Jack Ryan's popular base in the United States determines that his original works are always put on the screen. So far, there have been 4 "Jack Ryan" films in the series, namely: "Hunting Red October" in 1990 , "Patriot Game" in 1992, "Browsing" in 1994, and "The Sum of Fears" in 2002. Alec Baldwin, Harrison Ford and Ben Affleck have all played the role on the big screen. Among them, "Patriot Game" and "Pursuit" starring Harrison Ford are classics and have been well received.
In 2013, Paramount decided to put Jack Ryan on the stage of a new era. They first invited Kenneth Branagh, the first director of Thor, to direct the film. The director himself is a British actor who is known for his Shakespeare plays. , "Thor" directed by him is also known as a "superhero blockbuster" with Shakespeare's temperament, and Paramount's choice this time probably also hopes that Kenneth can inject a certain amount of literature and art into this typical action commercial film temperament.
And Kenneth, an Englishman with a literary temperament, does make this film unique. The Chinese translation of the new version of "Jack Lane" is "Triggered". The director hopes to reproduce the overall growth of this character and shape it into a classic character , which was eventually made into a series of films. So, the film starts from Jack Ryan's young age and opens a span of nearly 10 years to show his life choices. The original work of "Jackline" focuses on the confrontation between the United States and Russia after the Cold War, while the film starts with the 9/11 incident. After experiencing this incident, Jackline dropped out of school and became a soldier. He was severely traumatized and retired. CIA recruiting, from the first half of the film, "Trigger" is like an evolutionary history of this character.
Jack Ryan's own experience determined his choice to become the CIA later. The film became intense and tense from the beginning of the mission in Moscow. Ryan's life-and-death battle with the villain Fatty in the hotel was the first climax of the film, and the director used it many times. The sound effects enhance the tension, and the shots are clean and in one go.
After that, "One Touch" officially entered the state, using one indoor scene and two car chase scenes to complete the exciting work of its action commercial film. Since Kenneth Branagh played the villain himself, he and Keira Knightley shared a game of conversation at the dinner table. Keira said it was a game that relied entirely on facial expressions to show the entanglement of characters. She was excited and thoroughly entertained by the performance.
Mosca's car chase scene and New York's confrontation are the two climaxes of the film. The film shows the urban charm of Moscow. The car chase and fight also try to reproduce the retro temperament of spy films, such as assassination, heavy mouth, crash, close-up. Body fighting, plus two big explosions in the river and helicopter, make the action elements in the second half of the movie more intense and dense.
In addition to the retro action scenes, the movie added the love scene between Jack Ryan and his fiancee Casey. Doctor Casey ran through almost all of Jack Ryan's growth process, and the love between Casey and Jack also affected the development of the big political situation. Although the heroine doesn't have any action scenes, it blends into the intense plot just right, and assisted to complete Jack Ryan's character shaping.
Paramount restarted the "Jack Ryan" series, intending to make it into a new era of 007 series, and now it seems that Jack Ryan's character is not explosive enough to be as distinctive as "Iron Man" and "Thor" It is important to remember that it is not enough for the hero of the new era to save the world and save the people. It is important that he has an unforgettable and unique personality. On this point, the new "Jack Ryan" still needs to work hard.
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