catch this bastard

Mortimer 2022-04-06 09:01:06

After the rave reviews, I finally watched it intermittently. Compared with other American dramas, it became more and more bizarre. Finally, it was forced to end under the miserable situation of poor ratings. This drama ended early in the fifth season, which guaranteed the plot to a certain extent. of sophistication. The screenwriter's game design of fighting wits and courage respects adults, and has fewer flaws and self-contradictions; the design of thousands of miles away makes the characters' fate still appear reasonable and reasonable, and will not appear abrupt. The further back the protagonist Walter gets, the more chilling the audience feels, and he can't wait to shout in front of the screen: Catch this bastard! However, the screenwriter treated him kindly, let him eliminate all those who offended him, let his money be given to the family smoothly, and let him get Jessie's forgiveness. In fact, there is a domestic film that can be compared with one in terms of screenwriting: "Hidden". It's just that in shooting, the latter is far less sophisticated than the former. Compared with "A Song of Ice and Fire"'s new idea of ​​killing characters at will, "Poison Master" is restrained and will not kill casually. When the time comes, it will not tolerate it. As far as the plot is concerned, "A Song of Ice and Fire" has become procrastinated, and it is not as good as "Poison Master" in general. The screenwriter is very skilled, and can unfold the plot based on insight into the emotions of the audience, leaving the audience in unpredictable dangers all the time. For example, the screenwriter used Jessie's mouth to express the general understanding of the audience - Walter often has the ability to turn corruption into magic, and always has the ability to change the situation with a little luck, and through Mike's mouth to express another general understanding : Walter always harms the interests of groups of people who work with or against him, while he himself is often unscathed. The screenwriter made a confession to the audience here - "I understand you". The audience was excited, apprehensive and panicked. "Since you understand me, then maybe you will surprise me", so they no longer dared to be condescending in plot speculation, but waited for arrangements. The protagonist Walter is easily reminiscent of the classic Chinese screen image-Yu Zecheng in "The Hidden", and his situation will also remind people of another classic Chinese screen image-Ding in "The Great Era" crab. Ding Crab, with its Confucian strength and amazing luck, can be said to be God blocking God and Buddha blocking Buddha in the forty episodes. In the last episode, he even committed suicide, but he still didn't die. This kind of momentum, this kind of opposite drama The ability to focus on other characters' life-and-death abilities—though the protagonist doesn't know it—was also there, making some of the characters (like Jessie, Saul) fearful of him, who are aware of his abilities. And both have another power: the power of self-redemption. Killing other people still has a set of theories to redeem yourself and make yourself feel at ease. It is this kind of self-redemption, without any real sense of wrongdoing, that makes such a character become feared by the audience. Come. The only person who will not be harmed by Walter is Walter's wife. I have to say that if a wife can do this in reality, then it will be considered as a cultivator and become a scourge in the world. Her husband. Walter may have done quite a few bad things in a previous life. But it is precisely because of her ability to be invulnerable to all poisons that she can resist the disadvantages from Walter. In fact, it is the two couples who have been together for a long time, learn from each other, and increase their abilities, that creates this maddening couple (cough.. I originally wanted to say that it was an adulterer and a prostitute, but it didn't seem right). The actor who plays Walter, if he is not acting with sincerity, then his acting skills are quite amazing. In the scene of "You got me.", his expressions and body language are so expressive, which makes the protagonist terrified, nervous, and pretending to be. A series of emotions, such as calmness, pretending to be relaxed, and deliberately making jokes that others can recognize, are all presented, similar to all kinds of expressive performances, to name a few. In addition, the director and screenwriter of "Hidden" checked a large amount of historical materials of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party in the library before filming, so the sharp edges and corners of the big iceberg of the history of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party appeared from time to time in the plot, so that the details of the whole film would not appear set. At the same time, it also leads the audience's interest to the wider history of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party; the homework of the screenwriters of "Poison Master" is to study the industrial chain of drug trafficking, as well as the large and small roles in the industrial chain (suffice it to say that it may offend this. For fans of the movie, the size of the iceberg under the screen, "Poison Master" may not be as big as "Hidden"). In any case, it is this kind of investment that makes this drama so eye-catching and successful that it can be regarded as the "respect for adults" I wrote in the first paragraph. The scene, its expressions and body language are so expressive, showing a series of emotions of the protagonist, such as panic, nervousness, pretending to be calm, pretending to be relaxed, deliberately making jokes that others can recognize, and so on, similar to various expressive performances, And so on. In addition, the director and screenwriter of "Hidden" checked a large amount of historical materials of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party in the library before filming, so the sharp edges and corners of the big iceberg of the history of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party appeared from time to time in the plot, so that the details of the whole film would not appear set. At the same time, it also leads the audience's interest to the wider history of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party; the homework of the screenwriters of "Poison Master" is to study the industrial chain of drug trafficking, as well as the large and small roles in the industrial chain (suffice it to say that it may offend this. For fans of the movie, the size of the iceberg under the screen, "Poison Master" may not be as big as "Hidden"). In any case, it is this kind of investment that makes this drama so eye-catching and successful that it can be regarded as the "respect for adults" I wrote in the first paragraph. The scene, its expressions and body language are so expressive, showing a series of emotions of the protagonist, such as panic, nervousness, pretending to be calm, pretending to be relaxed, deliberately making jokes that others can recognize, and so on, similar to various expressive performances, And so on. In addition, the director and screenwriter of "Hidden" checked a large amount of historical materials of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party in the library before filming, so the sharp edges and corners of the big iceberg of the history of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party appeared from time to time in the plot, so that the details of the whole film would not appear set. At the same time, it also leads the audience's interest to the wider history of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party; the homework of the screenwriters of "Poison Master" is to study the industrial chain of drug trafficking, as well as the large and small roles in the industrial chain (suffice it to say that it may offend this. For fans of the movie, the size of the iceberg under the screen, "Poison Master" may not be as big as "Hidden"). In any case, it is this kind of investment that makes this drama so eye-catching and successful that it can be regarded as the "respect for adults" I wrote in the first paragraph.

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