Just looking at the poster of this film, it seems that there is really a little inspirational meaning-the three American partners stand under the stars and stripes, looking like they are ready to realize their "American Dream". It's just that, unlike "Chinese Partners", through the display of the entrepreneurial history of three Chinese gentlemen, it fiercely pokes the G-spot of a male audience like me and stimulates everyone's sympathy for the realization of the Chinese dream. This new film by Michael Bay is a borrowed one. The story of three American gentlemen almost spoiled the American dream.
Michael Bay, who temporarily withdrew from the family's "Transformers" series, can finally play in this R-rated film unscrupulously regardless of his bottom line. Transformers from one to three, it feels like the heroine's close-up shots, and the director's shooting methods are becoming more and more awkward-look at what it takes to hold the child. This time we can finally shake our hands and have a big deal-dew point if you want to dew point, send as soon as you want it, spit blood if you want to squirt, or swear if you want to swear. Michael Bay is a very good commercial film director. He can make great commercial films even with his eyes closed-but the audience still doesn't think highly of him, because everyone feels that he really has been making movies with his eyes closed, anyway. He probably just cocked his ears to hear if there was enough explosives. According to his own statement, this new film is going to have the taste of "Pulp Fiction", but after watching it, I feel that apart from the scale, other things feel that it is far from "Pulp Fiction". But this "far apart" has no directionality, and both movies are very exciting. Of course, maybe this new film will blur in my memory faster, but it doesn't affect my affirmation of its entertainment. Every director has a different style. If you really want to use other people's successful cases as a reference, the feeling of shooting may be very different. For a less demanding audience like me, as long as the director embellishes a wonderful story with interesting details, I am satisfied-I think the director of the film has overfulfilled the task in this regard. If you insist on saying which old movie the film is like, I think it is more similar to "Two Smokers". Of course, this film does not have the bold and distinctive style of Quentin or Gerich, but a standardized commercial film that seems to be completed strictly in accordance with the Hollywood film production process-or it can be said that the production techniques of entertainment commercial films are integrated and integrated. Playing to the extreme is in itself the strongest personal style of Michael Bay.
Speaking of the interesting details in this film, there are countless, the first 20 minutes are not too exciting, but from the beginning of the protagonist planning the robbery, it is basically full of energy. My personal favorite is the scene at the wedding. Rebel’s speech here is a bit of Quentin’s chattering feeling. Among them is this sentence, she said Anthony McKay "is my fresh prince of Bel Air". The story in the film took place in 1995. That year happened to be when Michael Bay made his debut in the film world, and it was also the first time that he and Will Smith collaborated on "The Men of the Jedi". Nearly twenty years have passed. The new film director of that year has already become a world famous guide that any audience who loves to watch commercial blockbusters cannot ignore with the three "Transformers", and the fresh prince of that year has long been crowned as "Emperor." In recent years, he has devoted himself to cultivating the prince of his own family. I guess that during the filming of this film, the director should have also brought back many youthful memories. Anthony McKay happens to be the second black male star in Hollywood besides Will Smith, who makes me feel handsome and extraordinary. Here, Will’s nickname is used to affirm the appearance of Anthony’s characters in the play. In this way Connecting two black male stars I like makes me feel that there is a little surprise in the cleverness. However, this little black brother is mostly a green leaf now, and I hope he will have a clearer star after joining the Avengers series.
Before returning to the movie's theme "American Dream", I want to make a digression. One of the most disturbing scenes I watched in the movie was the one where three people tried various methods to kill Pepe. At first it was all kinds of funny, but when Dashi Johnson drove over Pepe’s face, I really couldn’t laugh. I can particularly feel the contradiction and panic in this character's heart at the time. Although I haven't [beep] before (really [beep] and it’s impossible to come here to admit it...), I have had many similar dreams. For example, I dreamed of sneaking into a friend’s house to steal something. Then he was hit by his father, and then he lost his hand and killed him. At that time, I felt panic and helpless, as well as a sense of disillusionment. After waking up from the dream, he took a long breath, but fortunately it was just a false alarm. When I was young, I watched too many martial arts stories, and I often imagined the kind of "killing one person in ten steps, never staying for a thousand miles." After dreams, I am scared. It can be seen from this that although dreams are mysterious and interesting, they are often very complicated and even dangerous. Under the guidance of dreams, some people created the reverberation of life; some people were misled by absurd dreams, such as the three in the film.
