Anyway, when I came into contact with Hollywood movies, that is, when the so-called "American blockbusters" were first introduced in the 1990s, there were only 10 movies in one year. The film titled "Brave the Dead Island" was completely shocked from head to toe. It was one of the most profound imported films for me when I was still in middle school. I was completely overwhelmed by the shocking images and stories. I didn't care about the names of the two actors, the old man and the young man. After many years, I gradually watched more films and became more and more interested in films. It was only after being thick, that I gradually learned that the old and young combination in this film was also a well-known figure in Hollywood at that time, the veteran "007" Sean Connery and the pillar of the Mesozoic Nicholas Cage, and it was also That year, Cage topped the 66th Academy Award for Best Actor with "Leaving Las Vegas".
Tom Cruise, Keanu Reeves, Brad Pitt, Johnny Depp, Jean-Claude Winton, Will Smith, Daniel Craig, Hugh Jackman...see the names Yet? They are also Hollywood actors born in the 1960s, and each of them was once extremely brilliant and prosperous, and even entered the 20 million salary club, and several of them are still on the big screen and continue their glory, but among these people, it seems that only Cage got his hands on the Oscar winner, which shows his status in the rivers and lakes, uh... After checking it out, he seemed to have forgotten Russell Crowe's outstanding performance in "Gladiator".
To sum up, I can imagine that Nicholas Cage had a great influence on me personally. I have seen almost all of his works, especially those from the 1990s. So far, he is still one of my favorite Hollywood male stars. Although it has been a long time since he has made a decent movie, it is a bit sad to say this. I don't know when it started. Uncle, he started to shoot all kinds of bad movies endlessly. When his peers have at most one work a year, or even a few years, he has maintained a very high level for several years in a row with the attitude of a model worker. The output has repeatedly corrupted the character and popularity that he has accumulated for a long time. In recent years, he has been reduced to a second-class status. It is really desolate. I heard that this situation is caused by lack of money. At the same time, I recall this uncle, the last film shot so far, and the high-quality film will be counted as this film. When I got here, I finally returned to the topic. I felt a little long-winded. Maybe it was because Cage couldn't stop, and I was too disappointed with his actions in recent years.
The film is very unique from the opening screen. In a song, it traces the whole process of a bullet from the assembly line to the packaging and the factory, to the transportation and changing hands, to the buyer loading the bullet, and finally hitting a child's head. By the way, it paved the way for the male protagonist: the appearance of an arms dealer. A restaurant owner from Ukraine discovered the instinct and desire to kill in human nature by coincidence, and thus discovered business opportunities in the arms business, so an underground arms dealer gradually emerged. This is the male protagonist played by Cage. ——Yuri, he changed his career like a dragon entering the sea. He was galloping in the arms business and quickly became a big man in the industry. The gradually expanding business and huge profits also made him gradually attracted by the relevant state departments. attention, but also the love of dreams. The end of the Cold War gave him an opportunity to expand his business again, and made him the culprit behind countless brutal massacres and bloody conflicts in Africa. At this time, the crisis in business, family and other aspects was surrounded from all directions in the west, and the "king of war" who had never fired a shot also felt the ruthlessness from his soul, faith, and conscience in the crisis. torture.
Through Cage's excellent control of the role of Yu Rui, the film brings an unscrupulous arms dealer who is chasing interests and money, and is very real to the audience through the gap between money and the system. Through the lens, it conveys the devastation of the people of the developed countries in the West, the unscrupulous devastation of the people of the developing African countries, and the plunder of their resources. Thereby arousing people's attention to this phenomenon and letting more people know what is happening in another relatively backward part of the earth.
A facial portrait pieced together with bullets, a figure gradually fading out of the bullet casings everywhere, a story about the king of war, can let many people know something they didn't know in the past, and let people consider re-establishing their own. Values, whether wealth means success or excellence.
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