Borrowing my dad’s comments after watching: Is this kind of film? Is it okay to watch it in the cinema? Think about the loopholes a little bit.
(Thanks to Action’s article and comments, spoilers are available below)
1. The 007 series is innovating: transition from a series of movies to a movie series
1. A series of movies:
a collection of similar themes composed of multiple movies, and the storyline of each movie They are all completely independent. The drama conflict has nothing to do with the episodes before and after. It just relies on one or a few fixed characters and themes to connect these stories.
Example: Pierce Brosnan and before 007, Mission Impossible Series
2, serial movies (my name is a movie series):
multiple movies together tell a complete story. Each film is just a part of the complete story. They are interlocked and connected to each other until the final episode ends.
Example: 6 The Lord of the Rings, 7 Harry Potter, 4 The Hunger Games.
3. Starting from New Bond Daniel Craig's "Casino Royale", 007, which originally belonged to the category of film series, began to move closer to film series.
*"Quantum Crisis" directly undertook the task of digging out the roots of the real black hands behind the scenes of
the previous "Casino Royale" , "Quantum Crisis" and "Skyfall Crisis" are a series of events in the same line. Tell you, they are the same BOSS!
Thanks to director Sam Mendes' team for their screenwriting ability.
4. Male sex is gradually showing up:
Sexy and coquettish Bond girls are nothing, but the show-off of male sex is getting more and more intense. In this "Ghost Party", this STYLE has been naked and the Bond girls in the visual feast of the opening MV. These are left in the past. They are all unimaginable in 007 movies.
We have to say that in this era, Bond has evolved into an irreplaceable masculine sign that attracts a wider global population.
2. Theme: Too much discussion content, the first half is too procrastinated and easy to sleep. The
director of this episode is not satisfied with the popcorn plot, but raises a series of new questions worthy of reflection in the new
era : how to properly exercise supervision in the information age The right? Rely on technology or rely on experience?
Is it important to hit the enemy's heart, or to destroy the enemy's hardware?
Compared with the simple and clear theme of loyalty in "Crisis in the Sky", "The Ghost Party" obviously has greater ambitions, and the director wants to express more and richer themes.
It is a pity that there are too many topics to discuss together, which offset the impact of these themes when they exist individually. In addition, many shots in the first half are too slow, which makes people "tired".
3. Story: The biggest shortcoming of this episode
1. The director’s approach: start with a commercial-stimulating popcorn action scene, enter the opening MV, and then dialogue, dialogue, non-stop dialogue, romantic dialogue, in Austria, North Africa, Morocco Dialogue in the romantic scenery, 007 does not have to try to find the villain, the villain will always take the initiative to bring 007 to the lair, and then continue the conversation...
Most viewers watch 007 with the mentality of watching lively action movies. Suddenly, seeing James Bond who likes to chat face-to-face with the enemy slowly, most of them felt a gap in their hearts.
2. Villain: He is the biological son of 007's foster family, so he should be considered a brother. But his revenge seemed naive, and he could clearly kill Bond, turning into illogical jokes one by one.
After being defeated by Bond, the audience felt very speechless. The villain was too SB and IQ.
Generally speaking, the story has a lot of flaws and can't stand scrutiny, so points can only be deducted.
4. Action drama: worth the price.
Compared with the level of literary drama, the performance of "Ghost Party" in martial arts is obviously better than that of "Crisis in the Sky".
The scale of the explosion scene in the film was confirmed by the Guinness World Records as the largest explosion special effects scene in the history of film.
The four sections of the opening helicopter battle in Plaza Mexico, the Austrian aircraft and car snow battle in the middle section, the drag racing in Rome, and the explosion in the desert factory were really impressive.
5. Actors: One hero has N gangs.
1. Léa Seydoux is the first actress to appear in the 007 movie and the Mission Impossible series. In the film, she acted very well, incorporating the kind of cold outside and hot inside, the romance in the bones, and the feelings for Bond into every performance and look in her eyes.
2. Although this "Ghost Party" lost the old drama bone Judi Dench (Judi Dench) Iron Maiden Lady M, but "Voldemort" Ralph Fiennes (Ralph Fiennes) male version M, Ben Westshaw ( Scientist Q from Ben Whishaw, all performed well. One is mature and capable, and the other is focused on selling cute and bright.
3. The villain can't do it. Christoph Waltz (Christoph Waltz), who is best at injecting a funny temperament into the villain, even the person who is good at getting the Oscar actor, this time reversed the face of a villain.
Because of the plot layout problem, his image is too flat, and the cuckoo story of revenge sounds too unbelievable. Compared with the hatred of Javier Baden due to betrayal in the previous episode, his hatred is more like a The child's anger is not like what the gang boss does.
4. Monica Bellucci became the oldest Bond girl at the age of 51. Many scenes in the film deliberately imitate the scenes in "The Beautiful Legend of Sicily".
6. Others:
1. The film was shot with 35mm film old-fashioned, without digitalization.
2. The film shares many of the same locations as "007: Life at Dawn", including Tangier in Morocco, London and Austria.
3. This is the first Bond movie to start with a gun since "007 Die Another Day" in 2002. "Casino Royale" (2006) is the gun barrel fragment used after the opening, while "Skyfall Crisis" (2012) and "Quantum Crisis" (2008) are the gun barrel fragments used at the end of the film.
4. The film seriously exceeded the budget and became the most expensive Bond film, costing more than 300 million US dollars. The final cost is approximately US$350 million. Previously, the most expensive Bond film was "007: Breaking the Quantum Crisis" in 2008, which cost about 200 million to 250 million US dollars.
5. The Mexican hotel in the opening scene is called Gran Hotel Ciudad de México, and Bond has been there in "License to Kill".
Summary: Sam Mendes’ path of innovation has revived the 007 series, but this episode did not allow us to end watching the movie very happily.
Popcorn a little bit more, don't be too literary.
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