"24 Hours: Rebirth at the End": The Rebirth and Fortune of the Redemption Heart of "Fury Road"
At first glance at "24 Hours", it is unavoidable that it is easy to associate it with the famous American drama before, and I thought that there would be an "extra story" after many years, but "24 Hours: Rebirth" is completely a new hot piece. The action movie tells the story of professional killer Travis who learns of the shocking conspiracy of the transnational criminal organization "Red Mountain". Travis, who was originally going to kill Interpol Lin, decides to use his only 24 hours of life to attack the organization. The story of "Old Nest".
Although it is very similar to the story of the flood of American action films at the end of the 20th century, this time it was directed by Brian Smoots and led by Ethan Hawke and Xu Qing. The story shoots a new tone of "emphasis on both civil and military", adding a little "science fiction element" appropriately to refresh our audience's horizons again. Because pure action films seem to be outdated, but since the beginning of the 21st century, there are still many action films that have opened up some freshness on the road of stylization.
First of all, the selection of Ethan Hawke in this film makes people shine. Although he is nearly half a hundred years old, I personally feel that his plasticity should be no less than that of Guy Pearce and Ewan McGregor. A male star with good acting skills. Most people are used to positioning him from "Dead Poets Society" or "Love Trilogy", but in fact, the more dazzling ones should be completely different types of "Training Day", "Mobile Killing" and "King of War", although he obviously It is to set off the rivalry for several stars, but it is very eye-catching in several films. Especially "Training Day", Denzel Washington won the Oscar for leading actor. And Ethan Hawke plays the "trained" rookie in the police world. If there is no Ethan Hawke's excellent collocation, he will completely become Denzel Washington singing a one-man show. I believe the charm of this film will be greatly reduced.
It is precisely because of Ethan Hawke's outstanding acting skills that he can handle both good and evil characters. In this "Rebirth", he played the professional killer Travis. Based on his own emotional trauma, he faced Xu Qing's single mother for the sake of her son. , able to awaken the hidden warmth in his heart. His "anti-water behavior" showed convincing acting skills, and then worked together with Xu Qing to complete revenge, rescue relatives, prevent conspiracy, and sublimate the inner emotional value of the characters with hot and exciting action scenes. Travis completes a killer's "24 hours" redemption.
Ethan Hawke's temperament is different from that of Jason Statham and other actors who were early stereotyped as "action stars". Although a simple and rude revenge drama can turn the audience up, the routine plot design can easily make the movie pale and tasteless. . "The Last Rebirth" attempts to inject some reasonable and reasonable momentum into those fighting and killing, so that the scenes serve the plot. So, at the beginning of the movie, the focus was on explaining the characters. The beach and bar scenes highlighted the characteristics of his professional killer, and also explained the family background.
Lin, who is dealing with Interpol, a transnational criminal organization "Red Mountain", has a similar background to Travis, and also implies that it is reasonable to cooperate with Travis in the future, although the plausible aspects It seems far-fetched, but it makes sense. However, the highlight of Xu Qing's role as Interpol is obviously the trend of "beating women" that is already very popular in the world today. Xu Qing had previously performed brilliantly in the sci-fi action movie "Ring Messenger", and further participated in the battle in "The Last Rebirth" and completed a large number of action scenes.
Similar to Ethan Hawke, Xu Qing's previous film and television dramas tended to focus on "gentle lady", and her masterpiece was "Coming and Going" 20 years ago. Almost at the same time, Zhang Jizhong's first Jin Yong drama "Swordsman", Playing the role of Ren Yingying, the god of the sun and the moon, she has begun to try action scenes, but she still maintains the dignified temperament of a lady. When the "Envoy of the Ring" went international, the image began to change, just like the hutong female chatterbox in "Old Pao'er".
"The Last Rebirth" plays Lin, a female criminal police officer. At the beginning, she escorted important witnesses in South Africa to prepare a confession. She explained some secrets of the villain criminal organization "Red Mountain". She was ambushed on the road. Impressive.
From the appearance of the action scenes in "The Last Rebirth", it is actually not difficult to see that the reason why Xu Qing and Ethan Hawke were chosen to be partners are roughly the same. Travis performed the last "24 hours of his life". ", to "clean up" the dark past of his previous life. As a killer, he has a lot of life and debt. He is not a "good person" in the normal sense. His wife and children died in an accident, and he knew that he only had "24 hours" left in his life. He also didn't think he could be reunited with his wife and children after his death. He said to his father-in-law that "I don't have a soul."
Xu Qing's affection for her son is another reference for Travis. The two have a rich inner world. They are both antagonistic and cooperative. They have their own stories and can complement and correspond to each other. Their revenge and redemption are routines. Under the hot Hollywood scene, although life has an end and an end, the inner spirit of the characters can be reborn because of this.
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