But it turns out that Cameron may not be able to save face by saying that in front of the camera. The media's various admiration is probably the benefit of the publisher, and Schwarzenegger's fourth experience of playing the T-800 may even be his own. also want to forget.
Its story goes like this: John Connor led humanity to lead the human army against Skynet in 2029, and Skynet, who saw that it was about to fall short, used their ultimate weapon, a time machine, to send a T-800 robot to travel back in time. By 1984, an attempt was made to kill John Connor's mother, Sarah Connor. Not to be outdone, the humans immediately dispatched another general, Kyle Reese, to return to 1984 to protect Sarah. As everyone knows, this year 1984 is not the other year 1984. Sarah has already formed a faction with the T-800, carrying a machine gun to deal with the liquid robot T-1000 together. After solving T-1000, Kyle, who had not yet figured out the situation, was ordered to go to 2017 with Sarah to organize the formation of Skynet. Unexpectedly, former comrade John Connor has been waiting for a long time this year, but he has been brainwashed into a newer robot to help Skynet. Since then, a three-on-one battle has begun, and of course, unsurprisingly, mankind has won the final victory.
It is not difficult to see from the outline of the plot that the bridges or ideas that have appeared in the first four films, such as "time and space travel" and "machine war", have appeared again in this one. Like the liquid robot T-1000, which once showed off its might in the second part, the creation of this character amazes the audience both technically and artistically, but in this part, it is just a cutscene; the human army and The head-to-head confrontation of Skynet's machine army was the main content in the fourth volume, and it also appeared in this one, although it was only an introduction. The third installment of the "Terminator" series has been criticized for lack of creativity. In order not to repeat the same mistakes, the main creators have come up with a new trick: a new breed of machine villains, "higher, faster, and higher than the T-1000". Stronger" not to mention, he still changed from John Connor; one time crossing is not enough, and one more time crossing; Sarah Connor and Kyle Reese are not in love; T-800 grows white hair.
But what can these new tricks do? No use for anything other than making it feel like a simmering hodgepodge. With the proliferation of CG technology, it has long been impossible to use special effects to win the market. The important reason why audiences like Hollywood is because of its endless creativity and endless dreams. Time and space travel again and again, and a hail of bullets after another, can't cover up the emptiness of the movie itself.
1. Character settings
There is no new idea, and there is a tendency to regress. When Cameron first established the "Terminator" series, he set a basic theme for the series, that is, to express feminism under the cloak of science fiction. Whether Sarah Connor was on the run with Kyle Reese in the first film, or took her son to fight the T-800 in the second film, she is the protagonist of this series is unquestionable. The women under Cameron's lens have strength, intelligence and distinct personalities, from Sigourney Weaver in "Alien 2" to Kate Winslet in "Titanic"; From Jamie Lee Curtis in "Lies" to Zoe Saldana in "Avatar", these various female characters of concentration and beauty have attracted batch after batch of female characters. of male and female viewers went to watch. You may remember these films for the ups and downs of the plot, but you can never ignore the female characters who are active in them. However, after Cameron gave up directing the next "Terminator", Sarah Connor did not appear in the third and fourth films. In the fifth film now, Sarah Connor has become a complete Soldier image without personality. All we can see is that she picks up the machine gun again and again and bickers with Kyle Reese again and again. Apart from that, we have no way to know more about her heart, her love for her son, Her tenacity to resist reality and her desire to live are completely absent in this film.
The T-800 played by Schwarzenegger was originally a very attractive character. In the second part, his cold but kind character even stole Sarah Connor's limelight. In this part, the gray-haired Schwarzenegger looks a little less grim, and the style without sunglasses also makes people feel that the combat effectiveness has dropped a lot. When filming "Terminator 2", Schwarzenegger and Cameron had a heated argument about whether the T-800 could kill civilians. Cameron insisted not to let the T-800 move in order to make him more popular with the audience. A single human hair. On the other hand, in this one, the T-800 shoots on the road at every turn, and it is destroyed everywhere. In addition, coupled with the obvious reduction of Schwarzenegger's scenes in this film, there are more and more cold jokes in the lines... In other words, this is not a T-800 at all, it is just a brain that is not very flexible. , A taciturn cold-blooded warrior. A sentence of "I'll be back" can't save the fact that things are right and wrong.
Jay Courtney's Kyle Reese, who hasn't appeared in an adult version in the previous films, can't be compared, but this time it's pretty generic. Whether in "Die Hard 5" or "Divergent", the characters he creates are always brave and emotional, and they are quite flat characters. It was a big mistake to cast him as the protagonist in "Terminator 5".
