The overall conception of the film itself is good, the whole film is divided into three lines, one features fictional, grassroots witnesses of historical events as protagonists, telling their personal stories in the historical context, and connecting some equally grassroots but real historical figures Come together, like Miller, the heroic black sailor in this movie. Taking the stories of ordinary people as the main line of the film makes it easier for ordinary audiences to immerse themselves in historical events, and can better appreciate the shock of historical events to people at that time. The development of historical events serves as a secondary line, because as a war-themed movie, there are naturally two sides of the war. In this movie, it is the United States and Japan. Therefore, this sub-line can be divided into two lines, the Japanese side and the American side. The three lines cross each other, especially the sub-line between the United States and Japan. As two lines that echo each other, they have been constantly switched and echoed from the very beginning. This kind of echo was relatively soothing at first, but as the historical events progressed step by step, it gradually became more dense and urgent, creating a scene of rain and wind filling the building, and finally on the day of the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, Japanese planes dropped bombs The moment when the three clues come together to make all the plot explode at that moment. Because the Pearl Harbor incident ended with a complete defeat for the United States, in order to ensure that the final mood is upward, the Doolittle air raid ends the film.
The idea is good, but there are big problems in implementation. The first is the story of ordinary people as the main line. The story is not well written. It's not just a love triangle, it's my brother's wife. The story didn't work from the beginning of the movie. At the beginning, two children were arranged, and the future male protagonist and the second male would fly a plane to play war games, expressing the meaning of "they like to fly planes when they were young, and they are air combat heroes when they are young", which is very vulgar and very fake. After that, Danny went to protect Rafe by beating his father, thus showing brotherhood even more false. I don't know what kind of circuit it is to fight a good friend's father to declare friendship. Not to mention that after the fight, Leif and his father followed and hugged their shoulders to show a father-son relationship. Therefore, from the beginning of this paragraph, you can understand why the love triangle in the back is so embarrassing. I strongly doubt that the writers of this film can't write stories about ordinary people. I deliberately searched, and it seems that it is indeed a little more to write historical dramas and war movies. The only movie that is close to ordinary people, "Heaven Really Exists" is a missionary film. There is really no convincing work to come out in this regard.
In the part of the movie as a sub-line, it is quite brilliant, and the biggest advantage is the refinement. Often a few lines or even a set of shots conveys enough information. This is the same as "Tiger! Tiger! Tiger! ” is very obvious in comparison. This can be found if you are interested in comparing the way the two films represent the same historical event. Take, for example, the radar on Pearl Harbor. "Tiger! Tiger! Tiger! "It starts with the establishment of the radar station, then the commander arranges manpower, installs telephones, and tries out the telephones. Two radar soldiers discuss whether to report on the day of the air raid. An officer tells the intelligence officer on duty tomorrow that you should take note of the flight from the mainland tomorrow. The bomber that came, the officer on duty the next day mistook the Japanese plane for a local bomber. For such a long story, there are only two dialogues, two scenes, and important points in "Pearl Harbor", such as the low reliability of the radar and the mistakes of intelligence officials. The rest of the mess turned out to be cumbersome, and removing them doesn't affect the narrative at all. At the same time, the important key point, "Tiger! Tiger! Tiger! "The point mentioned, "Pearl Harbor" basically has it, "Tiger! Tiger! Tiger! "Yes, the points that "Pearl Harbor" did not have, are basically not important, such as the quirks of the ghosts of the Black Island, the tedious handover ceremony of the commander-in-chief of the fleet, are these important? None of this matters at all. The audience thought that Pearl Harbor generally only cares about these things, what did the United States do wrong, and what did Japan do right that caused the United States to be hammered by Japan. In this focus, "Pearl Harbor" basically did not miss any detail.
At the same time, in terms of performance, there is also the mutual reflection between Japan and the United States. The US military just said that the water is too shallow and the torpedoes cannot be used. The Japanese side is thinking of modifying torpedoes with wooden fins. Roosevelt on the American side complained about why the United States did not join the war, and the Japanese side began to decide to attack the United States. The Washington Intelligence Center of the United States is still debating whether to warn Pearl Harbor. Japan has already removed the propeller cover of the Zero fighter. This became even more obvious later on, with the roar of the Japanese fighter jets' engines, flashing back to the U.S. military's continuous receipt of information that Japan was about to go to war until the final climax.
However, how do you say this movie on the screen? It's embarrassing, it's not easy to blow, but it doesn't seem to be dark. On individual screens, the film has stunning shots that are extremely shocking and expressive. However, once these pictures are connected, it feels a little strange. When you are infected by the emotions shown in the movie screen, and you are about to get this empathy, you are immediately interrupted. For example, when the Japanese plane was about to fly over Pearl Harbor, one side was the intensive attack of the United States, and the other side was the slack American soldiers, interspersed with each other until the climax, just when you thought it was about to explode. It does this rhythm all over again in a different way. When watching a movie, the feeling is often like this "It's going to explode, it's going to explode, Pearl Harbor is going to explode, um, it hasn't exploded yet, wait a while, it will definitely explode below, it hasn't exploded yet, whether it will explode or not, Michael Bay You should blow it up quickly." The same is true for the end, you never know when this plot will end. When Nagumo announced that the meaning of the raid was over and canceled the third wave of attacks, he gave a series of soothing scenes that the plot was over, but it turned out to be a series of quick-cut hospital scenes, which continued to lift the audience's emotions. Finally, When the female nurse cried out "What should I do?", this episode was completely over and entered into a long memory episode. Michael Bay's own shots are enough for him to blow up two or three times in different ways, and then he's going to cram those two or three shots into a movie. He is just like when we were writing essays when we were young, he suddenly thought of a good word and sentence and stuffed it into the essay, regardless of whether it was appropriate or not, whether it was cumbersome or not.
I just watched a video analyzing Michael Bay, saying that Michael Bay is the slave of his own eyes. He only takes pictures of him that he thinks is good, but he is too lazy to tell a good story. After watching it, I am in awe, especially able to explain that I am watching the movie. Strange feeling during. This movie is often the first time I watch it, it's amazing, awesome, really good, but when I sit down and watch it for the second and third times, and I'm ready to analyze it in detail, that strange feeling comes up. When I saw it for the first time, I thought it was awesome. Can ordinary people take this shot? Oscar doesn't give him an award, it's really blind. When I watch it for the second time, I think I'm blind if I think this way.
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