In the past, most of the films made by Chinese directors internationally were "Chinese style" films, which were about Chinese culture, such as "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" and "Raise the Red Lantern". The British can make "The Last Emperor" and the Italians can make "China", but we dare not make "The Queen" and "Renaissance". This aspect is attributed to the weakness of our overall national strength. In the development stage, shooting a foreign subject has neither market nor influence; on the other hand, due to the weakening of our cultural influence, our own culture is already in jeopardy and cannot be guaranteed, so why bother to shoot foreign subjects?
Since this film is released by an American company, I don't worry about market problems. Although the background of the film is the Pacific War of World War II, it also tells about a topic that is more sensitive to Americans - "the confrontation between native Indians and white people" , No matter how Americans cover up, the persecution of Indians 400 years ago will not be erased, and the racial antagonism between white Americans and Indians has always existed. Such an embarrassing topic came from a Chinese filmmaker, which is actually quite interesting.
Windtalkers: The two Windtalks in the film are Navajo Indians. The two Indians who fought for their homeland and their homeland became military interpreters and were determined to fight hard. However, since he came to the barracks, he has been repeatedly discriminated against by white soldiers, and even caused conflicts and fights. The attitude of the military executives to the Indian telegraphers is that once they fall into local hands, they will kill them in advance to protect the password. Cage's mission. But in the end, the brave performance of Windtalks still influenced the white soldiers, and after brutal battles and tragic sacrifices, they won the battle of Saipan.
Nicolas Cage: Compared with the excellent performances of the two Wind Whisperers, Cage is a little bleak in this film. "face" (no wonder he had to change his face), Cage and Jim Carrey are really two extremes, Jim Carrey is a "geek in disguise" who has been cramping and shivering all the time, and Cage is a "facial paralysis patient". Of course, this has something to do with the subject matter of the film they made. The two performance styles are neither good nor bad, each with its own characteristics, but this film is really not suitable for him.
War: The background of the story is World War II, the US-Japan Pacific War, the battle for islands, and friends who have played Medal of Honor should be able to feel the atmosphere. However, the creation of the war atmosphere in this film is not as good as the Medal of Honor. Although the war scene is very grand, although huge amounts of money are spent to create the battlefield, and all kinds of war machines have been exhausted, a big problem with the film is "distortion". Cage is like a superman. He shuttles through the hail of bullets but never gets hit. His marksmanship is so accurate that he never misses a shot, and he never runs out of bullets. He feels like Stallone in "First Blood". And Windtalk dressed up Japanese soldiers to escort the "prisoner of war" Cage to sneak into the Japanese battlefield to grab the radio, which is even more confusing. At the height of tension between the two armies, you can sneak over to Chencang and not be found. If you can not be found , then why not arrange a small team to come over and destroy the enemy.
Although the fried legs, body burns, and runny intestines that must be in war movies have appeared, but the blood and tension are not so real. A war movie has to be real, like Saving Private Ryan, where the whole movie suffocates you to death. As well as the opening paragraph "Force Crossing the Volga" in "Soldier Under the City", after reading it, I swore that I would not go to the battlefield, from getting off the train to the pier to getting on the boat and forcing the crossing to being shot to death, I may not have touched a gun, and may not have worn it. Good uniform.
However, Director Wu's later filming of "Red Cliff" was very good. The war scenes are always grand, and he has also made great efforts in the confrontation of cold weapons. The almighty superman Guan Zhang Zhao did not appear. All are very sophisticated. It is said that the king of war movies with cold weapons is "Braveheart", Mel Gibson, worship.
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