Therefore, my simplest judgment of "Transformers 2" is still-this is a perfect commercial film, it has all the advantages of commercial films (if you think these are the advantages): Xiangche (very "fragrant" Car) beautiful women, hot pursuits, family ethics, youth love, good and evil duel, invincibility, spectacle location... At the same time, all the shortcomings of commercial films in "Transformers 2" you can also see at a glance (if you think these are Disadvantages): clichéd plot, proliferation of love, undead heroes, crazy fights, gags, bad guys on Facebook, American spirit...
And what impresses me most is the American spirit (American ideology) that is rendered to the extreme in the film. In fact, I’m very used to Americans—to be more precise, American middle-class male white men who have a little rebellious temperament and are always favored by beautiful women—save the planet in Hollywood movies, this time in "Transformers 2". Let them save the sun, I think there is nothing wrong with it. But this time the screen hero Sam Vicky is not so wise and martial, standing behind him is almost the entire American war machine. Ever since, we saw piece after piece of US military’s main battle equipment in "Transformers 2": M1A2 tanks, F-16 fighter jets, F-22 fighter-bombers, SR-71 reconnaissance aircraft, B-1 bombers, and C -17 transport planes, the "Roosevelt" aircraft carrier, the "Kid" destroyer, plus the submarines in the water and the satellites in outer space, the "Guardians of Peace" did not come out. This is simply the US military under non-nuclear and biochemical conditions. A preview of a local war that can be carried out. During the Cold War, the Americans used aircraft carriers to show off their power, but now they don’t use them. They use Transformers (interestingly, they even destroyed an aircraft carrier in the movie).
"Transformers 2" has virtually become the best publicity advertisement for American military power. I watched the film at more than one o'clock in the morning. When I went out of the theater, I clearly heard the dialogue between the two male audiences behind me. A said: American The weapon is so powerful, book that! Answer B: Book that! that is! A said again: Where do we have such a great deal? Book that! B replied again: Book that! That's for sure, they knocked us over in two clicks! …
You see, how important the film in peacetime played in the construction of ideology and the publicity of national image. In "Transformers 2", the shot of the "Roosevelt" being beaten in half by the Decepticon leader, Fallen King Kong, gave me the illusion that the film was reflecting on the role of the American war machine. But as the plot progressed, I quickly discovered that this is Hollywood’s usual tactics: the American aircraft carrier, which has never been sunk after World War II, encountered an unprecedentedly powerful adversary this time, but the enemy aroused even greater The scale of the U.S. military counterattacked. The Americans and the Autobots had the same enemies. Of course, the Stars and Stripes won the victory. Sam and Optimus Prime stood on the deck of a brand new aircraft carrier to summarize the central ideas...
In the entire "Transformers 2," Except for a few clown-like Egyptian police officers (there is actually a dwarf), no other country's armed forces can be seen. This time, the U.S. army has saved the whole world steadily, and they went into and out of the world like no one, shouting loudly in the Arab world, which reminds me of the humiliating history of the Russo-Japanese War in our northeast. . As for the street scenes of Shanghai that appeared in the opening film, I think it's better to cut all the tails with some tails. The Oriental Pearl Tower did not appear anyway. I don't know whether it is Shanghai or not. Really want to take real shots of Shanghai's street scenes, and then watch American soldiers with live ammunition strolling along Huaihai Road, what the hell is this? It’s not that I don’t accept the fiction in science fiction movies and disaster movies. Anyway, the whole world is tossed one by one by Hollywood at every turn, but don’t be transparent, okay? Outside the giant robots fighting in groups, the uncle Huang Chong inside knows to eat noodles. The Chinese police and army eat dry food? More sensitively, if it is really science fiction movies like "Deadly Violet" and "Code 46", it will be fine. You can make up whatever you want. It is the future world, but the time and space background of "Transformers 2" is still in the present, so we Seeing active US soldiers carrying active US military main battle equipment and fighting in our country, it can be considered that the Chinese audience is more tolerant. There is a kind of Michael Bay who try to replace Shanghai with Iran and Afghanistan? I'm afraid someone will issue a global killing order the next day (I wish Rushdian well).
So it’s not worth it for the Egyptians. The good national heritage was so ruined. The Egyptian people kept the temples for thousands of years and didn’t understand what was buried inside. As a result, the mutant Chevrolet Camaro sports car was shot in one shot. This is a big secret; the last seven big machines composed of Hercules played rock climbing on the pyramid. The U.S. Navy immediately assembled a legendary orbital gun, and even the Hercules with the pyramid was flattened; and it was defeated. After the fallen King Kong and Megatron’s Optimus Prime can’t wait to put a pose next to the Sphinx (unfortunately there is no hair, the blower can’t blow it up), and he completely regards his ancestors’ work as his own photo background bird. ~
Sad, when can the Egyptian soldiers fight the aliens in New York and then let the Americans pay for tickets to the cinema to join in? The rendering of American hegemony in "Transformers 2" was already naked. Although a bureaucrat with glasses appeared and blocked it several times, it was soon pushed down by the soldiers on the grounds of "letting the leader go first." Then he was unable to survive in the farmland of Egypt (I wonder about Egypt’s anti-aircraft firepower?); As for Simon, the former "Seventh District" agent who conjured two "Transformers" and became a meat shop employee, although The suddenly exposed butt egg is a bit shocking, and the mouth is always swearing, "I love the motherland, the motherland does not love me" and other complaints, but the critical moment is still an out-and-out patriotism-love Americanism-person When he sacrificed his life to fight, he emphasized his feelings for the United States as a country, rather than saving all mankind.
