"The Last Wizard Hunter" American magic culture crosses into dreams

General 2021-12-18 08:01:05

"The Last Wizard Hunter" American magic culture crosses into the dream
text Jiang Jiayi


This is a standard Hollywood fantasy film. The wizard hunter Calder has lived for 800 years. He has survived from the dark ages all the way to modern New York. The Hollywood tough guy Van Diesel has transformed into this "immortal" hunter, staged a series of scenes such as drag racing, fighting, and crossing dreams, interpreting the "speed and passion" that is in line with the magical gorgeousness. In the film, he fights for love. Fear of sacrificing himself, he is deep, melancholy, and decadent, shouldering an unshirkable responsibility, and with the urge to self-destruct.
The legends of wizards and demonic culture that have prevailed in Europe and the United States for centuries have always been common sources of inspiration in Hollywood movies. Therefore, movies and TV dramas depicting wizards are not uncommon in Hollywood. "Hodgepodge". Chloe, played by the heroine Rose Leslie, possesses the "dream walking technique" that can lead humans through dreams; black blind wizards can summon all kinds of insects to serve them; fashion celebrities can maintain the magical secret of youth forever, And the resentment of the Wizard Queen can be poured into insects, creating a terrifying "black death" for the world.
"The Last Wizard Hunter" has created an unknown world of supernatural wizards that exists on the dark side of the world. It shows an original worldview without any original work or comic IP as support. It clearly outlines a completely parallel integration with the real world. Magical world view. The wizards have their own unique tricks, each with a strange shape and magical skills; the wizard world has rich attribute settings, elemental, dark, and mind control wizards display their mana, human warriors have strong combat power, and have the ability to heal themselves without death. All make the film have a very fashionable style of game, and in line with the aesthetic taste of the current audience.
At first glance, "The Last Witch Hunter" sells magical spectacles. In addition, it has a slightly complicated story that spans the ages, reverse order, flashback, reversal... This story is not new, but there is a classic Hollywood story model, this model is familiar to Hollywood filmmakers, so the story of the film is smoothly told without delay, presenting a fantasy scene where the past and the present are intertwined, history and reality overlap, and reality and dreams are misplaced. . And the wizard hunter Calder, played by Van Diesel, switches between reality and dreams, fantasy worlds and urban life, holding a sharp blade to perform another kind of speed and passion in special effects.
The wizard hunter Calder was cursed for immortality by the witch and became immortal, but the immortality that others seemed to be desperate for became a nightmare he had to face. Living 800 years old, from the Middle Ages when the Black Death was pervasive to the modern city with skyscrapers, he has been walking alone on the road of hunting witches. His immortality is a kind of destiny that cannot be escaped. The infinite self-healing ability builds only his invincible body, but his heart is suffering from the killing of his beloved wife and daughter during the 800-year history. As the last warrior of mankind, the wizard hunter walks in the world of humans and wizards in order to maintain this balance, while also guarding against the resurrection of the evil wizard king. The infinite cycle of saying goodbye when he was just used to gradually polished his passion for life, and became more like a "weapon" that wiped out emotions, until he escaped in the contemporary world and human society. When a huge historical span is burned on a person, a sense of boundless tearing is formed.
The coexistence of the wizard hunter and the witch is the most ingenious setting of the film's plot. If there is no witch, the wizard hunter has no existential value. In "The Last Witch Hunter", Chloe’s presence enriches the film’s level. She and Calder’s pulling, fumbling, and tumbling, allows the audience to slow down the tension in the dark film, and at the same time Leave suspense for the plot behind. The dark style of the Middle Ages and the crossing of modern cities alternate. Through the magic potion deep in the memory, the subtle and dark connection between the two worlds is revealed. In the hundreds of years when witches and human beings "love and kill each other", there are even more terrifying truths behind countless historical stories.
Hollywood always uses a way of thinking that is not out of touch with reality to interpret magical illusions, trying to find a foundation and soil for spells from the basic attributes of nature, admitting that everyone has the possibility of becoming a hero or falling into the magical way. The film spares no cost to create a stylish and gorgeous magic bar and magical magic restaurant for the audience. At the same time, many familiar professions and roles are arranged in the progress of the story, including a family of wizards whose industries cover the fashionable luxury industry. The existence of magic props, wizard codes of conduct, and holy axe will be similar to the existence of religious inquisition legal institutions, which is imaginative. Perhaps it is an alternative interpretation of the American dream. The sentence "This is science" when performing magic is simply a model of American humor.
Several Hollywood superstars familiar to Chinese audiences make up the film's face value responsibility. The film's "eye-catching" is undoubtedly, and the production also presents the Hollywood dream industrial standard. The art style and special effects of the Diablo Department set off a suppressed and thrilling mood atmosphere. The dark jungle built in real scenes, a large number of scenes of medieval and modern civilized cities, and endless witchcraft tricks; the witch’s face suddenly changed in the mirror, and the strangely shaped wizard king has a glimpse. Van Diesel is holding a burning sword and The huge monsters' hearty desperate struggles; in addition, the strangely shaped towering giant tree and the icy wizard dungeon also showed the film's excellent art skills. In short, as an American fantasy movie with the highest entertainment, in addition to telling stories and framing the world view, "The Last Wizard Hunter" has also handed in a sophisticated answer to both the visual effects of the screen and the soundtrack of the scene.

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The Last Witch Hunter quotes

  • Witch Queen: I've missed you, Kaulder.

    Kaulder: Here's what you don't understand. What your kind never understood. I've shown mercy. I could have killed every last one of you. I've done the math. I've had the time.

    Witch Queen: You're different now. So confident.

    Kaulder: Maybe you shouldn't have made me immortal.

  • Witch Queen: Clay cannot be turned to gold. Without magic, you're just a human.