Author: I also want to dance. I spent 90 minutes of movie ticket money to watch a half-hour black-and-white tomb robbery scene, still in 3D.
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Although I haven't played the original game of "Tomb Raider", before watching "Tomb Raider: Battle of the Origin", in order to do my homework, the author deliberately made up for two old versions starring Angelina Jolie. . I thought that the new version would be better than the version starring Julie, because the old version was really worthless except for Jolie's temperament, figure and skill, and the new version is said to focus on portraying Laura's growth. The old version is better. As a result, the author guessed half right - it was better than "Tomb Raider 2" back then, but that was because 2 was almost made into a Hong Kong police and bandit movie...
If a movie based on a popular computer game is to be profitable in the market, at least it has to impress gamers. After all, this movie first satisfies the player's imagination of the game movie. Similarly, to analyze the film adaptation of this game, at least first understand the content of the game. Well, let's take a look at the synopsis of the original game "Tomb Raider 9":
Laura of "Tomb Raider 9" is just a 21-year-old girl who just stepped out of school. When she was young, Laura accompanied her parents to various archaeological teams. When she grew up and graduated from Cambridge University, she decided to put aside the old literature and the musty library and embark on an adventure of her own. Bewilderment about her deceased father and thirst for adventure prompted Laura and her classmate Sammantha to board the Endurance, bound for the ancient country of Yamatai...
Look, there is the influence of family affection, the company of friendship, coupled with the realistic characters in the game, the real survival adventure, and the right fantasy levels, it is obviously to create a game as a movie! But the live-action version is better, cutting off a classmate, forcibly "resurrecting" his father and then making him up to death, not to mention changing the ancient tomb of Yamatai, which was full of wonders and historical origins, into the simplest scientific phenomenon. If the player wants to send a blade to the screenwriter, just do it. The screenwriter's resume may have the famous "Transformers 5: The Last Knight", "Snow White and the Hunter", "Ninja Turtles: Age of Mutants"...
Even if the audience is not a player, I don't know what car accident-level movie plots the screenwriter has created. Just watching the movie plots still has a lot of slots. The first two-thirds of the film talks about too many passages that have nothing to do with Laura, the tomb robbery, and the main line of the story - even if you want to show Laura's all-round intelligence, body, beauty and labor, fighting, cycling, and catching thieves are the same choices. ? After going to the island, I struggled back and forth for a long time, finally entered the ancient tomb, and simplified many levels in order to achieve the result of scientific explanation (is it necessary to compromise so much for the Chinese market? You are a Japanese ancient tomb)! It's okay to turn my dad into a passerby, but in order to sublimate Laura's consciousness, he actually forced his dad to die... Hey, after the launch of Nolan's reboot of the Batman series, Warners is keen to play bitter cards for the classic IP. , "Superman: Man of Steel" allows Superman to comprehend all living beings through his dead father and become a hero of salvation; "Peter Pan: Dream Sail" allows Peter Pan to become a friend of justice by facing the reality of his dead mother; "Wonder Woman" "Man" and "The Clown's Soul" (although I like this film a lot)... Counting this "Tomb Raider: Battle of the Origin", "Dead Parents" is about to become a feature of Warner's reboot of the classic movie project .
In contrast, the heroines and directors who worry fans and players the most have become bright spots. Alicia Vikander has been criticized by most fans and players for her body "only muscles, no curves". Fortunately, in the film, a large number of extreme sports scenes did not stumped her. It seems that the bodybuilding body is not Bai Lian, and she only needs a few acting skills to complete Laura's transformation from a young sister to a mature woman, which can also be considered to fill the screenwriter's slack in character creation. The author has not seen the previous works of Norwegian director Roar Usogg, and I don’t know if it is really as bad as the online reviews, but at least “Tomb Raider: Battle of the Origin” still reflects a little sincerity. , several key scenes can be considered to restore the scenes in the game as much as possible, except for the dark tomb scene, basically as his first Hollywood work, it can be considered a pass. To put it bluntly, without their efforts, "Tomb Raider: The Battle of the Origin" would be useless, even Daniel Wu in the film is just a walking fan magnet.
"Tomb Raider" was originally put on the big screen, largely to make Angelina Jolie popular. It only needs Jolie to fully show her perfect figure and put on a cool pose with action scenes. Speaking of box office just come. But the situation is different now. Political correctness’s restrictions on various sensory-stimulating gimmicks test the content quality of mainstream entertainment films. Without qualified content, the market response of entertainment films will not have the most basic guarantee, let alone the stars. Moreover, "Tomb Raider" has not released a new version of the game in recent years. The only people who will pay special attention to the dynamics of the film are players and fans who complain about the girl's figure. Looking forward to the sequel? It's better to expect the new movie version of "Ghost Blowing the Lamp" to be more reliable.
In the end, with emotion, most players and fans, like the author, do not want to see a Laura who has become sensible and responsible because of her father's death. Her growth should be completed through various thrilling environments, complex human nature and the test of her own ideological struggle in the adventure. Her family mission made her destined to be accompanied by strong winds and waves, and it was these strong winds and waves that sharpened Laura's will and tempered her character. In the long run, there will be the unique and charming "Tomb Raider" Laura that we are familiar with. pull.
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