Of course, Michael Bay’s design of action scenes has reached a new height. The huge robots and tiny humans appear together, which in itself challenges the director's lens processing. In the final half-hour battle, the division battlefield is closely integrated with the overall battlefield, and the army, aliens, and pig's feet are intertwined with multiple clues. It does not feel messy or visual fatigue. However, when you look closely, there are more tricks in new bottles and old wines: the robot duel scene is a replica of a Chinese Kung Fu movie, and there are still shots of intestinal puncture (but because it is all mechanical, it seems not so bloody); The scene of shaking the roof to find someone also reminds me of Tom Cruise's dodge in "World War"; the paragraph mode of Sam's rescue of Optimus Prime obviously has a strong shadow of "Indiana Jones" (again A treasure hunt in an ancient tomb); the robot that turned into a spice made me habitually recall "Alien" (and such a long tongue)...
But these are the elements of a successful commercial film that Michael Bay fits right into a film. As long as the shots are good-looking, there is nothing wrong with it. The audience is shocked by the special effects, and they don't even care about the details of the characters. For example, the Sam's mother had obviously inconsistent personalities. At first, her son cried and cried when he was in college, but at the end on the battlefield, she discouraged her husband from letting his son go and fight for his life.
There is also slow motion, since I watched "Brave Heart" N times, I have become tired of this stuff. As long as there is a passage to seduce heroism, slow motion must come, and the battlefield of Bengguan is fought to death, and Sam must first have a few love words with his girlfriend when he wakes up-this is also regarded as Hollywood's dog-blood mode. , Compared with the characters in our movies that always had to pay party dues before they died.
Dog blood is dog blood, a film supported by adrenaline, with humor, fighting, and science fiction, basically all alive. These are enough for the Chinese audience to join in. I went to buy tickets at 3 pm on the 24th, and the results were always full. There was no place until 23:00. When I went at 12:00, the seats were still full. Obediently, there is a legend that the box office of "Change 1" in the Mainland has exceeded 600 million. Is it possible that "Change 2" has to be increased?
An important reason is that "Transformers 2" caters to the current mainstream movie-watching group. In the generations born in the 70s and 80s, "Transformers" is a rare childhood memory. They are now the main force of cinema consumption. As long as they don’t do the same shit as "Dragon Ball", if they turn out their collective memory, the box office will be guaranteed. Will be a big hit. But to this group of audiences, the childhood "Transformers" seems to be different from the "Transformers" in theaters today. When I watched "Transformers", I was impressed by the car culture inside. At that time, there were not many Santana on the streets of my hometown, and cars were the most powerful representation of Western material civilization, so "Transformers" undoubtedly aroused This shows my generation’s deep yearning for modern civilization (the "Four Modernizations"). However, time has passed and the page of heavy industry has been turned over by the great powers. Now is the era of Nasdaq and the IT bubble. Science fiction movies have also ushered in internet masterpieces like "The Matrix," represented by "Transformers". It is still a kind of fear and worship of heavy industry (from the root, this film is not actually a science fiction movie). When this heavy industry complex is rendered to the extreme, it becomes a heavy nostalgia (in terms of aesthetics, the "hard" "Transformers" is also a reflection of the previous "soft" wizard that swept the world's screens. A reaction of magic). Paradoxically, the Autobots are still whistling and killing on the screen, but their master, General Motors, is already bankrupt. With the wise President Obama escorting, "General Motors" (GM) has become a "Government Motor" (Government Motor), so bankruptcy is still unlikely. However, the psychological hint that "Transformers" brings to the audience invisibly also has a layer of nostalgia for the automobile industry. Americans are known as the "nation on wheels", and their deep dependence and gratitude for cars are self-evident (this is where the car culture soil of "Transformers" was born)-almost all men compare cars to lovers, I It is rare to hear men compare other household appliances in this way (the villain's Decepticons are all prototypes of aircraft, and I even suspect that 9/11 has further deepened the fear and distrust of aircraft in American audiences). But in any case, the childhood nostalgia of the Chinese audience is combined with the nostalgia of the American audience, and the big sales of "Transformers 2" in China and the United States are expected.
For China, it seems that it is more feasible to develop the equipment manufacturing industry as a "world workshop" first. Therefore, our feelings for "Transformers" should still be more enviable than reflection. Furthermore, for the vast majority of Chinese audiences, Chevrolet and Hummer can't be driven, so it's always okay to have sex in the movie.
Movie tickets are always much cheaper than cars.
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