To be honest, when I saw the trailer for Jackie Chan's "Pioneer" last year, I had a hunch that the film wasn't very good. The trailer gives you a "fake" feeling - the fight is a bit fake, the few moments in the trailer are really ridiculous; the filter is a bit fake, the grumpy street fight is too cleanly repaired; the motivation is a bit fake...
But this year, I have nothing to do but watch it again.
Do you pull your hips? kinda. Qualified? Absolutely qualified.
In fact, Jackie Chan has long stopped filming the "dragon-style action comedy". From "Zodiac", "Jedi Escape", "Kung Fu Yoga" in previous years to last year's "Pioneer", they are all teaching Hollywood's standard answers to the Chinese entertainment industry ("British Showdown") A bit special, half an exception).
Take a look at the narrative structure of the above-mentioned films, without exception: fight - tell a story - fight - watch the scenery - fight - tell a story - fight
Another look at our favorite Kingsman series: Fight - Tell a Story - Fight - Look at the Scenery - Fight - Tell a Story - Fight
It is updated almost every year, and the level has declined in recent years, but we still watch the "Spy Film Spring Festival Gala" and "Mission Impossible" every year: fights - storytelling - fighting - watching the scenery - fighting - telling stories - -fight
The "Fast and Furious" series (mainly 5 and later) transformed from the speeding party to the superhero: fighting (drag racing) - storytelling - fighting (drag racing) - watching the scenery - fighting (drag racing) - storytelling - fight (drag racing)
Did you find it? This is a routine, this is the standard answer to an example question in a Hollywood blockbuster!
And this 20-year answer sheet is particularly standard.
The two male protagonists at the beginning rushed into the restaurant to save people, and Yang Yang ran into the small room with the VIP to block the door and jumped off the building. Familiar, right? It doesn't matter if you are not familiar with it, you must be familiar with the following. Allen ran to the kitchen with the female VIP, and after settling the VIP, he fought two macho men in the kitchen. Kitchen fights! From the previous "Bourneville (forgot which one)", to "The Raid 2" in recent years, and then to the recent "Creed", there are many, many action movies that have chosen to live with the hotel kitchen. The reason Where is it? Without him, there are many props and complex terrain. Even the old beauty who relies on brute force likes to fight in the hotel kitchen (they hardly use props), how can our "King of Furniture City" Jackie Chan let go of the hotel kitchen?
After being rescued, the Chinese boss told Jackie Chan a story. Everyone knows that this is the background of the account, but it's better to deal with it than to use a voice-over if you can't think of a way.
The plot is logically pushed to save the daughter, and of course, the back is the "good guys and bad guys arrive at the same time, both sides are stroke guns", the mother Qi Miya's various sacrifice techniques to bring down the bad guys (shocked and cold! Why can't women One punch knocks people out?), Yang Yang's block, long punches, and high whip legs are quite karate-like, Alan's fight seems to be a little bit old-fashioned and simple, and of course the dragon-style comedy has to be played by Jackie Chan. Others have no taste.
Remember the structure of a canonical answer? After the second fight was over, it was time to see the scenery. My daughter took the opportunity to say something that the benevolent sees the benevolent and the wise sees wisdom, and the third fight began.
The highlight of the third fight was the water chase and the hand-to-hand combat it led to. The action design of the fight on the boat has its own attention, and Jackie Chan made this the main event, and it took a lot of thought. Especially the last scene of Jackie Chan robbing a motorboat to save his mother Qi Miya is really amazing (of course, it is indeed a bit fake). Of course, I don't think it is necessary to design the arrangement of Yang Yang's capture so that Yang Yang's fists and feet are stronger than the mercenary leader but he is stunned by a wrench, but it can be designed that the mercenary leader is slightly stronger than Yang Yang (the martial arts instructor of the marriage class is world-class, It can definitely be done).
Then there's storytelling, which we'll skip.
The fourth fight is to rescue the hostages, which can be called the climax of the whole film, and this is also the failure of the film.
In this battle, you can see the strong Hollywood flavor again. In the beginning, everyone's ambush and investigation, to the shootout and bomb disposal in the middle, to the fire suppression at the back, and the racing to escape, you said that I would not believe it without the inspiration of "Mission Impossible" and "007".
