I opened a box of Huangshanghuang Braised Duck Wings and poured half a glass of pure whisky. This is how I started watching Hardcore Henry.
In fact, as early as when we started making micro-movies, the special effects engineer in our studio showed me this film that was going viral on the Internet. It was an excerpt from the scene where the colonel took Henry to fight the enemy in the hotel. At that time Even germinated that I wanted to make a movie similar to the first-person perspective of an FPS game.
Looking back now, it was really hard!
First of all, there must be a special effects actor equipped with GOPRO who also has skills such as parkour, close combat, and firearms. Of course, a pseudo-one-shot method is adopted. The problem can be solved by switching actors with different specialties in the middle. , It is really hard to find martial arts action special effects actors who are born to death, respond quickly, and have strong anti-strike ability. And the Russians of the fighting nation feel everywhere.
Secondly, everyone has mentioned the problem of flaws in the plot. For example, since the villain has such strong superpowers, why should he use the protagonist to form an army of androids, and he can take over the world by himself; or the plot is completely AI. Awakened slaughter that betrayed and attacked the master. But the plot of most FPS games is also like this. This is a limitation under the POV perspective. In order to keep this feature consistent, the director had to do it, and even compromised and interspersed some memories from a bystander perspective. In addition, Jimmy, a coquettish and interesting character, presents avatars with different personalities such as school veterans, mohawks, hippies, business people in suits, etc., which not only satisfies the suspense but also adds many levels of interest. Finally, in the design of weapons and action scenes, the director has condensed all the violent elements that can be imagined on earth into the film, from the simplest cold weapon spoon, baseball bat to tank helicopter, and even to the final group beating android , and the super power of the ultimate boss. I can hardly think of any other elements that are being ignored. This is like traversing the weapon spectrum, exhausting all the history of violent aesthetics.
More people are talking about dizziness, which is really no way, and it has something to do with physical fitness and acquired exercise. For a player like me who is addicted to FPS games, eating duck wings and duck necks and drinking whisky can make me soberly pay attention to the scene, composition, action design, etc. No dizziness and vomiting. On the contrary, if I watch my roommate play a game of "Overwatch" and "CSGO", I will be dizzy. That's because many of his behaviors are unpredictable, like sitting in a car blindfolded on a mountain road. It's weird to vomit. When the director made this film, every shot has been carefully designed, and the next action of the protagonist can basically be predicted, which is why I am more comfortable with it.
In general, for the violent aesthetic presentation of the fighting nation's one-coin customs clearance, as a midnight carnival of complete indulgence after getting tired of watching aesthetic art movies, it is cool enough!
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