To be honest, there are not many recent new movies that can surprise people. I used
to think Eagle Eye was average, so sorry, this one I think even Eagle Eye It's not as good, at least the former is more ornamental.
Isn't it too subjective.... Well, those who do some basic knowledge introduction This
film is adapted from a best-selling novel of the same name. The author David R. Ignatius himself is a senior The journalist and novelist who is also the columnist and deputy editor of The Washington Post (The Washington Post) have
stories about today's more eye-catching fight against terrorism.
The anti-terrorist masterpieces with blood and deep connotation - Black Hawk Down, The Kingdom (Hong Kong translation robbery scene) starring Jamie Foxx last year
and Eagle Eye released earlier are more or less. In order to be successful in this type of work related to anti-terrorism
, in addition to the celebrity effect, in addition to special effects, in addition to the script, the key is to see whether it is insightful, and has enough insight and deep meaning
to allow the audience to draw from the movie. For the real world, for the Counter-terrorism, peace, profound reflection on regional conflicts of different religions and civilizations
is a pity, few works can do it, and this work also fails.
About the plot, a brief introduction should not affect the viewing of the
protagonist Roger Ferris , is a CIA anti-terrorist agent stationed in the Middle East, but not the type who sits in the office for meetings and drinks tea.
He personally goes deep into the enemy's line every day, risking his life to obtain information on terrorist organizations or fight terrorists to the death. Brave Field Agent
And his boss, the fat Ed Hoffman, is the pampered type mentioned earlier. He is strategizing in Washington, assigning tasks and scheduling staff. He is the leader in charge of counter-terrorism affairs in the Middle East.
Their purpose is to track down And arrested the leader of a terrorist organization that made continuous terrorist bombings all over Europe - anyway, a fanatical Islamist
, Roger Ferris went to Iraq, Jordan, Amman, UAE, Syria, and fought terrorists. Brave Contest....
As a novel, the original book is very successful.
The selling point of this work is Thriller. I believe that David R. Ignatius has put a lot of effort into the novel to describe the cross-regional fierce battle between the CIA and terrorist organizations.
Anti-terrorism war In fact, it is a very complex social phenomenon.
It includes the desire for independence, the pursuit of peace, the anger and revenge against invaders and murderers, the persistence of one's own beliefs, and the struggle for national glory.
More importantly, this is All participants must gamble at the cost of their own lives.
For such a complex thing, you can't cover everything, but at least you have to develop and interpret the story from multiple perspectives, multiple aspects, and multiple clues.
One of the problems with the movie Body of Lies is that the interpretation of the story is basically observed from the perspective of the anti-terrorist forces,
that is, from the perspective of an American.
Of course, the author of the original book is not paranoid, the script of the movie The writer is not stupid, and will not make the audience feel that this is a simple battle between good and evil in which the United States pretends to be a messenger of justice.
However, when the clues become single and the perspective becomes single, the result is that the film itself makes people feel very thin.
As if to make up for this, the director led the audience to keep jumping in space, flying between countries in the Middle East, very busy and lively
, but invisibly made the movie even more lacking in focus, making the audience tired to cope , thereby paralyzing
Another drawback of this work is that it is bland and lacks climax
. It is a running account composition written by a primary school student:
"I killed two bad guys in Iraq this morning, got important information,
and in the afternoon the boss gave I called and I went to Jordan.
In Jordan, I met with the local director, and we had a good conversation.
Later, there was an explosion in the Netherlands
..."
Although the location changes frequently, the pace of the film itself is very slow
and this kind of Lack of focus, and the straight-forward plot with no climax until the end
makes people really feel how long 128 minutes is.
In order not to make the audience feel bored, the director will commit suicide bombings or shootouts or torture every ten minutes. To keep the audience awake , for such a masterpiece, it
is very sad and helpless Detectives who are afraid that their identities will not be revealed are unscrupulously dating a local Iranian nurse . This is simply...ABSURD! RIDICULOUS!! PREPOSTEROUS!!! (I can't seem to find so many words in Chinese to express absurdity Meaning = =) I don't need to say more about how absurd it is. The audience can taste an article by a foreign film critic. This emotional scene is just to make an already bloated movie longer. If Without this paragraph, I may have a slightly higher evaluation of this work, but it's only a little bit, that 's all. As for the plot itself, there are so many suspense factors in this work anyway, and there is nothing to talk about . staff
Let's start with the star-studded big names in the cast who
play the protagonist Roger Ferris's DiCaprio, just like The Departed and the brutish appearance in the New York gangster.
His child face has always been a problem that hindered his expansion of the
show. Beard, plus a few scars
, hey, you can't say it, it really works, and if you work
harder, Xiaodi should be able to develop to the height of Brad
Pitt
Acting needs, deliberately to fill the food and gain weight (it may also be natural middle-aged fat)
anyway, in this work, it is disgusting, and it
wears a pair of reading glasses, a pair of "prototypical American military fatso who would sell his own" mother to protect himself" (the description is too classic XD)
However, the ability to perform this kind of virtue is also due to Lao Luo's acting skills.
He and Xiao Di's performances have added a lot of points to this work
. Purpose Mark Strong, in fact, may be the most eye-catching character in this work.
He is ruthless, moral, just, and ruthless. The terrifying charm that he exudes is really hard to resist
, although he has not seen much of his works before. , but this work is enough to leave a deep impression on me.
Finally , the
director said
after watching the movie that the novel was so successful, why the film adaptation was so bad, who is the director?
A check, it turned out to be the famous Ridley Scott
He has previously directed the first Alien in 1979, Gladiator, Hannibal (a sequel to the Silence of the Lambs), Black Hawk Down (originally he also directed -___,=), Empire of Heaven, and last year Dan Zell Washington and Russell Crowe starred in American gangsters. No
wonder the talented foreign film critic described the director as: once mighty visionary (hope not once mighty, but once bad) of
course The script writer, the person in charge of adapting the plot of the original work, also has a lot of responsibilities.
As for screenplay, it's okay, it 's okay.
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