Of course, there is also the well-liked foreshadowing that everyone can guess with the buttocks of "the male second standing flag led to the final (almost) death + the souvenir from the son on the chest blocked a shot."
The high-tech drones and trapeze that are comparable to superhero films, the seamless cooperation between bright and dark lines, the powerful firepower of the bad guys, the vehicle-mounted machine guns of the good guys and an angry macho... Such a high configuration, plus the appropriate amount of suppression from release to release The rhythm is a proper climax in any movie. But the film's downfall is that it puts the climax in the penultimate fight.
This ancient city rescue is a fast-paced fight (including the investigation phase). According to Hollywood's routine, it is most suitable for the last battle of a movie that has suppressed emotions for nearly two hours. But the end of the movie is a battle that jumps out of the routine.
The first is the slow-paced investigation that is full of the flavor of "Mission Impossible." This kind of investigation is actually more suitable for the early and middle stages of the movie, that is, the second and third battles, but such a slow-paced play should be placed after a climax. , will inevitably make people a little annoying.
But the most annoying thing is that the invincible Jackie Chan team allowed the local police to lead the operation in the final battle.
Of course, this is more reasonable in reality, but in the movie this is a must taboo. Any movie in which a native male (female) intervenes in foreign violence will show how weak the local government army is.
For example, the Middle East government forces in "Operation Red Sea" encountered difficulties and couldn't think of a way, and the government forces in "Wolf Warrior 2" were defeated at the beginning. When it is the turn of the American police or the U.S. military, they will not be soft-hearted. When they encounter Terminator and Rambo, the U.S. military has to retreat.
damage? Too much damage. is it necessary? There really is.
Only when the bad guys fight against one hundred, can the bad guys appear to be strong, and the protagonist can be shown to be stronger when the protagonist passes the test. You can't let the protagonist compete with a bunch of fools, right?
Speaking of the final battle, what should the Jackie Chan team do without guns? The trapeze figured out a good idea - spray some sticky, opaque I don't know what it is on the bad guy's windshield to block the view.
Civilian materials, on-the-spot play, and very smart design, this is definitely a highlight in the penultimate or third battle. But in the final battle, it will only be more irritating.
"Spider-Man: Homecoming" also made the same mistake. It confiscated the high-tech suit and let the protagonist use the most primitive equipment to fight the BOSS.
The most irritating is at the end. Just after Jackie Chan cleaned up all the scumbags and Yang Yang disarmed the mercenary leader, I (believing I'm not the only one) was looking forward to a 1v1 man fight between Yang Yang and the mercenary leader, the best duration should be more than 7 minutes Zhong (why it is more than 7 minutes, I have the opportunity to say another); it is better for the good people to lose the wind at first, and then change their strategies to suppress the bad people, the bad people play tricks, and the good people fight back.
This is the routine, the eternal routine. The sniper gun in "Fuse" just happened to be stuck, and Wu Chi in "The Raid" had no use for a gun, all to complete the unarmed fight between two men; in "Fast and the Furious 7", even if there was a gun, he had to throw it away and take two sticks Come to fight, "Wolf Warrior 2" even moved out tanks and warships, but when the protagonist and the villain want to break up at the end, they must take off their body armor and fight in a short-sleeved shirt.
Doesn't Jackie Chan understand this? Jackie Chan is one of the people who understands this best, both in the US and in China. Thinking back then, the BOSS battle of his "Fast Food Truck" was rated as "the second fight in the world" by the American Black Belt Magazine, and the boss fight in "Drunken Fist 2" was rated as the "fourth fight in the world". , rhythm, does anyone know better than Yuan Heping, Sammo Hung, Jackie Chan?
But Jackie Chan did the opposite when he should use this routine, and asked the Dubai Police to come over early to clean up the scene. You must know that this is almost never seen in the movie. The police (here refers to third-party forces abstractly, and the male protagonist is a policeman is not considered) if they come, they will also let the police take the male protagonist away at the beginning to promote the plot. No one has ever dared to disturb the final battle of men - if the Hong Kong police in the old Hong Kong films could come so quickly, 80% of Chow Yun-fat's films would be unfinished.
Success is also a routine, failure is also a routine. If it weren't for this near-unfinished failure, this movie could be a more mature (I'm not saying better, there is a difference between the two) commercial than "Wolf Warrior 2".
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