At the beginning of the dinner, I found a lot of familiar faces, almost all of them are acting actors, Bond girl Eva Green, Michelle Pfeiffer, who is famous for "Dangerous Game" and "Love Is Over" , Helena Bonham Carter, who has acted in "The King's Speech", "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" and "Harry Potter" series, and a child star who has acted in "The Kick-off", "The Diary of a Wimpy Kid" and "Hugo" Chloe Moretz, Johnny Lee Miller, Jackie Earle Harry, etc., plus Tim Burton and Johnny Depp, two heaven-made box office cash cows, this alone The lineup is very exciting.
But in the same way, as a vampire-themed film, because of the vampire craze brought by "Twilight", it has already been filmed and stinks, and maggots grow in the stink, and the maggots turn into flies. Now, what kind of movie Tim Burton can make is really exciting.
However, the results were disappointing, and aside from the lavish cast mentioned earlier, the film was arguably nothing. Especially in the plot, I don't know if the screenwriter was stunned, or the producer was kicked by a donkey, and the characters were created with various emptiness. It seems that Teyi inexplicably inserted a review of the previous situation in order to make the characters grow fat. Foreshadowing is missing, the best example is the father played by Johnny Lee Miller, who obviously had a good opportunity to show his greed for money. The jingle rang, then, and then it disappeared, and then was surrounded by the male pig's feet to watch his cheating, and then was kicked out, and the child's numbness, without any warning, secretly instructed the boy to save the male pig's feet, and then When you go out in person to make a big move, your husband doesn't even say a word when he is cheating, and he knows that the residual blood will come out to collect the head.
In the whole movie, Eva Green, who was supposed to be a female pig's feet, made less than 10 appearances, plus less than 20 minutes of appearances at the beginning and the end, and several of them were background still lifes, and even the female doctor of soy sauce (Helen). Na Bonham Carter) can match or even surpass the heroine's role. On the contrary, Michelle Pfeiffer, who is the villain, has far more drama than the heroine. Well, let's just think that the witch villain makes a big counterattack and becomes the heroine, but the character is too thin, and it is because of love. Cursed and buried, and even copied people's whole family, it's still several generations, no matter how you look at it, it reminds people of the traitor villain in our red movie, and even treasoned the country without even giving a reason.
As far as feeling is concerned, almost everyone has the same role (except for the prospective protagonist Johnny Depp), it seems that the screenwriter has arranged quite a lot of extravagant performance space in order not to offend anyone, which leads to everyone getting the same amount of performance. The scene is not enough to create a character, which makes the whole film look like it has been cut off a lot, not showing the full version.
The last thing I want to say is that the screenwriter can get a job without a diploma, just take it. If you read books about vampires in the Middle Ages, you will know that vampires and werewolves are not related to each other. You will know this after reading Twilight. Well, even if the girl played by Chloe Moretz is a werewolf , but the male pig's feet, a vampire nearly 200 years ago, can bear it? He couldn't tell his identity, and even dragged the werewolf girl to talk about mate selection criteria, well, if the male pig's foot is a new low-level vampire who was cursed by a witch, and he was buried before he learned much new knowledge, it would not be considered as such. The strong words make sense, after all, the pure simplicity of the male pig's feet is really vivid.
But there is a common sense flaw in the film. First of all, the vampires in the medieval records can't turn people into vampires with a casual bite. They are not vampires, but zombies. Vampire inheritance has a special term - first embrace. Generally speaking, there are two ways in the records: 1. The vampire draws a cross-shaped opening at the neck of the person to drain the blood of the human body. Let it suck its own blood. 2. The vampire directly sucks the blood of the human body, and then lets it suck its own blood. Taking a step back and briefly speaking, only the female doctor initially met the standard of first embrace, and at the end the female doctor did indeed become a vampire. But how did the heroine change, and the time was extremely fast, while those migrant workers and young people who had also been sucked blood before did not change, this contradiction is really tangled.
To sum up, even if the performance of most of the characters is basically in place, after ignoring the plot bugs, the whole film can be said to be extremely mediocre, with no special new ideas and no breakthroughs. It can be said that changing a class of third-rate directors and actors can also produce equivalent effects. After all, "Dark Shadow" already belongs to the second- and third-rate standards in terms of the fundamental script, even if it brings the halo of a first-class lineup and the coat of first-class special effects. , nor can it enhance its third-rate nature.
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