The mood is low, just like the weather outside: a storm is coming. Just went to watch "Battle LA" in the evening. The day before yesterday was a major earthquake in Japan, and yesterday was a nuclear power explosion in Japan.
People will worry about things that sometimes they may find themselves inexplicable; however, at a certain time, they will be afraid of those things. Yesterday my wife told me that clouds of nuclear radiation pollution would float over, and I was still comforting her not to worry about these things that we cannot change. But now I, while feeling ridiculous, at the same time worrying: Will some day aliens come to attack the earth?
Yes, I have admitted the absurdity myself. Even if it's not ridiculous, I know that it's not my turn to worry about it. I am not the brave US Navy in the movie. A small team finally solved the alien enemy’s lair; and this is based on their own analysis of the enemy's situation, making judgments and making up their minds.
The film follows the path of traditional Hollywood blockbusters as always: good-looking pictures, usual special effects, old-fashioned plots, and heroic characters. The trailer of this film is very well done, and the commercial promotion is also very successful. It made me remember the release date of 03-11-11 when I watched the trailer for the first time at the end of last year. This will be a film that will entice me to go to the cinema to pay to watch it, but I also know that this will definitely not be a film that will be affirmed at the Oscars next year.
The first is that the characterization of this film is too Hollywood theme style. The characters are created by Gao Daquan, and his lines resemble a US military conscription advertisement. Before the film’s final climax "attack the enemy’s old lair", there was a recurring segment in Hollywood movies of the same type: the navy soldiers covered ordinary people and finally boarded the helicopters that came to rescue, and they could evacuate safely. . After the plane took off, the temporary team leader played by Eckhart discovered the enemy’s old cave, and then resolutely gave up the opportunity to evacuate, slid down the rope from the helicopter to the ground, and prepared to brave the enemy’s cave alone. . After that, his teammates all came down one by one and stood with him. If you want to fight side by side, there must be a female soldier in it! A more classic segment is that before leaving the plane, the team leader handed over the last relic of a civilian who had been sacrificed to him to his wife to another civilian who was preparing to evacuate; at this time there will be a close-up, the captain is full Looking at the other person trustingly, he asked firmly: Can you...The
other is that the whole clue of the story is actually nothing new. There is no doubt that mankind will win the final victory. Alien robots will drive humans to a dead end of complete extinction at first, and humans will find that they have no power to fight back. Then when everything seemed to be irreversible, Los Angeles had been completely destroyed, and many parts of the earth had begun to be attacked, human beings displayed their thinking instincts, began to study alien creatures, and finally found their fate. Thereby turning the situation step by step. . . In the end, the enemy's complex and huge lair was completely destroyed by a US military missile, and the laser guide was extremely simple. Sometimes I think that if Hollywood is making a football-themed movie, it must be behind the opponent 0:4 in the first half, and then the team’s coach or leader of the team stepped up in the midfield and gave an inspiring speech. The second half After the start, the team launched a fierce offensive as if they had all been updated, and finally scored the fifth goal before the midfield whistle, and defeated the opponent with a 5:4 goal. . .
What's more terrible is a common problem of this kind of science fiction war action disaster film: too many details can not withstand a little scrutiny. Two soldiers can use the sights on the roof to watch the extraterrestrial monsters killing wildly, but they can safely not be attacked. On the viaduct, humans and aliens fought fiercely, and the children next to them could actually follow the ropes to withdraw from the viaduct to a safe area. The entire Los Angeles has been destroyed. There are few human traces. The American soldiers can actually watch CNN news through the computer network in a broken house: and the reporters on the TV can actually shoot the most precious images of aliens in the rain of bullets. . . . In fact, these injuries will make the ending of humans defeating alien monsters in this movie less credible. In contrast, the scene where aliens beat humans into a mess is relatively real.
Of course, all these problems can be ignored. Such a commercial blockbuster hit the scene in 2012 when it was on the cusp of the big earthquake in Japan. It originally had no expectations for winning, and now it has more reason to focus on box office earnings.
In fact, if the film was set in Tokyo, Japan, and named Battle Tokyo, and it was released on March 11, it is estimated that the box office now has exceeded 100 million. However, in that case, the distributor may need to engage in fundraising activities in response to the situation, or directly donate some box office to the disaster area; of course, it may be opposed by some netizens, and finally the entire movie cannot be released normally.
Reminiscent of the great earthquake in Japan that just occurred and the threat of nuclear radiation caused by it, this film really gave me a heavy heart. The scenes of aliens' attacks on Los Angeles that were created at the beginning of the film are indeed realistic and extremely shocking. The ferocity of the alien attack and the heavy human casualties have caused many young Americans in the cinema who were chirping and eating popcorn at first to quiet down. Whenever there is dead silence in the movie, the whole theater is really silent. A few decades ago, aliens causing disasters to humans may be a complete joke, but today, after disaster theory is very popular, and humans have experienced more frequent natural disasters, it is difficult for many people to be pure An entertaining mindset looks at the nightmare mentioned in the film.
Everyone is worried, what if these will become true someday? Human mentality has been truly affected by real disasters.
A detail in the film says that alien monsters search for human traces through communication signals: Eckhart also used this discovery to successfully lead the monsters to the gas station and detonate them. This screenwriter makes me feel quite innovative. Of course, he is not an independent creation of the film producer himself. I remember that Hawking said before that humans should abandon attempts to find alien creatures by various methods, including communication waves, because this may bring disasters to humans. A background that is not mentioned in the movie but has been clearly implied is that these alien monsters follow the communication signals released by humans to track down to the earth.
The monsters in the film use water as fuel, which explains why they chose the earth: because the earth is the only planet that humans can explore currently that contains water as a substance. Although water is not the fuel of choice in an oxygen-filled environment like the earth, it is possible for alien monsters to adapt to their independent environment and even have their unique chemical principles.
The alien monsters in this film are still made of metal mechanical structures, which are probably the two most common types of alien life images in Hollywood, similar to the kind of biological material aliens in ET. In fact, this is probably due to the need to visualize the role of the film.
If there is an extraterrestrial life, it can be of various sizes, materials, and energy consumption methods. It may not even be visible to the naked eye, and it may not necessarily satisfy human beings regarding biological "self-renewal." And reproduction. I remember that there was a movie about alien life as a virus that can infect humans. This is quite creative.
The alien nest in the film was obviously inspired by "The Ninth District", and even the image is so similar, especially at the moment of flight. The previous cartoon "Monsters vs. Aliens" also had a similar design. This shows that in the hearts of Hollywood and even most Americans, if aliens do attack in the future, they will probably take advantage of a similar thing.
In general, Battle LA is a war film dressed in a disaster film, which fits the current fear of various disasters.
As a commercial blockbuster of entertainment, no one expects it to tell any in-depth meaning; but if humans can gain even a little confidence in dealing with all possible future, even a little bit of confidence in the continuous entertainment design of future disasters If there is a seemingly absurd experience or a pre-plan, then no matter how many stars or prizes this type of movie can get, they are all worth it!
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