Director: David Cape
Writer: John Camps / David Cape
Starring: Joseph Gordon-Levitt / Michael Shannon / Jamie Chung / Dania Ramirez / Asif Mandevi
Genre: Action / Thriller
Official Website: www.premiumrush.com
Country of Production: United States
Language: English / Mandarin Chinese
Release Date: 2012-08-24 (United States)
Duration: 91 minutes
Also known as: Super Express (Taiwan)
IMDb link: tt1547234 I watched
this film in 2013. I suddenly became interested in bicycles while visiting Decathlon a few days ago, so I watched it again. This film is not only highly watchable, but also highly professional, and it is worth recommending.
Visibility is reflected in the sense of speed, which is embodied in the sense of speed of the progress of the story and the sense of speed of the picture.
The story of this film is actually not complicated, but the screenwriter cleverly interspersed multiple clues. Whenever the chase came to an end, he shook off a burden for us. This ingenious arrangement makes the rhythm of the film very lively. The audience is always in a good mood when watching it.
The speed of the picture is obviously the credit of the photography and editing. As a film about urban bicycles, high-speed photography is inevitable. This film does a great job in this regard. Different shooting techniques are used in different sports states. When shooting, and when no one is tracking, he uses overhead shooting to show his dashing riding posture, and by the way, the New York street scene adds color to the picture; parallel shooting is used more when Michael Shannon is driving Mazda chasing Joseph. , which can enhance the tension between the two of you chasing me. In addition, 囧 Joseph used a still camera when he braked and drifted, letting the dead fly slide to the camera or from the front of the camera to the depth of the camera, which invisibly opened a beautiful streamline, highlighting the charm of the dead fly sport. .
The professionalism of this film is reflected in the different riding styles of different bicycles. There are two types of bicycles in the film, namely, the dead fly that Jon Joseph and his girlfriend ride, and Manny (the black brother who ran wild with jealousy) and the city bikes ridden by the mounted police, among which Jon Joseph. It's a dead fly in the true sense, steel structure body, no brakes, simplified to the extreme, his girlfriend installed a front brake, it is this difference that represents the difference in their concept of cycling, resulting in emotional rifts . Manny's car is not the same as the Mounted Police car. Manny's is a manual customized version of PARLEE worth more than 40,000 yuan, while the Mounted Police is a more general city bike.
Jon Joseph showed his superb dead-flying skills in this film, such as the detail of turning both knees and arms inwards as much as possible during high-speed riding, in order to minimize wind resistance. In addition, the actions of fast lane changes and drifting are also very authentic. The most professional is that he rode a mountain bike in the garage of the police station and jumped over the roof of the car and the cross beam of the house, and escaped from the eyes of the police, but several of the most difficult The action uses a panoramic view, and it may not be done by Jon Joseph, but even so, he is already very powerful, and he is very dedicated. During the shooting, his right arm broke and he sewed more than 30 stitches, which is amazing.
囧Joseph's girlfriend thought it was not necessary to lose her life in order to deliver a courier, so she installed a brake on the front wheel, but the brake almost killed her because she had developed a trust in the brakes and was the first in an emergency. The reflection is not riding the pedals backwards but holding the brakes, so the car flipped forward, and the person fell hard, but fortunately he was not injured. It's okay to fall, and she falls back to her sense of identity with her boyfriend.
Manny's PARLEE manual custom version is the most expensive car in the film, carbon fiber body, five-speed steel rims, the weight of the car is reduced to the extreme, and the speed change function allows him to cope with various road conditions, especially in the center. Excellent performance uphill there in the park. The actor Manny is also a professional athlete, as can be seen from his tight muscles and riding posture. In fact, at the end of the film, the people who rode to Chinatown to help Joseph were professional cyclists, and some of them did courier work just like the characters in this film in real life.
Dead Fly was originally a special car for couriers. Because it is difficult to ride, has a low safety factor, and the car itself is worthless, they never lock the car when they park it on the side of the road. With the enrichment of sports concepts, dead flying has now evolved into a high-status cycling sport. Riders with excellent dead flying skills can be silently respected by many people. They have amateurs and are dedicated to doing it. The business of bicycle repair and sales is different, but the dedication and devotion to the sport are the same.
For ordinary people, it is best not to use the dead fly as a daily means of transportation, because it is easy to have accidents, like Jon Joseph in the film, even if he can ensure his own safety, it will seriously affect the traffic safety in New York. People are frightened, which is always bad.
PS. Students who have strong patriotic feelings and think that our country is the best country in the galaxy should not watch this film.
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