published in the "National Humanities and History" in July 2014.
"The Twelve King Kong" was released in 1967 and translated into "Dream Assault Team" or "Charge", from the latter two names. More intuitively see the genre mode and story line of this kind of film, which is to gather a group of people to perform a seemingly impossible task. If this group of people happens to be a group of people who seem to be unable to complete the task, The excitement of the story will double.
The film is based on EMNathanson’s novel of the same name. The background of the story is only vaguely set during the Second World War. Lee Marvin played a major officer Leithmin who was punished because of his strong personality. The superior gave him a guilt and meritorious service. Opportunity, he was ordered to select twelve prisoners from a prison to form a death squad and enter the castle where the senior German officers were on holiday to carry out the assassination mission.
This is the story setting of a standard commercial film, the clues are simple and direct, full of action, and the character setting of the prison inmates also makes this small group full of tension, coupled with the strong cast of the film, the use of Lee Marvin, Charles Bronson, John Casavez and many other big-name actors participated in the performance, which made the film a great success that year and established some benchmark genre elements for subsequent films of the same type. Needless to say, movies like "The Expendables" basically copy the "Twelve King Kong" in genre, even if Quentin Tarantino's "Inglourious Basterds" has greatly weakened the "expendables". The basic settings of the movie are also inspired by "The Twelve King Kong".
But the success of "The Twelve King Kong" does not mean that it is a flawless movie, especially the first half of the movie, which lacks a certain degree of rhythm control and characterization. Usually in this kind of film, there are two problems that must be solved before the ultimate mission. Arrange some blood-spraying devil training to improve the characters' combat skills. In these two processes, it can not only play a role in shaping the characters, but also allow the characters who are forced to accept the task to form spontaneous cohesion, making the story more emotionally full and reasonable.
And in the nearly two-thirds of the film before the assault mission, a lot of time was spent dealing with external conflicts and creating jokes that are not necessarily related to the plot, so that the plot seems to be slow and long and with the characters behind. The necessary causal and progressive relationship is not formed. Also as a successful commercial blockbuster, the Korean movie "Silmi Island", which is basically the same premise as the "Twelve Kings", is better in terms of story depth because of the enhancement of the previous character display and running-in, especially these being passed by the devil. The trained chess pieces eventually became abandoned pieces, which allowed the film to shine on the artistic level. This is a perfect case of inheritance and development between rookies and classics.
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