In recent years, many types of mash-up films are a business strategy to make one film attract two types of people, and it is also an inevitable route to try to break through. The complex way of mashing up is to make one kind of story look like another, and the simple way is to let the main characters of one kind of story run to another setting. The word "traversal" is still heating up. In fact, the word itself has been fired. Stories of this nature have always existed and will always evolve. Two types of "characters" from completely different backgrounds are suddenly forced to be placed in the same time and space. On the hard side, Guan Gong and Qin Qiong are a lot of fun. On the soft side, the collision of cultures and the reversal and interweaving of causal logic are also promising. "Xun Qin Ji" is still an adventure of wits and adventures, but because there is a modern person's knowledge and mentality at work, the energy continuously produces chemical reactions. This is also the foundation of a large number of starting point Jinjiang texts. The latest version of "The Three Musketeers" can't play any tricks, and the airships began to be played on the scene.
Conceptually, putting a sci-fi element in a Western movie seems really interesting at first glance. But there are a lot of problems that need to be solved actually, such as the problem of combat power balance, such as the problem of style bias, such as the actual development possibility under this idea.
I haven't read the original comic book, so I don't know how the story is made up, but from the perspective of the movie's narrative, this "unknown" type of story body is a bit too much to steal the show. It's not that there are no extra points, but that it really fails to combine with the advancement of the entire movie. It seems that the director thinks that it is necessary to make up a story that is slightly more complicated than "revenge" in the course of the war, so he forced himself to make a setting for the protagonist like this. And I don't think you have to talk about "cowboy" first, you have to pretend, as if you don't know what's going to happen next. In the first half hour of the movie, the environment of a traditional western is set up without any surprises. All the characters appear one by one. The wanted criminal, the villain, the capitalist, the duty man, the sheriff, the Indians, and the mysterious woman are all routines in the routine, no one Especially brilliant. For viewers who already know the titles of the movie "Cowboy" and "Alien", this half hour was not spent with "Wow, I saw these classic western elements again, so moving", but kept talking about it. "Where's the aliens? Where's the UFO? Not out yet?". By the time the townspeople team up to rescue their kidnapped relatives, the movie is halfway through. And this half, at least it's normal.
It is also talking about the gradual approaching of unknown forces. "Super 8" really captures different people vividly in a limited amount of ink, so even the ending is unclear, but Xiao Chuan said "I am not here" , can you?" Still really touching. Of course, the film types are not the same. "Super 8" is essentially a children's adventure film similar to "Seven Treasures" and "ET" mixed, so some moving and gentle are the natural fragrance. Relatively speaking, the characterization of Westerns is not too delicate. Most of the time, what you can see is the weathered face and the tough guys who are extremely stingy to express their emotions. But in a film filled with unattractive suspense and an almost chaotic setting, the characters are unattractive, and it's even harder for the viewers who accompany them on this journey. To be fair, the fusion of various relationships in the human characters on the journey is a normal development, and several lines have to be said, but we all know that this development is prepared for the final goodbye. On the other hand, this pattern seems to make the screenwriter too lazy to think about it. All the logic and fun of B-level films have not been able to enter this monolithic western world at all.
Because there is enough investment scale, the battle scene itself is not simple. The scorching sun and yellow sand, the galloping horses, but strange aircraft flying in the sky, and unsightly "big monsters" jumping in the mountain streams. This kind of picture must have been set at the time of planning. It appeared, and then it was just that, and the imagination stopped at the key words. The male protagonist has a plug-in so that he can live without worries, and the others can only rely on conventional means to fight recklessly. They do not know the weaknesses of the aliens, and they do not adjust their strategies according to the strength of the other side. Then this kind of battle with no other details involved in regulation, in addition to shooting humans being slaughtered, can only deliberately reduce the IQ and defense of the aliens. In fact, looking back, even if the scale of violence increases, it will be boring. Not to mention the various interactions between the male and female protagonists who are as pale as water.
Maybe in the end, just to find another reason to watch Harrison Ford put on his hat and get off his horse, they concocted such a project. This is my best guess.
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