Jason Clarke mainly played the role of a more powerful villain, but the idea of this villain is really a change of soup, and it is completely copied from the liquid setting of the T-1000. Compared with the impact of T-1000 on movie fans in the past, this version of the villain robot is too mediocre. Although it has more powerful strength, it does not make the audience feel that it is much more difficult to solve him than to solve T-1000. The chilling temperament of the T-1000.
2. Story content and structure After
careful analysis of the story and composition of the entire film, it can be found that it is just a work that gathers the essence of the previous films and wants to stand but fails to stand on the shoulders of giants. Here, I will first disassemble the whole film into the following parts:
Part 1: Human Army and Skynet confrontation (0′54″-19′20″)
Part 2: Kyle Rees travels to 1984 and Sarah Connor and T-800 reunite to fight against T-1000 (19′21″-51′40″)
Part 3: Sarah Connor and Kyle Reese travel to 2017 to determine John Connor Na has become a villain (51′41″-70′25″)
Part 4: The trio against the villain (70′26″-114′45″)
Part 5: The ending (114′46″-117′55 ")
What is certain is that the first and second parts are explaining the relationship between the background and characters, the third and fourth parts are the core of the story, and the fourth part is also the climax of the story. The duration of these four parts is about 19, 32, 19, and 44 minutes, respectively. It is not difficult to see that the last two parts are only about 12 minutes longer as the core than the first two parts as a foreshadowing, and the plot arrangement has the flaw of "top-heavy and foot-heavy". After watching it, many viewers thought it was flat, without breaking points, and it seemed that it was over without saying anything. The reason, I think is mainly the second part of the problem.
In the second part, Kyle Reese was chased by the liquid robot T-1000 as soon as he arrived in 1984, and was then rescued by Sarah Connor and T-800. After some hard work, he defeated T-1000. In the play, this part should reflect the obstacles of the story, gradually make it conflict with the desire of the protagonist, and then enter the next stage, and if the final ending of the story is a happy opening, this part is also common sense. Is to give the protagonist a strong blow to make it taste the taste of failure. But we can see that in this paragraph, although T-1000 is powerful, it does not pose any substantial threat to a few people, and it was easily solved by a few people. The only reason for its existence seems to be Sarah Kang. "We can't leave any future technology behind before we leave" when he was about to travel back to 2017. First of all, this is unreasonable in terms of story logic, and secondly, it is also quite irresponsible at the level of drama. In order to make up for the gaps in the story and fill in the gaps in time, using special effects to form a series of series does not help the narrative. fight scenes to confuse the audience. Taking a step back, if you have to make up the time, why use a T-1000 that is so similar to the more powerful robot that will appear next?
Let's talk about the fourth part. After reading this part, I always felt a little panic in my heart. After thinking about it for a long time, I finally came up with two reasons. When a similar robot appears again, I can't help but feel aesthetic fatigue; the second is a more deadly problem. Where is the terminator? It's just a normal science fiction movie.
The reason why a classic film is popular is due to its inner spirit and soul, and the series of films need to focus on this. As for the spirit and soul, the bigger one is reflected in the creator's style, and the smaller one is reflected in the most intuitive environment, props, characters, light, color, etc. in the film. Without Cameron's Terminator, there is still a little temperament in the third part, because the environment and characterization are more accurately transplanted. And in the fifth part, the once claustrophobic streets, the dark lights, the motorcycles and leather jackets, the beggars and hippies on the side of the road... become a cutscene, and what was thrown away was thrown away. Instead, there are gun battles, car chases, and explosions that have been filmed countless times in American blockbusters. A movie without spirit and soul is terrible, and a sequel without spirit and soul is even more terrible. It's terrifying as it's a shiny mink coat on the outside, but rotting skin and bones on the inside.
Therefore, it is indeed a pity to see that the "Terminator" series, which once fell in love with the movie because of it, is now beyond recognition. There's no question that this series will go on and on because it's so famous, it's so influential, and it makes so much money. Creators know that as long as Hollywood is around and the Terminator doesn't die, fans will go to the cinema one after another. The story of Skynet and humans will continue to repeat, and the time device, which is Skynet's ultimate weapon, will continue to run, but they know that the story of "Terminator" doesn't need to be as complicated as time travel. As long as the feelings are still there, it's enough. .
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