the boxing ring. Sometimes it is the incarnation of the father, sometimes the incarnation of the son. In the end, the role of the bridge seemed to be the third protagonist. Even if he was knocked down countless times in the ring that challenged the championship, he would always get up once more than countless times; even if he was beaten to pieces and even lost his hearing, We must continue to fight for the father and son... So far, such an unconscious and unfeeling robot has moved the father and son, countless league viewers, and our audience to be confused.
Therefore, we must not be deceived by the title of this film. Under the steel shell of this robot named Adam, it is actually full of children's innocence and the warmth of father's love.
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