Audiovisual language: 3 stars
Storytelling: 4 stars
Clip: 4 stars
"Stardust" ( Stardust ) is a 2007 fantasy adventure film, adapted from the novel of the same name, directed by Matthew Vaughn, released in the United States on August 10, 2007. The film is essentially a traditional fairy tale movie, and the narrative structure is very similar to the old fairy tale of ordinary people saving princesses from dragons and inheriting the throne. However, the director set up a number of auxiliary lines to match the main line of the love adventure of the male and female protagonists, interspersed with the narrative, making the whole story interesting again.
The story takes place in 19th century England, where a long stone wall separates the human world from a magical world called the Kingdom of Stormwind. Our hero, Tristan, grew up in this human village near the stone wall. He was raised by his father alone and worked as a clerk in a grocery store. And this poor guy fell in love with Victoria, the most beautiful girl in the village, and at the same time, a landlord in the village became a strong competitor of Tristan. At one point, Tristan was fired because he was so obsessed with Victoria that he delayed his job, so he decided to put all his savings into a fight. Soon, Tristan took advantage of Victoria's upcoming birthday and invited her to a candlelight picnic. As soon as Victoria sat down, Tristan came up and took out a big baby, giving Victoria a big surprise, so that Victoria had to admit that she drank champagne for the first time when she grew up. Although the sincerity of the male protagonist moved the village girl a bit, it was almost more interesting than the diamond ring of the young master. While Tristan was scratching his head, a huge comet crossed the sky. Soon, Tristan stood up and threatened to use this fallen star as a wedding gift. After Victoria heard it, she didn't think it was a blatant murder, and agreed very happily.
Tristan eagerly prepared to cross the stone wall to look for the stars, but was stopped by the gatekeeper of the stone wall. The gatekeeper knocked the guy who was trying to overtake to the ground with a change of hair. The bruised Tristan returned home, was discovered by his father and told him the origin of his life. It turned out that Tristan was the crystallization of his father's overcoming the wall 18 years ago. When his father was shopping in the magic town on the other side of the stone wall, Fall in love at first sight with a brunette witch's servant and spend a wonderful evening. The father told him and showed him his identity certificate. There was a magical candle called the Babylon candle. As long as you lit it and thought about the place you wanted to go or the person you wanted to see, you could teleport. Tristan used the magical candle decisively, but the dutiful son did not miss his mother, but teleported to the star for Victoria.
The star fell into a forest and turned into a beautiful girl, let's call her the star girl. She was hit by a huge gem, which was the token of the King of Stormwind Kingdom, similar to our jade seal. This was thrown into the sky by the old king before he died, and he told his sons that whoever got it could inherit the throne. Tristan fell from the sky and collided with this star girl. As soon as the young man heard that this was a star, he tied it up, and insisted on taking him to see his sweetheart. It can only be said that this young man has narrowed his way, and the huge gem alone can allow him to marry Victoria. At this point in the story, the hero and heroine met and reached a preliminary agreement to start the adventure. Why is it called an adventure? First, the old king's son will come back to fight for the gem, which will definitely be a sword and shadow; second, the star girl's heart is stronger than the Tang monk's flesh, which can make people rejuvenate and stay young forever. This has alerted the three witches living in the dark abyss, they sent the most cunning and powerful dark queen Lamia to capture the star girl and take the heart. This is where the wonderful story unfolds.
First of all, the first climax of the story comes from the plot of the dark queen, who learned the only way for the star girl through divination. Use magic here to conjure up a warm hotel for the tired star girl. At this time, the star girl has been untied by the unicorn who loves pure girls. She rode the unicorn to the dark queen's hotel, happily accepted the bath and massage, and went to the west. Serve. At this time, in order to find the lost star girl, the male protagonist took the carriage of the old king's son, the horned man, to the warm hotel. The kind-hearted man with horns took the initiative to accept the one-stop bath and massage service for the star girl, and went to see his brothers who had turned into ghosts and ghosts in comfort. Tristan and Stargirl escaped from the Dark Queen's clutches with the help of Babylon candles. The tension of the story here comes from the sharp blade hidden under the bed by the Queen of Darkness. This sharp blade was originally used to cut off the heart of the star girl, but it ended up reaping the life of our kind horn-bearded man, and finally broke into pieces, which also means that The devastation of the Dark Queen's conspiracy.
Then the story came to a very important stage of development. Tristan and Star Girl were sent to the sea of clouds by Babylon candles, where they met a spaceship that collected thunder and lightning led by the captain of the women's clothing tycoon. This captain is not ordinary. He got the hall and the kitchen. The hero and heroine gained a lot of skill points here. In addition to the growth of the two, the relationship between the two has also deepened, and the relationship is confirmed only by piercing the thin layer. Sure enough, after Tristan was instructed by the captain and kindly matched by the brunette witch, the two talked for a long time in the hotel in the magic town. They talked very happily and spent a wonderful night. The next day, Tristan cut off a strand of Xingnv's long hair and was about to explain the task to the village flower Victoria in Xinxing Village. When Xingnv woke up, she mistakenly thought that she was abandoned by the male protagonist, so she also went to Xinxing Village to ask the male protagonist to question it. . At this time, the servant of the brunette witch found that the star girl was going to the human world. The king's other son, the leather man and the dark queen, also rushed towards the stone wall. Unfortunately, the Queen of Darkness came first. After cleaning up the brunette witch neatly, she kidnapped the male protagonist's mother and the star girl to the dark abyss. At this point the story reaches its final climax.
The male protagonist Tristan and another king's son, the man in leather, met in front of the dark queen's castle, and the two decided to deal with the dark queen together. The man in leather suit is the last prince who survived to the end, and the fire witch was solved as soon as he played. At the same time, Tristan uses the barbarians to deal with the Strong Witch. The two finally faced the final boss, the Queen of Darkness. The Queen of Darkness picked up a puppet, gave the man in leather an indescribable meal, and subdued the man in leather into her own puppet. Because of the lucky flower, the male protagonist is immune to the dark magic of the Queen of Darkness, but he never expected that the physical damage of the Queen of Darkness is also first-class, and the male protagonist climbed down in a few rounds. At the time of life and death, our star girl suddenly awakened and hugged the male protagonist tightly. The dazzling light was filled with extremely strong love, directly turning the queen of darkness into ashes. It turns out that the biggest weakness of the dark queen is the fear of love, which is in line with the narrative characteristics of fairy tales. For example, Snow White was finally saved by love.
This is how the story came to the finale. Tristan, because his mother was the daughter of the king, ascended the throne, and finally got married with the star girl. No doubt, this is also the ending of many fairy tales.
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