God will take away some of the things you think are the most important to warn you that you have gained too much. I always console myself and my friends who have encountered setbacks in this way, and the original version of this sentence is "God will take the best things around us to remind us that we have too much!" This sentence also often appears in some In the film, such as "Irresistible", such as "Four Feathers".
A few years ago, "Four Feathers", directed by Indian-American director Shekhar Kapoor, made me feel for a while because of its obvious approach to the awards, and its ingenious approach to deliberately creating audio-visual elements based on the pulse of Oscar. I thought I had met Zhang, another blockbuster director who dreamed of going to Austria, so I just glanced at it briefly and decided to put the CD on the shelf. However, he soon changed his mind.
"Four Feathers" is adapted from the British writer A.E.W. Mason's war novel of the same name published in 1902. The original book tells a story about courage, loyalty, honor and redemption. The background spans across Europe and Africa, covering A variety of cultures, moral traditions, ideologies, and multiple contradictions and collisions, at the same time, have the dilemma of friendship and love, as if a magnificent master. In my opinion, it is difficult for this kind of landmark masterpiece to show its full essence within the length of the film, and any paragraph selected is not authoritative and convincing enough, and a slight negligence or lack will lead to verbal criticism, which is thankless. , unless you are too ambitious, and it has been adapted into a movie five times, not to mention the practice and obvious intention of spending hundreds of millions of dollars for three years, which is unacceptable.
One day, when talking to a friend about Heath Ledger's screen performances before and after "Brokeback Mountain", the friend said that the Australian sunny boy had lost his once tender yogurt as early as 2002's "Four Feather". breath. So, I pulled out the CD and looked at it. When I saw Harry (played by Heath Ledger) starving in the desert to the point where he cut the flesh of a camel and drank his blood to save his life and beg for food as a prisoner, he suddenly discovered that this handsome guy is not just a unkempt, beard and hair. Clothes that cover your face, make you stubborn and drink blood, and lose your dignity, but you really get distracted. Especially in one of the scenes, when he took the food from the native Abu (played by Djimon Hounsou), he took a bite out of hunger, and then said a line in a complicated mood: "...I didn't The reason to live, I am still afraid." Abu once said: "You British are very proud when you walk." At this time, Harry knew that he was no longer proud, and he stepped pride and dignity into the abyss. And then reborn from it.
In 1898, the British Empire's war against Sudan was in full swing. Harry, a young nobleman, is a young and promising officer in the British army. He is handsome, cheerful, and has outstanding military achievements. He has a general father, three army buddies, and a beautiful fiancee Ethane (played by Kate Hudson). )... It seems that he has really gotten too much.
Before going to the Sudan, Harry suddenly fled, and questioned the reason for the queen to send troops, and resolutely retired from the army. As a result, he was cast aside by the honor-oriented human society. His father, friends, and fiancee could not forgive him. He received four feathers representing cowardice. Only one of his friends, Jack (played by Wes Bentley), always Trust him, and the point of trust may be that Jack, who also loves Athany, wants the people he loves to be happy.
In order to wash away the shame and redeem himself, Harry quietly came to Sudan in the desert. He chose a bumpy and tortuous road to refute the heavy weight and mental torment brought by the four feathers. His trip to Sudan was far better than the army. The friends in here went even harder: he came to the front of the British army when he nearly met the god of death, and served as the humblest handyman, coolie, and porter in the British army, intending to guard the friends silently; sneaking into danger The enemy, obtain information, and send the native friend Abu to deliver the letter; rescue the blind Jack in times of crisis, accidentally discovered the letter written by Athany to Jack... When he learned that another friend was captured, he He took the initiative to go to the prisoner of war camp, intending to help a friend escape. In the prisoner of war camp, the physical suffering and mental torture finally made Harry no longer like a proud British nobleman... Finally, with the help of Abu, Harry and his friends escaped from the sea of misery by suspended animation.
Abu is an amazing man. He was a slave and a British mercenary. He speaks fluent English. He appears like a protector in time to accompany Harry in trouble. Abu's words are usually short and powerful, he told Panic Harry in the book: "Fear is always there." When Harry and his friends were about to return to England and asked about Abu's plans, it was as if Abu, the messenger of God, said, "Go and help those in need." At this moment he reminded me of the film The big black man in "Miracle in the Green Mile".
If Abu is the patron saint of Harry, then Harry is the patron saint of Jack. Blindness makes Jack more decisive, he has long known that "this war can't make a hero", and suffering seems to make a hero, just like Harry who explained "courage, loyalty, honor and redemption" through the journey of suffering.
After watching the film, I didn't want to write anything for a long time. I always felt that there were many inadequacies in the film, or I didn't dig enough for the essentials, or I over-inscribed the side effects, or I tried to swallow too much and indigestion. To say that such a film is good is a bit against your heart, and to say that it is useless is a bit of a loss. Sheikha Kapoor, who has directed the film of Gong Wei struggle, seems to have a good wish this time, and this wish is a little bigger. The greedy children of Jinshan don't think about their carrying ability at all and just go to get them. As a result, the director's "greed" finally makes the film seem to be biased.
Perhaps the director wanted to get a lot out of this movie, but lost something important because "God will take the best things around us to remind us that we have so much!"
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