On this level of definition, "Kingsman: The Secret Service" seems to be bucking the trend, taking a retro yet innovative creation of the dead British agents. The British sent a strong lineup of Colin Firth, Michael Caine, and Mark Strong to confront the black actor Samuel L. Jackson from Hollywood, and even the code names of several agents directly quoted King Arthur's Knights of the Round Table, and the English name Kingsman was more intentional. Its frame is generally still an action movie where justice defeats evil, but this time, under the theme of diaosi counterattack and boy growth, there is a deep nostalgia for the knight elite. Suits, tailors, umbrellas, manors, hunting and famous wines are full of retro British nobility. The young protagonist Taron Egerton paid his respects to Colin Firth for the first time in the tavern. A frontal composition made the gentleman role model in the heart of the adolescent male protagonist from now on (the Easter egg after the film, Taron Egerton followed the path of Colin Firth Replayed in the tavern); and the important rule that old agents teach young children to become agents is: "The first identity of an agent is a gentleman." This Colin Firth, who won the Oscar for best actor for playing George VI, wore black-rimmed glasses and neatly combed his hair, calmly and abnormally on the screen. When his companion was killed, he gave an implicit performance that was full of sadness, but was restrained, deep, and not exaggerated. Compared to Samuel L. in hip-hop costumes, all kinds of spoofs (McDonald's with red wine), and outside performances, Samuel L. Jackson, everything is full of cultural confrontation. Of course, this retrospect of traditional elite culture is not a feudal, dogmatic stagnation of the privileged class. It has corresponding revisions in line with contemporary values. When the villain in the film uses God's moral code to find the exact rationale for his evil deeds, the film uses a brilliant explosion like fireworks (the most beautiful passage in the film) to make the most elegant protest: who has the right to decide which Who lives and who dies; is the ultimate value of a person simply measured by money and status, or is it noble or not in their hearts? In the climax, the sympathetic male protagonist puts on a tailor-made suit and after a single fight shatters the villain's ridiculous plan, the British also successfully export their cultural pride on the screen: Manner Makes Man, the inner and outer The Double Gentleman in.
In addition to the belief level, the film allows us to see the retrospect of tradition, the prisons in the caves separated by thick walls, various cumbersome steel devices, leather shoes with sharp knives, pens with poisons, both as guns and as guns. Umbrellas that can be used as shields reveal the shadow of the traditional agent movies of the last century, and even the most typical political background of the Cold War period was cleverly inserted through Reagan and Star Wars. Although it has the fascination with technology in traditional special agent movies, it also has the rational thinking of contemporary people on technology and even modern society. The villain played by Samuel L. Jackson, as a technology entrepreneur, through mobile phones and chips, through the free network, can easily make human society fall into a kind of absurdity of being controlled and self-mutilating due to its own greed The realm is not unimaginable.
As I said at the beginning, "Kingsman: The Secret Service" is not only retro and tribute, it has a bloody killing scene rarely seen in special agent movies, and it is matched with various modern-style back music as a foil. The story of Diaosi's counterattack and the growth of men is integrated into the framework of genre films. It focuses on shaping the character of the characters, and spends a lot of space to show the sympathy of the male protagonist (fox, puppy), the stinky fart and exaggeration (woman) as a diaosi. Regardless of whether the character setting of the old and new collocation symbolizes a desire for the fusion of tradition and modernity, but in terms of the social significance of the film text, it is undoubtedly just like the character's self-tacking about the experience in the film - "My Fair Lady" "--the same, fulfilling a society's realistic need to alleviate class contradictions: dreaming, and thus earning its due commodity value-a lot of box office.
(Finally complain about a certain game, the church fight you cut out makes Colin Firth's death seem tense, abrupt, and lacks the weight that the character should have. Bad review!)
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