In fact, among the many Hollywood films, pure men's films were originally rare, but before the 1980s, Hollywood war films were still very pure. This is different from the fact that there is always a beautiful female soldier popping up in today’s war movies. The war movies at that time were almost pure men’s world, which also created a group of tough guys who are especially suitable for rolling in this kind of movies, Lee Ma Wen is a typical example. The Oscar actor's face full of thick lines always makes people excited, and his starring "Twelve King Kong" is a typical representative of his pure men's movies.
This film, filmed in 1967, tells the story of twelve military prison felons who were selected to train to assassinate high-ranking Nazi officials. And Lee Marvin played the "warden" who trained the twelve prisoners. Twelve prisoners, plus a warden, thirteen people with very different personalities gathered together-the setting of this role and the arrangement of the plot made people feel bloody. The many protagonists and the compact plot make it almost impossible for such films to have a space for female characters to participate in. The conflicts and contradictions of many roles have to be arranged in the limited sections of the film, which makes such films often full of tension. "The Twelve King Kong" has created 13 distinct characters for us, including violent, pathological, cunning, gentle...13 characters and 13 characters. The film always uses some specific segments to let the audience remember and like these murderers, robbers and thieves one by one, and in the end they are amazed at their deaths. From their training to their final death, there is no sloppy plot in the plot, and even the actors' performances are simply neat-this is the charm of pure men.
It can be said that "The Twelve King Kong" is a typical standard film for the performance of death squads. The feature of this type of movie is that there are many protagonists with different personalities, and they show the spirit of teamwork in the process of performing tasks, and the early running-in training plays often take a lot of weight, and they are also starring Lee Marvin. "Seven Heroes" (a western film adapted from "The Seven Samurai") also basically follows this line. The famous "Wild Goose" is also a typical example of this type. It can be said that almost all the Expendables movies have escaped. Without such a framework, even films that show the police force such as "Overlord Flower", which will be popular in Hong Kong in the future, are also a "clone" of this kind of death squad film. This shows the influence of this type of film. Unfortunately, under the impetuous film economy, it is difficult for such films to appear on the screen anymore. Instead, the famous "liar film" "Eleven Arhats" has a kind of death squad film frame-this It was a "sense" that made me helpless.
I miss the purity, miss the pure men, miss the "Twelve King Kong"!
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