It's the green bee, not the man!

Ruthie 2021-11-28 08:01:18

As a fan of a clear-cut genre film, let's first understand one of the most important things-what type of film is this? Of course, if you follow the translated name of "The Green Hornet", everyone who doesn't understand Meiman-including my sister and me-will immediately jump on the thief ship of the "superhero movie" and begin the film. I used to make up the following plot by myself before-a strange life experience (alien or dead dad or radiation, etc.) with a pleasing appearance (traditional handsome or handsome or handsome boy next door or bad boy) with special abilities (flying and meeting) Use your eyes to block bullets, or spin silk, or have a very high IQ, or your father is rich, or your father’s name is Li Gang). The righteous youth suddenly developed a uniform addiction due to certain stimulation and challenged the evil forces based on public anger or private enmity to defeat the villains and save them. The whole earth is as small as a certain city and finally returned with a beautiful woman, etc... If there are audiences who are disappointed after walking into the cinema with the above small theater in the brain, please go and beat the person who translated the title.

Although the protagonist of this film can be considered as satisfying the basic description of the "superhero" genre, we can’t compare with Superman on hardware, and it’s not much worse than Iron Man — about 100 points of IQ, before Kato appeared, although The behavior of the strange sibling who will obviously assume the important position of the "ultimate boss" in this film is very insulting to the reputation of the "bad guy" industry, and the screenwriter is also showing signs of rampage, but my sister who has been poisoned by the genre film. I still imagine that the male protagonist will suddenly burst his shirt after the death of the old bean according to the established routine, and on behalf of the moon to eliminate the strange scorpion. My sister must be sure that the male protagonist died abnormally and must be related to the strange scorpion.

However, my sister guessed the second half sentence, but did not estimate-based on the male protagonist’s IQ and EQ, not to mention the explosive shirt, it is impossible to have a relationship with the "superhero" even in the small universe. You must open a plug-in. . Although the screenwriter and actor Seth Rogen jumped over a cup of coffee, "This is the worst day in my life" is a bit too deliberate, but when the Japanese-named Chinese man showed off his inventions for the actor, my sister I finally woke up—what a "superhero" movie, this is a comedy movie, the Green Hornet and the Batman, Spiderman, and Iron Man are not the same family. People and "Ghosts in Disguise" are brothers (even Even the heroine uses the same one!). This is simply the fault of the translator-only those with man in the name can be translated into "Xia", okay! The name without human attributes can be literally translated as "green bee" or "green bee".

As a comedy, of course the focus of this film is not at all on the contest between good and evil. The ultimate boss monster has almost the same intelligence as the male protagonist, but his ability is worse than Kato by one galaxy. The two sides are not on the same level at all. If this is the center of contradiction, there is no suspense at all. The focus and jokes of this film revolve around "The man who is regarded as the green bee actually only has the function of gagging. The real green bee is a team that is guided by Mrs. Dabo's secretary and Mr. Chinese driver is the operation and execution team." This kind of contrast (even the name green hornet came up with Kato, and he ended up being an anonymous person next to green hornet). The beauty who was supposed to be rescued+being targeted is the "brain" of the hero and refuses to be picked up. The shadow of the hero and the assistant of the pick-up tool are the hero's soul and rob girls from the hero-this is the original The contradiction of the film needs to be resolved.

If it is an "over-interpretation of the stars", facing such disadvantaged groups (females, minorities), and the mainstream group (white males) sitting on and enjoying the elements of the composition can make a lot of "innuendo", Seth probably also wants Irony (for example, Kato said he was born in Shanghai, but he answered "I like Japan very much", and Lenore would naturally want to eat tofu as soon as Lenore gave him a chance to get close), but if these jokes are really deliberate If you do, the force used is too small. As far as the plot setting of the film is concerned, Lenore's role as a "brain" is seriously inadequate, resulting in a lack of explanation for the subsequent plot development. As for the bad guy, I've already said it before—not terrible at all!

It is said that Seth had discussed cooperation matters with Star Master after finishing the script at the beginning, but eventually fell through because Star Master “lack of Hollywood-style team spirit”. To be honest, it's hard for me to imagine the effect of this thing directed by Xing Ye, but I can say it responsibly-this film definitely needs a martial arts instructor.

The same comic has been adapted into a TV series long ago, when the role of Kato was played by the famous legend Bruce Lee. So it can be said with certainty that the initial setting of the role of Kato is not “satisfy all the Westerners’ illusions about the Chinese” as in this film-he is good at mechanical computer arithmetic, is good at martial arts fighting, nunchaku, and has a heavy accent. English and at least one musical instrument, but mainly fighting fist as the first charm. Regrettably, I don’t know if it was Jay Chou’s own intention, or because of the lack of good martial arts, Kato Bruce Lee is rarely seen in this film. Maybe Jay Chou didn’t want to imitate Bruce Lee, but if such a superstar ever played this role, appropriate or even a large number of imitations can be a tribute to some audiences, and can even be a joke. It's a wonderful thing. However, the fighting scenes in this film can be said to be "absolute". The hot weapon rush is very lively. When it comes to the flesh, it always flickers by, which makes the charm of Kato's character greatly discounted-imagine a technical otaku who usually wears a mask like a geek fists up and down. What a dream this contrast will be!

The discount goes to the discount. Compared to the funny male protagonist, Kato, who is smart, able to play, loyal and also plays the piano and sings, is really pleasing. Even from the comparison of appearance, the slender Jay Chou is not lost at all. Seth, and those squinted eyes are also in line with the Westerners' expectations of the "Oriental flavor" of Asians. It’s a pity that I don’t know if Jay Chou is inherently shy or not used to speaking English. He has made so many movies and he likes acting very much. When the close-up is close up, his eyes are always hiding from the camera, so he will inevitably lose. A little aura, otherwise this movie is really the number one actor—actually I’m thinking about Xiao Zhou in mentalist. He also has small eyes. Xiao Zhou’s aura is just right, so the pupil is not small, there is Electricity will do.

There should be a sequel to this movie. Actually I am looking forward to the fight between the hero and Kato

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The Green Hornet quotes

  • Gang Leader: Give him a route canal!

    Britt Reid: I don't want one!

  • Britt Reid: I think we're in the hood, Kato.