2018 is about to pass. Have you packed everything up and waited for the coming of the new year? If you are still sprinting for year-end performance and are still busy with your family business, then this light comedy "Death Treasure Hunt" produced by Paramount in the United States is recommended to you. I hope that you can bring Give you a moment of relaxation and warmth.
The film tells a series of ridiculous stories about a group of people who were selected by the casino owner by chance and rushed to the Silver City of Mexico State to snatch 2 million US dollars. This is a movie developed out of money. For 2 million US dollars, people who were gentle in the first second can do everything in one second. The director will show his talent in the field of satirical comedy, and use "money" as his talent. The purpose of the chase is to connect the plot context with a "competition", interspersed with a lot of black humor, funny plot, strong visual impact and incredible scenes. The whole film has twists and turns, and the jokes continue to earn enough gimmicks and eyeballs.
The cast of this film is not inferior, gathered together "Mr. Bean" Rowan Atkinson, "Black Pearl" Ubi Goldberg, "Ace Spy" Seth Green, the leading black actors and actresses Cuban Godin, comedy master John Chris and many other stars. From the mother and daughter who have just reunited for many years, the hapless rugby referee, the brother who lives by cheating but never succeeded, to the casino gambler, the douchebag with paroxysmal narcolepsy, and the lawyer who never gambles. Together they propped up this crazy and hilarious American comedy.
The madness of small people, the pastime of big people
How crazy can you be for 2 million dollars? The protagonists in the film come from different places and have different identities, but they all give the same answer: competition! When the casino owner announced the rules of the game, everyone was still watching at first, and no one paid any attention. It was not until the boss shot the ceiling that they seemed to be forced to enter the game. While waiting for the elevator, someone asked, are you going? Some people answered, I won't go, and some people responded, I won't go, so everyone decided not to participate. This may be a joke made by the casino owner with them. At this time, someone suggested that the elevator was too slow to take the stairs, and then everyone looked for the stairs to leave. However, when the camera turned around, everyone in the stairwell started rushing downstairs. Their purpose was simple. They were the first to arrive in Mexico City and monopolize the 2 million US dollars, so the narrow corridor was instantly crowded. Everyone Everyone wanted to go first, and everyone was so crowded that there was no way out, and finally everyone huddled together and couldn't move. In the process, the gentlemen and the ladies lost their grace and disregarded their personal images. The exaggerated and funny performances amused the audience. At the same time, they became the jokes of a group of behind-the-scenes players. They are the players in the bigger game made by the casino owner. They are all first-class billionaires, and already look down on low-level gambling, so I regard this chase as a gamble, betting on who can finally get the 2 million dollars.
Each of the 6 groups participating in the game has a key that can open the bonus safe, which has a tracker embedded in it, so the rich can see the latest progress of the game without leaving home. For them, those are for 200 Tens of thousands of dollars are exhausted and frantically struggling for the little people to be just a pastime after their spare time. In order to please these real players, the casino owner has also arranged various large and small gambling games while waiting for the results. Everyone is possible. Becoming the object of their gambling, this is a feast for gambling, the main gambling game is intertwined with other small gambling games, like a firework show blooming in the sky of a big man.
Generally, movies have two perspectives. One is the subjective world of the actors and the other is the gaze of the audience. This film adds the perspective of a big figure behind the scenes in the middle, which makes the whole film structure instantly enriched. The chase of the protagonist + the big brother Our gamble + the spectator’s onlookers, the three perspectives are clearly hierarchical and interlinked. Everyone is watching and being watched, which corresponds to Bian Zhilin’s phrase "You stand on the bridge and watch the scenery, and the people watching the scenery are on the building." Look at you."
"You should buy a Squirrel"
The best route to Mexico State is by plane, but when the airport navigation tower was broken by the brothers, the taste of American road movies began to permeate. Whether it’s taxiing, hitchhiking, or driving by yourself, a lot of the film is about exaggerated and grotesque experiences and coincidences on winding roads. The protagonist's road to treasure has become extremely difficult. You may feel like you are playing a clearance game. Many times you have already won, and a turning point has to be restarted. For example, the reunited mother and daughter used their daughter’s superb personal relationship to get a private car to travel. Who wants to get lost halfway, asks a woman selling squirrels for directions but refuses her promotion. When they are based on the woman’s When they were instructed to go forward with the wind, they suddenly took a turn and rushed off the cliff. Uncertainly, they climbed out of the car. They saw that the surrounding area was full of abandoned vehicles and bones fell out. When they looked up, it was the eye-catching notice: you Should buy a Squirrel (you should buy a squirrel), the mother and daughter finally took the lead and vanished in an instant. Do you think they lost? No, the subtlety of the film’s settings is here. No one can be far ahead, and no one will be far behind. Everyone is always evenly matched and checks and balances with each other. So we saw the mother-daughter combination sitting behind the experimental transmitter. , And he was taken directly to the silver market as a mental patient; Mr. Bean, who came first, had an episode of drowsiness at the last moment when he opened the safe, while others experienced a series of once-in-a-lifetime "accidents". Time arrived at the same time.