In fact, at the end of the film, the narration that Daniel wore when he was sentenced to prison was a bit disappointed for me to hear. I was thinking that if they were allowed to escape by chance, maybe their American dream would really come true, and they could really contribute to transforming the United States into a better place. After Daniel took over Pepe’s assets, Neighbors and shop assistants were full of praise for him. He should be doing a lot better than Peppa. It is a pity that when the protagonists are complacent about their dreams, they ignore the real biggest resistance, and that is their stupidity. When God wants to give you, he may do it in any way you can’t imagine—for example, the hungry immigrants who took the Mayflower to the American continent that year saw them as manifestations of God after being aided by the Indians. When I was young, I thought this was ridiculous, but now I can understand it from their perspective. Similarly, when God wants to take something out of your hands, he will use any way you can or cannot imagine—for example, using human stupidity, or greed, or something else. Everyone is a container, and God will inject luck, ability, wealth, etc. into it, and once He feels that this container is inappropriate, just push it gently, and the contents will be spilled out. In particular, the God mentioned here does not specifically refer to the gods of a certain religion. The specific meaning varies from person to person.
I often see my peers complaining about social injustice, my family background is not good enough, it makes my life very difficult, and the extreme ones will even curse those X second generations. In fact, for those born with a golden key, if their equipment is not worth what they have, they will lose these things that should not belong to them sooner or later; if they themselves are worthy of what they have Everything, then why are we jealous? Many people who hate the rich often owe them so much when they should work hard. For example, as Pepe said in the film, "Because you have never gone to college," we should be fucking in the heavens. Not admitted to a good university—for these people, even if someone comes out to rob the rich and help the poor, they will be given a large sum of money for no reason. At their level, I am afraid that they will soon be defeated.
Three characters representing success in terms of wealth appeared in the movie. The first one is Pepe who was robbed. This image is a bit special. He is similar to the role of the Venetian merchant Sherlock or Eugenie Grandet. Rich, but it's hard for people to like it, and it doesn't serve as a role model for ordinary people like us. The other is the little pornographic prince who was very unlucky to be killed. Although his character is not as weird as the previous one, but the origin of the money is not very correct. If he was a good, well-behaved kind, how could he be targeted by the stupid big rock Johnson. Another is Johnny Wu, who sells Dali pills. Now he wants to laugh as long as he sees Ken Zheng's face, even if he is not funny sometimes. The inspirational stories filmed by Tianchao are inevitably black and black, and the reverse is also the same. Johnny Wu's character should be of Chinese descent from the name, which probably reflects the views of some native Americans, especially whites, on Chinese immigrants-those successful Chinese are big fools. In addition, at the end of the film, the corpse was divided, and the quality of my Datian Dynasty products was darkened. Similar passages were also found in Nolan's Dark Knight back then. At that time, I was still young and energetic, and I was quite aggrieved about it. Now I look back and feel completely indifferent. In fact, Americans are not stupid. As long as our goods are of good quality and low price, the people will buy them as long as these Hollywood movies come out.
In fact, there is still one positive textbook about the American Dream in the film, which is the detective played by Ed Harris. I retired at an age when I was able to run, jump, and had a good ear. I had a big house by the sea. I had nothing to play golf. I could plant flowers and plants at home. I could accompany my wife to the supermarket to buy things and eat together at home every day. Not everyone has to climb to the top, to appreciate the kind of loneliness that will succeed. For the general public, no matter which country they come from, this is probably the most reliable and pleasant dream to dream.
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