At the recent Cannes Film Festival, in addition to the tragic fight in the main competition unit, the quality of the films shown in the non-competition unit was also quite high.
The Star Wars rumored film "Range Solo" is one of the most popular ones. Since its premiere in Cannes, the film has received enthusiastic response, and film critics have called it "excited."
The authoritative Hollywood media "Variety Show" gave high-quality praise:
"This is a vibrant crime movie. The wonderful mechanical duel creates the best action scenes, and the acting skills of the actors are also fascinating from the beginning to the end, especially the actor Alden Ellen who plays "Solo". Ricky. "
Arden Ellenrich had outstanding performances in "Blue Jasmine" and "Long Live Caesar", but when he played the young Han Solo in the biography, he was ridiculed by some fans, saying that he was the same as Harrison. The original version played by Ford "is simply the gap between MUJI and MINISO" .
Last week, this "Range Solo" has landed on the mainland theaters and premiered simultaneously with North America. There is no one-minute cut. This is really rare for a major American production.
Is it worth our ticket? Lets come look--
"Range Solo" tells the story of the youth of Han Solo, one of the most popular characters in Star Wars.
Han grew up in a dilapidated industrial park, earning a living by stealing, snatching, kidnapping, and deception. It was this experience that allowed him to form a character that is both righteous and evil.
But fortunately, his little girlfriend Dragon Mother...No, it's Qi La (Emilia Clarke) who doesn't dislike him, and shares the joys and sorrows with him, and believes that as long as they work together, one day they can escape this broken place.
The young Han lived up to expectations. After stealing a valuable bottle of core ingredient (a kind of super fuel), he decided to take his childhood sweetheart and fly away.
Unfortunately, the little girlfriend was captured during the escape, and the desperate mandarin duck had to endure the pain of parting.
Han made up his mind to rescue Qi La, but he was helpless and penniless, so he volunteered to join the Air Force. After he returned from school, he grabbed a spacecraft and returned to the park to rescue Qi La. (This circle...)
When enrolling in the army, the officers saw him as lonely, without father or mother, and his name was so short! A man can't be too short, so he named him solo , known as Han Solo in history.
But for various reasons, Han failed to become a pilot, but was thrown into the army field base as cannon fodder.
There, he was bullied. Fortunately, he met Chubacca, a Wookiee , in a crisis. After his future co-pilot did not meet each other, the two became friends.
Although they have companions, they can only be cannon fodder together if they don't leave this place.
Seeing that the situation was not good, Han immediately hugged the thigh of a Army Commander Beckett (played by Woody Harrison) and used his three-inch tongue to persuade him to join the team.
Unexpectedly, Beckett and his party are not serious soldiers, but thugs who specialize in stealing core elements for large groups.
In order to make a fortune and buy a spacecraft to rescue Qi La, Han and Chubakka joined the team and embarked on a thrilling adventure.
As a veteran Star Wars fan, when I saw the movie "Range Solo", my mood was mixed.
First of all, is a universe without the force, without the Skywalker family, and without Jedi Knights, or is it a Star Wars universe?
Secondly, as the most critical character in the Star Wars trilogy, is Han Solo's former fax so important?
Obviously, "Range Solo" just borrowed a few characters in Star Wars and the "established destiny" of these characters to make some expansions. It should be said that this is not an inaccessible piece of puzzle in the Star Wars universe. Bundled free gifts.
As for whether Han Solo's prequel is really so important, it may not be.
As a positive character and hero who occasionally tricks and ostentatious, he has only one choice during his growth process, which is to experience misfortune when he was young; betrayed when he was an adult, and he was finally about to end his life when he suddenly realized that The meaning of life.
The meaning of this life may be a grand goal, such as helping the rebel army; or a wonderful love, such as falling in love with Princess Leia, then giving birth to Ben, and then Ben becoming Kai Loren. Needless to say, this follow-up story has already been told.
Therefore, in "Solo Ranger" and even the sequel to "Solo Ranger", what Han Solo has is just a second-hand future.
The changing process of a character, the arc of the character has long been clear in the 1970s, and now the screenwriter can only do a little bit of piecemeal work. This piecemeal work, summed up in the film, is:
Make up a story that follows the trend and leave the tail of a sequel; use character combinations and music clips to confess old Star Wars fans; use endless visual effects to please the audience after 00.
Then, such a film with a safety card that never makes mistakes can be swaggered across the market.
For science fiction films, the most important factor is "settings."
A good science fiction film is "setting" from beginning to end. This setting can be scientific, social structure, values, species, and anatomical.
"2001: A Space Odyssey" is still setting the level of machines and humans at the end, and "Blade Runner" is still setting the identity and class of clones at the end. Thus, such films entered the hall of science fiction movies.
"Range Solo" follows the framework of Star Wars without any supplement or interpretation.
Screenwriters and directors may think that without a new setting, the best setting is to respect the original.
I don't want to, science fiction films without a set can only be "genre films" dressed in science fiction.
From the perspective of a genre film, "Ranger Solo" is also unsatisfactory.
The problem arises in two aspects.
One is that as the protagonist, except for jumping up and down, Solo is busy with his personality and psychology. There is almost no change in his personality and psychology. It is hard to say that a character that "grows up" in a piecemeal manner is a qualified character.
The second is that the entire script is too focused on the easy-to-understand plot, instead of giving up the overall view.
Solo grew up in poor streets and worked hard throughout the movie, but automatically chose to stand on the side of the rebels. He has always been fighting for money, giving away the fuel from his life, and in an indirect sense, contributed to the formation of the rebel army- this kind of behavior of the character can be called great, not to mention it. Reasonable.
On the contrary, the reversal and "blackening" of his first love seemed more convincing.
Kira, who wanted to escape poverty with Solo, became a tyrannical killer and a pawn of the empire. Her story and life situation, in the film "You don't know what I have gone through" as a sentence, seems to be more prosaic and shallow than Solo's "seeing through".
But this is "Range Solo", not "How an Innocent Girl Degenerates".
However, "Range Solo" was originally a work that carried the feeling of Star Wars, abandoned old fans, attracted new fans, and wanted to stand on its own.
It is impossible to do all of them. The safest approach is to use Hollywood and Disney's best commercial correctness (massive) and political correctness to shoot.
The political correctness in the film appears in an unexpected way.
In addition to "the great unity of the people of all races in the universe," the key status of blacks and minorities is gathered in a robot called L3.
This is the first female robot in the Star Wars universe. In addition to highlighting female characteristics in the design, "she" is also an emotional expert and defender of robot rights (feminism in a sense). She launched a riot and paid the price of "life" for it.
Over the years, we have seen the approach of blockbuster films countless times in Marvel, "Mission Impossible" and even various films with more than $150 million investment.
These videos are all the result of ctrl+C and ctrl+V. Bombing in big scenes and special effects for drag racing abound, so add a little joke to mediate the atmosphere.
Damn it, live it. Finally, leave a sequel tail.
It can only be said that we have finished another movie. As for what the movie is about, I forget about it when I go home and wash my face.
Those exciting "settings" and cosmic frameworks in Star Wars have changed Hollywood's film aesthetics, and eye-opening special effects have all been transformed into boring conventions and routines.
As for Solo’s future, what did he do later, how did he die (killed by his son and fell on the bridge, the famous Star Wars Terrier), the future of his lover (Princess Leia), and his child (Kay Loren) The future of his brother-in-law (Luke Skywalker), the future of his father-in-law (Darth Vader and Princess Padmé)-we all know.
Han Solo’s rumored movie only has a future that is not even second-hand. It is really pitiful.
Text/Yun Qijun
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