As a road film, the various clues in the competition (or the journey) are handled quite well, including personal stories of independent advancement and overlapping parts, such as when Mr. Bean finally took the train to the destination. , In the background, the craftsman who stole the keys of the two brothers and the cow were tied to the hot air balloon and floated by. Judging from the clues of individual verticalization, the previous action may affect the fate of the next second. One journey is like a butterfly effect, and six journeys are like six butterflies, dancing lightly, each with its own merits. Whether it is a rugby referee running naked in the desert after being robbed by a taxi driver with only a pair of underwear, or a family of gamblers who stole a Nazi show car and was besieged by radicals, their situation is affected by their own choice, but it is terrible. In the end, all of the encounters can be eliminated, which is exactly the charm of comedy.
The most dazzling visual effect of this film is the period when the lawyer and his little girlfriend drive a helicopter to chase. The lawyer who never gambles meets his favorite girl in the terminal. After learning that other people can't get on the plane and the girl is a pilot, he changes his mind and decides to join Treasure Hunter. In his line, many "no"s in life have been broken through since then. The pilot girl had already taken him to the destination, but the girl wanted to take a look at her boyfriend, but she found out that her boyfriend had a private meeting with her ex-girlfriend. So jealous, she drove the helicopter and rushed towards her boyfriend. After chasing, the helicopter shines on the highway, one dive, another sharp turn, the plane drove more slippery than the car, the quietness of the exterior and the wildness of the heart formed a strong impact. Not only the lawyers looked at the girl with admiration, but also the audience. Repeatedly admired this sturdy girl. In addition to admiring the combination of handsome guys and beautiful girls, we also saw the breakthrough of conservative lawyers in this line. His outbreak also started from that helicopter chase. He took the lead in stealing cars and grabbing dollars. Who It is said that civilized people are not crazy.
The ending is reversed, warm and comfortable in the world
Although the soldiers were divided into six groups, the participants all reached the safe with 2 million US dollars at the same time. At the moment when the key was opened, the audience's curiosity was completely aroused. Did this live-action game among the rich set real? Where are the prizes? The answer is yes, but the cabinet is empty. It turned out that the bonus was taken away by the assistant of the casino owner. So the six teams of people gathered into a big team and set off again on the road to grab the US dollars. This processing is another small climax of the film. As mentioned earlier, there are 3 perspectives in the whole film. The audience is the largest group of onlookers, and they are proud to see everything. In fact, everyone is just attracted to move forward by the plot laid by the director. The director is the biggest behind-the-scenes player who controls it. The progress of the story also manipulates the audience’s curiosity. You think that getting the bonus is the ending, and the rich are sitting and watching the tiger fight. In fact, they are all wrong. The appearance of the bonus is the beginning of the ending. This is just like in the architectural space design. The commonly used barriers cut off where you can see, leaving only a few clues to slowly guide you to explore. Therefore, a simple space becomes complicated, with winding paths leading to quietness, and the beauty of flowers in the dark. Two million dollars was the clue. The protagonists finally opened the package after all the twists and turns. Everyone grabbed several dollars in their hands. Suddenly, the surrounding lights came on and the band began to accompany. The protagonist is exposed on a carefully constructed imaginary stage like "World of Doors", but it is not. This is a real stage, a charity event for children suffering from famine. "You are like the twelve disciples", the children are bright With eyes, sincere words are all torturing the nature of human nature. Whether to take away the hard-earned bonuses or donate all of them to benefit more people is a difficult choice for everyone. "Think about the heavens." "Mom," the dialogue between the brothers finally made the obsessive brother put down the bonus in his hand, and the others also bid farewell to the greedy and selfish self after expressing their testimonies. In an instant, the unscrupulous snatching from the previous second turned into There was a warm charity fundraising, and the ugly characters lit up the brilliance of love. Even the rich people who took gambling for fun were coerced by the environment to join the fundraiser. This is a comedy of hello, me, and everyone. At this point, the climax is reached. The protagonist dances to the authentic American music. They jump into the crowd and jump towards the human side. What the director reveals here is the complexity and multi-facetedness of human nature, as well as the infection and assimilation of the environment. Everything is not absolute. Only by looking at it dialectically can we grasp the overall situation and see through this design with ulterior motives.
If the first half of the film is already excellent, then this ending is definitely the finishing touch, because it allows the audience to return to the normal track of joy. In the first half, when the protagonists are extremely ugly and squeeze each other out, the audience will laugh; when The audience laughs when the protagonist falls off the cliff and is at a loss. The audience’s joy is based on the humble and bitterness of the little people. The reason why they didn’t realize was that the satire and ridiculous comedy treatment made the director not to expose the evil of human nature. So heartbreaking, so everyone laughed and passed away, immersed in a kind of distorted joy. However, reality still needs some positive energy to temporarily wake up people driven by desire. Here, the environment is the catalyst. Maslow’s needs in human nature jumped directly from the lowest level to the highest level of self-worth realization-dedication, friendship, altruism, and unity. If chasing dollars is to achieve material satisfaction, then donation is to achieve spiritual abundance. At this level, everyone is fair. You may be very rich, but your spirit may be empty, material things are easy to be satisfied, but spirit is rare to be rich, so spiritual things always override material things. This is also the director. The commendability of the top-level design of the film allows everyone to feel their own value and meaning on a higher level.
So this ending is like a writer’s turn, and the path of black comedy immediately turned to a warm line. Although the happy ending may weaken the foreshadowing of a lot of irony in the front, but who said that it must be bitter and deep. It’s the end of the year. A vigorous donation is not a bad idea~
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