Avatar - Eyes open, but not moved
. This film is not as enjoyable as I imagined.
Some people list the movie catalogues that have been borrowed by directors in the past decade: The Lord of the Rings
, Mobius, Infernal Affairs, The Last Samurai , Dances with Wolves, Pocahontas , Princess Mononoke, Castle in the Sky , Nausicaa, The Matrix , Sky War, Star Wars Episode 3 World of Warcraft Tiandi Xuanhuang Shushan Transformers The Condor Heroes Tairuo Planet Taishan ... As an ordinary audience, I don't care how much the movie draws on (just like the good operas of the past dynasties always draw on the mature words of poetry, the focus of my watching is not here), I don't care if it's akin to "a great anti-demolition fight" (big themes can be taunted with such viciousness and get cheap pleasure, please allow me to ignore such little cleverness), nor do I care Various technologies can raise the ticket price of a movie to what extent. I only care about his own thoughts that he wants to express and whether he expresses them accurately. Is there power. If you take two hours to copy all the above films and combine them to express a theme accurately, that is your greatness. Look and feel: The technique of performance is already very strong, but no matter how good the idea is, show it to me powerfully through action! It is a pity that some ideas were expressed hastily. Shopping is a must, how do similar links in similar movies show?
Let's make a quick comparison:
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"All living things are interconnected neurons in an ecological network"
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind - Placating a Larvae by Placating a Larvae array of anger. That kind of spectacle is through the little heart throbbing - the miracle of the heart happens right before your eyes.
Avatar - The female scientist repeatedly threatened "this is going to be a big thing", and then we see that the big thing is that all the tribes unite.
(One more thing, in fact, "all living things are interconnected neurons in an ecological network" is a world view worth showing, the confrontation between the polarity of people and the rhythm of plants described in "The Fall of the West". Then the army The opposite of the tribal union should not be so simple and so polar. It should be a confrontation that the director's inherent thinking cannot imagine. The confrontation in "Princess Mononoke".)
·Same airplane shape, suspended island, big tree
Avatar ——Using advanced modern technology to replace Grandpa Gong's blood-vomiting hand-painting to achieve realistic effects.
"City in the Sky" - they really fly! Listen to the first five minutes of "City in the Sky". There is no text, no dialogue, no spaceship to the planet, but the feeling is: a profound legend!
·Resurrection of one person and two bodies - The
Matrix - A kiss of resurrection to turn the tide;
Avatar - Bring an oxygen mask to the hero in a tin box, and he will come back to life. There is no firmness in despair, let alone love.
·The gene mutation of the hero -
"Journey to the West" - the favorite person eats bananas in Peking Opera and makes a big appearance;
"The Grim Reaper" - also did not explain the process of subduing the helper, but when Ichigo was wearing a flight suit, he was released. The Zanpakutō was lightly placed on Kuchiki Rukia, and there was only the sound of wind and tears pouring down from her ears.
Avatar - he came on a red bird, that's all. There are no surprises.
(Heroes should appear at the most desperate moment of the crowd. At least when the hearts of Pandora planet are scattered and leave the big tree, there is a big bird's shadow on his face - he is here! The epic gorgeous landing is just the landing strip of the plane in the end It 's like a mediocre moment.)
Change of stance -
Avatar - I can't stand seeing the big tree destroyed. Request (note that it is a verbal request, no forceful action) to try another transformation;
"The King of Comedy" - - The little gangster looked at her grandmother's back, "She's the hero, you're not!" Changed to acting; the prostitute cried in the car - all of which made people's souls suffer so deeply.
·The depth of the villain -
"October Siege" - "I am not a Qing court eagle!" He really is not. He has a chilling texture.
Avatar - Similar scars on the face do not explain its survival wisdom. "Here is hell" is just a lip service. Blindness does not constitute a metaphor for the clever destruction of nature in the contemporary world. There should be at least one appeaseer by his side who is "nothing will happen". Unfortunately, the small commander left me with only two categories of simple conceit and fear, even if he is so precise The high-tech map he plays golf in the office but this little guy who should be brilliant is not set up at all.
· The presentation of technology -
"2001: A Space Odyssey" - is there any bells and whistles? But it shows the desperation of technology and the limited depth of human beings.
Avatar - that stereo map... I just thought it was too fancy. I have always felt that if a person cannot read digital maps, he is not worthy of a military professional.
As above,
I am not saying that "similarity is not good", in the archetypal sense, the same type of film is the same. I also don't expect a genre movie that has been grinded for ten years to become a genre movie. (The movie is simply the "Western" genre. Invaders-natives-heroes) But why are we obsessed with genre movies? Because we need to keep repeating such archetypes to satisfy psychological needs. Every genre film should satisfy the audience at every key performance point.
At this point, the pitfall that Avatar should have avoided is node weakness.
For example, if Avatar adds such a plot:
Humans celebrate after returning from an attack on a big tree.
shake. Champagne sprinkled all over.
A volcanic gap in the earth. The base was forced to move.
The female scientist said: That's Pandora's pain.
Sadly, in the movie, such a node is even missing.
PS/ At least we should see hype success. And analyze how the hypnotic madness of the crowd comes about.
1. We have seen numbers (500 million, 10 years, some technical content), please refer to the relevant paragraphs of "The Little Prince" for blind faith in numbers (I'll post it if it's not too long: I'll tell you about the little planet B612 and tell you its number because of these adults. These adults love numbers. When you tell the adults about a new friend of yours, they never ask you a substantive question. They never say, "How does he speak? What kind of games does he like? Does he collect butterfly specimens?" They ask you, "How old is he? How many brothers? How much does he weigh? How much does my father make?" They think that's how they know their friends. If you say to the grownups, "I saw a beautiful house of rose-colored bricks, with geraniums in the windows and geraniums on the roof. With pigeons . !");
2. We believe that a person who has lived in seclusion for ten years must be a master, and his setting must be extremely powerful. I seem to have forgotten that Cameron was a ten-year coinage businessman, he was not Leo Tolstoy.
PS/I really want to review "City in the Sky" again.
It is reminding us that our future is in a simple town rather than high-profile romance; in practical life rather than superficial magic.
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