Maybe this is a fan's nightmare.

Randall 2022-03-23 09:01:23

When I just finished watching this movie, I thought I could give it 5 stars, but it's actually quite a lovely movie. If you just look at the movie itself, it satisfies all my requirements for a retro spy film. If it wasn't for the uncle's TV in the 1960s after watching it, I would probably give this movie five stars.
However, after watching a few episodes of the TV version and thinking about the movie, I actually recalled the sour feeling when I first saw the Great Rot series as a fan of the original Sherlock Holmes series. When I could not help but put myself in the uncle bureau After the mentality of the fans of the secret agent TV series... I suddenly feel very distressed for those who have the same disease as I used to be.
In fact, there are still many scenes in the movie that pay tribute to the TV series. For example, the scene where illya is good at picking clothes for girls may be the plot setting of the costume designer after the TV version of illya retired. So the director is still very sincere.
However, I believe that not every fan of the original book can accept that the short and sharp young man in the TV series who is full of contrasts and cuteness becomes a big man who seems to be not very good at words. Although this setting is also very good, but if I were If you are a fan of the original book, seeing this leap from a doll to a bear, you will probably be stunned. Moreover, the character of illya in the tv version, who will die if he doesn't complain, doesn't look like he was born in a family where his father is a traitor. Well, at least the difference that he's a fighting race doesn't seem like much. In comparison, the solo has not changed so much. He is a little more exaggerated than before, and his mouth is a little quicker. But black history or something... still makes people want to complain.
After thinking about it carefully, this movie just hits the point where most of the remakes are dissatisfied with the original fans. Change the character of the protagonist, the appearance of the actor does not match the original character, add a black history to the original character, add a new nickname to the original character, add an original character, and add love scenes to the popular supporting characters who have never been in love, so that the harmony in the original can no longer be There are conflicts within the protagonist group of Harmony (these problems can be found in many fairy sword TV series produced by the Tang Dynasty). Thinking of this, I suddenly feel that if there are double fans of the original work, maybe they will think that the setting of the big rot is more reliable than it.
In fact, this is still a very good movie. It is understandable to abandon some of the settings of the original work and put new wine in old bottles, and there are definitely many highlights in the movie that are worth appreciating. However, the reason why I didn't get five stars in the end was actually because, I don't know why, I was exposed to movies first, but after watching a few episodes of the 1960s TV series with simple black and white style, I found that when I thought of solo and illya again At that time, what I think of is not the image in the movie, but the handsome and confident smiling gentleman standing behind the bulletproof glass in the TV series and the blond boy standing beside him with a serious face but full of endless grooves in his heart.
Sure enough, there was a reason why the TV series was so popular in the United States back then.


Finally, what about open channel D?

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The Man from U.N.C.L.E. quotes

  • Illya Kuryakin: [as Solo cracks a safe] Did you disable the alarm?

    Napoleon Solo: There's no alarm on the 307.

    [alarm immediately begins wailing]

    Illya Kuryakin: ...Loving your work, Cowboy.