Thought 1: Jackie Chan can rest. Chinese Kung Fu is spread around the world like cloisonne. The era when Chinese Kung Fu movies (including Hong Kong) swept the world has passed; if you want to regain glory, I’m afraid you have to dig deeper into the culture instead of just using fancy moves. Work hard—because they play better than you, look handsome than you, have better computer stunts than you, and can make more money than you. For foreign audiences, they are more willing to see local heroes... the
two male protagonists David Belle With Cyril Raffaelli, they look cool, have beautiful muscles, and have extraordinary skills. Especially David, a chase scene five minutes after the opening of the movie has already made me amazed. Jackie Chan is known for his agility and good at moving around in small spaces. . Although the fighting scenes are not too many, they are all exquisitely designed and beautiful. With first-class editing and soundtrack, they look very cool.
Later, I saw an introduction on the Internet, saying that these two are extreme sports players and kung fu enthusiasts...no wonder no wonder! Exploring the infinite possibilities of human body flexibility and agility seems to be a way to bring visual enjoyment.
The second impression: Globalization brings the world together. Look at the clothes of the gangsters in the French ghetto in 2010, the hip-hop style of the entire African American community (except for a large number of half-naked muscular men), even holding a pistol is so hip-hop than others’ heads: tilt your head and tilt your eyes. Looking at each other, he raised his pistol high and turned his wrists down. The shelves of the underground casino entrance are full of French-labeled Baolu cat food and canned food; there is an NBA poster on the wall of the gangster’s nest, which is a small bug: It seems that James, with a white sweat on his head, is dunking? Please, didn't you tell the story of 2010?
However, the French are French after all. The graffiti all over the ghetto is so wonderful and beautiful. These hip-hop costumes, tattoos, film colors, and soundtracks are very comfortable and "artistic." More importantly, the story did surprise us several times, often with unexpected turns. Making movies doesn't have to follow Hollywood's vulgar routines.
Later, it was discovered that one of the screenwriters was Luc Besson...The director was Pierre Morel, who has been working with Besson for many years in photography and art. This film is his directorial debut.
And, even in such an authentic action movie, the French still have to talk about politics, democracy, and rights... The story still has to conceive an evil government/official, and use the protagonist to say, "In front of the law, each of us All are equal", using public opinion as a powerful weapon for individuals to resist the state apparatus (at the end, the protagonist secretly took a video of the conspiracy revealed by the politicians and threatened them to put it on TV or online), and heroism is embodied in saving 2 million. The lives of people (although half of them are scumbags)-from the conspiracy of the government and not from the terrorists. Adhering to the view that the national government is regarded as the natural enemy of individual freedom in the western liberalism tradition.
The plot will not be introduced, in short it is indeed worth watching.
Some other gossip:
IMDB is really a good tool for inquiring about the past and present of filmmakers.
I found that most of the directors and actors of the film are people who have been with Luc Besson for a long time, and many of them are involved in The Transporter. For example, the director of the film was the photographer of the film, and Luc Besson was also one of the screenwriters of the film. We have watched this film on the starmovie channel. The story is very vulgar, but the actor Jason Statham is really cool! He is also a muscular man with a sense of strength and speed-and he seems to be very popular. There are six movies to be played in 2005 and 2006, including The Transporter II. In addition, Shu Qi has some sexy scenes in it.
Another movie related to Banlieue 13 with a Chinese protagonist that was also seen through starmovie is Kiss of the Dragon. By the way, Jet Li is the hero inside, and he and Besson are screenwriters together.
As for the two extreme extreme sports heroes in this film, ah, Cyril ran through the dragon in Kiss of the Dragon, at the same time as stuntmen in the film and The Transpotter and other action films, and as judo instructor in Taxi 2... … As for David, he has ran less tactics, such as playing the role of "maskman" and also served as a cinematographer... I like these two guys and wish them an early success from "Song Bingyi" to "Star". The process of upgrading and evolution of "God"!
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