The consequences of breaking n parts into n+1

Missouri 2022-03-19 09:01:02

I don't know when this trend began. We know that the practice of making sequels for blockbuster movies has been around for a long time, but n-part movies based on novels can only be anxious, because there are only n original works, so I can’t let the author temporarily continue one, right? As a result, I don’t know which producer originally had the idea to split the last one into two films. "Twilight," "Harry Potter," and "The Hunger Games" are all in the same way. "Bitman" simply divides into three, betting that everyone will buy tickets. This is a large part of the reason for the poor reputation of "The Hunger Games 3 (Part 1)". Compared with the previous two, the story of this one is not exciting enough, or even has no storyline at all. At the end of the movie, I heard a voice like this: There is nothing in the first episode!

Tucao is over. Anyway, they took it, and we also watched it. It's still a matter of fact, let's analyze the value of the film that was born in the cracks.

First of all, there is no Hunger Games in this episode of "The Hunger Games". The enemy has no control of the key character Katniss, so they can only use the second best card to the greatest extent-Peeta. After President Snow issued a rigorously worded statement to set the tone, the enemy brainwashed the citizens mainly in the form of Peeta's interview with the CCTV host, calling on everyone to give up resistance. As for our propaganda department, the first task is to do Katniss's ideological work, so that she can devote herself wholeheartedly to the work of serving the people. After doing the ideological work of Katniss, our excellent young director in the literary and art circles tailored her a promotional film calling for people's uprisings in various districts. The promotional film was originally planned to be recorded indoors, using CG technology to simulate the battlefield. Later, it was discovered that the actors needed to be close to reality and close to the masses to perform well, so the film crew went to the front twice to write about the suffering of the people. During the deepening of the masses, Katniss personally participated in the front-line battles, and was obviously influenced by certain TV dramas, showing a sassy and heroic posture by shooting down enemy planes with bows and arrows.

In the second half of the movie, a 6-member team of our SEALs sneaked into the enemy's rear to carry out rescue operations. Judging from the rescue scene, the filming of this scene is average, but fortunately the director cross-edited it with TV propaganda and even showed it at the same time-the picture is the rescue and the soundtrack is the propaganda. The barrel of the gun and the barrel of the pen are very impressive at the same time! However, the strange thing is that when we know it is a trap, we rush into it, and the enemy knows it is really letting people go! It seems that either both of them are playing a big game, or my IQ is not enough. You can give many explanations for the rescue result, but this shooting method is a bit unacceptable. You are so nervous and exciting, and the audience is looking at it with their necks raised. As a result, you tell us that this rescue operation is two families. —Pend — shoot —! Nima...

As for the main thread of the film, Katniss’ emotional entanglements, I don’t want to say more, because the director seems to have to rely on the acting skills of the big cousin to produce such a movie with no core clues. Love triangle is the biggest selling point of youth films. I hope this will divert everyone’s attention and not be entangled in the monotonous and riddled plot structure of this film. The results of it? Naturally it is laborious and thankless, and the audience is clear at a glance.

Let's talk about the highlights of this film. I still admire the courage of the General Administration to decide to introduce this series. Can a movie adapted from the Uprising Manual be released in the Mainland? The twelve districts each produce a certain kind of resource. How do you sound so familiar? The first part of the series mainly talks about Katniss acting as a propaganda machine for the ruler at first, but then he awakened his self-awareness and struggled within the propaganda system. At this time, Katniss was struggling again whether to act as a propaganda machine for the rebels. After making up his mind, he worked hard to do a good job in propaganda work, and finally rejected the task for personal reasons. Hey, anyone can use the market economy, the difference is...you know. Let's not talk about ideological things. If you want to talk about it, just talk about it professionally. Okay, let's go to Part B below.

According to Le Pen’s "The Rabble", the most important factor that promotes the great historical change is the change of people’s beliefs. For this film, if the uprising organizers want to truly awaken the people’s determination to revolt, they must overthrow their original beliefs. According to the descriptions in the first two parts, people in various districts are already dissatisfied with President Snow's rule, but this is far from enough. In the third part (Part 1), the director team personally visited the bombed Twelfth District, using real images and the narration of Gale who witnessed the disaster to expose the crimes of the Snow regime. But this is not enough. Therefore, in the propaganda film at the end, Finnick exposes Snow's crimes and completely destroys Snow's image among the people, thus completely destroying the people's belief in the old regime.

Defamation of the other party is one aspect, and the other aspect of propaganda is to shape our image. In this film, we have taken two efforts. The first is more obvious. The big cousin acts as a hero model and spokesperson. According to the research results of group psychology, the role of myths and heroes has been the only way to call on the people since ancient times. The second kind of effort is not obvious, or the people of the 13th district are used to it, and that is the leadership role of the district president Coin. Le Pen clearly stated in "The Mob" that there are three ways for leaders to strengthen their appeal: assertion, repetition and contagion. The assertion is to tell everyone "Tomorrow we are going to liberate the Congress District!" As for today, I will not mention the cat in the underground air-raid shelter. To repeat, to continue to say "Tomorrow we will liberate the Congress area!" Contagion is to use various contagious, inciting, impactful, appealing, and cohesive languages ​​(including body language ) Infect the people and let this touch pass between hearts... This requires professional writers to ghostwrite for them, as well as the friendly guest appearances of heavyweights like Katniss. In any case, although Katniss and Coin are our leaders, the role of the former is a virtual pawn, while the role of the latter is a real player.

Generally speaking, this first episode is really serious with water injection and limited viewing points. In order to avoid the plot from being too plain, a few battle scenes were forced into it, and the effect was not ideal. There is no way, n movies made into n+1 series will be squeezed out in this hard-squeezed part, and "The Hunger Games" is no exception.

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The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 quotes

  • Effie Trinket: [to Katniss] There's not much of a prep team here in 13. But we will make you the best-dressed rebel in history.

  • Katniss Everdeen: [filming a "propo," stilted, wooden delivery] People of Panem, we fight! We dare to end this hunger for justice.

    Haymitch Abernathy: [entering the room, slow clap] And that, my friends, is how a revolution dies. Hello, Katniss. This how you greet an old friend?

    Katniss Everdeen: Maybe I don't recognize you sober.

    Haymitch Abernathy: I guess it looks as bad as it feels.