When Sicario originally came out, it didn't look like a movie with a sequel at all.
It has a well-rounded storyline, an excellent contradictory theme, a shining cast and a first-class creative team, and the word-of-mouth box office has doubled after its release. : Frontier Warrior (Sicario: Day of the Soldado) came into being.
Both films were written by Taylor Sheridan , a screenwriter who knows how to tackle social issues and focus on marginalized people. He also wrote "Hell or High Water" and "Wind River", which together with "Slayer" form the "Frontier Trilogy" ; In the first feature film "Hunting Wind River Valley" written and directed by him, Taylor Sheridan also proved his directing ability to the audience. A director & screenwriter who can write and direct can really make people look forward to the next one. Work interview.
Therefore, "Frontier Slayer 2: Frontier Soldier" is actually not bad for the observability of the main body of the story. The motives and logic of the characters, the turning points and climaxes of the story before and after, and the social issues and phenomena that are focused are also profound enough, but in fact, it always feels that there is a trace of important missing. factor.
Going back to the main creators, the main creative lineup of "Border Slayer" can be described as extremely luxurious. Denis Villeneuve, a newly promoted member of "God Guide", previously filmed "Scorched Earth City" ( Incendies), "Prisoners" (Prisoners) and other word-of-mouth masterpieces, and then after the completion of "Border Runner", there were "Arrival" (Arrival), "Blade Runner 2049" (Blade Runner 2049), the precursors of modern sci-fi epics. , In December of this year, the annual anticipated masterpiece "Dune" will be released. Such a director to direct "Border Slayer" can at the same time ensure that Roger Deakins (Roger Deakins) picture, Taylor Sheridan's script, and the performances of three excellent actors, led by Emily Blunt, all work well together and pair well at the same time.
After the sequel, the director, cinematographer and star Emily Blunt did not choose to return, leaving Josh Brolin and Benicio del Toro. The excellent actors still created their characters perfectly, but the big change of the whole lineup makes the sequel still feel the same as the previous work, but it can also feel a slight gap.
There is a small branch line in "Border Slayer", which is interspersed in the front, middle and back of the whole film, describing the encounters of small characters under the large-scale story, so as to point out the main theme of the film about human nature; Tyler Sheridan moved the same model to the sequel. The same is a few branch lines telling the encounters of various small people, and finally each line is brought together into the main line. The only difference is that Taylor Sheridan seems to have already made the series. The general structure of the script for the second and third parts was well thought out, and the first half of the script was presented to the audience through "Border Slayer 2: Border Soldier", and the suspense was left to the last minute to reveal, which is also Taylor Sheridan's script. One ingeniousness is that its story is very suspenseful.
In addition to Taylor Sheridan's script, another reason for the existence of the sequel may be the excavation of the characters. Emily Blunt and Taylor Sheridan agreed that Emily Blunt's character has been fully exploited in the first work, and her story has reached a degree of completeness, and its inclusion in the scope of the sequel is only a matter of time. would be redundant; while the characters of Josh Brolin and Benicio del Toro are much deeper and more complex, just explore a little more of their background in the sequel, and Setting a foreshadowing, the script of the third part can easily be connected, which is already commonplace in Hollywood where "sequels become everyday".
Although "Border Slayer 3" has not yet confirmed other cast members other than the screenwriter and starring, or any official news, this does not prevent it from becoming one of the annual viewing lists, treating it as a normal level of drama military film. It's not a bad thing to look at, and look forward to a little bit of Taylor Sheridan's perhaps more in-depth script.
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