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Sexy women can be deadly!
In today's Hollywood, some of the themes that were previously only for men have gradually become turning or topical works by female actors.
And female agents hidden in the shadow of politics also occupy an increasingly important position.
The black widow in "Avengers", Marvel's well-deserved sister.
Scarlett Johansson 's indomitable progress on the road of literary films made her a hot first-line actress in Hollywood.
But it was the role of "Black Widow" that really pushed her popularity to the top.
He received various fighting and assassination skills training since he was a child, and his body was transformed by the secret organization "Red Room", which strengthened various physical abilities and slowed the rate of aging, becoming a wartime ace agent.
Lorraine Broughton in "Cold City", a senior agent who combines mystery and wildness.
When Hollywood action movies were all contracted by men.
The 42-year-old Charlize Theron conquered audiences all over the world with his cold and sexy hand-to-hand combat.
Dominika Yegorova in "The Cardinals", a beautiful and cold female spy.
Although the story itself is not brilliant, but Jennifer Lawrence 's large-scale performance is convincing enough.
In fact, these "feminist" female agent blockbusters, in addition to the superficial beauty of gender, also broke the tone of the traditional "female weak" theory, and gave Hollywood actresses a shot.
So in 2019, this stunner also embarked on the road of female agents:
"Anna"丨Anna
Men are all visual animals, and they lose their minds when they encounter stunners. Even the famous "007" Bond will be recruited.
The director Luc Besson is no exception. He also prefers skinny, tall, enchanting, viper, and fierce beauties.
Like "Nikita", "Super Body", "The Fifth Element" and many other masterpieces, "Anna" is still a movie with women as the protagonist, and it is also a cold and frosty beauty setting.
Sasha Ruth, the actress of the heroine Anna , is a well-known Russian supermodel.
A tall figure, a soft demeanor, and delicate features... it's a man's poison.
Even the streets of Paris and the squares of Moscow are only worthy of serving as her backdrop.
Coupled with the passionate fighting scenes, "Anna" brought a completely different visual impact to the audience.
In the film, Anna is a magazine model excavated by scouts on one side, and a mysterious and enchanting female killer on the other.
If "Anna" is compared with the same type of "Cardinals" and "Cold City", it is of course indistinguishable from "Cardinals", but it is obviously slightly inferior to "Cold City".
However, I have to admit that Luc Besson is good at exploiting strengths and avoiding weaknesses. Therefore, the entire film minimizes the complicated intrigue, allowing the audience to enjoy the beauty and violence to the full.
In order to perfectly combine the two elements of "beauties" and "agents" , and make the two to the extreme.
For this reason, Anna was specially arranged for a full five-minute play, which is still Luc Besson's aesthetic as always.
If only the heroine's Yan He plays, it is difficult to hold up a movie. It also needs a plot to look even better.
The whole story uses interspersed and flashback methods to continuously create suspense and reverse the plot, so as to plump the heroine's character.
When Anna completes a task, the time progress bar begins to recall and tells Anna's life experience.
It turns out that after the death of both parents, Anna's life was very unhappy, and she was often abused by her boyfriend.
He was even forced to participate in some robberies, choosing between survival and death.
And she became a supermodel, became a spy for KGB, all because of this sentence: After five years, you will be free!
But once you embark on this path, it will be difficult to retreat in the future, so Anna also deceives between various relationships.
In order not to let the audience feel that Anna only has a good pair of skins, Luc Besson followed his old routine: literary stalks .
In the movie "This Killer Is Not So Cold", Luc Besson mentioned three representatives of classical music.
Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms.
When classical music and violent aesthetics collide, it often produces a unique sense of sublime and rigorous beauty.
Although Anna is cold, but also charming; seemingly weak, but in fact strong; tolerate everything, just for freedom.
In fact, Hollywood special agent-themed action movies are personal heroism that has remained unchanged for thousands of years.
The female protagonist basically comes with its own invincible buff, because the aura is too bright, so the actors don't have much room for acting.
In the end, the director can only use sexy dresses and wonderful fights to cover up the shortcomings of some places.
In the end, these "feminist" female agent blockbuster films actually failed to break away from the stereotypes of Hollywood action movies, and the core of the film is still to please the patriarchal aesthetic.
Except for the beauty of gender on the surface, there is almost no display of the beauty of other women.
Even if there is a large-scale fighting scene, it just stops on a superficial surface, and does not dig deep into the special features of the female agent, and it is expected that it will turn into a bad movie.
And "Anna" is definitely not Luc Besson's best work, but it is his favorite motif: freedom !
Anna's fate is ill-fated. Whether she is working for KGB or helping the CIA, she yearns for a stable life all the time.
Maybe five months was just a blink of an eye for ordinary people, but for Anna it was a long life that was manipulated by others.
According to the chronological order of the movie, there were 3 men beside Anna: Alex, Leonard, and Olga.
1. Anna and Alex remain ambiguous, so that he can stand on their side, so that they can use him to help themselves out in the future;
2. Anna and Leonard are together in order to get close to him and obtain the secrets of the CIA as a bargaining chip to get rid of control in the future.
3. She also cooperated with her boss Olga to get rid of the leader of KGB, but she quietly recorded the voice when discussing cooperation.
It seems that she has been in control of her own destiny, but in fact her destiny is constantly being controlled and changed hands, and has never returned to her own hands.
After all, women you can only believe in yourself !
Whether it is Nikita or Anna, their inner yearning for love and life has not changed from beginning to end.
The more people who have experienced hardship, the more they can understand the value of ordinary life, and the more they will be motivated to take the initiative to find hope.
Plainness is true, not groundless, but truth that can stand the test of practice.
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