I didn't have too many expectations for the film "Battleship Island" at first. Although the finished film is not an unrecognizable classic, it also completely exceeded expectations.
After this year's Cannes Palme d'Or was handed over to "Parasite", it was inevitable to pay more attention to Korean films. Although there are quite a few film critics who think this is the degeneration of Cannes, I personally think it is Cannes. improvement.
Most of the winners of the Palme d’Or in Cannes are indeed films with a very high artistic level, but compared with ordinary audiences like me, there are basically few people who have heard of them, and even fewer have seen them. Although art itself cannot be of a national nature, democratization is the development trend of modern art, and films that can take into account both artistry and popular are the most valuable.
Just like "Parasite" can not only express the questions that you want to respond to and the emotions you want to express, but also make the movie itself look good. As a main theme movie, "Battleship Island" can effectively express national emotions. Reflecting historical reality and being good-looking in the field of commercial films should indeed be worth learning.
The shooting opportunity of "Battleship Island" came from "In 2015, Gunkanjima was included as a part of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution and was included in the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage." Koreans shot the film out of protest. , Putting aside national sentiments, this film is actually a propositional composition in a sense.
The focus of the film itself is the Battleship Island itself, and the national mood and main theme must be taken into account, as well as the establishment of the story and characters, and finally commercial considerations. In fact, this film is quite difficult to shoot. The director Liu Shengwan is relatively unknown to the big names in the film, but the quality of the film is also very good, which is evident in the Korean film industry.
It is often easy to compare the main theme of China's own theme when seeing foreign theme movies. It is often difficult for anti-Japanese dramas such as "Wolf Warrior 2" to achieve such a high degree of completion, and the contrast between stories and characters is even more. Horrible. But it's hard to say that people are not good. On the one hand, they can't be scolded because they occupy the main theme.
Of course, just comparing "Wolf Warrior 2" is bullying people. The main theme movies like "Operation Mekong" and " Taking Tiger Mountain by Wisdom " are also very good. Of course, the efforts of directors Tsui Hark and Lin Chaoxian are indispensable. Movies are not only the art of the director, but also the embodiment of the director's overall scheduling ability, and more importantly, the embodiment of the industry. In this regard, the filmmakers in the Mainland are indeed not doing enough.
However, I still believe that this phenomenon will soon be gone forever. With the maturity of the film market, the quality of the audience has also improved a lot. Besides money, they also have brains, and they can’t learn to talk about bad movies. The maturity of the market will promote the maturity of the industry, and there will be more and more good movies.
Back to the "Battleship Island" film itself, although this film has done everything in all aspects, it is not a classic masterpiece. The biggest problem is the routine.
The routines are always popular, and the use of routines cannot be said to be bad. The routineization of this film is still relatively obvious. The main theme film shooting technique This film is also typical, the shaping of the characters are also template-style, and the rhythm of the whole story is a common Hollywood structure. Routines have greatly reduced the film's appeal and expressiveness, and it is difficult for the audience's emotions to be driven by a deliberately provocative chapter.
There is also a film with a historical theme, although it has undergone a lot of artistic processing, not only for the final people who escaped from the warship island, but also for the heroic role of Park Yingwu played by Song Zhongji. The film's attitude towards its history is independent.
Often the main theme movies will favor one over the other, beautify one's own country and nation, and blacken others. This film can’t say no, but among the Japanese in the film, there will also be young girls in the flower season who are raped by the fierce North Koreans, and the American fathers of the Koreans will also bombard the civilians recklessly. Compared with the external invaders’ own people Traitors are the most terrifying, and this film also focuses on North Korean traitors, which is another angle.
Of course, this seems to have aroused the dissatisfaction of many people in South Korea, which has also led to a certain shrinkage of the box office. It has to be said that there will be movie audiences with intense national emotions everywhere. However, for other East Asian countries that have been invaded by Japan, this film has been more successful in business. Of course, mainland China did not have this film for various reasons, and it has to be said that it is a pity.
It is also very important for the movie itself to make money. After all, it is not realistic to use love to generate electricity. For the development of the movie, it has a bigger position than the classic classics that may be handed down. There may be many good commercial movies. What we need now is more of this good film.
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