In terms of characters, whether it is Jack Ryan played by Chris Pine or Hubble played by Kevin Costner, it should be said that they are all very close to the original. In the original story, Jack Ryan has brown hair, a slender build, a bright mind, and military experience and physical abilities. In fact, Chris Pine is really a very similar one among the first-line and quasi-first-line stars. And Hubble, the prototype is very close to Clark, tough, resolute and decisive, very impactful. Clark is the protagonist of Tom Clancy's huge story system, second only to Jack Ryan, who has influence and has his own story. Kevin Costner may be a tad smaller than the original novel. But his temperament is too good, and the similarity is quite high.
Of course, I'd like to say more about Jack Ryan. In the book, he was a professor of history, taught at the university, analyzed intelligence at Langley, and had an outstanding talent and a keen sense of smell. He was a guest of the President of the United States and had a relationship with Prince Charles. In an episode in Moscow, Jack picked up the high-ranking officials who were about to run away. Today, all of this has changed over time and is out of date. So the story has to be restructured. This is bound to be difficult. How to change it?
The core story of Clancy's peak era is about the Cold War, the confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union, and the horrors of the Northern Ireland independence movement. What are the old jokes from twenty or thirty years ago to impress today's audience who have read thousands of sails and spoiled their tastes.
In the first ten minutes, I almost got a full score. This is a long history, and it is very difficult to structure. There are at least five to eight of Clancy's most famous stories featuring Jack Ryan. It needs to be explained clearly before he can give this person a sense of continued existence. This part of the movie, from 9/11 to Afghanistan, is handled very neatly.
So what's next? Is it a new structure, completely abandoned? Or retain the familiarity of the original to Clancy's readership?
The story cuts through the financial wars and Wall Street.
The United States is a country with a highly developed financial market. It is relatively easy to understand the ins and outs of the crisis.
After 9/11, the United States led the way and joined the European Union to carry out strict anti-terrorism monitoring of international finance, analyze suspicious accounts, assets and their ins and outs, and established a series of targeted legislation, such as the "Patriot Act" and so on. A large number of intelligence analysts have also been installed to prevent terrorism from the financial market and its epitome of Wall Street. This background is pretty solid. Of course, Chinese audiences may seem to feel different, but "Currency War" has been popular before, and it can be considered to have popularized the common sense of the financial market. Since then, juvenile immigrants and long-hidden Russian spies have also drawn on real cases.
From the story, Kenneth Branagh retains the blood of the original Cold War. Even the development of the story is not curious, nor is it particularly new, and the villain is shaped almost in a normal manner. But I think young audiences don't like this. Even watching the development of the story since then, there may be many viewers who feel familiar. This character, these stories, seems familiar, has been played out again and again. Is there a lack of novelty?
no. It's not a copycat, it's one of the source streams. The vast system of Tom Clancy's novels and his "Jack Lane" have been a symbol of the world's best-selling culture across an era.
Kenneth Branagh retains elements of the story that carried over from the Cold War, which may mean he knows that, for many Tom Clancy readers, blood is still cold. Many Kevin Costner fans are also fond of it. So when you look at the screen, there is bound to be a feast in it, a consolation of the time that has passed.
I thought that after reading all of this, I really understood this movie.
With the passage of time, who would really go after the untouched Jack Ryan. He is the shadow in the story, the essence, the reflection of time. Like that rumbling Hercules plane, Hubble's tough look, the meeting on the Kremlin bench. It's like an old love song again. Maybe the singer has been changed, and the orchestration has been refurbished, but under its tune, there is the sadness of the years. Without precipitation, I do not understand this song. Given the chance, Jack Ryan is destined to be rebuilt again and again in the time tunnel.
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