Acrimony

Percy 2021-11-18 08:01:26

In 2000, Ang Lee's "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" made the Chinese style popular for a while. In 2001, "Rush Hour 2" became popular with the east wind, but this year's sequel 3 came out but lost the limelight. The box office was not as good as that of the year. Quickly, newspapers and magazines are overly commenting. Most of the comments were very harsh on director Brett Ratner, saying that he ruined "X-Men 3" and then "Rush Hour 3". It's very interesting to see these comments, because the "Rush Hour" series has always been a bit acrimonious but cleverly sarcastic, and the resulting comments and feedback are in the same vein as the acrimony of the film.

Some commentators in the United States were very dissatisfied with the film where Chris Tucker pointed a gun at the French taxi driver and forced the driver to sing the American national anthem. They believed that the director was promoting violence and finding a good reason for violence, which was very disgusting. When I watched this paragraph, I couldn't laugh. This kind of joke feels a little bit despicable, and it's totally different from the overall feeling. A black actor plays the patriot, but the role of the patriot is to blatantly do something harmful to the image of the country in the movie. The black is the actor and the director is the white. Bright Ratner is also a discriminated white, Jewish, but some of the problems he reveals in the film are offensive. Jews and blacks are different. Blacks have a long history of integrating into the United States. They have made many struggles and sacrifices for equality. This is different from Jews. The Jews were taken in by the United States during World War II, and then the United States provided money to help Jews invade Arabia. , The impact of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has continued to the present. The gratitude of an American Jew for the country’s performance is such an anti-world ideological trend, with a violent color, let a black man express it, and it feels uncomfortable to look at it. But after regurgitating the opening episode, I changed my mind again. I understood the protagonist as being praised by the director because most humans are too narcissistic and easily attracted to the protagonist. In fact, the director is mocking the United States through the protagonist’s police status. World police. Don’t think I’m anti-Semitism. I like Spielberg and Polanski very much.

Polanski starred in this film as a French policeman, which is very funny. He stepped on the glorious image of the policeman through exaggerated performances, reminiscent of his real life experience. The "Rush Hour" series has always relied on jokes to win, the action is no better than other movies, and the overall conception of the shooting method is also regular and old-fashioned. The hot jokes in "Rush Hour 2" have little wit, and the cold jokes are also quite interesting. Seeing Zhang Ziyi go wherever he goes, he must give someone a bomb with a cold face and think of Lele in "The Smurfs". When it comes to "Rush Hour 3", I feel that the Chinese characters in it have lost the limelight in the previous film. The beginning of the film started with black actors. Jackie Chan and Ambassador Han sat in the car funny. Ambassador Han said inexplicably, "We are making history." The next shot is the ass of two white girls, and the white girl in the car yells. With "nonsense", the narrative "nonsense" is to Tucker, a funny policeman. Ambassador Han was shot to death in the next scene because he mentioned the "Fairstar" of the triad. In this play of the International Court of Justice, there is such a dialogue: "The Three Harmony Society has more than 500,000 members in more than 100 countries. They are not small gangsters who disrupt public order on the street. They are businessmen and built a 50 billion worth of extortion, drugs, etc. In an empire of sex and slavery, we must cut off the source of these cancers before they swallow us. As the chairman of the International Criminal Court." The words of this American speech are very funny. They seem to allude to China, but they are actually ironicing the arrogant ignorance of the United States.

In recent years, Chinese faces have often appeared in American movies, but they are not positive. Brett Ratner and the two screenwriters seem to be very familiar with China, and many of them are acrimonious to the Chinese. "This is a battle of one person" appeared twice in Jackie Chan's dialogue. It seems that these foreigners even know Huang Jianxiang. When the glamorous French model Noémie Lenoir was changing clothes in the hotel scene, Jackie Chan actually asked to watch pornography. Of course, Ke is only interested in being able to do a real shot. But what is strange is that compared to "Rush Hour 2", Chinese actors speak Chinese with a more accent. Basically there is not much Cantonese. I don't know who wrote the Mandarin dialogue. It's weird. Zhang Jingchu's English is pretty good. I don't know why I still pause when I speak English, it seems to be serving to show the big eyes of water. The language and performance are inferior to other American films with Chinese appearances. The Chinese actors in Martin Scorsese's "Infernal Affairs" are very comfortable in language and very real, although they still know that they are from Hong Kong movies rather than real life. . There is also an old man with a white beard from a martial arts school in the film. It looks like a Quentin movie, without any real Chinese flavor.

Some places are still funny. Tucker inexplicably said to the French model, "A Chinese saying is that donkey lips are not right for horse mouth." With a tone that seems to be teaching Chinese philosophy, the French model is confused, but it turns out that Tucker wants to kiss. ……Then the two began to talk to the horse's mouth~~~~~~. The nun's translation of the swear word is also very funny, and most of the jokes in this part are conveyed by serious faces.

I still like a certain kind of atmosphere in the "Rush Hour" series, reflecting the so-called seriousness, police, or authority of the so-called elite with the eyes of a low-level punk. But that's it, there is no deeper thinking after the irony, everything is in the logic of the chaos, ignoring the thinking that can jump out of the chaos world. The director seems to like black people very much. He has filmed a lot of rap MVs. Tucker's performance is also very brilliant, showing the liveliness of black people.

Hiroyuki Sanada, who starred in "The Promise", appeared in this movie, who played Jackie Chan's former brother, turned against each other in this movie. Jackie Chan and his brothers watched TV alone in the hotel after the first life-and-death confrontation. On the screen, African primitive tribes blacks and blacks who have integrated into developed countries staged small comedies and skirmishes. As an actor, Jackie Chan didn't know what it was like in his heart. To break into Hollywood, he had to sacrifice some greater ambitions.



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Rush Hour 3 quotes

  • [from trailer]

    Detective James Carter: We need to get her to relax.

    Chief Inspector Lee: Maybe we should put on a dirty movie.

    Detective James Carter: Lee!

    Chief Inspector Lee: Only $9.95.

  • Master Yu: May I help you?

    Detective James Carter: We'll be asking the questions old man. Who are you?

    Master Yu: Yu.

    Detective James Carter: No, not me. You.

    Master Yu: Yes, I'm Yu.

    Detective James Carter: Just answer the damn question! Who are you?

    Master Yu: I have told you!

    Detective James Carter: Are you deaf?

    Master Yu: No. Yu is blind.

    Detective James Carter: I'm not blind. You blind.

    Master Yu: That is what I just said.

    Detective James Carter: You just said what?

    Master Yu: I did not say what, I said Yu.

    Detective James Carter: That's what I'm asking you.

    Master Yu: And Yu was answering.

    Detective James Carter: Shut up!

    Detective James Carter: You!

    Master Yu: Yes?

    Detective James Carter: Not you. Him! What's your name?

    Mi: Mi.

    Detective James Carter: Yes, you.

    Mi: I'm Mi.

    Master Yu: He's Mi and I'm Yu.

    Detective James Carter: And I'm about to whoop your old ass man because I am sick of playing games! You, me? Everybody's ass around here!